Meir Yisrael Bresslau. Cherev Nokemeth Nakam Berith [“A Sword Avenging the Covenant.”]

(REFORM JUDAISM).

(Dessau)

1819

Vinograd, Dessau 77.

A Reform response to the Orthodox denunciation “Eileh Divrei HaBerith,” which was published in Altona that same year of 1819. The controversy surrounding Israel Jacobsohn’s First Reform Temple in Hamburg pivoted on two issues: The accompaniment of the prayers by organ music, and the recitation of prayers in German rather than Hebrew. The author takes swipes at the Orthodox Rabbis with whose opinions he disagrees: Rabbis Moses Schreiber of Pressburg, Mordecai Banet of Nikolsburg and Jacob Lorbeerbaum of Lissa. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: A Biography (1996). pp. 26-27.