Book
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sol Oster
Scope and Content
Book codifying Jewish law from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Worn, dark brown textured leather prayer book with Hebrew text in black ink. There are decorative borders on the title and other pages throughout the book; on the spine is half a label. Hebrew and German script and a number are inscribed in ink on the title page and the free front endpaper. Title: [Codification of Jewish Law] Publication: Amsterdam : Rabbi Naftali Herz Levi; 1760 Description: 19 cm
front, loose endpaper, ink, handwritten : Hebrew script / German script / Moises Perels in Kongisburg title page, top, ink, handwritten : 109 / Hebrew script
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.
- Rabbis--Germany--Biography.
- Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.
- Rabbis--United States--Biography.
- Jewish refugees--United States.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--History--20th century.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials