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Erech hatephiloth; ou, Rituel de toutes les grandes fêtes, à l'usage des Israélites du rite allemand
Translator: Elean Durlacher (German (worked in France), 1817–1889)
1852
Medium/Technique
Letterpress, with lithographic frontispiece
Dimensions
Overall: 22 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm (8 11/16 x 5 9/16 x 1 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession Number2015.2967
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CollectionsJudaica
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts – Books
Description(Paris: Chez l'auteur, 46, rue Bourbon-Villeneuve, 1852); printed at Paris, Imprimierie de Schiller aîné, 11 rue du F[aubour]g-Montmartre; gold-stamped, red-morocco binding, with crown and Rothschild cypher of interlaced letters CR on front and back panels; spine title: "Machsor - Rosch Haschanah," vol 2.
Provenance1938, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna [see note 1]; by descent to their daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to her daughter, Bettina Burr, Cambridge, MA; 2015, gift of Bettina Burr to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)
NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of this book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.
NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of this book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.