Sidur Kol Benei Yehudah [prayers for the entire year]. According to the rite of the AR”I - the custom of Lubavitch

(CHINA)

for the Shanghai Talmud Torah

Shanghai

1946

Second edition. Title within type-ornament border with vignette of single worshipper at prayer. Alphabet Chart on f. 2r

Shanghai provided a safe haven for many Jewish refugees from Europe, which had been overrun by Germany’s Nazi hordes. Eventually, these Jews resettled elsewhere, but as late as 1946, a year after war’s end, there was still need to print prayerbooks for the community of Lubavitch adherents in China