Description

Chok L’Yisrael Bereishit. חק לישראל
“Stamp: Sighet (סיגעט בוכבּינדער)
Rabbi Matsus Lemberg 1864
“בשנת כי חק לישראל הוא”
This is an ink stamp belonging to a historic Jewish bookbinding business located in the city of Sighet (Maramureș region, historically part of Hungary, now in Romania).
The text on the stamp is written in Yiddish using the Hebrew alphabet:
שװארץ אונד קארפמען (Schwartz und Karpmen) — Schwartz and Karpmen (The names of the business owners/partners)
בוכבּינדער (Bukhbinder) — Bookbinder
סיגעט רויא נאסט 13 (Siget, Ruya Nast 13) — Sighet, 13 Ruya Nast [Street] (The physical street address of the workshop)
Historical Context
Before World War II and the Holocaust, Sighet was a prominent hub of Jewish life and culture in Eastern Europe, famously known as a major center for Hasidic Judaism (the birthplace of the Satmar Hasidic movement) and as the hometown of author Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel.
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