Siddur HaShalom [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by Chief Rabbi Judah Leib Levin of Moscow.

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Lot 204

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Siddur HaShalom [prayers for the entire year]. Arranged by Chief Rabbi Judah Leib Levin of Moscow.

Hebrew and Russian titles. Includes calendrical information for the years 1967-71 on pp. 226-7. Hebrew prayers for the welfare of the USSR on pp. 230-31. Kaddish transliterated into Russian at end. Endpapers with various Russian inscriptions. pp.479. Trace foxed. Original boards, shaken. 4to

Moscow: 1968

Est: $150 - $200

An historically significant prayer-book issued soon after the “re-awakening” of Soviet Jewry following Israel’s Six Day War victory and the subsequent tensions with the Communist authorities.