Guedalla, H. Suggestions for Alterations and Curtailments in the Jewish Ritual now in use in the United Kingdom, to which are added some translations of ancient Jewish Prayers not generally known.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA)

Wertheimer, Lea “Not Published”

London

1890

Explanatory introduction, subsequent prayers in Hebrew and English on facing pages.

Haim Guedalla (1815-1904) married the niece of Sir Moses Montefiore and accompanied Sir Moses on his many diplomatic missions on behalf of the Jewish People. A philanthropist and ardent supporter of the Yishuv of Eretz Israel in his own right, Guedalla negotiated between the years 1876-80 with Midhat Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, that Eretz Israel be sold to the Jews in exchange for assuming the general debt of the Ottoman Empire - L250,000,000. Ultimately, the scheme, inspired by his friend, the novelist George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, went nowhere. See EJ, Vol. VII, cols. 957-8.