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Manuscript, Amulets and Segulot – With Prayers and Hashbaot Against Hitler – United States, Holocaust Period
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Manuscript, amulets, Segulot and various selections, with prayers and hashbaot against Hitler. [United States?, Holocaust period, ca. early 1940s].
Written on a printed ruled notebook, in tall, narrow format. Ashkenazic cursive script, by an unidentified writer. Includes copying of amulets, Segulot and hashbaot for various matters (with kabbalistic diagrams: angelic script, textual charts, Stars of David) and other selections: Goral on a Chumash, Reashim UReamim, Masoret by Ezra, Ashkavah for Haman, Hoshanot for Purim, Ketubah for Purim, Seder Olam and more.
On the pages numbered 89-95 are special prayers and hashbaot apparently written during the Holocaust period, including: HaNoten Teshuah prayer for United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, prayer against Hitler's Nazi Germany; text of amulet to destroy Hitler; and many other prayers against Hitler and his government.
Approx. 120 written pages (and many more blank pages). Approx. 30 cm. Good condition. Slight stains. Inkstains in several places. Open tear to one leaf with prayers against Hitler, affecting text. New binding.
Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah – Manuscripts and Letters
Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah – Manuscripts and Letters