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Lot #
16062
Auction End Date
10/24/2006 12:09:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Einer kursuerstlichen Durchlaucht
Author
[Community - Only Ed.]
City
Mannheim
Publication Date
1783
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. [4] pp., 360:218 mm., extra wide margins, light age staining, old hands, creased on folds. A very good copy as issued.
Detailed
Description
Royal decree lifting the obligation of jews to pay protection taxes for their poor brethen. Mannheim, city in Baden, Germany, Jews first settled in Mannheim (which was founded in 1606) around 1652, and the first rabbi, Naphtali Herz, served from 1657 to 1671. The community was granted a highly favorable charter in 1660. A cemetery was acquired a year later (in use till 1839), and a synagogue and mikveh were built in 1664. In 1663 there were 15 Jewish families in the town, two of them Portuguese, founders of a Portuguese community that later maintained its own schoolteacher and enjoyed particular privileges. In 1674 the hevra kaddisha (Kippe) was established. By 1680 there were 78 Jewish families in Mannheim; in 1689 they aided the burghers in the defense of the city against the French; on its destruction they took refuge in the communities of Heidelberg and Frankfort. Eighty-four families had returned to the city by 1691 when a new charter was issued. Modeled on the first one, it included the Portuguese, fixed the number of tolerated families at 86 (increased to 150 in 1698), established an interest rate of 5%, and abolished the yellow badge. The charter of 1717 (also including the Portuguese) raised the number of tolerated families to 200 and permitted an interest rate of 10%. The favorable position of the Jews there is expressed in a contemporary reference to Mannheim as "New Jerusalem." In 1708 the synagogue and heder (Klaus), donated by Lemle Moses Rheinganum, was consecrated and later endowed with 100,000 gulden (it remained in use until 1940). Soon after it was considerably enlarged. An unsuccessful attempt was made when the Jewish charter was renewed in 1765 to establish a separate Jewish quarter.
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Listing Classification
Period
18th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
History:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
