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TYPE: Book
CONDITION: VG condition, some wear from use on first leaves mostly at corners, hardcover
NOTES: Scarce and sought after. In the Haskamah to the 1782 edition, Rabbi Thia Yedidyah Weil notes how the selhicot of the Jews of Alsace are very rare and even tattered copies are hard to find.
LANGUAGE
Hebrew
ITEM ID: 1242

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Customs of the Jews of Alsace (1770)

DATE
Year: 1770
Decade: 1770s
Century: 18th (1701-1800)

Rare antique Judaica Jewish selichot with the customs of the Jews of Alsace. Customs include penitential liturgies for the High Holiday period, Monday and Thursday fasts, the four fast days, sick children, plague, and other occasions following the rites of Alsace. Alsace, former province of the Germanic (Holy Roman) Empire, and from 1648, of France, including the present department of Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin. Its Jewry, basically Ashkenazi, developed individual characteristics, in certain ritual matters.