Printed leaf, Ribono Shel Olam prayer in Yiddish to be recited at candle-lighting for Shabbat and festivals, with blessings for candle-lighting and illustration of the menorah. Jerusalem: Shmelke Yosef and Yitzchak [Gościnny], [ca. 1872].
Leaf printed in gilt ink. On its right side appears the Temple menorah, and below it the candle-lighting blessings for Shabbat and festivals. On the left side of the poster appears the Ribono Shel Olam prayer in Yiddish, to be recited at candle-lighting.
On bottom margins, printing details and names of printers, with an additional printed dedicatory caption: "Gift from me, Shimon Deutsch, to ---" (word missing due to tear).
43.5X35.5 cm. Fair-poor condition. Many stains, including dark stains. Folding marks. Tears to folds, including small open tear, affecting text. On margins of leaves, tears and open tears, affecting text, partially repaired with tape to verso of leaf.
The press of Yitzchak Gościnny, Shmelke Yosef Schmer and Yaakov David Slotky was active during the years 1872-1874.
R. Shimon Deutsch (d. 1878), a founder of Kollel Shomrei HaChomot and a disciple of the Chatam Sofer, immigrated to Jerusalem in 1842. A lengthy appeal by him for a poor bride and groom appears in a Mizrach poster printed in Jerusalem, ca. the same years as the present poster (see: Kedem catalog, auction 35, lot 6).
Rare, unknown leaf. Undocumented by Sh. Halevy and the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book, and does not appear in the NLI catalog.
