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Auction 73 · Lot 91

Burial Service According to the Baghdad Rite. Edited and Translated by Rabbi W. Hirsch.

Estimate
$200–$300
Hammer price
$200

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author

(CHINA).

printer

“Published by the Children of the late Luna Sopher,”

Place

Shanghai

Publication

1923

Description

Text in English and Hebrew.

summary

The editor states in the prefatory note: “This publication will… supply a need that is keenly felt throughout the Far East. The Chinese printer who had no type for the vowel points experienced the utmost difficulty in producing the Hebrew part of the service. This will account for its unattractive appearance…”
ff. 1, 14. Original boards. 8vo.
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