Pinkas
Pinkas (plural Pinkassim , from the Greek Pinax , notebook or debt book, actually 'blackboard', wax-covered notepad) was the name of the log books of Jewish communities and corporations.
In the interest of continually meaning expansion, especially since the Middle Ages , it was the concept of the protocol book at all and was able to everything from the municipal taxpayers over election results, community decisions, statutes findings to tithe or even death lists in terms of a commemorative book ( Memorbuch ) or even a Martyriologie include .
A well-known example is the Pinkas of the rural Jews in Kleve (1690–1807) (edited by Fritz Baer, Berlin 1922). A Pinkas of the Vilnius Chewra Kadischa comes from the 19th century , who was smuggled into the Vilnius ghetto , hidden and thus saved by Shmerke Kaczerginski and Abraham Sutzkever in 1943 ; it is now in the Lithuanian National Museum .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Return of Samuel Bak , February 24, 2018, accessed January 28, 2020.
literature
- Gudrun Schroeter: Words from a destroyed world. The Ghetto in Wilna , Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2008, ISBN 978-3-86110-448-3 (also dissertation, FU Berlin 2007).
- Stefan Litt : Pinkas, Kahal, and the Mediene. The Records of Dutch Ashkenazi Communities in the Eighteenth Century as Historical Sources , Brill, Leiden 2008.