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RARE TWO VOLUME SET - a monograph on Rabbis, writers and other eminent personalities of three communities in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany - Hamburg, Altona and Wandsbeck, which from 1671 joined together to form a single community, known by the initials AHW. Written by Eduard Duckesz (1868-1944), the Chief Rabbi in Hamburg-Altona, this book introduces its readers to the glorious personalities of the communities which formed one of the main centers of Jewish scholarship and book printing in the 18th and 19th centuries Ashkenazi Jewry. Contains 24 b&w plates. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 399 pages. Black cloth rebound Hardcover with gilt spine. Spine and pages yellowing. [VOL.I]: 220x145mm. XVI+140+XXXIV pages. Pages I-XXXII slightly creased around upper corner, edge slightly (12mm) torn - NO damage to text. Plate depicting the Altona synagogue dirty. extreme page edges dirty/stained. Page I bottom corner missing - NO damage to text. Page 113/114 detached from binding. Page 111/112 bottom part near binding torn - NO damage to text. Several pages upper corner slightly creased/wrinkled. Several pages age-stained. [VOL.II]: 235x150mm. 154+55 pages (altogether 209 pages). Cover slightly stained. Spine edges and hinges slightly wrinkled. Original softcover edges/corners tattered. Both title pages dirty/stained. Page 49/50 bottom edge part slightly punctured - NO damage to text. Page 49/50 edges glue-stained. Binding visible with glue-stains between pages 96-97. Some pages upper edge slightly wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and valuable two volume source for the history of German Jewry has sustained some damage, but is still in good reading condition.