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Auction 22 · Lot 123
Siddur Saphah Berurah
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(LITURGY)
Place
Irkutsk
Publication
(1918-1919)
summary
This prayerbook was published by the “National Committee of the Jewish Communities in Siberia and the Urals.” According to the Russian imprint on 1v. the actual physical printing was done by typo-lithography by the Commercial Press of Shanghai, China. Although the book was produced after the fall of the Russian monarchy, based on the prayer on 64v.-65r. for Tsar Nikolai Aleksandrovitch, Queen Mother Maria Fodorovna, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and heir apparent Georgi Aleksandrovitch, it would seem the Jewish Community in the remote reaches of the Russian Empire surprisingly, remained loyal Royalists
ff. 132. On ff. 2-4, 6-7 stamps of “Ohel Moishe Synagogue, Shanghai.” Modern boards. 4to
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