Taschen Luach [pocket-calendar for the Hebrew Year 5723 (1962-63)]. Edited by P. Solitan. Text in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 172

(POLAND)

Taschen Luach [pocket-calendar for the Hebrew Year 5723 (1962-63)]. Edited by P. Solitan. Text in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish

24 photographs and illustrations of celebrated pre-war rabbinic, Chassidic and lay communal leaders of Polish Jewry, as well as tombstones, synagogue buildings, memorials, etc Wrappers. Slight tears. 12mo

Warsaw: Vaad ha-Kehiloth Ha-Kedoshoth 1962

Est: $150 - $250

PRICE REALIZED $150

Includes prayers, laws and customs, the times for the onset of Sabbath in cities throughout Poland, as well as a list of contact details for 22 Polish synagogues. Quite unusual to see a clearly - and exclusively - religious ("heimish") publication emanating from a society that was deeply committed to Communist ideology and that quashed any expression of Jewish feeling that did not conform to a rigid view of social expression