Mohel's Manuscript: Sepher Sod Hashem

Manuscript containing 63 inscriptions of circumcisions performed in Albany and Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Written in Hebrew and some English. The book includes a signed endpaper in German and Yiddish indicating ownership by David b. Segal (Loewy) of Bierstadt (Vinograd, Amsterdam 1585). Rabbi Segal emigrated to the USA in the mid-1800s and performed circumcisions in Albany and Kingston. The manuscript dates to around 1843.

Associated People/Businesses

• SEGAL, RABBI

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Subjects

• Circumcision
• Mohels

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