עבודת ישראל, Israelitisches Gebetbuch : für den oeffentlichen Gottesdienst im ganzen Jahre / geordnet und übersetzt von Benjamin Szold.
Baltomore, C. W. Schneidereith, 1873.
[4], 578, [2], 581-590 Pp. 18.2 cm.
With: Gesänge und Gebete Für Den öffentlichen Gottesdienst der Israeliten.
Baltomore, 1873.
[9], 2-104, [2] Pp.
Wachs, 211, 217.
Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s prayerbook in German and Hebrew first published in 1864 was relatively conservative in its approach to reforming the liturgy – certainly by comparison with the work of Einhorn, Wise, or Merzbacher
A Very Rare American Siddur! Has never appeared at public auction, not in the JNUL.
Overall Good-Fair condition, few stains, many pages have marginal repairs, original binding rubbed.
Benjamin Szold (1829-1902), a native of Nemiskert, Hungary, studied at the Pressburg Yeshivah undrer Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Sofer-the Ktav Sofer. Later, he came under the influence of Z. Frankel, H. Graetz and J. Bernays at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary. In 1858, he accepted an invitation to become Rabbi in Baltimore, where he led Congregation Oheb Shalom to be one of the foremost synagogues in the United States. His daughter, Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) founded the Hadassah Women\'s Organization and Youth Aliyah. See EJ, Vol. XV, cols. 664-5
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