Sefer Shaʻar Shimʻon : hoʻotaḳ mi-Sefer ha-ḥayyim / Shimʻon Franḳforṭ.
ספר שער שמעון : הועתק מספר החיים שמעון פרנקפורט.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frankfurt, Shimon, 1634-1712.

Contributor:

Reich Rare Judaica Facsimile Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Frankfurter, Moses, 1672-1762, editor, translator.

Embden, Joachim van, printer.

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

פרנקפורטר, משה, 1672-1762, editor, translator.

רופא, יוחנן לוי., printer.

Language:

Hebrew

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Prayers for the dead.

Jewish mourning customs.

Judaism--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800.

Judaism.

Judaism--Liturgy.

Jewish mourning customs--Early works to 1800.

Prayers for the dead--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Texts.

Early works.

Physical Description:

34, 14 leaves ; 14 cm

Other Title:

Shaʻar Shimʻon

שער שמעון

Place of Publication:

Amśṭerdam : Be-vet uvi-defus Yoḥanan Leṿi Rofe u-veno Binyamin, 557 [1796 or 1797]

אמשטרדם : בבית ובדפוס יוחנן לוי רופא ובנו בנימן, 557.

Language Note:

First part in vocalized Hebrew, second part in Yiddish.

Notes:

Moses Frankfurter translated into Yiddish and published his father Shimon Frankfurt's Sefer ha-Ḥayyim (1712), from which he compiled Shaʻar Shimon (1714), prayers for the sick. Cf. Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed. 7:207.

Local Notes:

Purchased thanks to the generous support of Philip Lindy.

Temporary record: Penn library holds facsimile edition published in Brooklyn, NY by Renaissance Hebraica.

OCLC:

31460214