Siddur HaShalom [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by Solomon Schlieffer

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00

Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Siddur HaShalom [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by Solomon Schlieffer

Hebrew and Russian titles pp.479,(1). Scattered stains. Original grey-green boards, slightly loose, rubbed. 4to

Moscow: for the Moscow Jewish Religious Society 1956

Est: $150 - $200

An historically significant prayer-book, the first printed in the Soviet Union, produced at a time of relative thaw, following the death of Stalin three years earlier. Striking, are the Hebrew prayers for the welfare of the USSR