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The Rothschild Prayerbook is not the family’s only masterpiece of devotion. We’re offering a magnificent six-volume 1860 Festival Prayers—an Askenazic Machzor translated by Rev. David Aaron de Sola, preserved from the de Rothschild Library at Exbury House. Bound in richly gilt black calf and remarkably well-kept, it reflects the same le goût Rothschild that defined the family’s legendary collections: beauty, scholarship, and faith united in one work. De Sola’s translation bridged Hebrew traditio