Auction of Judaica. Including a large offering of Americana from a distinguished Private Collection. Focusing on Jews in the American Civil War, featuring photographs, autograph letters and printed books.
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פריט 106:
(CHINA).
עוד...
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נמכר ב: $800
מחיר פתיחה:
$
500
הערכה :
$1,000 - $1,500
עמלת בית המכירות: 25%
מע"מ: 8.875%
על מחיר הפריט המלא והעמלה
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(CHINA).
Order of Service at the Consecration of the Synagogue “Ohel Rachel, ” Shanghai. - Shir Zimrah U’Tefillah.
Two photographic plates of the synagogue facade and two further portrait plates of Sir Jacob and of Lady Sassoon. “HaTikvah” in Hebrew, English and in musical form appears. TIPPED IN (on shorter pages): Nine-page prayer-service, Hebrew and English on facing pages. (London).
Original printed wrappers (Hebrew and English), stained. Tall 8vo.
Shanghai, 23rd January, 1921
RARE CONSECRATION SERVICE. NO COPIES LOCATED ON WORLDCAT, NOR FOUND IN ANY LIBRARY IN ISRAEL.
Ohel Rachel was built on Seymour Road (now 500 North Shaanxi Road), in the western section of the Shanghai International Settlement (Jing'an District). It is the largest synagogue in the Far East, and one of the only two still standing in Shanghai.
Built by Sir Jacob Elias Sassoon in memory of his late wife Lady Rachel, the synagogue was consecrated on the 14th Shevat / January 23rd, 1921.
During the Second World War, the foreign concessions, including the area around Ohel Rachel, continued under international control even after the Japanese victory in the 1937 Battle of Shanghai. However shortly follwoing the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan occupied the remaining settlements in Shanghai, imposed restrictions on the Jews and the synagogue was converted into a stable.
The Communist Party of China took Shanghai near the close of the Chinese Civil War, shortly before the establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949. They permitted Shanghai's Jewish community to use Ohel Rachel until 1952, when the property was seized and stripped of its furnishings. Almost all of the city's Jews had emigrated by 1956. During the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s, the building was used as a warehouse and suffered damage.
As part of the thaw in Sino-American relations in the late 1990s, Chinese Communist Party general secretary Jiang Zemin invited three American religious leaders selected by the American President Bill Clinton to visit China in February 1998. One of them, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, extracted a promise from Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi to protect Ohel Rachel, restore it, and open it to the public. It was indeed reopened for some Jewish holidays from 1999 and briefly held more regular services as part of the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Today the site remains restricted within the compound of the Shanghai Ministry of Education.
