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Lot #		4150
Auction End Date		4/1/2003 11:04:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Seder Hazkorot Neshamot

Title (Hebrew)

סדר הזכרת נשמות

Author

[Hertzl - Chassidim - Community - Ms.]

City

Galati, Romania

Publication Date

1922

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

[36], [approx. 100 blank] f., 371:274 mm., light staining. Written on fine heavy stock, bound in full leather with a silver dedication medallion attached to front panel, ruled in silver, rubbed on extremities, binding slightly shaken.

Paragraph 1

All words are written in large square Hebrew letters, several are outlined in floral calligraphy.

Detailed
Description

The names of deceased community members to be recited on Yom Kippur and other Yizkor services. Full pages are dedicated to: R. Abraham Joshua Herschel b. Isaac (uncle of the Square Rebbe); several donors, the community members who perished WWI; Dr. Theodor Hertzl, founder of Zionism; and community leaders.

Paragraph 2

Galati (Ger. Galatz), is a port on the River Danube, in Moldavia, eastern Rumania. Jews first settled there at the end of the 16th century. There are Jewish tombstones dating from between 1590 and 1595. A second cemetery was established in 1629 and a third in 1774. Until the beginning of the 18th century the hevra kaddisha was responsible for the communal administration. Following a blood libel in 1796, outrages were perpetrated against the Jews. In 1812 Greek revolutionaries, who entered the town, set fire to several synagogues, and in 1842 there were renewed attacks on the community by local Greeks. In 1846 anti-Jewish outbreaks again occurred in which synagogues were looted and Jewish houses and shops were destroyed. In 1859, in a similar attack, many Jews were killed. In 1867 a number of Jews among those expelled from the country drowned in the Danube near Galati: the catastrophe provoked a storm of protest throughout Europe. The Jewish population numbered 14,500 in 1894, 12,000 in 1910 (22% of the total), 19,912 in 1930 (20%), and 13,000 in 1942. Jewish artisans and merchants contributed considerably to the city's economic and commercial development. Before World War II the community had 22 synagogues, a secondary school, two elementary schools for boys and one for girls, a kindergarten, a trade school, a hospital, an orphanage, an old-age home, and two ritual bathhouses. There was also a cultural-religious society, a Zionist society, a youth organization Ze'irei Zion, and a "culture" club.

Reference
Description

Enc. Jud.

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