[Handbill issued to the Amsterdam Sephardic community seeking alms for Meir ben Abraham de Jaronda of Thessalonikē].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Azevedo, Daniel Cohen d', -1823, author.

Beerenstein, Samuel, 1767-1838, author.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Proops, David ben Jacob, printer.

Language:

Dutch

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Sephardim--19th century--Charitable contributions--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Sephardim.

Rabbis--Greece--Thessalonikē--19th century.

Rabbis.

Jaronda, Meir ben Abraham de, active 18th-19th century.

printed ephemera.

Local Subjects:

Jaronda, Meir ben Abraham de, active 18th-19th century.

Genre:

handbills.

circulars (fliers)

Physical Description:

1 leaf ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Dutch text begins: Oproeping van den wel eerw. hoog gel. en hoog geachten heer opper Rabbyn der N.P.J. Gemeente. Aan alle myne broeders in het geloof heil! ...

Hebrew text beings: Mitsṿat Pidyon shevuyim ... ʻam Elohe Avraham nedive ʻamim rabim ...

מצות פדיון שבוים... עם אלהי אברהם נדיבי עמים רבים ...

Place of Publication:

Amśṭerdam : Daṿid ben Yaʻaḳov Props Kats, 25 Eloel 5580, 4 September 1820

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew, translated to Dutch on verso.

Biography/History:

The Jaronda family was a prominent Sephardic family in Thessalonikē; prominent members include the subject's father, Abraham ben Samuel, and another Abraham Hayyim (1723-1789), author of Yad neʼeman (and other works); "Miranda" in this document shortened mi-Yerandah, or de Jaronda.

Summary:

Printed handbill issued with the Hebrew texts, with the Dutch translation on verso, of Meir, son of the [Thessalonikē] Torah scholar Abraham Miranda, facing dire poverty and possibly prison (alluded to by the Hebrew caption Pidyon shevuyim).

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Letters printed from Livorno rabbis Shelomoh Malakh, Shemuʼel ben Mosheh Ha-kohen, and Abraham Hayyim Toffia, 1819 (not translated to Dutch); Daniel de Azevedo, Amsterdam, Elul 1820; and Samuel Behrend Berenstein of the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam, followed by the appeal of Meir Miranda [de Jaronda].

Additional note at bottom requiring the handbill to be notarized for official collection for donations (Hebrew and Dutch).

Local Notes:

Kislak Misc Print Collection box 16 no 32: Creased; worn. Purchased in 2021 from London Treasures Auction House (London); acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

OCLC:

1546898479