Tephilah mi-kol ha-Shanah Minchah Ketanah le-Holchei Derech u-le-Ovrei Yamim le-ha-nos’im li-medinath Amerika Hash[em] Y[ishmerem]

Estimate: $800–$1,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

Zürndorffer & Sommer

Place

Fürth

Publication

1855

references

Vinograd, Fürth 929

summary

A miniature prayer book especially printed for Jewish immigrants traveling to America. Includes prayers for week-day and Sabbath, selected Festival portions, Ethics of the Fathers and the week-day Biblical reading. After the failed German Revolution of 1848, there was large German-Jewish immigration to America. Although quips are told about Jewish immigrants tossing their tephillin (phylacteries) overboard on the boat to America, this particular prayer book resonates a very different story.

pp. 400. Light stains. pp. 30-31 taped. Contemporary boards. 24mo

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