Lot 217
Special Prayer for the Welfare of the People of Israel – End of World War II – Palestine, 1945
Pilgrimage – Pesach 1945. On Monday, Nissan 19, 1945. Published by Agudat Israel in Palestine, Tel-Aviv, 1945.
Order of Prayer with Psalms chapters as well as a "Special Prayer for the Welfare of the People of Israel", composed for 20 of the month of Sivan, a fasting day commemorating the blood libel in Blois in 1711 and the 1648-1649 pogroms. Early in 1945 it was proposed as a day of mourning commemorating the holocaust in Europe and a year later it was declared as a memorial day for Hungarian Jews.
[8] pp, 17.5 cm. Fair condition. Tears, open tears at margins of leaves and spine, open tear throughout all of the leaves at lower left corner. Leaves are detached.
