Hagadah LePesach: Domestic Service for the First Night of Passover, Used by the Members of the West London Synagogue of British Jews. Edited by the Rev. D.W. Marks, Minister of the Congregation.

(HAGADAH).

J.Wertheimer

London

1842

Hebrew and English texts on facing pages.

Yudlov 850; Yaari 619

THE FIRST REFORM HAGADAH. “Reform Judaism began in Germany in the early nineteenth century, and the first Reform prayer book appeared in Hamburg in 1818. However, the first separate edition of a Reform Haggadah did not appear until 1842 and was published, not in Germany, but in England. In the late 1830s some members of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in London came into conflict with the communal leaders over the issue of reforms in the service. After several unsuccessful attempts at compromise, in 1840 the group formed an independent Reform congregation known as the West London Synagogue of British Jews. Their first prayer book was published in 1841; their Haggadah, offered here, was printed the following year.” (Yerushalmi pl. 96)