(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

J. Wertheimer, 15th July

London

1830

Tephillah Vetachanunim LeYomAtzarah - Order of Service and Prayer for the Day of Assembly Devoted to Mourning by the Jewish Congregations throughout England, Being the Day of Burial of His Late Most Glorious Majesty King George IV, 24th Day of Tamuz, A. M. 5590.

Roth B9, 45.

Large-format black-bordered order of service in Hebrew with facing translation in English. Afternoon prayer is followed by nine prescribed Psalms and a sermon. “The reader then impressively reads” select verses and a six-paragraph special prayer: “Death has come up into our chambers and hath taken away the delight of our eyes… Is thee any one among us but whose soul will weep in secret? … But our sins have brought all this about.” This, and much more like it, makes for a striking contrast with the London Times, viz: “There never was an individual less regretted by his fellow-creatures than this deceased king. What eye has wept for him? What heart has heaved one throb of unmercenary sorrow?”