Lot 207
Collection of Prayer Booklets and Leaflets – Australia / St. Kilda Synagogue – Inauguration of the Synagogue in 1872
Fifteen prayer booklets and leaflets from synagogues in Australia, 19th-20th century.
Including: a dozen leaflets of Ohavei Shalom congregation – St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation (St. Kilda is a suburb of Melbourne), including the booklet “Order of Service to be performed at the Consecration of the St. Kilda Synagogue”, printed in Melbourne in 1872 in honor of the inauguration of St. Kilda Synagogue; leaflet of the Synagogue on Toorak Street in Melbourne, in memory of General John Monash, Jewish Australian engineer and industrialist, commander of Australian forces during World War I (Melbourne, 1931); booklet “Ziduk HaDin veSeder HaKevurah” [service of burial, Hebrew], of “Beit Israel” congregation in Sydney (1909; not in the NLI). Size and condition vary
