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RARE yearbook published by the leadership of the Jewish community in Vienna, with a Jewish calendar for the year 5626, as well as numerous articles on Jewish figures and on Jewish theological and other issues. Also included are several pages of contemporary advertisements. The text is in gothic lettering (Fraktur), one article on halachic concerns is in Hebrew. 173x115mm. XLIV+271 pages [not including 12 unpaginated calendar pages]. Marbled quarter-cloth Hardcover. Cover and spine yellowing/faded, worn and peeling. Cover edges and corners bumped and worn/peeling. Spine edges bumped and worn. Sticker residues on spine. Wormholes near spine, extending to calendar and advertisement pages - NO damage to text. Two smaller holes extend throughout most of the book - NO damage to text. Ex library sticker, stamp and pen inscriptions on endpaper and title page. Binding loose and partly split between pages II-III and 320-321. Pen marks on index page and pages 81-105, 155-156. Pages yellowing, slightly age-stained and wavy. [SUMMARY]: This wonderful example of the vivid Jewish life in 19th-century Vienna is in good reading condition.