Metadata: Letters and documents (mostly from Hagenau)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- British Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- British Library
- Postal address:
- 96 Euston RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomNW1 2DB
- Web address:
- http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/index.html
- Email:
- Email: mss@bl.uk
- Reference number:
- Or 012333
- Title:
- Letters and documents (mostly from Hagenau)
- Title (official language):
- Memorial book of the Jewish community of Bonn
- Date(s):
- 1710/1846
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 59 folios
- Scope and content:
- A collection of letters and documents mostly originating from the Jewish community of Hagenau in Alsace, dated between 1710 and 1842. Fols 1v-59vאגרות, תעודות ושטרות בית דין מקהלת הגינויא ואליהIgrot, Teʿudot u-sheṭarot bet din mi-ḳehilat Hagenoy ṿe-eleha.Note: Most of the documents concern marriage and divorce, but there are also communal decisions and reports. Includes also an English business letter addressed to Mr. Kalish of Ipswich dated 1846 (ff. 8-9); notes on Genesis 1-2 (f. 12); a letter from Jacob(?) Arnheim to Abraham Cohen concerning the binding of Arnheim's books (f. 13); deliberations in Yiddish of the administrative committee of the Jewish congregation at Hagenau, dated 22 March 1840 a financial transaction involving Samuel Hilman, rabbi at Mannheim, dated 5509 (1748/9) (ff. 28-29). Contents are to be described in more detail. In relation to Hagenau, see also London, BL, Or 10755 with autograph reports of a delegate from Hagenau to the Sanhedrin of Paris.
- Access points: locations:
- Haguenau
- Access points: persons/families:
- Arnheim
- Cohen, Abraham
- Hilman, Samuel
- Kalish
- Subject terms:
- Jewish community records
- Marriage and divorce
- Access, restrictions:
- You need to be a registered Reader in order to request items to a Reading Room.
- Finding aids:
-
Online catalogue.
A digital version is also available.
There is a Guide to Hebrew Collections on the British Library's website.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
