Family-held objects and volumesRB-PHO-0324

Paul’s Yom Kippur prayer book opens under a gilt cloth cover

This gilt cover surrounds the Yom Kippur machzor that Paul Reichenbach later marked with his name. Paul and the family kept the book even within a modern, acculturated household. Its survival shows attachment to inherited prayer, but not how often Paul used it.

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SeriesFamily-held objects and volumes

Transcription

No written title appears on the cover.

English translation

No written text appears in this view. The Roman numerals on the tablets represent the Ten Commandments.

Cover symbols described for the Reichenbach Family Archive, 16 August 2026.

Archive reference
RB-PHO-0324
Date
1907 edition
Digital image
1350 × 1800 pixels
Evidence status
Primary family-held printed volume; edition date established through a matching library catalogue record
Uncertainty
The photographed title page does not print a date. The 1907 identification rests on the matching Rödelheim edition, publisher, title and 376-page extent in the library catalogue.
Source and provenance
Family-held Gebetbuch für den Versöhnungstag, volume VII of Gebetbuch für die Festtage; printed and published by M. Lehrberger & Co., Frankfurt a. M. (Rödelheim). The matching 376-page edition is catalogued as 1907 by the Library of the Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main. Photographed by Daniel Reichenbach on 16 August 2026.
Credit
Reichenbach Family Archive
Rights
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Image treatment
Conventional web-access JPEG converted from the family-supplied HEIC photograph and reduced for online viewing; no generative alteration.

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Edition reference

The matching library catalogue record identifies the Rödelheim publisher, edition and 376-page extent used to date this family-held volume.

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Reichenbach Family Archive. “Paul’s Yom Kippur prayer book opens under a gilt cloth cover.” 1907 edition. RB-PHO-0324. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0324.

Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/rb-pho-0324