The Hagadah shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Prayers Which are Used and Read by All the Families, in All the Houses of the Israelites

AUCTION 73 | Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 at 1:00

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(HAGADAH).

The Hagadah shel Pesach Containing the Ceremonies and Prayers Which are Used and Read by All the Families, in All the Houses of the Israelites

Translated by A. Alexander and Assistants. Hebrew and English on facing pages. Aschkenazic rite. With Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yodea and Chad Gadya in Judeo-German. pp. 1-38, 47- 95 (lacking pp. 39-46). Mispaginated. Browned and stained in places, lower margins of two leaves torn. Lacks frontispiece (as noted by Yudlov). Modern gilt-tooled calf. 12mo. Yudlov 257; Yaari 167; Yerushalmi 74.

London: for the Translator by W. Gilbert 1770

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

<<THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE PASSOVER HAGADAH.>> By 1770 the process of linguistic acculturation among Anglo-Jewry gave rise to this first issue of an English translation to the Hagadah. Indeed two versions were issued: One according to Sephardic usage and the present edition, intended for Aschkenazic Jews. The rarity of this Hagadah is attested by the fact that Yudlov did not see a copy directly. He states that he only saw the title page of the Harvard copy that was reproduced in Yerushalmi. For the pagination, he relied on Duker and Yaari. <<An exceptionally rare edition. No copy in the NLI.>>