Siddur Beit E-l. Prayer book with Russian translation by Asher Wohl. Stupnik press. Kobe [Japan]. 1920.
XVI, 498, 24 pages. 19 cm.
Prayer book for the days of the year with a Passover Haggada and all the law of Passover and a ten-year calendar of Jewish holidays. The Russian translation was printed on facing columns, with Russian instructions. Hebrew title page and Russian title page. Small vignette of a Jewish traveler on the reverse of the title page. The only Hebrew book printed in Kobe, Japan. The first prayer book printed in Japan, and apparently the first Passover Haggada printed there. Kobe is the fifth largest city in Japan and located on Honshu Island. In the 1920s, about one thousand Jews lived in the city.
Original binding with Hebrew and Russian embossing. Leaves are in excellent condition, as they left the press. A section of the leaves have not yet been cropped.