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(LITURGY). Seder Ha’Avodah- Gebetbuch für die öffentliche und häuslische Andacht der Israeliten, nach dem Gebrauch des Neuen Israelitischen Tempels in Hamburg [prayers for the entire year]. Prepared for the Reform Temple in Hamburg, Germany. Text in Hebrew and German. pp. vi,438. Few light stains, trace foxed in places. Lg. 8vo. Hamburg, B. S. Berendsohn, 1845. * BOUND WITH: Gesänge zum Gebrauche beim Gottesdienst der Reform-Gemeinde “Keneseth Israel” zu Philadelphia [hymns and Psalms for the use by the Reform congregation Kneseth Israel in Philadelphia]. Text in German. pp. 27,(1). Light dampstains in places. 12mo. [Singerman 1456]. Philadelphia, R. Stein, 1856

is ONE OF THE EARLIEST LITURGICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES.

The supplemented “Gesänge” is the first German languague liturgical publication, and thus ONE OF THE EARLIEST LITURGICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. It is exceptionally rare, Singerman lists just one copy, located in HUC. Another German liturgical reform publication appeared later the same year. The first Reform Hebrew prayer-book in America was published the previous year. The Hamburg Gebetbuch remained popular among early American Reform communities and these two works were evidently bound together at an early stage. Later in the century, the American Reform movement grew to be more radical than it’s European counterpart