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Bidding Information
Lot #    11331
Auction End Date    8/16/2005 12:34:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Ben Zion Wesel
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר בן ציון וועזעל, אב'ד טארדא
Author    [Ms.]
City    Aranyos-Torda (Thorenburg, Turda) Hungary
Publication Date    1927
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 209:168 mm., usual age staining, creased on folds, ink on paper, Ashkenazic script, signed, sealed, and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Ben Zion b. Caleb Feivel Wesel (b.1859) left his position in Cornstadt to succeed his father in the rabbinical position of Aranyos-Torda in 1880. Torda-Aranyos is the name of a historic administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, its Jewish population at the turn of the century numbered several hundred.
          
Reference
Description		    Oheli Shem p. 408
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica