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Bidding Information
Lot #    17075
Auction End Date    1/23/2007 12:37:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kvitung
Title (Hebrew)    ÷ååéèåðâ
Author    [Community - Ms.]
City    Oben Yashon (Budapest)
Publication Date    1835
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Small piece of paper, 100:119 mm., light age staining.
          
Detailed
Description		    A receipt for funds to subsidize three young men, signed by the Gabba'ei for the charity box for guests, Kuppat Orehim. It is dated Rosh Hodesh Sivan 5595 (1835). The hakhnasat orehim ("welcoming visitors") society generally owned a hostelry or rented a room or two from a resident family to accommodate respectable and scholarly travelers who would not stay in the hekdesh (“poor house”) reserved for transients of both sexes.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Blue Paper:    Checked
Language:    Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica