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"FIRST ASHKENAZIC PRAYER BOOK PUBLISHED IN AMERICA" (JUDAICA.) Isaac Leeser, editor. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year,According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [4], 243 leaves, in Hebrew and English on facing pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt morocco, rear joint splitting, otherwise minor wear; foxing; all edges gilt. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 5608 [1848]
"To unite Ashkenazic Jews in America using different prayer books and to provide them with an error-free text, Leeser issued this work, the first Ashkenazic prayer book published in America"--Goldman 37. Rosenbach 636; Singerman 1024.
