Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Prayerbook found in a Jewish home after liberation.
- Title
- Complete (Daily) Prayerbook, Including Laws and Customs According to Sephardic Custom
- Date
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publication:
1925
- Geography
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publication:
Przemysl (Poland).
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hyman Kirsh
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Classification
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Books and Published Materials
- Category
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Books and pamphlets
- Object Type
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Judaism--Prayer books (lcsh)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink, adhesive, leather, cloth
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The prayer book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Hyman Kirsch.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:09:13
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn6919
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The Hyman Kirsh papers includes photographs of the Kirszenewajg family taken in Poland prior to World War II, and a fragment of an engagement announcement for Golda Kirszenewajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. The collection also includes a prayerbook found in a Jewish home after liberation.
Hyman Kirsh papers
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The Hyman Kirsh papers includes photographs of the Kirszencwajg family taken in Poland prior to World War II, and a fragment of an engagement announcement for Golda Kirszencwajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. The Hyman Kirsh papers includes photographs of the Kirszencwajg family taken in Poland prior to World War II, and a fragment of an engagement announcement for Golda Kirszencwajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. Kirszenweig, an alternative spelling for Kirszencwajg, is found within the collection. The Hyman Kirsh papers contains a fragment of a handwritten engagement agreement, “Tnoim,” for Hyman’s aunt and uncle, Golda Kirszencwajg and Chaim Berenzweig, circa 1912-1914. The fragment, written in Hebrew, includes the signature of Golda’s father, Hyman’s grandfather. The photographs in the collection include a picture of Herman Kirszencwajg , Hyman’s older brother, as an infant; a picture of Herman with the inscription “Ciechanow, 22 VII 35, For the proof of forever memory, I am giving my portrait to Kirszencwajg . Your grandson Herman Kirszencwajg ;” a photograph of three men including Chaim Berenzweig, Hyman’s uncle on the left, and a photograph of Hyman Kirsh, circa 1933-1935.
