Yiddish at Columbia

Ritual > Community rules

Takanot Amsterdam

Amsterdam, 1736

DS135.N4 T3 1736

Takanot were generally collections of rules or customs specific to a particular community.  Takanot varied by location, and were often written in a local vernacular (which, in Europe, was most often Yiddish).

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