Simhat Torah Hymns, Bombay 1885 
פזמונים לשמחת התורה - Liturgy
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- Lot Number 45509
- Title (English) Pizmonim leSimhat haTorah
- Title (Hebrew) פזמונים לשמחת התורה
- Note Liturgy - Kabbalah
- Author Isaac Ben Ami, editor
- City Bombay
- Publisher דפוס אנגלוו ג'ויש אנד ורנאכולר פריס מנדווי
- Publication Date 1885
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 1211817
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Physical Description
30 pp., 16mo., 120:81 mm., nice margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound as issued.
Detail Description
Simhat Torah Hymns with punctation symbols following the rites of Baghdad.
Hebrew printing began in Bombay with the arrival of Yemenite Jews in the middle of the 19th century. They took an interest in the religious welfare of the Bene Israel, for whom - as well as for themselves - they printed various liturgies from 1841 onward, some with translations into Marathi, the vernacular of the Bene Israel. Apart from a short lived attempt to print with movable type, all this printing was by lithography. In 1882, the Press of the Bombay Educational Society was established (followed in 1884 by the Anglo-Jewish and Vernacular Press, in 1887 by the Hebrew and English Press, and in 1900 by the Lebanon Printing Press), which sponsored the publication of over 100 Judeo-Arabic books to meet their liturgical and literary needs, and also printed books for the Bene Israel.
Hebrew Description
כמנהג... בגדאד... נדפסה בהוצאות משה יהודה כהן הי"ו שמאש[!] כנסת אליהו... בחדש אלול... נדפסה על ידי אהרן יעקב שמואל...
יח פיוטים, בלתי מנוקדים.
Reference
CD-NLI 0310346