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Bidding Information
Lot #    25931
Auction End Date    2/16/2010 11:03:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Welt der Gebete
Title (Hebrew)    עולם התפלות
Author    [First Ed.] R. Elie Munk
City    Frankfort a. Main
Publisher    Hermon Verlag
Publication Date    1933
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [3], 374 pp., 233:150 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary to the prayerbook by R. Elie Munk (1900-1981). R. Munk was district rabbi of Ansbach (Bavaria) from 1926, and from 1937 was rabbi of the Communauté Israélite de la Stricte Observance in Paris. His published works include: Die Welt der Gebete (2 vols. (1938); Eng., The World of Prayer, 2 vols., 1954–63), a commentary on the siddur; Das Licht der Ewigkeit (1935); La justice sociale en Israel (1947); Rachel (on the duties of Jewish women; 1951); and a translation into French of Rashi's Pentateuch commentary (1957).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica