Gebete der Juden

AUCTION 47 | Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1:00

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Lot 203

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Gebete der Juden

Translated into Judeo-German with annotations by David Friedlaender. Two parts in one. Translation of the prayers for weekday, Sabbaths and festivals. Second part, translation of text and commentary to Ethics of Fathers ff. (8), 172, 49, (2). Lightly foxed. Contemporary boards, worn, spine taped. 8vo Vinograd, Berlin 348

Berlin: Chevrath Chinuch Ne’arim Press 1786

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $600

The first German translation (in Hebrew characters) of the prayer-book. This 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.” See A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn: A Biography (1973), pp. 350-51