Chizuk ha-Bayith / Gebete und Gesänge [Reform prayers for New Year and Day of Atonement], Prepared by Leopold Stein

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Ferdinand Enke

Erlangen

1840

FIRST EDITION. German interspersed with Hebrew (including title). Foldout sheet of musical notation between pp. 80-1

Cf. Freimann, p. 486 (a later Frankfurt a/Main 1868 edition with modifications)

Leopold Stein (1810-1882) received a traditional Jewish education in Fuerth and secular education at the Universities of Erlangen and Wuerzburg. In 1835, he became Rabbi of Burgkundstadt, and in 1844, Rabbi of Frankfurt a/Main. His initial appointment as Assistant Rabbi to the aged Rabbi Solomon Trier, prompted the older man's resignation in protest. R. Trier, staunchly Orthodox, would not suffer the appointment of a Reform-minded minister - even a mild-minded Reformer such as Stein - to succeed him. See E.M. Klugman, R. Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996), pp. 117-19