Handwritten notebook, list of names for Yizkor prayer, prayers and selected passages from the Zohar, and other notes on Torah and halachah. [Amsterdam, ca. 1850s-1860s].

Long and narrow notebook for use in Yizkor prayer. The writer is R. Yaakov Meir Lehren, brother of
R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehren of Amsterdam, founder of the Pekidim VeAmarkalim society (d. 1853) – also mentioned in the present notebook. Others mentioned include family

ancestors R. Meir son of R. Fishel of Bomsla [Maharam Fishels of Mladá Boleslav, a leading Torah scholar of Prague, member of the Beit Din of the Noda BiYehudah, d. 1770] and his son-in-law R. Baruch HaLevi Duschenes who moved from Prague to serve as rabbi in the Netherlands [ancestor of several distinguished Dutch families], his teachers from the Mannheim Kloiz, and others.

Approx. [33] written pages. 8X20 cm. Fair-good condition. Wear and stains. Detached leaves. Original binding, loose.

Bookplate of Mozes Heiman Gans.