Fanny Schmiedl Neuda. Stunden der Andacht: Ein Gebet- und Erbauungsbuch fur Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen zur oeffentlichen und haeuslichen Andacht [“Hours of Devotion: Book of Prayer and Edification for Jewish Wives and Young Women.”]

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 190
(WOMEN).

Fanny Schmiedl Neuda. Stunden der Andacht: Ein Gebet- und Erbauungsbuch fur Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen zur oeffentlichen und haeuslichen Andacht [“Hours of Devotion: Book of Prayer and Edification for Jewish Wives and Young Women.”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> German text, occasional Hebrew. Dedication to Baroness Louise von Rothschild. p. 20, 142, (6). Stained and foxed. Contemporary boards, worn. 8vo.

Prague: Wolf Pascheles 1855

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
<<The first Jewish women’s prayer book to be written by a woman.>> Fanny Neuda’s collection of Jewish prayers is unique by virtue of it being the first collection of Jewish prayers composed in German by a Jewish woman. In addition to containing traditional prayers, the work included both public and private events in the life of a Jewish woman. It attained great popularity and was published in more than thirty editions.