Auction 21 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Miniature Siddur for Jewish Brigade Soldiers

Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
Including buyer's premium
Siddur, prayer book according to Ashkenazi custom. Prayers for the entire year, very precise and includes the Traveler's Prayer. Jerusalem: Levin Epstein Brothers, [early 1940s].
Miniature Siddur, stereotypic printing of Warsaw Publishing 1922. Preceeding the title-page, opposite the foresatz leaf, appear the following words: "Dear soldiers, this is a gift presented to you by your brothers in our Holy Land who pray for you and wait to see you back home Yitzchak Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi for Eretz Israel". 424, [8] pp, 7 cm (32ֲ÷). Fair-good condition. Damages and wear to binding, binding partly detached. Ownership inscription in Russian of 1943.
The Jewish Brigade
The Jewish Brigade