Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Part I

Sermon for the Inauguration Ceremony of a Synagogue by Rabbi Benjamin Szold – Pressburg, 1854

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"Shir Chanukat Habayit" (Hebrew) / Gottesdienstlicher Vortrag bei der Einweihungsfeier einer Synagoge, by Benjamin Szold. Pressburg: Vormals Schmid'schen Buchdruckerei, 1854. German and some Hebrew.
A sermon for the inauguration ceremony of a synagogue, by rabbi and scholar Benjamin Szold (1829-1902). Szold studied at the Pressburg Yeshiva and at the Rabbinical Seminary in Breslau. In 1859, he immigrated to the USA and served as the rabbi of the "Ohev Shalom" congregation in Baltimore, Maryland, until his death. His eldest daughter was the social activist and educator Henrietta Szold.
36 pp, approx. 21.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Minor creases. Minute tears along edges of leaves. Stains and minor tears along edges of cover.
Not in OCLC.
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