Seder Chanukath HaBayith… Order of Service to be Performed at the Consecration of the Synagogue “The Gates of Prayer,” Wooster Street, New York.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 334

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Seder Chanukath HaBayith… Order of Service to be Performed at the Consecration of the Synagogue “The Gates of Prayer,” Wooster Street, New York.

Hebrew and English on facing pages. Each page with type-ornament border. From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool. pp. (23). Contemporary salmon-colored wrappers, worn. 8vo. Singerman, 983; not in Goldman.

New York: J. M. Jackson 1847

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,800

Congregation Shaaray Tefila (“Gates of Prayer”) was founded in 1845. Over a period of many decades, shifts in the traditional service were introduced, and by 1921 it had fully journeyed away from Orthodoxy and joined the American Reform movement. Since 1958 it has occupied a former theater, located at East 79th Street at the corner of 2nd Avenue. See K.M. Olitzky & M.L. Raphael, The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook(1996) pp. 258-60.