Fanny Schmiedl Neuda. Stunden der Andacht: Ein Gebet- und Erbauungsbuch fur Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen zur oeffentlichen und haeuslichen Andacht [“Hours of Devotion: Book of Prayer and Edification for Jewish Wives and Young Women.”]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(WOMEN).

printer

Wolf Pascheles

Place

Prague

Publication

1855

Description

FIRST EDITION. German text, occasional Hebrew. Dedication to Baroness Louise von Rothschild.

summary

The first Jewish women’s prayer book to be written by a woman. Fanny Neuda’s collection of Jewish prayers is unique by virtue of it being the first collection of Jewish prayers composed in German by a Jewish woman. In addition to containing traditional prayers, the work included both public and private events in the life of a Jewish woman. It attained great popularity and was published in more than thirty editions.

p. 20, 142, (6). Stained and foxed. Contemporary boards, worn. 8vo.

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