(mohel book)
A handbook that contains all procedures and blessings to perform a circumcision ceremony. It may also contain the names of the baby boys circumcises by the circumciser (mohel).
Brit Milah customs, welcoming a baby boy.
Allan, Nigel. “Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library: A Polish Rabbi’s Circumcision Manual.” Medical History, vol. 33, no. 2, 1989, pp. 247-54.
Frojmovič, Eva. “Illustrated Mohelbooks and Circumcision Liturgies.” Mappot … blessed be who comes: The Band of Jewish Tradition. Mappot…gesegnet, der da kommt: Das Band jüdischer Tradition, ed. Annette Weber et al., Munich: Prähistorische Staatssammlung München, 1997, pp. 55-61.
Hagozer, Jacob and Gershon. Zichron Brit la-Rishonim [Zichron Brit for the First]. Ed. A. J. Glassberg, Berlin: H. Itzkowski, 1892.
Liberman Mintz, Sharon and Elka Deitsch, eds. “The Mohel.” Kehillat Ha-Kodesh: Creating the Sacred Community: The Roles of the Rabbi, Cantor, Mohel and Shohet in Jewish Communal Life, New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1997, pp. 38-53.
Malthête, Avraham. “De précieux témoins de la vie juive: les Mohelbücher.” Kountrass, 2009,
Wandrey, Irina and Falk Wiesemann. “Ketubbot and Mohel Books.” Torah,Talmud and Siddur: Hebrew Manuscripts of the State and University Library Hamburg manuscript cultures 6, ed. Irina Wandrey, Hamburg: Universität Hamburg, 2014, pp. 275-80.
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