Prieres Pour La Fete Pentecote. Prayers for Shavuot, published by Agudat HaRabbanim of Paris, temporarily in Nice. Nice, 1941.
[8] stenciled pages. 31 cm. Copied by stencil. Hebrew and Yiddish.
Booklet of prayers published by Agudat HaRabbanim of Paris, at the height of the Second World War, after France was captured by the Germans. The rabbis, together with many other Jewish refugees, escaped to the “Free Zone” under the Vichy government, to Nice on the border of Italy. (The area was captured by the Italians on November 11, 1942.) The booklet opens with words of encouragement by the rabbis in Yiddish to the refugees and discusses the deplorable situation of the Jewish nation. They were pressed for space, so only the primary sections of the prayers were printed.
Very rare. This booklet is not listed in ULI or in Worldcat.
The leaves are detached, tears in some of the leaves and in the folds. Moderate-fine condition.