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Die sämtlichen Festgebete der Israeliten: Gebete für das Pesachfest (with translation and commentary by Dr. M. Letteris), Prag and Breslau 1900.

Madelaine Helga Zadik, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA

Pesach is a holiday celebrated each spring to commemorate the biblical liberation of the Jews from Egyptian slavery. This bilingual Hebrew-German prayer book for Pesach belonged to the Zadik Family and was published in 1900 by the Jakob Berman Brandeis publishing house with its headquarters in Breslau and Prague. From the second half of the 19th c., translations of prayer books and other religious texts from the sacred Hebrew language into German gained increasing popularity among German Jews.