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Trial and Judgment by Appointed Judges in the Case of R. Lowenthal (Widow) and Daughter Against Meyer Goldman: A New Orleans Rabbinic Court Record, 1863Trial and Judgment by Appointed Judges in the Case of R. Lowenthal (Widow) and Daughter Against Meyer Goldman: A New Orleans Rabbinic Court Record, 1863

Six-page pamphlet detailing a rabbinic court case in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1863. The case, presided over by Rabbi Illoway, involved R. Lowenthal (widow) and her daughter suing Meyer Goldman for fraud. Both parties agreed to abide by the laws of Moses. This printed record is considered unusually rare and possibly the earliest extant example of its kind.

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