Seder Avodath Yisrael [prayers for the whole year]. Prepared by Isaac Seligman (Sekel) Baer.

(LITURGY)

J. Lehrberger

Roedelheim

1868

FIRST EDITION . With literary and philological commentary “Yachin Lashon.” Appended: Text of the Psalms, accurately vocalized and accented. Endpapers with inscriptions by members of the Bielschowsky / Fliessor Families. Binding in remarkably bright condition : Royal scarlet velvet upper cover embroidered in high relief with gold-colored wire-thread featuring monogram. All edges gilt.

First edition of the celebrated Baer Siddur. This copy in excellent condition and beautifully bound. Seligman Baer (1825-97) was a German masoretic scholar, student of the School of Wolf Heidenheim. “Avodath Yisrael,” Baer’s monumental edition of the Jewish prayer-book according to the Ashkenazic rite, accompanied by his critical commentary, has became the authoritative model for numerous Aschkenazi editions published to the present day. Custom bound for Jacob Louis Bielschowsky (1805-92). With several hand-written inscriptions indicating that the volume was presented to him on the occasion of his 50th wedding anniversary in 1879 by his granddaughter, Clara Bielschowsky of Berlin. Other inscriptions indicate that the siddur had been returned by inheritance to Clara, who in 1938 as Clara Hirschorn (nee Bielschowsky) on the eve of the Holocaust, and in a shaky elderly hand, gifted it to her two grandchildren, Heinz and Marianne Fliessor (nee Lehrer) upon their emigration from Germany in July, 1938.