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(INDIA). Sepher Tephiloth Hachadash - The Daily Prayers. Hebrew and Marathi on facing pages, translated by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar. Printed with three title-pages in Hebrew, English and Marathi. Few marginal notes in Marathi. ff. (6), 374, (14). Lightly browned, trace wormed, few pages (Sabbath Kiddush and Havdalah) with wine stains and subsequent loss of text repaired. Modern calf-backed marbled boards. Thick 8vo. Yaari, Bombay 115. Bombay, Aaron Jacob Diveker at the Anglo-Jewish and Vernacular Press, 1889. Published by Ezekiel Benjamin Penkar for the Ben Israel Community of India.  A teacher in the David Sassoon Benevolent Institution Bombay for almost fifty years, Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (Marathi: जोसेफ यहेज्केल राजपूरकर, 1834–1905) was a master of Hebrew as well as of Marathi, the vernacular of Bombay’s Jews.