'Dinei Shechitot', colored illustrated poster with the laws and guidelines to shochet and bodek (slaughterer and ...

'Dinei Shechitot', colored illustrated poster with the laws and guidelines to shochet and bodek (slaughterer and examiner). Joseph Schlesinger Press. Vienna and Budapest. 2nd half of 19th century.

Impressive colored poster, with picture of lungs and laws of Shechita and bedika, nikur and laws of me'et le'et. Picture of detailed lungs in the center of the page, with the names of the parts. The laws of shechita are all around the picture brought down in short: "הלכות בדיקת הריאה בקצרה", "התנהגות הבודק", ו"דיני מעת לעת". Chart of 60 items shown in the picture.

[1] page 47 x 63 cm. On the back of the page stamp of: "שו"ב דק"ק שאמלויא"

Fold marks, tears and several damages on the top of the page including damage to text, stained. Fair condition.

Joseph Schlesinger Press. Was founded in 1853 in Bratyslava (then Pressburg), as the Joseph Schlesinger Publishing House, after its founder, Jopseph Schlesinger. The firm Joseph Schlesinger was active in Vienna and in Budapest until the years of World War Two. The Vienna branch was closed down in 1938 and the Budapest branch continued functioning until March 1944. In 1939 Akiva Schlesinger, a great-great-grandson of Joseph Schlesinger, left Budapest and moved to Israel, to open a branch of the company in Tel Aviv, changing its name to "Sinai" Publishing Company.