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Bidding Information
Lot #    18209
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 11:45:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Jewish Woman
Title (Hebrew)    די אידישע פרוי
Author    [Women - First Ed.]
City    Brooklyn
Publisher    Taharat Hamishpacha Committee
Publication Date    1951
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 55 pp., plus title-wrappers, 156:98 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Detailed
Description		    A volume on laws specific to women, particularly ritual purity (Niddah, Mikvah, etc.) the lighting of candles, and Hallah. These are the three mitzvot are referred to in tractate Sabbath (31a), which states that, "For three transgressions woman die in childbirth. Because they are not observant [of the laws] of Niddah, Hallah, and lighting of Sabbath candles.” The text is in Yiddish. The approbation by R. Jonathon Steiff is dated Lag B'Omer, 5711 [1951].
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Women's Literature
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Yiddish
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica