Sidur Tephilath Hashanah [prayers for the entire year]. According to Romanian rite, edited by R. Elijah Halevi, with additions by Abraham ben Yom-Tov of Jerusalem

(LITURGY)

Daniel Bomberg, circa

Venice

1520-23

With the laws and customs of the Romanian Community, and extensive collection of piyutim, kerovoth, selichoth and kinoth, with commentary. Two volumes. The Salaman Schocken copy

Vinograd, Venice 90 and 84; Habermann, Bomberg 66 and 74; Mehlman 313; St. Cat. Bodl. 2587

An Exceptionally Rare Festival Prayer-Book Issued by Bomberg’s Press. No Complete Copy Extant. Jnul and Bodleian Copies Incomplete. Prayers according to the esoteric Greek Romanian (Romaniot) rite. Not to be confused with Rumania, but a rite stemming from the Byzantine Empire, first issued in Constantinople in 1510. The present Machzor represents the second printed appearance of this rite. The third was not for another fifty years (Constantinople, 1573-6), whereafter its usage became superseded by the Sephardi rite and Romaniot fell into disuse. The present Machzor includes an extensive presentation of the laws and customs of the Romanian Community, which was closely related to the practices of Eretz Israel. Both Habermann and Vinograd erroneously note this Machzor as two separate editions. Both entries in fact refer to the same publication. See S.C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993) pp.161-2; E. D. Goldschmidt, On Jewish Liturgy: Essays on Prayer and Religious Poetry (1978) pp.122-52 (originally published in Sefunot Vol. VIII (1964) pp.205-36); EJ, XI col.398