Techinos. Ein Gebetbuch far Gebildete Froyenzimmer [”Supplications and Petitions for the Educated Woman.”] Edited by Yehoshua Heschel Mira.

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $1,400

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author

(WOMEN).

printer

Lehrberger

Place

Rodelheim

Publication

1859

Description

Occasional Hebrew, text almost entirely Yiddish and printed in waybertaytsch. Bound in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, featuring colorful embroidered floral panels on both covers. All edges gilt.

references

Unrecorded by Vinograd and Friedberg.

summary

A woman’s book of Techinos in a personalized embroidered binding. Intimate, tender and highly personal, Techinah prayers were composed almost exclusively for the needs of Jewish women and so in turn were shaped according to the psyche and patterns of a woman’s life.

pp. 4, 135. Lightly browned. 8vo.

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