Machzor - праздничныя молитвы евреевь [Rosh Hashanah liturgy.]

AUCTION 70 | Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autographed Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 298
(RUSSIA).

Machzor - праздничныя молитвы евреевь [Rosh Hashanah liturgy.]

<<FIRST EDITION. >> Hebrew text with Russian translation prepared by Joseph Hurwitz. ff. 108, (1). Lightly stain ed. Loose in contemporary boards (defective). 8vo.

Warsaw: 1871

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
<<The first Rosh Hashanah Machzor translated into Russian.>> This festival prayer-book “Translated for the First Time into the Russian Language,” as the title-page proclaims, was prepared by Joseph Hurwitz, a well-regarded poet who served as the Kazyonny Ravvin (Official Rabbi) of the city of Grodno, an office imposed upon the Jews by the Czarist government from 1857 to 1917.