Techinos. Ein Gebetbuch far Gebildete Froyenzimmer [”Supplications and Petitions for the Educated Woman.”] Edited by Yehoshua Heschel Mira.

AUCTION 57 | Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 1:00

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

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(WOMEN).

Techinos. Ein Gebetbuch far Gebildete Froyenzimmer [”Supplications and Petitions for the Educated Woman.”] Edited by Yehoshua Heschel Mira.

Occasional Hebrew, text almost entirely Yiddish and printed in waybertaytsch. Bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, featuring colorful embroidered floral panels on both covers. All edges gilt. pp. 4, 135. Lightly browned. 8vo. Unrecorded by Vinograd and Friedberg.

Rodelheim: Lehrberger 1859

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

<< A woman’s book of Techinos in a personalized embroidered binding.>> Intimate, tender and highly personal, Techinah prayers were composed almost exclusively for the needs of Jewish women and so in turn were shaped according to the psyche and patterns of a woman’s life.