(Liturgy). Olath Tamid - Gebetbuch für Israelitische Reform-Gemeinden [Prayer book for the Reform Communities]. Prepared by David Einhorn.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

C.W. Schneidereith

Baltimore

1858

FIRST EDITION. Bookplate of the social activist Alice Springer Fleisher Liveright (1882-1958).

Singerman 1534

“A radical departure from the traditional prayer book…its pagination is from left to right and its changes are both substantial and substantive.” A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991) pp. 303-4. David Einhorn (1809-79) migrated from Germany to America in 1855, where he became the broadly accepted senior leader of the Reform Movement. He advocated the introduction of prayers in the vernacular, the exclusion of nationalistic hopes from the synagogue service and many other ritual modifications. In 1858, his revised prayer book formed the model for all subsequent revisions.