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LOT 67:
(Liturgy) The Divine Service of American Israelites [Mahzor] Cincinnati, 1866.
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(Liturgy) The Divine Service of American Israelites [Mahzor] Cincinnati, 1866.
by Isaac M. Wise.
Vol 1 - for the New Year
Vol 2 - for the day of Atonement
Bloch & Co. Publishers and Printers.
Hebrew, English, and German. Cincinnati, 1866.
Waks 148.
Both in original bindings, gold edged.
Both in good condition.
First edition of the Reform mahzor printed in America.
Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), leader of nineteenth-century American Reform Jewry, issued his Minhag America daily and Sabbath prayer book in 1857 to great acclaim. He then followed up on this success with two Reform High Holiday machzorim in 1866, including Hebrew text with English translation, as well as German and English hymns. The present lot is the first edition of Wise’s Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur machzorim (all published) from which passages relating to a personal messiah, the priesthood, and a return to and restoration of a political Israel have been omitted, consistent with contemporary Reform theology.
