Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish Archives Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
57,1-2 (2005) 25-27
Keywords:
Cohen, Abraham Eleazar,
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Jews History
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Jews History 18th century
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Jewish calendar
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Manuscripts, Hebrew
Abstract:
This handwritten calendar for the Jewish year 5539 (1778-1779) was found in the private collection of Arnold and Dee Kaplan of Allentown, Pennsylvania. The author was Abraham Eleazer Cohen, who identifies himself on the cover; it mentions Philadelphia in large print, indicating that the calendar was written there. Cohen was a schoolmaster and the shamash (beadle) at the Congregation Mikveh Israel of Philadelphia; he died in 1785.
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