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Judaica Rare Cataloging @ the Kislak Center for Special Collections, UPenn Libraries.

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The discovery of a sanguine print (print in red ink, so-called because of the blood color) of David, King of Israel kneeling in prayer, later used (in standard black color) in the 1739-42 Griselini Bible (by Francesco Griselini) https://t.co/mGjhvTLWuS

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One of the first books printed in Neuwied, Germany by Israel Halle. Neuwied (the Hebrew printing used ניי וויט, undoubtedly from the local dialect spelling of Näiwiid) - southeast of Bonn - subsequently built the Michelbach Synagogue - in 1748. https://t.co/ivMbcDVy56

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The volume was owned by Salomon Fuerst, rabbi of Heidelberg, gifted to him on his wedding day.

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The responsa of Isaac ben Samuel ha-Levi of Lemberg, younger brother of David ben Samuel, known for his work Ture zahav.

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Imrot ha-yoshev rosh (Mao Zedong's Little Red Book in its first Hebrew translation, rare today) - with the approbation of the (later purged) Len Biao
https://t.co/OuRjBxNVzB…

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A comprehensive archival collection of broadsides, letters, manifestos, pamphlets, and more for the succession dispute of 1926-9, Adath Jeshurun, Frankfurt am Main
https://t.co/uO5DA79VGM

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The sanguine print of a frontispiece by Francesco Griselini of David, King of Israel, kneeling in prayer https://t.co/mGjhvTLWuS

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A very scarce calendar for the Melilla, Spain synagogue and liturgy : Calendario Hébraico = sh[enat] 5690 le-f[erat] g[adol] = 5,690 : 5 Octobre 1929-22 Septiembre 1930 / compuesto por Isaac D. Levy, para el Templo «Or Zarúa» de Yamin A. Benarroch, Melilla https://t.co/9NKOtqYGXG

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A Bible play on Ezra, printed in Nizhyn, Ukraine, 1898 https://t.co/fmGKHcNnSn (ʻEzra, o Shivat Tsiyon / Ezdra, ili, Vozrozhdenīe Sīona : JL Gamzu)

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Haftarat Tish'ah be-Av, in the custom of Baghdad, in verse-translated Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic ; printed in Livorno, 1863/1864 https://t.co/Y1sbS1CFR2

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a previously unrecorded parody on Kohelet, called Peri ha-nisayon, by the poet Joseph Gibiansky of Warsaw/London, with cantillation, printed in his work 'Ale hegayon be-khinor (Warsaw, 1905) https://t.co/C8i3uI7dKW

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The autograph of Magdeburg and Vienna rabbi Moritz Güdemann discovered on the first edition of Hayyim Yosef David Azulai, Kikar la-aden (Livorno, 1800/1) https://t.co/GDXRDKQ2su

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then held in the Dvinsk Ghetto and murdered. https://t.co/fDkapJcDjD

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The unbound sheets for the second volume of Sheʼelot u-teshuvot Tsofnat paʻaneaḥ printing was halted at the incursion of German forces into Daugavpils, 1941 June 26; editor Yiśraʼel Safern-Fuchs and printer Rachel Citron (daughter of the author) were ...

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Cataloging today: a handout card from the Yom Kippur services of 1886, from the Altonaer Große Synagoge, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. The card includes instruction on Piyutim and recitation and bowing during Musaf. https://t.co/4nJncAMWDU

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Recently added: a highly scarce translation and adaptation of selections from Nietzsche's Übermensch (selections from his Also sprach Zarathustra, by L. Averbukh (Odesa : Moriah, 1912). Also called "Сверхчеловѣкъ" (Sverkhchelovek).

https://t.co/5FpbGUGud1

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Recently added: Chaldaea Ionathae..., tr. Mercier, Paris 1559, with important provenance: Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), Jacques Pinssonat (chair of Hebrew at the Collège de France) and Siméon Marotte de Muis, Archdeacon of Soissons
https://t.co/lxXFxLrzB0 https://t.co/LhUxvn0vSj

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Cataloging: Sefer ha-Mitsvot (the Hebrew translation of Moses Maimonides' Kitāb al-farāʼiḍ), Amsterdam 5420 (1659/60), with a purchase inscription from the Sephardic Amsterdam Aby Jetomim orphanage, 1 September 1686:
https://t.co/tUKSYEy5mQ
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