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Bidding Information
Lot #    11759
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 11:43:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Ways of her Household
Title (Hebrew)    הליכות ביתה
Author    [Women - Only Ed.] R. Harris M. Lazarus
City    London
Publisher    Myers and Co.
Publication Date    1923
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 30 pp., 182:118 mm.,, wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    The subtitle reads: a practical handbook for Jewish women of traditional customs and observances. The book appeared in two volumes. Vol. 1: On women's duties and activities in the Jewish household. Vol. 2: On the personal duties of a Jewish wife.

The present volume is vol. 2 of this set. It discusses the laws of Jewish family purity, the laws of Niddah (ritual impurity), the laws of Mikvah (the ritual bath) and the special laws that apply to a bride and to a woman who has just given birth.

R. Harris M. Lazarus (1878-1962) was born in Riga, the son of Julius (Judel) Lazarus and Esther Golda Lazarus. He was educated at Jews' College, London, and became Dayan of the United Synagogue, Rabbi of the Brondesbury Synagogue, and deputy for the Chief Rabbi, 1946-8. R. Lazarus was President of the Sabbath Observance Employment Bureau.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
England:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica