Lieberman, Eliezer (Editor). Nogah ha-Tzedek - Or Nogah

(REFORM JUDAISM)

C. Schlieder

Dessau

1818

FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound in one; second work in three parts

Vinograd, Dessau 75 and 71 (mispaginated)

The first Reform responsa. A defence of Reform synagogue practice, including liberal positions toward organ accompaniment and prayer in the vernacular. Publication follows outrage among Orthodox Jewry upon the opening of Israel Jacobsohn’s Hamburg Temple in 1818, the first established Reform synagogue. Among the contributors to this volume are Aaron Chorin of Arad, Hungary - erstwile student of R. Ezekiel Landau (“Noda bi-Yehudah”) - referred to by his Orthodox detractors as “Acher” (Other), a metathesis of his initials R.A.Ch.; and Moses Kunitz of Ofen, author of a scholarly work in defense of the authenticity of the Zohar, “Ben Yochai” (1815), and Dayan (justice) in Budapest. See JE, Vol. VII, p. 583