Seder Chanukath HaBayith… Order of Service to be Performed at the Consecration of the Synagogue “The Gates of Prayer,” Wooster Street, New York.

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,800

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author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

printer

J. M. Jackson

Place

New York

Publication

1847

Description

Hebrew and English on facing pages. Each page with type-ornament border. From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool.

references

Singerman, 983; not in Goldman.

summary

Congregation Shaaray Tefila (“Gates of Prayer”) was founded in 1845. Over a period of many decades, shifts in the traditional service were introduced, and by 1921 it had fully journeyed away from Orthodoxy and joined the American Reform movement. Since 1958 it has occupied a former theater, located at East 79th Street at the corner of 2nd Avenue. See K.M. Olitzky & M.L. Raphael, The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook(1996) pp. 258-60.

pp. (23). Contemporary salmon-colored wrappers, worn. 8vo.

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