Auction 60 · Lot 26
Machzor shel Sukoth - Form of Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles.
- Estimate
- $3,000–$5,000
- Hammer price
- $2,500
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).
printer
Henry Frank
Place
New York
Publication
1856
Description
According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. Hebrew with English translation.
summary
THE FIRST ASCHKENAZIC SUKOTH MACHZOR PRINTED IN AMERICA.
Issued alongside a volume for Shavu’oth and Pesach, this “completes the separate German and Polish liturgies begun in 1854” (Goldman 43).
Based upon the celebrated Wolf Heidenheim edition, this prayer book was issued by the Jewish printing establishment of Henry (Chaim) Frank of New York, thus enabling the newly rising community of Aschkenazic American Jews to conduct services according to their own custom, as opposed to that of the Sephardic rite.
See previous Lot and see Kestenbaum & Company, Sale 58, Lot 18.
pp. 11, 48, 4, 180, 20. Lightly stained, few leaves starting. Contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt extra, extremities rubbed, spine taped. 8vo.
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