Algemeyne yidishe tsaytung Classified Ad for a Missing Suitcase

Lipót Burkos

1915

Lost This Shabbes

My travel bag was lost somewhere between Szerencs and Nyíregyháza. It contained: a tallis, two pairs of tefillin, together with a Yeshuas Yisroel prayer book. There were also two High Holiday prayer books, galoshes, a shtrayml,1 one light boys’ suit, four debt registry books, and one freight list. Everything has my name on it. I am asking the honest finder or buyer to return it to me. I will gladly pay a finder’s fee as well as all expenses.

Burkos Lipót from Bártfa (Bardejov), [staying with] Glück Mór in Hajdu-Hadház [Hajdúhadház].

Translated by
Daniel
Viragh
.

Notes

[A shtrayml is fur hat worn by Hasidic men on holidays and Shabbat.—Eds.]

Credits

Lipót Burkos, classified ad for a missing suitcase, Allgemeine jüdische Zeitung, no. 71 (Apr. 13, 1915): p. 3.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Lipót Burkos

19th–20th Century

Nothing is known about Lipót Burkos beyond what can be gleaned from the classified ad he submitted to the Yiddish-language journal Algemeyne yidishe tsaytung, which was published on April 13, 1915. Burkos grew up in the Hungarian town of Bártfa (now Bardejov, Slovakia), which was home to Sandz (Halberstam) Hasidim. He appears to have been a merchant.

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