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Spanish Machzor for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – London, 1740
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Orden de las oraciones de Ros-Ashanah y Kipur [Order of prayers for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur], translated into Spanish by R. Yitzchak Nieto. London: Ricardo Reily, 1740. Spanish.
The translator, R. Yitzchak Nieto, son and successor of R. David Nieto author of Kuzari Sheni, prominent rabbi of the Sephardic community in London.
This edition served as basis for later English translations of the machzor.
At beginning of book, two handwritten leaves with a warm, lengthy dedication in English to the Reform rabbi Morris Lazaron, during his visit to Panama, by the Castro family, his relatives from his mother's side. The dedication is signed by Abraham A. Sasso and Judith de Castro, Panama, 1938. Enclosed is a photograph, evidently depicting the rabbi and his family, signed on verso "Panama – Aug 1938".
Morris Samuel Lazaron (1888-1979) was an American Reform rabbi and anti-Zionist activist. His mother was from the Castro family, a family with deep Spanish-Portuguese roots. In 1914 he was ordained by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and in 1915 he was appointed rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, one of the most distinguished and important Reform communities in the United States, which he led for some three decades.
Although he was originally sympathetic to Zionism, the rise of nationalism in Europe in the 1930s (and a visit in Nazi Germany) dramatically changed his views, and he became a leader of the anti-Zionist movement in the United States. He was a founder of the American Council for Judaism. In his later years, he lived in London, where he passed away.
XVI, 226, 239-306, 319-578 pages. Lacking 26 leaves (I-XXVII) with Keter Malchut, as well as pp. 227-238, 307-318 (approx. 26 leaves in total). 17.5 cm. Dark paper (some leaves especially dark). Fair-good condition. Stains. Tears and worming to first leaves, affecting text, partially repaired with paper. New fabric binding.
Bookplate of Morris Lazaron.
For more information, see: David Katz, The Jews in the History of England 1485-1850, Oxford 1994, pp. 278-280.
English Jewry and Americana
English Jewry and Americana