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Community registry

(pinkas)

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Registries (typically in volume format) recording administrative, financial, and organisational aspects of Jewish community life.

Video

“An Open Pinkas: One Hundered Years of Self-Documentation Among European Jewry.” Conference at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, 20 June [Hebrew].

Translations

  • Hebrewפנקס
  • GermanPinkas
  • RussianПинкас
  • FrenchRegistre communautaire
  • DutchPinkas
  • ItalianPinkas
  • CzechPinkas
  • HungarianJegyzőkönyv
  • SpanishRegistro
  • GreekΠινκάς
  • PolishPinkas
  • Arabicدفتر
  • Yiddishפּינקס
  • LadinoPinkas

Bibliography

Bartal, Yisrael. “The Pinkas: From Communal Archive to Total History,” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 29 (2017): 21-40.

Ilan, Nachem, The Community Register (Pinkas) of the Jewish Community in Sudan (Jerusalem, 2007). Hebrew.

Litt, Stefan, Pinkas, Kahal and the Mediene. The Records of Dutch Ashkenazi Communities in the Eighteenth Century as Historical Sources (Leiden & Boston, 2008).

Teller, Adam. “The Eastern European Pinkas Kahal: Image and Reality,” The Librarians: The blog of the National Library of Israel, posted June 18, 2019.

Viterbo, Ariel, “‘To give good order and purpose to the Pinkasim and letters…’ The archives of the Jewish communities in Italy,” Archion 14-15 (2007): 9-28. Hebrew.

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