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This volume (Amsterdam, 1681) is significant not because of its content, but because of the handwritten inscriptions in the front and back, which add to our picture of Jewish life in early modern Dublin. The handwritten note in the front mentions the name of the owner, Jacob son of Gedalya. The end of the book has a longer inscription which mentions Dublin. The text reads: “I weep and my eyes overflow with tears on my father, Gedalya son of Jacob / of the holy community of Lublin who died. / I weep and my eyes overflow with tears on my brother Hirsh son of Gedalya / who died on the second day of Passover in the year 5464 (=1704) and was buried in Dublin in the land Ireland.” As Schlomo Berger noted in his exhibition “From Lublin to Dublin”, “This is probably the oldest copy of a book with a glimpse into a Jewish Dublin couleur-locale.”

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4. Sefer olat tamid, with reference to Dublin,
Marsh's Library Exhibits,
accessed December 6, 2025,
https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi/items/show/537