Pinkas Ha-Hitkatvut Shel Ha-Medinah Ha-Yehudit Shel Lotringen Heeteke Mikhtavim Min Ha-Shanim 543-551 |
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| Author:
| Schwarzfuchs, Simon |
| Series title: | Fontes Ad Res Judaicas Spectantes Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-965-208-160-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2003 |
| Publisher: | Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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The recently discovered register of correspondence of the Jewish community (medinah) of Lorraine is the only item from the community's archive to have survived. It includes 193 copies of important letters, written in Yiddish and Hebrew, attesting to the administrative and internal life of the community under the Ancien regime and towards the convention of the Constituent Assembly in 1789. The final letters reflect the process of the community's disintegration. The letters are...
More DescriptionThe recently discovered register of correspondence of the Jewish community (medinah) of Lorraine is the only item from the community's archive to have survived. It includes 193 copies of important letters, written in Yiddish and Hebrew, attesting to the administrative and internal life of the community under the Ancien regime and towards the convention of the Constituent Assembly in 1789. The final letters reflect the process of the community's disintegration. The letters are summarized in French.