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Lot #    23565
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 10:45:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship, P. 2
Title (Hebrew)    סדר תפלות ישראל
Author    [Liturgy - Reform]
City    Cincinnati
Publisher    Central Conference of American Rabbis
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Part 2 of 2, 177:118 mm., nice margins, light age and use staining. A very good copy not bound.
          
Detailed
Description		    Part II liturgies for the High Holidays of the Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship, Seder Tefilot Yisrael (first ed. 1894–95). This prayer book represents the cumulative efforts of the American Reform movement to achieve a uniform rite that would meet the needs of diverse congregations throughout the nation. The remarkable durability of the prayer book in its various editions testifies to the success of those efforts. Each edition mirrors changes in theological views and reflects the vicissitudes of the Jewish community both in the U.S. and abroad. The second edition (1922), for example, shows an increased interest in ceremonial life which hitherto had been substantially eliminated. All of the varing rites and texts were incorporated in the most important Reform work of the century, The Union Prayer Book for Jewish Worship. Of particular importance in the compilation of The Union Prayer Book were the transitional works of Adolph Huebsch (e.g., his prayer book for Congregation Ahawath Chesed (1889) in New York, translated by A. Kohut) and Isaac S. Moses. Huebsch combined Holdheim's work with Wise's Minhag Amerikah; while Moses combined Seder Tefillah, Olat Tamid, and later, Huebsch's synthesis as well. The end of the 19th century witnessed the writing of many new vernacular compositions. Some from predominantly English formularies, beginning with Joseph Krauskopf's The Service Ritual (1888) and The Service Manual (1892), Gustav Gottheil's Morning Prayer (1889), and Kaufmann Kohler's Sabbath Eve Service (1891), found their way into the Union Prayer Book. After much weighing and harmonizing of texts, the result was an abbreviated and simplified liturgy with both languages kept in balance, interspersed with prayers and responses in the language of the country.
          
Paragraph 2    נדפסו משמאל לימין. נוסח ריפורמי. רוב הטקסט באנגלית בלבד. Part I: Prayers for the Sabbath, the Three Festivals and the Week Days. 1895. 416 p. Part II: New Year's Day, Day of Atonement. 1894. 340 p. שם הדפוס רק בחלק א. הופיעה גם מהדורה זהה, שנדפסה בבית דפוס אחר בשיקאגו.
          
Reference
Description		    Wachs 503; EJ; CD-EPI 0309963
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
Reform:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    English, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica