Auction 54
Lot 113:
Siddur L’Sivlonot, nusach Ashkenaz, with German translation. Handsome original binding, gilded page cuttings with inscribed decorations (see pictures). Printed in Hannover, 1868. 208, 434, 168, x pages. Two title pages in blue ink, the second is more detailed with “Dinei Chana”. Very rare copy, doesn’t appear in the various libraries including the National Library, nor the Bibliographic Database of the Hebrew Book. This copy also has a Book of Psalms included at the end and leaves with an introduction in German. Also appears not to have been printed with the engraving which appears in other copies before the title page. Handsome purple binding, worn, pretty copy in good condition.
The back of the binding has an ex libris “from the collection of Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen Maimon (Fishman), Jerusalem.” Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen Fishman (1876-1965) ben Rabbi Avraham Elimelech changed his name to Maimon because of a family tradition that they were descendants of the Rambam. He was the grandson of Rabbi Mordechai HaKohen os Sotnov. In 1900 he was appointed the rabbi of Markolest, and in 1905 in Ungeni (Serbia). In 1912 he moved to Jerusalem. He was a leader of the Mizrahi movement, and even served as Minister of Religious Affairs in 1948. He also wrote “Sarei HaMe’ah.”
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