ou Cérémonies des deux premières soirées de Pâques, à l'usage des Israélites des rites allemand et portugais.
Paris, L. Blum, 1865
Translated to French by Loeb Blum, revised and corrected by Lazare Wogue (1817–1897) - a French rabbi, scholar and journalist, best known for his scholarly translation of the Pentateuch with commentaries (1860–69).
Includes Yiddish translations of the songs 'Adir Hu', Echad Mi Yodea' and 'Chad Gadya'. The last four pages contain music sheets of Passover songs, with Ashkenazic pronunciations of the song words written along. Frontispiece illustration depicts baby Moses being pulled from the Nile. Additional illustrations include Moses and Aaron facing Pharaoh, Egyptians perishing in the Red Sea and The Exodus.
OCLC lists only six copies world-wide.
First edition. 16mo (15 x 11 cm); illustration plate frontispiece and another three illustration plates within text; modern burgundy half-calf; tear to bottom of pp. 33-34 with some loss of text; 148, [4] pp.
Yaari 936; Yudlov 1263; not in Yerushalmi.
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