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Bidding Information
Lot #    5998
Auction End Date    11/18/2003 10:20:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Pizmon le-Simhat Torah
Title (Hebrew)    פזמונים לשמחת התורה
Author    [Liturgy]
City    Shanghai
Publisher    Meir Zion Moses Judah Kohen
Publication Date    1935
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    30 pp., 16 mo., 130:100 mm., usual browning. A good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Rare copy of the Pizmon le-Simhat Torah originally printed for the Jews of Bombay in 1890. Reprinted in Shanghai, this edition is printed on good paper and in exceptionally good condition, highly unusual for Shanghai imprints. The title page states that it is, Pizmon le-Simhat Torah according to the customs of Baghdad. Printed at the expense of Moses Judah Kohen, shamash of Keneset Eliyah at the press of . . . in Bombay in the month of Elul 690 (1890). Below this text, from the Bombay addition, is here added, Printed by his son, Meir Zion Moses Judah Kohen 1935, Shanghai. The piyyutim are liturgical prayers with refrain. The text of the title page also appears on the volume cover. The volume is set in square vocalized letters.
          
Paragraph 2    כמנהג... בגדאד... נדפסה... פה... במבי... שנת התרמ"ה... נדפסה [עתה] על ידי בנו מאיר ציון משה יהודה כהן.

דפוס צילום מוקטן של במבי תרע"ב.

          
Reference
Description		    Friedberg פ 118; Yaari, Ha-Defus ha-Ivri be-Arezot ha-Mizrah, II p. 60 no. 36 p. 70 no. 82; CD-EPI 0310379
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    China
  
Subject
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica