Seder Tefilah la-yom tsom she-tsiṿah ha-Melekh yar.h., ʻe[rev] Sh[abat] ḳ[odesh] 28 Adar Rishon [5]554 le-f.ḳ., she-naʻaśah le-hitḥanen ba-Bet ha-keneset de-ḳ.ḳ. Porṭzmoyṭ, ba-ḥefets alufe ... Gershon Y.ts.ṿ.. ṿeha-torano k.ha. Yaʻaḳov Segel, be-retson kol ha-ḳahal Y.ts.ṿ. / ḥibro ha-baḥur k. Shelomoh Leb baʻal ha-meḥaber Kerem Shelomoh ʻal Yoreh Deʻah.
סדר תפלה ליום צום שצוה המלך יר"ה עש"ק כ"ח אדר ראשון תקנ"ד לפ"ק, שנעזה להתחנן בבית הכנסת דק"ק פארטזמויט, בחפץ אלופי ... גרשון יצ"ו והתורנו כ"ה יעקב סג"ל, ברצון כל הקהל \ חברו הבחור כ' שלמה ליב בעל המחבר כרם שלמה על יורה דעה.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirschel, Solomon, 1761-1842, compiler.

Contributor:

Portsmouth and Southsea Hebrew Congregation (Portsmouth, England), associated name.

Alexander, L. (Levy), printer.

Vinograd Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Judaic Studies)

Annenberg Research Institute, former owner.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

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

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820.

George.

Schiff, David Tevele, -1791.

Schiff, David Tevele.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Judaism--Prayers and devotions.

Judaism.

Jews--England--Portsmouth--18th century.

Jews.

Genre:

Prayers.

Elegies (Poetry)

Physical Description:

8 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Manufacture:

Ba-London : Nidpas be-bet uve-defus Yehudah Leib ben Aleksander Y.ts.ṿ,, [1794]

בלונדון : נדפס בבית ובדפוס יהודה ליב בן אלכסנדר יצ"ו, [תקנ"ד]

Notes:

Order of prayer composed for the Portsmouth, England Synagogue on occasion of the national fast day proclaimed by King George III of Great Britian in battle with France during the French Revolutionary Wars.

"Yaʻaḳov Segel" on title page refers to Jacob Levi, Minister to the Portsmouth & Southsea Hebrew Congregation, 1770-1820.

One recorded copy - University of Pennsylvania Libraries - see Vinograd (not seen by Roth, C. Magna Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica).

Signatures: [1]⁴.

Includes an eighteen line Hebrew poem (in three stanzas of six couplets, selected from a fifteen stanza poem) composed earlier as an elegy for David Tevele Schiff (Chief Rabbi of Great Britian, 1765-1791; "חי חרוזים הנחמה על הקינה מחמש אלף בית על הגאון המפורסום רבינו דוד זצ"ל אב"ד דק"ק לונדון והמדינה... עליון גבה' שמים אין לפניך...") - page [3].

A nine paragraph responsive piyut composed for this occasion ("אדון עולמים מה נשגב שמך מרום מה נורא תהלותיך...") - pages 4-6.

Local Notes:

CAJS Rare BM675.F3 S43 1794 complete; rebound into a blank notebook (circa 19th century).

Cited in:

Vinograd, Y. Otsar ha-sefer ha-ʻIvri, London 141

OCLC:

1579017608