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Selihot u-Tefilot, Basle 1919

סליחות ותפלות - Only Edition

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  • Lot Number 49147
  • Title (English) Selihot u-Tefilot
  • Title (Hebrew) סליחות ותפלות
  • Note Only Edition
  • City Basle
  • Publisher Wolf
  • Publication Date 1919
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1517837
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Description

Physical Description

Only edition. [8] pp., 125:150 mm., wide margins, stamps, light age staining. A very good copy bound as published.
 

Detail Description

Unusual unrecorded lithographed copy of a hand-written selihot for the victims of the pogroms in Poland and Galicia that took place after World War I. This copy has the original wrappers, the front cover in Hebrew stating that it is Selihot u-Tefilot to be said on 20 Sivan, 1919 (Wednesday, June 18, 1919), a day of mourning and bitter eulogies for the pogroms and the murdered in the lands of Poland and Galicia. The back wrapper has the same information in German. The prayers to be said are compiled from other supplicatory prayers and concludes with El Male Rahamim (G-d full of compassion), recited for the departed.

The twentieth of Sivan has been a traditional fast days for European Jewry from the time of the Crusades. It was first established as a public fast day by Rabbenu Tam and the Ba'alei Tosafot to commemorate the massacres of French Jewry by the crusaders. A factor in its selection was that the twentieth of Sivan can never occur on a Shabbat. It was chosen after the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-49 (tach ve-tat תח-תט) by the Vaad Arba’ah Arazot as a public fast day to commemorate the murdered martyrs, since the slaughter had begun on that day in Nemirow. Another reason for its selection was that it was a remembrance by Polish Jewry of previous massacres. The Magen Avraham on Shulhan Arukh, O. H. 580, includes this day among the fast days that should be observed.

 

Hebrew Description

סדר סליחות ותפלות ליום כ' סיון שנת תרע"ט : יום אבל כללי ... על הפרעות וההרג במדינות פולין וגאליציען.
 
שער נוסף בגרמנית.
 

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