Siddur Tephiloth Yisrael - Israels Gebete [prayers for the entire year]. With commentary and translation into German by Rabbiner Hirsch.

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HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

Siddur Tephiloth Yisrael - Israels Gebete [prayers for the entire year]. With commentary and translation into German by Rabbiner Hirsch.

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Hebrew and German on facing pages. Introduction by author’s son, Dr. Mendel Hirsch. pp. vi, 758. Lightly browned, pencil corrections on pp. 215-217. Later boards. Thick 8vo.

Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann 1895

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $150

This translation and commentary to the prayers was the last publication by Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-88). He commenced work on it in 1883 and it was published posthumously. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) p. 336.