Creator Bio
Rachel Luis
d. 1737
Rachel Luis’s bequest of a Torah scroll to be purchased from her estate, together with her executor’s purchase of an entry for her in Shearith Israel’s memorial rolls (which is known from other sources), constituted a traditional means of perpetuating one’s own memory after death. Little else is known of Rachel’s life.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
Primary Source
Testament (New York)
In the name of God Amen I Rachel Luis being sick of body but of sound mind and Memory Do make this my last will and Testamit in manner and form following that is to say I wish and order that after my…