Birkath HaMazon [Grace After Meals]. Includes Keri'ath Shema al HaMitah [prayers before retiring to sleep] and Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial prayers for deceased]

AUCTION 49 | Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Graphic Art

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Birkath HaMazon [Grace After Meals]. Includes Keri'ath Shema al HaMitah [prayers before retiring to sleep] and Hazkarath Neshamoth [memorial prayers for deceased]

pp. 25. Lightly browned. Original wrappers. 8vo

Foehrenwald (D.P Camp, Germany): Defus Yafah, circa 1946

Est: $600 - $800
PRICE REALIZED $750
A scarce little booklet. Following the night-time Keria’th Shema, is a page of Mishnah, above wihich is a most poignant hand-written note in Yiddish, “Before going to sleep, learn this page of Mishnayoth (in memory) of your parents. No doubt intended for those surviving children whose parents were killed and were thus left alone at the end of the war. It is possible that these instructions were penned by Grand Rabbi Yekuthiel Judah Halberstam of Klausenberg, who was active in reviving religious life in the Foehrenwald D.P. Camp