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Auction 70 · Lot 259

Siddur Tephiloth Yisrael - Israels Gebete [prayers for the entire year]. With commentary and translation into German by Rabbiner Hirsch.

Estimate
$200–$300
Hammer price
$150

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author

HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL.

printer

J. Kauffmann

Place

Frankfurt am Main

Publication

1895

Description

FIRST EDITION . Hebrew and German on facing pages. Introduction by author’s son, Dr. Mendel Hirsch.

summary

This translation and commentary to the prayers was the last publication by Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808-88). He commenced work on it in 1883 and it was published posthumously. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) p. 336.
pp. vi, 758. Lightly browned, pencil corrections on pp. 215-217. Later boards. Thick 8vo.
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