Sidur Siphthei Tzadikim - The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser. Vol. IV: Tabernacle Service. Vol. V: Passover and Pentecost Service. Vol. VI: Fast Day Service.

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Sidur Siphthei Tzadikim - The Form of Prayers According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser. Vol. IV: Tabernacle Service. Vol. V: Passover and Pentecost Service. Vol. VI: Fast Day Service.

3 (of 6) volumes, lacking Vol. I, II and III). Bilingual edition, Hebrew and English face `a face. Vol. VI has inscription on front fly, “Dr. Harry Friedenwald from Miss Cohen, 1906.” Also highly original bookplate of “Harry Friedenwald,” Hebrew and English. Vols. V and VI ex-library. Various bindings. 4to Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 36

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell 1837-8

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $3,750

Leeser was convinced that in his translations of the many Psalms contained in this liturgy he had bested the King James version of the Bible. See Lance J. Sussman, Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism (1995), p. 94.