I. M. Japhet. Schire Jeschurun.

(MUSIC).

J. Kauffmann

Frankfurt a/ Main

1856

FIRST EDITION. With an enthusiastic foreword by Rabbiner Samson Raphael Hirsch.

Compositional music scores for the Chazan and choir according to the custom and usage of the synagogue in Frankfurtam Main. The synagogue music contained in “Schire Jeschurun” are of a particular character distinct to those communities that adhere to the Frankfurt rite. “The melodies composed by the deeply pious I. M. Japhet (1818-92) became part of the spiritual treasury of many Orthodox German congregations.” See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch [A Biography] (1996) pp. 305-306. On the subject of the choir and other customs of German-Jewish synagogue life, see many of the essays by Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer, in: A Time to Builld (1995), especially pp. 18-20 and 40-45.