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Lot #    11719
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 11:23:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ceremonies, Customs
Title (Hebrew)    Rites and Traditions of the Jews
Author    [First Ed.] Hyam Isaacs
City    London
Publisher    William Buck
Publication Date    ca. 1830
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. vi, 9-434 pp., 233:148 mm., wide margins, light ag estaining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather and cloth boards, rubbed on edges.
          
Detailed
Description		    Hyam Isaacs (b. 1794), a converted Jew, wrote this book on the customs and practices of Judaism which is addressed to Christian readers. The subtitle of the book reads: ... interspersed with gleanings from the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud, and the Targums, Mishna, Gemara, Maimonides, Abarbanel, Zohar, Aben-Ezra, Oral Law, etc. etc. in a manner never before published. Also, a copious selection from some of their prayers, as translated and used by the Polish and German Jews, at the present time in their different synagogues.

The author's goal, as he states in his introduction, is that "these gleanings…may have the effect of stirring you [the Christian reader] up to love, pity and pray for the people whom God formerly loved, and will eventually save."

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Customs:    Checked
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica