Sidur Kol Benei Yehudah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the rite of the AR”I - the custom of Lubavitch

AUCTION 22 | Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn

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Lot 47

(CHINA)

Sidur Kol Benei Yehudah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the rite of the AR”I - the custom of Lubavitch

Second edition. Title within type-ornament border with vignette of single worshipper at prayer. Alphabet Chart on f. 2r pp. (2),184. Missing some text on pp. 99-101. Lightly discolored. Modern boards. 4to

Shanghai: for the Shanghai Talmud Torah 1946

Est: $500 - $700

Shanghai provided a safe haven for many Jewish refugees from Europe, which had been overrun by Germany’s Nazi hordes. Eventually, these Jews resettled elsewhere, but as late as 1946, a year after war’s end, there was still need to print prayerbooks for the community of Lubavitch adherents in China