Machzor - праздничныя молитвы евреевь [Rosh Hashanah liturgy.]

(RUSSIA).

Warsaw

1871

FIRST EDITION. Hebrew text with Russian translation prepared by Joseph Hurwitz.

The first Rosh Hashanah Machzor translated into Russian. This festival prayer-book “Translated for the First Time into the Russian Language,” as the title-page proclaims, was prepared by Joseph Hurwitz, a well-regarded poet who served as the Kazyonny Ravvin (Official Rabbi) of the city of Grodno, an office imposed upon the Jews by the Czarist government from 1857 to 1917.