I. M. Japhet. Schire Jeschurun.

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I. M. Japhet. Schire Jeschurun.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> With an enthusiastic foreword by Rabbiner Samson Raphael Hirsch. pp. x, 86. Ex-library, light wear. Contemporary boards, rebacked. 4to.

Frankfurt a/ Main: J. Kauffmann 1856

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

Compositional music scores for the Chazan and choir according to the custom and usage of the synagogue in Frankfurtam Main. The synagogue music contained in “Schire Jeschurun” are of a particular character distinct to those communities that adhere to the Frankfurt rite. “The melodies composed by the deeply pious I. M. Japhet (1818-92) became part of the spiritual treasury of many Orthodox German congregations.” See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) pp. 305-306. On the subject of the choir and other customs of German-Jewish synagogue life, see many of the essays by Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer, in: A Time to Builld (1995), especially pp. 18-20 and 40-45.