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The title page notes that the society was founded in 5568 (1807-08). [Image 1]
Copied from the pinkas (ledger) of the Burial Society of Ostroh is a formula of excommunication to be placed on those who quarrel with the members of the society. [Images 4-5]
Approximately 40 statutes of the society, which were agreed upon by all members. [Images 6-15]
The signatures of some 100 members who agreed to the statutes. [Images 16-20]
The signatures of the shamashim (junior members) of the society, followed by an entry dated 1815 which lists the society’s complaints as to the misconduct of some of the shamashim and the punitive measures taken to prevent future misconduct. [Images 21-24]
Entries recording the acceptance of children into the society, and some additional signatures of shamashim. [It was a widespread custom for children to be admitted as junior members of a burial society. Their duties often included assisting or spending the night with the very sick and serving the meals at their annual banquet.] [Images 25-29]
Entries recording the acceptance of new members into the society, followed by the signatures of members whose earlier signatures in the pinkas had become illegible. [Images 30-39]
Complaints against the shamashim. [Images 40-44,46]
Entries recording the acceptance of new members into the society. [Image 45]
The transcriber provides a brief physical description of the pinkas, [Image 50]
Polish entries which were apparently written by the noblemen of the town. [Image 51]
The transcriber describes Image 51 and notes that apparently the Polish nobleman Stanislaw Szolaisky, the founder of the town of Krivozer in 1807, signed and wrote his consent to the founding of the society in the original pinkas. [Image 52]
A product of a cooperative agreement between the Russian National Library and Touro University’s Project Zikaron in 2019. This pinkas is part of the Günzburg Manuscript Collection at the Russian National Library in Moscow. In the 1890s, Baron David Günzburg of St. Petersburg, Russia hired Avraham Sharfshteyn to arrange for the original pinkas and others like it to be transcribed for his private library. The current location of the original pinkas is unknown, if it at all still exists. This overview was prepared by Rabbi Yitzchok Stroh of Brooklyn, New York, in 2020.
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1807-1869Language(s)
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