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Lot #    17832
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 11:47:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zustande der talmudischen literautur...
Title (Hebrew)    פני הדור
Author    [Only Ed.] Aron Friedmann
City    Vienna
Publisher    Moritz Knopflmacher
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 39 pp., 238:150 mm., light age staining, nice margins, stamps. A very good copy bound in later boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Aron Friedmann (1855–1936), German hazzan. Born in Szaki, Lithuania, Friedmann studied in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until 1923. He received the title of Koeniglicher Musikdirektor, Royal Academy of Art, Berlin, 1907. In 1901, he published Shir li-Shelomoh, a collection of cantorial music in traditional style for the prayers of the year. He also wrote Der synagogale Gesang (1904) and Lebensbilder beruehmter Kantoren (3 vols., 1918–27), containing biographies of 19th-century hazzanim.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica