Gebete der Juden auf das ganze Jahr [prayers for the entire year]. Includes translation of Ethics of the Fathers, with footnotes. Translated into Judeo-German by David Friedlaender.

(LITURGY).

Solomon Proops

Amsterdam

1807

Prayers in square Hebrew characters, instructions in Waybertaytsch letters. The Leyzer Ran copy.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2356.

First German Translation (in Hebrew characters) of the Prayer-Book. David Friedlaender (1750-1834), a native of Koenigsberg, entered Moses Mendelssohn’s Berlin circle at age 21, becoming one of Mendelssohn’s most prominent followers. By marrying in 1772 Bluemchen Itzig, daughter of banker Daniel Itzig, young Friedlaender entered one of the wealthiest families of Prussian Court Jews. Friedlaender is considered a forerunner of Reform Judaism. See I. Elbogen, Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History (1993) p. 299; S.C. Reif, Judaism and Hebrew Prayer (1993) p. 262; EJ, Vol. VII, cols.177-79.