Avodah Belev [prayers for the whole year]. With German translation. Including Passover Hagadah

AUCTION 39 | Thursday, April 03rd, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Avodah Belev [prayers for the whole year]. With German translation. Including Passover Hagadah

Two Hebrew and German titles pp. (8), 396, x , 362, (index bound at end). Lacking p. 351-52. Marginal repair to title, with previous owner's signature, Leon Eger, on second title, Vinograd, St. Petersburg 7

St. Petersburg: Carl Krayya 1849-50

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

Prepared by the Haskalah Movement under the auspices of the Tsarist government. Among the approbations of Rabbis and Maskilim listed on the title are R. Yitzchak of Volozhin and the Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (Author of Tzemach Tzedek). The text of this Hagadah is heavily censored. For example, the words (p. 357) of Ha Lachma Anya have been altered to read “Now we are slaves “Beduchtin tuva” (in good places)... next year we should be free “Kebe’arah didan” (as in our country)