(LITURGY). Sidur Divrei Tzadikim. The Book of Daily Prayers for Every Day in the Year. According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. Edited by Isaac Leeser

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

C. Sherman

Philadelphia

1848

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Philadelphia 18; Rosenbach 636; Singerman 1024; Goldman, Hebrew Printing in America 37

First Aschkenazi Prayer Book Printed in America. Prepared by the champion of American Orthodoxy, Isaac Leeser Leeser writes in his introduction that the Hebrew text is “chiefly after Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim’s celebrated Sapha Berurah.” The English translation is based upon “our modern German translators, my own studies and...David Levi.”