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Title	Breslau/Auras Memorbuch
Alternate Title	Memorbuch (Breslau/Auras)
Type	Illuminated Manuscript
Date Original	1765
Language	Hebrew; German
Description	Yizkor and prayer book. Contains lists of deceased, synagogue prayer services, and memorial prayers. The scribe, Binyamin Zeʼev ben Elyaḳim Getsel Kats of Kempen, recorded the book's completion in 1765 in Breslau. The German colophon gives his name as Wolf Jacob von Kempen. There is a dedication in Hebrew on the t.p. by Moshe Segal as a memorial to his parents, Shelomoh and Esther Segal, dated 1802 or 1803. There the location is given as Auras (nowadays Uraz, a suburb of Wrocław). There are four unbound pages at the end of the book, two of which record the dates of the death of members of the scribe's family. The other two pages record names of deceased. The book is beautifully illustrated in black and white by the scribe. Of note: on p. 9a, in the service for berit milah, there are instructions for the contingency of the infant's being orphaned of one or both of his parents, indicating that it was a common phenomenon of the time.
Scribe	Kats, Binyamin Ze'ev ben Elyakim Getsel.
Patron	Segal, Moshe
Subjects	Hazkarat neshamot. Judaism -- Liturgy -- Texts. Prayers for the dead. Memorial service. Registers of births, etc. -- Poland -- Wroc³aw. Jews -- Poland -- Wroc³aw -- History. Berit milah. Jewish orphans -- Poland -- Wroc³aw. Manuscripts, German. Manuscripts, Hebrew. Wroc³aw (Poland) -- Registers.
Date Digital	2005
Photographer	Ardon Bar Hama.
Credits	George Blumenthal; Descriptions provided by Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg and Shulamith Z. Berger.
Link to Yeshiva's Catalog	http://yulib.mc.yu.edu:8000/cgi-bin/gw/yulis?host=localhost%2b2222%2bDEFAULT&search=KEYWORD&function=CARDSCR&SourceScreen=COPVOLSCR&sessionid=200808131137381896696&skin=portal&conf=.%2fchameleon.conf&lng=en&itemu1=2002&scant1=ms%2085&scanu1=20&u1=2002&t1=MS0085%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20000287086000000000&elementcount=3&pos=1&prevpos=1&rootsearch=3&
Digital Rights	© 2008 Yeshiva University. All photographic images contained on this web site are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Yeshiva University.
Provenance	Collection of Louis Lewin
References	Lewin, Louis. "Das Synagogenbuch Von Auras." Menorah 4, no. 5 (1926): 271-73; Wischnitzer, Mark. “Auras.” Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. III. Berlin: Eschkol, 1929; Wischnitzer, Mark. “Oyras.” Eshkol: Entsiklopedya Yisre’elit. Vol. I. Berlin: Eshkol, 1929; Katalog der vom Verein "Jüdisches Museum Breslau" in den Räumen des Schlesischen Museums für Kunstgewerbe und Altertümer veranstalteten Ausstellung : Das Judentum in der Geschichte Schlesiens. Breslau: Jüdisches Museum Breslau, 1929.

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Title	01 - Introductory Page
Alternate Title	Breslau/Auras Memorbuch
Digital Rights	© 2005 Yeshiva University
Publisher	Yeshiva University

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