Rare glimpse on the Jewish life in Bukovina area, Romania 1800’s and the beginning of the 1900’s.
Bill of sale for place "in Beit Haknesset of R’ Yitzchok Eizik ben R’ Tzvi, in the new Beit Medrash which is built at this time with stones, the place is known to be on the middle bench, third place,….and along we sold to R’ Eizik a place in the women section….and we absolutely confirm this place permanently.
Original sale bill, used about 70 years after that, from new, for sale again in the future generations.
Among the signers:
Moshe ben R’ Yisrael
Yehuda Leib ben R’ David zt"l
Yehuda Leib ben Yosef
Yesacher Ber ben R’ Shlomo Zalmen zt"l
Eliezer ben Avraham
Mordechai ben R’ Shmuel
Good condition.
From this bill you can get an idea of what the life of the community in Bukovina – Romania was, especially in the city of Faltitzan which is Faltishan in Jewish slang. The first Jewish city in Moldova, which was used as an example to establish other cities by the Jews in Moldova. The city was established in the year 1780 and this bill is from the establishment and founding of the first Bet Hakneset, and as mentioned on the bill of sale, new stone building built for synagogue.
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