Leeser, Isaac (Ed.). Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews
AUCTION 38 |
Thursday, November 29th,
2007 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 12
(AMERICAN JUDAICA)
Leeser, Isaac (Ed.). Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews
Philadelphia: C. Sherman 1848
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $850
First Aschkenazi Prayer Book Printed in America. Prepared by the Champion of American Orthodoxy, Isaac Leeser
Leeser writes in his introduction that the Hebrew text is “chiefly after Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim’s celebrated Sapha Berurah.” The English translation is based upon “our modern German translators, generally Arnheim of Glogau, David Friedländer, and Mendelssohn, or from my own studies and previous version of the Portuguese Tephilla, in which I had generally followed David Levi”