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Lot #    13024
Auction End Date    1/24/2006 11:06:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Selihot le-Col ha-Shanah - Die Selichoth - Gebete
Title (Hebrew)    הסליחות לכל השנה
Author    [First Ed. - Liturgy] Dr. S. Baer
City    Roedelheim
Publisher    M. Lehrberger & Co.
Publication Date    1885
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First revised & third edition. viii, 595, 48 pp. 203:129 mm., usual light age staining, nice margins, old hands. A good copy bound in contemporary half cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Comprehensive bi-lingual Ashkenaz rite Hebrew-German Selihot (Orthodox) for the entire year edited by Dr. R. Seligman Isaac Baer (Isaac ben Aryeh Joseph Dov). There is a half-title page followed by two full facing title pages, the first in German, the second in Hebrew. The title page states that it has been translated and carefully corrected by Dr. Baer (Sorgfältigst nach handschriften korrigiert und mit deutscher Übersetzung verfehen). There is a forward from Dr. Baer and a thorough table of contents (iv-vii), and the names of the piyytanim of the selihot minhag Ashkenaz. The selhiot are in Hebrew and German on facing pages. At the end of the volume are the morning prayers. Seligman Isaac Baer (1825–1897), Hebrew grammarian, masorah scholar, and liturgist. Born at Mosbach (Baden, Germany), Baer was a pupil of Wolf Heidenheim, who left him many of his manuscripts. At the age of 19 he turned to masoretic studies. Franz Delitzsch was impressed by Baer's scholarly approach and together they published the Psalms with masorah (1860) followed by most of the other books of the Bible with masorah texts. Delitzsch prefaced each book with a Latin introduction (except the last two which appeared after his death, i.e., Jeremiah in 1890 and Kings in 1895). These masoretic editions were compiled by Baer from manuscripts representing the variants of the masorah of Ben Asher, Ben Naphtali, and other masorah texts. All his life, Baer remained in the humble position of a teacher in the Jewish community school at Biebrich (Rhineland), but on the initiative of Delitzsch he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the University of Leipzig (1876). Baer's masoretic Bible edition was generally regarded as a genuine rendition of the traditional masorah text although it also evoked some criticism, notably by C. D. Ginsburg and E. Kautzsch. Baer's masorah text was printed in the widely accepted Vilna edition of the rabbinic Bible (Mikra'ot Gedolot). He also wrote a book on the cantillation in the poetical books of the Bible (Torat Emet, 1852) and on the secondary accent, the meteg (Die Methegsetzung, 1867); and published Ben Asher's Dikdukei Te'amim (together with H.L. Strack, 1879) and Zwei alte Thorarollen aus Arabien (1870). Baer's greatest achievement lay in the field of liturgy. His many editions of liturgical texts, in which he followed the example and standards set by Heidenheim, were not only a scholarly feat but added dignity and decorum to Orthodox synagogue services throughout Western Europe, where his editions gained great popularity. The most important of these is his Avodat Yisrael prayer book with a scholarly commentary Yakhin Lashon (1868, several times reprinted, the latest in 1937) which has been accepted as the standard prayer book text by most subsequent editions of the siddur. Besides this major work, Baer edited: Selihot, Kinot, Seder ha-Berakhot (1858), a handbook for mourners, cemetery use, etc., in three versions (Toze'ot Hayyim, 1862; Sefer Gemilut Hasadim, 1880; Derekh la-Hayyim, 1926); Tikkun ha-Sofer ve-ha-Kore, a handbook for scribes and readers of the Torah (1875); a prayer book Tefillat Yesharim (18765, with prayers in German at the end; these also appeared separately as Kol Bat Ziyyon, 18753); Piyyutim (1874); Divrei ha-Berit, circumcision service (1874). Most of these texts are accompanied by a German translation, and some are in two versions for the western and eastern Ashkenazi rites. These handsome little books ran into several editions and were reprinted after World War II. Baer's only venture into the realm of practical halakhah, a handbook for shohatim (Zivhei Zedek, 1857, with a Yiddish translation; 1862 with a German one), was severely criticized by S. B. Bamberger, chiefly on the grounds that Baer was not an ordained rabbi. Baer also edited Sefer Yesod ha-Yirah (Kobez al Jad, 11 (1895), 1–29). Paragraph 2 Reference Description 0310241
          
Paragraph 2    לפי מנהג ק"ק האשכנזים [מנהג פראנקפורט]... ומוגהות... גם מתורגמות אשכנזית [גרמנית] על ידי יצחק בן אריה יוסף דוב...

כולל גם תפילת שחרית, מפתח הסליחות ושמות הפייטנים. Added t.p.: Die Selichoth - Gebete... mit deutsche Uebersetzung... הוצאות קודמות עם תקגום גרמני: רעדלהיים תקצ"ד ותרכ"ה. הקדמתו של בער הועתקה מהוצאת תרכ"ה. בהוצאה זו חלו שינויים בתרגום.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0310241
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, German
  
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Kind of Judaica