{"product_id":"levin-y-l-ed-siddur-hashalom-prayer-book-mir-peace-prayers-for-the-entire-year-sidur-ha-shalom-molitvennik-mir-molitvy-na-ves-god-1968-in-hebrew","title":"Levin, Y. L. (ed.). Siddur HaShalom — Prayer Book «Mir» («Peace»): Prayers for the Entire Year (Sidur ha-Shalom. Molitvennik «Mir». Molitvy na ves' god). 1968. In Hebrew","description":"\u003cp\u003eסדור השלום. תפלות לכל השנה. ערוך ע\"י הרב רמוסקבה ר' יהודה ליב בהרא\"ש ז\"ל לוין שליט\"א. הוצאת הקהלה הדתית במוסקבה.\u003cbr\u003eМолитвенник «Мир». Молитвы на весь год. Под редакцией московского раввина Л. И. Левина.\u003cbr\u003eМосква: Издание Московской еврейской религиозной общины, 1968.\u003cbr\u003e479 с. Формат 24,5 × 16,5 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский ледериновый переплет голубого цвета с золотым тиснением: на верхней крышке в орнаментальной рамке заглавие на иврите «סדור השלום»; на корешке — заглавие на иврите. Параллельные титульные листы — на иврите и на русском языке.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: переплет крепкий, блок плотный, утрат нет. \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eLevin, Y. L. (ed.). Siddur HaShalom — Prayer Book «Mir» («Peace»): Prayers for the Entire Year. Edited by the Moscow Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: Edition of the Moscow Jewish Religious Community, 1968.\u003cbr\u003e479 pp. Format 24.5 × 16.5 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's blue leatherette binding gilt-stamped: the upper cover bears within an ornamental rule-and-foliate frame the Hebrew title «סדור השלום»; the spine lettered in Hebrew. Parallel title-pages in Hebrew and Russian.\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: binding firm, text block tight, no losses. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA document of extraordinary interest in the history of Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union, and one of the rarest categories of late-Soviet liturgical printing. After the closure of nearly all Jewish printing in the USSR following the dissolution of the Yiddish-language presses in 1948–1952, the surviving registered religious community in Moscow — built around the Choral Synagogue on Spasoglinishchevsky Lane — was permitted under exceptional and tightly controlled circumstances to issue a Hebrew-language prayer book. The first edition, edited by Rabbi Shloyme Shliffer in 1956, was followed by this second, expanded edition of 1968 prepared by his successor Yehuda Leib Levin (1894–1971), Chief Rabbi of Moscow from 1957 until his death and the most public Soviet rabbinic figure of the post-Stalin decades. The very title of the volume — «Siddur HaShalom» \/ «Молитвенник МИР» — turned on the deliberate convergence of the Hebrew shalom and the Russian mir, both meaning «peace», allowing a religious work to appear under a slogan acceptable to Soviet ideological censors at the height of the «struggle for peace» rhetoric. The 1968 edition contains the complete cycle of weekday, Sabbath and festival prayers (Shacharit, Mincha, Maariv, Kabbalat Shabbat, Pirkei Avot, Selichot and the Haftarah blessings), with a parallel Russian-language title-page and table of contents — features that make the book a poignant material witness both to the survival of organised Jewish religious practice in Brezhnev-era Moscow and to the sharp constraints under which it was preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44288973144106,"sku":null,"price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1497.jpg?v=1777218635","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/levin-y-l-ed-siddur-hashalom-prayer-book-mir-peace-prayers-for-the-entire-year-sidur-ha-shalom-molitvennik-mir-molitvy-na-ves-god-1968-in-hebrew","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}