Auction 2 Banknotes, Books, Holocaust, Autographs, Philolithy, Art, Judaica
Apr 12, 2015 (Your local time)
Israel
 Harav Maimon 2, Jerusalem
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LOT 115:

Three rare Haggadot

Sold for: $100
Start price:
$ 100
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1. Passover Haggada, Marathi, India, 1891
Passover Haggada according to the customs of "Bnei Yisrael" community in India. With Marathi translation by Eliyahu Shalom Valuatker.
The translation was done according to the Haggada published by Chaim Yosef Haliguah and Chaim Yitzchak Glatzorcher, Bombey, 1846. The liturgical poems that were printed in the Puna Publication 1874 are printed at the end of the Haggada as well as the liturgical poem "Chad Gadya" and additional poems.
17X12.5 cm.
96 pp.
Rare!
Condition: Very good. Two pages of the inner title page are missing.
2. Passover Haggada, Vienna, Austria, 1938, with illustrations and unfamiliar musical notes
Yosef Schlesinger Print – a famous Jewish printing house founded by Yosf Ginz-Schlesinger, the step-son-in-law of the Chatam Sofer and the nephew of Rabbi Akiva Eger. The Haggada was published a short time before the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria to the third Reich during which the printing house was confiscated and sold by the Germans.
About 80 pp.
Condition: Good.
3. Prague Haggada, Gershom Cohen, facsimile, 1926, Yosef Altman Print, Berlin
In 1526, Gershom Cohen, one of the first Hebrew printers, printed the Prague Haggada – the earliest printed illustrated Haggada that has survived - on parchment.
This print is of the first edition and it includes what has been omitted in subsequent editions.
Includes an introduction booklet in German.
Condition: Excellent.