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A High Holiday Prayerbook Dedicated to an American Jewish Soldier in Dutch
David Meyer Wald, of blessed memory.
In the course of his work at the National Library of Israel, Daniel Lipson came across a set of maḥzorim (special prayerbooks for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) published in New York in 1942 that had somehow been placed in the wrong collection. Both bore a label in Dutch and Hebrew dedicating the volumes to the memory of a U.S. soldier named David Meyer Wald, who fell in battle on Yom Kippur 1944 and was buried in the Margraten cemetery in the Netherlands. While Lipson found someone who fits this description, he his buried in Montreal. He recounts his further investigation:
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A High Holiday Prayerbook Dedicated to an American Jewish Soldier in Dutch
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