Subject: Paleography

Birth certificate for a child of Jacob Crefsmans and wife Maren Morgarethe, filled in and signed in Hebrew (Yiddish) by Martin Wetzler. The document, printed in German, also includes a note indicating a marriage on October 28th, 1849. The document features a Jewish star and is written in Hebrew, German, and English.

This ledger, dating from approximately 1870-1899, belonged to B. Milgram of Brooklyn, New York. It documents the accounts of a small business, primarily listing names of clients and the amounts they owed. Most entries are in Hebrew, using a late East European Ashkenazic cursive script, with some Yiddish terms and a few names in English. The ledger is bound in its original brown leather binding with pockets and ink blotters intact. The names of Kurland, Shenker, Erlich, Slutsker, and Moseiwitch appear among the entries. The amounts are largely in cents.