Seder Tephilah / The Order of Prayer for Divine Service. Revised by Dr.L[eo] Merzbacher, Rabbi at the Temple "Emanu-el". Volume II only. Prayers for the Day of Atonement

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Seder Tephilah / The Order of Prayer for Divine Service. Revised by Dr.L[eo] Merzbacher, Rabbi at the Temple "Emanu-el". Volume II only. Prayers for the Day of Atonement

Title within typographic border. Hebrew and English translation face `a face pp. (4), 323. Trace foxed. Contemporary morocco, gilt extra, uper cover with central cartouche of Temple Emanuel, New York, lacking spine. Sm. 4to Singerman 1384; Goldman 41 (facs. of binding and title)

New York: (J. Muhlhauser) 1855

Est: $800 - $1,000

FIRST REFORM PRAYER BOOK IN AMERICA Leo Merzbacher (1809-1856), a native of Fuerth, Germany, was the first Reform Rabbi in America. His congregation, Temple Emanu-El utilized his prayer book from 1855 until 1895 whereupon it adopted the Union Prayer Book