1864 America New York: Jewish Reform Prayer Book Leo Merzbacher [Judaica Hebrew]

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1864 America New York: Jewish Reform Prayer Book Leo Merzbacher [Judaica Hebrew]:
$1800.00

Seder Tefillah ~ VERY EARLY JEWISH REFORM PRAYER BOOK

The Order of Prayer for Divine Service, Revised by Dr. Leo Merzbacher, Rabbi at the Temple Emanuel.

1864 NewYorkThalmessinger & Cahn
299 pp. Very fine condition

LEO MERZBACHER;In 1844, Rabbi Leo Merzbacherjoined a liberal cultural group which eventually became New York\'s Temple Emanu-El. He influenced the congregation to add an organ, change from separated seating to family pews, cease the celebration of the second day of the holidays, and incorporate the triennial cycle of Torah readings. In 1855 he published the Order of Prayer which was readily adopted by the congregation. Notably, the prayerbook contained English translations of the prayers in contrast to other early Reform works which contained German. Merzbacher omitted repetitions of the prayers and and changed the wording of many of the prayers. He kept in the German hymns and expanded the Ein Ke-Eloheinu hymn.
Merzbacher died1856. His successor, Samuel Adler made further changes in the 1864 edition of the Order of Prayer including a prayer for the house of mourning. The Order of Prayer was relied on heavily in the later formation of the Union Prayerbook.

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