Description: THE FIRST SUCH MACHZOR PRINTED IN AMERICA. Issued by the Jewish printing establishment of Henry (Chaim) Frank of New York and based upon the celebrated Wolf Heidenheim edition, this prayer-book enabled the newly rising community of Aschkenazi American Jews to conduct services according to their own custom, as opposed to that of the Sephardic rite. See Goldman (Hebrew Printing in America, no. 40) who notes that the printer also prepared a version of the High Holiday Machzor for German Jews alongside this Polish version. Goldman however does not possess a copy of this Polish edition. =====================MACHZOR: FORM OF PRAYERS FOR THE NEW YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM OF THE POLISH JEWS. WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION מחזור : .ראש השנה .. כמנהג פוליןNew York: Henry Frank, 1854. 1st edition. Period-style gilt tooled Morocco leather. 12mo, various pagination ) . Singerman 1285, Goldman 40. The first Ashkenazi machzor printed in America. Based upon the celebrated Wolf Heidenheim edition, Henry (Chaim) Frank of New York published in 1854 prayer-books for the Days of Awe: This volume for the New Year, He issued this set following the Polish tradition and, simultaneously, a set following the German tradition. This enabled the newly rising community of Central European Jews to conduct services according to their own custom, as opposed to that of the Sephardic rite. Frank went on in later years to issue other volumes for other Holidays. A set (New Year and Yom Kipur) of the German tradition set with repairs sold at auction for over $17,000 with commissions in 2012. No copies from the Polish set have ever appeared at major Auction. New Year's Volume has Hebrew title page Together a very attractive, very good condition of this exceedingly rare and important high point in American Jewish liturgical history
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