Auction 62 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – Slavita, 1825

Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, according to the rite of Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Lithuania and Belarus (Nusach Ashkenaz). Slavita: R. Shmuel Avraham Shapira son of the rabbi of Slavita, [1825].
The Machzor earned approbations from R. Yitzchak Isaac, Rabbi of the new town of Berdychiv; R. Efraim, Dayan in Sudylkiv and R. Shlomo, Dayan of Polonne. These approbations, written in 1825, mention R. Moshe Shapira Rabbi of Slavita as the one who requested the approbations of this edition.
"With commentaries in Hebrew and Yiddish, adapted to the language spoken amongst us" (Ivri-Teitsh, Yiddish adapted to the Russian-Polish dialect of the start of the 19th century).
[2], 1, 4-163 leaves (lacking two leaves: 2-3), 25 cm. Greenish paper. Condition varies, good-fair. Wear. Stains. Tears and repairs. Open tears to leaves 38-39, with loss to the text of the Yiddish translation. Old binding (non-original), with leather spine.
Books printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, Russia and Poland
Books printed in Slavita and Zhitomir, Russia and Poland