Obj. ID: 38277
Jewish printed books Machzor min Shalosh Regalim....., Lemberg, 1841
This text was prepared by William Gross:
Zodiac series appears twice
Lemberg (Lviv) began its course of development into one of the key centers of nineteenth-century Hebrew print with the arrival in the 1780s of several printing families from Żółkiew (Zhovkva) in the 1780s; they came under orders from the new Habsburg regime.
In 1830 Yehuda Leib Balaban of Brodi established a printing house in Lemberg. By the time this book was printed, the business was run by his son, Pinchas Moshe. After Pinchas Moshe's death, the press was taken over by his widow, Pesel Balaban. Pesel was already very active in the press while her husband was alive, but it was only after his death that she expanded the press, producing high-quality editions of halakhic texts such as the Shulhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law).
The Gross Family Collection includes titles issued by all three of these figures - Yehuda Leib (B.1375), Pinchas Moshe (B.528), and Pesel Balaban (B.1116).