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Bidding Information
Lot #    6156
Auction End Date    12/16/2003 10:28:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Psalms
Title (Hebrew)    תהלים עם מעמדות
Author    [Chassidim]
City    Zhitomir
Publisher    Chanina Lipa, Arye Loeb, & Joshua Heschel Shapira
Publication Date    1848
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 144; 31 ff., quarto, 200:136 mm., heavy use stains, corners rounded, may be lacking second initial title, lacks 2 or 3 final ff., bound in later boards, split and rubbed. Rare - not in CD-EPI, Vinograd record based on similiar incomplete copy, not seen by him.
          
Detailed
Description		    Pslams with appropiate prayers. Psalms were heavily used by pious Jews and rarely survive intact as is the case with this copy.

In 1847 the Shapira printing press was established by the three brothers Hanina Lipa, Aryeh Leib, and Joshua Heschel Shapira, sons of R. Samuel Abraham Abba Shapira, the printer in Slavuta. Until 1862 this was one of the only two Hebrew presses the Russian government permitted to operate in the whole of Russia, the other being in Vilna. This press had 18 hand presses and four additional large presses. In 1851 Aryeh Leib broke away and established his own printing press in Zhitomir. In these two establishments only sacred books of every kind were printed.

          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd, Zhitomir 56 (not seen)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Hasidic:    Checked
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica