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Algemeyne yidishe tsaytung Classified Ad for a Missing Suitcase
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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…

Contributor:

Lipót Burkos

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1915

Subjects:

Ritual object, Dress, Hasidism, Jewish identity

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Advertisements, Firsthand Accounts
Ḥavvot Yair (The Villages of Yair): On Ceremonial Objects
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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…

Contributor:

Yair Ḥayim Bacharach

Places:

Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)

Date:

1699

Subjects:

Ritual object, Dress, Synagogue, Holidays, Rabbis

Categories:

Law, Responsa