Shehitah
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Breibart-Lazarus family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1032
Collection Overview
Collection includes correspondence, photographs, photocopies, legal documents, ephemera, and realia.
Collection contains papers of the Breibart and Lazarus (Lazarowitz) families. Breibart material includes Sam Breibart's original U.S. Certificate of Naturalization and photocopy (1960) of his 1913 New York marriage license; George Breibart's report cards (1932-1933) from High School of Charleston and Bertha Lazarus Breibart's report cards (1926-1932) from Summerville Public School. Breibart...
Dates:
1890s-1990s
Found in:
Special Collections
David Karesh letters
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-014
Collection Overview
Collection includes seven letters from David Karesh to Frank and Nettie Levenson of Bishopville, South Carolina. The letters were written in Yiddish, and English translations are included. Karesh often traveled from Columbia to Bishopville to provide the family (and friends and relatives) with kosher meat. Letters contain Karesh's expressions of thanks for the Levenson's hospitality, mentions of his work at the slaughterhouse, comments on assimilation of American Jews, reform among Jews, and...
Dates:
1949-1957
Found in:
Special Collections
Polan family artifacts
Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-052
Collection Overview
Collection contains five artifacts: Gertrude Polan's aluminum bread crumb tray and scraper used at the family home in Mullins, South Carolina; Hyman Polan's koshering knife and whetstone (used ca. 1940s-1960s); cotton handkerchief to wrap knife and whetstone.
Dates:
approximately 1940-1960
Found in:
Special Collections
Portuguese Brit Milah and Shechita record book
Item — Box 1
Identifier: Mss 1150
Abstract
Portuguese Brit Milah and Shechita record book spanning the years 1700 to 1842 though probably created at multiple dates by multiple individuals. Book contains birth and death records, rules about Shechita, and circumcision records of a Sephardic community in the West Indies, most likely Curaçao.
Dates:
1700-1842
Found in:
Special Collections