Lowell Ḥevra kaddisha pinkas and meeting records, 1897?-1959; פנקס חברה קדישא (לאעלל, מאסס.),תרנ"ז?-תשי"ט

Contributor:

Ḥevra kaddisha (Lowell, Massachusetts) (issuing body); Goldmann, Chaim, 1852-1920? (inscriber); Bloch, Chaim Isaac, 1867-1948 (other)

Date:

1897

Language:

Yiddish

Provenance:

Sold by Jacob Djmal, 2021.

Relation:

The Margolies Judaica Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2481130; The Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/498379; The Busch Endowed Judaica Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2481129

Subject:

Ḥevra kaddisha -- Massachusetts -- Lowell; Dead -- Religious aspects; Burial laws (Jewish law); Yahrzeit; By-laws

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); calligraphy (visual works); charters; ledgers (account books); pen and ink drawings; Manuscripts, Yiddish -- 20th century; Manuscripts, Hebrew -- 20th century; Manuscripts, English -- 20th century

Physical Description:

1 item (123 leaves) : paper; 315 x 190 mm + 3 notes.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Margolies Judaica Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Busch Endowed Judaica Fund.; In Yiddish (entries); calligraphic charter and bylaws mostly in Hebrew; some words in English.; Additional notes left in manuscript: Meeting notes (Yiddish and English), dated 27 September 1899, on the decision to purchase a plot of land on Howard and Railroad Streets for the construction of a synagogue; an additional note (pasted) of meeting minutes, dated 10 January 1915 (on different paper than that of the manuscript).; The Lowell Ḥevra kaddisha was a Lowell religious organization for the handling of the dead in the traditional and halakhic fashion, and additionally mentioning names on Yahrzeit and the reading of the names on the assigned day; the organization probably handled funds for donation to the poor and to Jewish charities as well; the founder of the Ḥevra kaddisha was likely Elias Wolfson (1859?-1928), Lowell rabbi and mohel.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Archives Room, CAJS Rar Ms 568

Collection:

Margolies Judaica Fund; Barney and Eleanor Frommer Memorial Fund; Busch Endowed Judaica Fund