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Bidding Information
Lot #    25623
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 11:22:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zeidah la-Derekh
Title (Hebrew)    צידה לדרך
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Judah b. Zevi Fisher, ed.
City    Linz
Publisher    (Gold)
Publication Date    1950
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [14] ff. octavo 146:104 mm.light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers.
          
Paragraph 1    The only Hebrew book printed in Linz, Austria. Rosenfeld lists an earlier German text (probably containing Hebrew letters)with no picture.
          
Detailed
Description		    Rare and likely only edition of this small valuable multi-part work for travelers. The editor signs a declaration on the title verso giving his name as R. Judah b. Zevi Fisher of Dunaszerdahely. The brief text of the title page states that it is provision for the way (zeidah la-derekh, Genesis 42:25, Joshua 9:11) and includes prayers for travelers for every trouble that should not come upon them and Iggeret ha-Ramban to his son.Teh text begins with Teffilat ha-Derekh, bakshot for travelers, followed by a tefillah by Rabbenu Yona, a zemer from R. Abraham ibn Ezra, hanhagot Tova, a ztetel from Rabbenu Elimelech of Ltzhansk, and concluding with Orhot Hayyim by Rabbenu Asher (Rosh). Linz. The place of publication, is capital of Upper Austria. Jewish moneylenders are recorded in Linz in 1304; a Jewish settlement in the growing market town is probably a century older. In 1335 a synagogue is mentioned; two Jews were baptized a year earlier. Jews were accused of desecrating the Host in 1338. Although the community was not harmed during the Black Death persecutions of 1348, a local persecution occurred in 1371. In 1396 Duke Albert IV permitted Jews to conduct only fiscal transactions with the burghers; the decree was renewed in 1412. The Jews were expelled from Linz in 1421, and in 1426 the synagogue was turned into a church. Jews were permitted to attend the biannual markets in the town in 1494, and Jewish horse dealers and feather and wool merchants, mainly from Moravia, continued to trade at the fairs until their entry was forbidden at the end of the 17th century. Only in 1783 were the markets officially declared open and in 1824 the Jews opened their own prayer room. A cemetery was consecrated in 1863, when the modern community was established. In 1869 there were 391 Jews (1.3% of the total population) and 533 in 1880. A new synagogue was opened in 1877 by Rabbi Adolf Kurrein (1876–82), publicist and author. His son, Rabbi Viktor Kurrein (1923–38), wrote the history of the community. In 1923 there were 1,238 Jews in Linz, 671 in 1934 (0.6%), and in 1938, before the Anschluss, 650. On Nov. 10, 1938, the synagogue was burned down by the SS; the 65 remaining Jews were arrested and ordered to leave within three days for Vienna. The Nazis claimed that the Jews must leave the town because it was the capital of the province of Hitler's birth. Jewish shops were not looted because they had already been "Aryanized." Shortly after the end of the war, 2,400 Jewish refugees were housed in the nearby Bindermichen camp. A new community was reorganized, which numbered 238 in 1949 and 145 in 1961. In October 1957, an antisemitic demonstration was sparked off by a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank. Protests against a ban on shehitah were lodged in 1958. A new synagogue was consecrated in 1968.
          
Paragraph 2    כולל תפלות לעוברי דרכים וסגולות על כל צרה שלא תבא ואגרת הרמב"ן לבנו...

בראש הספר הקדמה מאת המלקט והמו"ל ר' יודא (יוהדה) ב"ר צבי פישר מסרדהלי, ב וירא תש"י. ההקדמה, שם המו"ל והדפוס בצילום מכתב יד. כולל גם בקשה מספר "שערי ציון" (מאת ר' נתן נטע האנובר), "תפלת השב" מאת רבינו יונה גירונדי, השיר "צמאה נפשי" מאת ר' אברהם אבן עזרא, "הנהגות טובות", "צעטיל קטן" מאת ר' אלימלך (ווייסבלום) מליז'נסק ו"ארחות חיים" מאת ר' אשר ב"ר יחיאל. האחרון צולם עם שער חלקי.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0314504
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica