Gebete der Juden

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Lot 176

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Gebete der Juden

Translated into Judeo-German with annotations by David Friedlaender. Two parts in one (second part, commentary to Ethics of Fathers, with text) ff. (8), 172, 49, (2). Browned. Contemporary marbled wrappers rubbed, corners frayed. 8vo Vinograd, Berlin 348

Berlin: Freyschule 1786

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

The first German translation (in Hebrew characters) of the prayer-book. The 1786 edition is described as "a companion volume” of “Tephiloth Yisrael” an edition of the prayers containing grammatical notes by Isaac Satanow. See S.C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993) p. 262 and Roest p.716 . The editor, David Friedlaender, was a Mendelssohn protegé. “Among Mendelssohn's many admirers none was so deeply and unreservedly attached to him as David Friedländer, and Mendelssohn responded with equal warmth…Friedländer's memory was a store-house of anecdotes from Mendelssohn's life, and his point in telling them was to show the wisdom and nobility of the man.” A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biography (1973), pp. 350-351.