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Detailed report of the Hevrah kaddisha in Pecsett. The text, entirely in Hungarian begins with two introductory reports with the names of the officers of the society. Next are accountings of the finances, a list of two hundred fifty-nine members, a brief listing oif the Talmud Torah Society expenditures, temple donations (templomi adomanyok), and additional reports. This report provides insights into the organization and activities of a Jewish community in the last decade of the nineteenth century in central Europe.
Hevrah Kaddisha is a formal membership association in the framework of the traditional Jewish community, now limited in scope. In Ashkenazi communities, each such society bore the generic appellation kaddisha (χΗγΜΔιωΡΘΰ), "sacred," sometimes superfluously, as for example the "Sacred Society of Tailors," while the burial society was identified specifically as the ḥevrah kaddisha. he best-known ḥevrah is the one which dealt with the reverent disposal of the dead, to which, in time, the name ḥevra kaddisha became confined. It probably existed in talmudic times. The term ḥevrah, however, and even ḥevra kaddisha, was applied to associations of all kinds formed for religious, philanthropic, or educational purposes.
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