Volume of Women's Prayers – Yiddish – Some of the Unknown Editions – Including an Unknown Edition of the Shapira ...

Volume of Women's Prayers – Yiddish – Some of the Unknown Editions – Including an Unknown Edition of the Shapira Brothers, Zhitomir 1864 – Extremely Rare
Booklets of women's prayers that were bound together, of different editions, among the, several booklets of the Zhitomir and Lemberg printing presses and more from Russia-Poland. Some of them unknown. An extremely rare item.
About the "Tchinot" (Women's Prayers)
Tchinot is an all-inclusive name for Yiddish supplicatory prayers written especially for women. The reason the prayers were written in Yiddish was double: first, men prayed in Hebrew, which was understandable to them due to their studying Torah; whereas, women understood only Yiddish. Second, since these Tchinot were newly written, theu could be written in Yiddish.
Many of the Tchinot were written by women, including a prayer written by Sarah Bat Tovim from the 18th century and Sarah Rivka Rachel Leah Horowitz. One booklet was author by Mrs. Mamla the daughter of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch.
These Tchinot were popular and so was their printing. During the 17th to 19th centuries, many such booklets of Tchinot were published, in various editions. What was common to all of them was that their printing was very cheap, usually with no title page. Other booklets did not note the name of printer or publisher and many times, the year of printing was also not noted. The paper was cheap and the printing was of low quality: the pages were not numbered, random letters appeared on various leaves and often, the letters were upside down! The margins were uneven and so forth. From the outset these were not intended to be impressive books to be kept in the Beit Midrash.

The volume before us contains very old editions of Tchinot – some of them unknown.
Three of them were printed in Zhitomir by the Shapira brothers, the grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavita! One of these editions is bibliographically unknown.

For a complete list of editions contained in the volume, please see Hebrew description.

Condition: Fair-Good. Wear and tear stains.