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Bidding Information
Lot #		14602
Auction End Date		6/13/2006 11:17:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Jahrzeits und Trauer-Andachtsbuch

City

Berlin

Publication Date

[1920]

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

220:145 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A good copy bound in the original boards, rubbed.

Detailed
Description

A book for personalizing and remembering the anniversary of the death of a beloved one, aindicated by the cover title, Jahrzeits und Trauer-Andachtsbuch (anniversry of death and grief-devotion book). The title page has a full length picture of a woman grieving and the title Dem Andenken meiner univergesslichen Mutter (the memory of my unforgettable mother). Below it are lines to be completed for the sterbetag (day of death) and length of life. Next is a fifty year calendar for the years 1920 through 1969 to be completed with the date on which the Jahrzeit comes out in each year; a page for a photograph of the deceased; of a tombstone with the heading zur ewigen ruhe bestattet (for the eternal rest); a blank page to be completed with the todesanzeige (death notice) and several pages of appropriate text and prayers. The page facing kaddish (prayer for the dead) in German and Hebrew has a three quarters page drawing of men in synagogue saying kaddish. There is a page on the origin and meaning of kaddish, accompanied by an illustration of a table with a Jahrzeit candle. Facing the page with the dates for Jewish holidays when Yizkor must be recited is a full-page illustration of men and women at the Western (Klagemauer) Wall. At the end of the book is a photograph of the Königsgräber (kings grave) in Jerusalem.

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