A hymn-book containing not only traditional Jewish hymns, but also others of Christian origin (“adapted for Jewish worship”). Upon it was based the Union Hymnal, which was subsequently adopted by Reform congregations in the United States.

Arranged and translated by Yosef Naḥmuli, סדר תפלות֑֭דפשמ֖ Καθημεριναι Προσευχαι (“Daily Prayers,” 1885), is a Greek-Hebrew siddur for weekdays and festivals, nusaḥ sefaradi (minhag Corfu). Besides being the first Greek translation of this siddur, this translation offers, we believe, the first rabbinic Jewish translation of texts from the Hebrew Bible in Greek (otherwise only available via the Septuagint).

A prayerbook prepared by Rabbi Edward B.M. Browne according to the Reform movement custom of Temple Gates of Hope (now Prospect Park Synagogue) in 1885.

Ritual for Jewish Worship (1884) is an early American Reform movement prayerbook in English translation by Rabbi Max Landsberg for his congregation, B’rith Ḳodesh, in Rochester, New York.

The siddur, Aḇodath Yisrael was first prepared for Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland) by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1829-1902). Before Szold’s arrival in 1859, the congregation had adopted for use in its Shabbat service the Minhag America by the Reform rabbi, Isaac Meyer Wise. After much discussion with his congregation Szold introduced Aḇodath Yisrael, which hewed more closely to traditional Ashkenazi custom. The first edition of this prayer-book appeared in 1863 with German translation, and was widely adopted by congregations in the United States. New editions were published in 1864 and 1865 (the latter with English translation), and another, revised edition in 1871, by Rabbis Marcus Jastrow of Philadelphia (1829-1903) and Henry Hochheimer of Baltimore (1818-1912).

A hymnal prepared by Rabbi Benjamin Szold and translated from German into English by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow.

This is Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s הגיון לב (Higayon Lev) Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die Häusliche Andacht, “second completely revised edition” edited by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1875). This work was subsequently translated into English by Benjamin Szold’s daughter, Henrietta Szold, and her manuscript used as the draft for the Jewish Ministers’ Association’s Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887).

A siddur in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag America.

A siddur supplement compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise containing teḥinot in English for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa.

A collection of hymns used by Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The hymn book mainly contains hymns in German with English translation by Rabbi James Koppel Gutheim (1817-1886) with another handful in English including one by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1821-1867), and the rest by a young Felix Adler (before his founding of Ethical Culture).

An Ashkenazi siddur with a French translation compiled by Elḥanan ben Netanel Durlacher.

A collection of hymns, psalms, and paraliturgical prayers for festivals and other events in German and English compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa.

This is प्रायश्चित्ताच्या दिवसाची प्रार्थना The Prayers of the Day of Atonement vol. 1 (1867) and vol. 2 (1868), a maḥzor for Yom Kippur in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905).

This is Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s הגיון לב (Hegyon Lev, “Meditation of the Heart”) Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867).

A comprehensive arrangement of seliḥot (סליחות, penitential prayers) for the entire year, translated into English by the great scholar David Asher.

A maḥzor for Yom Kippur in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag America.

A maḥzor for Rosh haShanah in Hebrew with English translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa.

A bilingual Hebrew-English comprehensive siddur arranged and translated by Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes.

This is वर्षत्रतिपदेची प्रार्थना The Jewish Propitiatory Prayer (1862), a maḥzor for Rosh haShanah in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905)

An Ashkenazi siddur with an original translation by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski.

A siddur in Hebrew with German translation compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa.

This is पापाच्या क्षमेसाठी प्रार्यना The Jewish Propitiatory Prayer (1859), a prayerbook for the Seliḥot service in the month before Rosh haShanah in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905).

The first prayerbook largely composed by a Jewish woman and the first prayerbook compiled by a Jewish woman in the United States.

This is an abridged translation by Hester Rothschild in 1855 titled אמרי לב Prayers and Meditations, adapted from Prières d’un Cœur Israelite published by the “Société Consistoriale de Bons Livres” (1848). The original work by Rabbi Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery contains tkhines translated into French, prayers by German reformers in French translation, and many additional liturgical translations and paraliturgical prayers. Rothschild’s work presents several prayers in English unique to her compilation by Anglo-Jewish writers. This second edition (1859) contains revisions and corrections (“there are some additions and many improvements”). This second edition was also later republished without permission in the United States by Isaac Leeser containing additional corrections.

This is a bilingual Hebrew-English siddur published in Fürth, Germany by S.B. Gusdorfer, intended for German immigrants to the United States. The siddur contains a prayer for the government composed by Rabbi Max Lilienthal (substituted for the traditional prayer for sovereigns, hanoten teshuah). Later editions were printed in New York by L. Henry Frank. We would like to image a copy of the original 1848 edition of this prayerbook. If you have a copy available, please contact us.

A collection of teḥinot translated, adapted, and republished in English. This is one of the first collections of teḥinot published for an English speaking audience.

A collection of teḥinot translated, adapted, and republished in English. This is one of the first collections of teḥinot published for an English speaking audience and the first prayerbook in English for use by Jewish women published in the United States.

This is the anthology of teḥinot, Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), translated by Miriam Wertheimer from Taḥnunei bat Yehudah (1846) by Meïr Letteris. On the title page and the preface, the author of the work translated by Wertheimer was somehow misidentified as Wolfgang Wessely.

This is the anthology of teḥinot in in German compiled by Meir haLevi Letteris, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Erbauung in allen Berhältnissen des Lebens als Jungfrau, Brant, Gattin und Mutter, originally published in 1846.

An anthology of teḥinot in German compiled by Max Emanuel Stern, Die fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesverehrung an allen Wochen -Fest – und Busse-Tagen und für alle Verhältnisse (1841). A second edition with slight changes to the typeface and layout was published in 1846.

The sixth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1838.

For Yom Kipur, the third volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837.

For Pesaḥ and Shavuot, the fifth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837.

For Rosh haShanah, the second volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837.

For Sukkot (and including Shemini Atseret and Simḥat Torah), the fourth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837.

A siddur for everyday (excepting Rosh haShanah, Yom Kippur, Festivals and Fast Days), this is the first volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837.

Isaac L. Lyon’s שער התפילה וסדר העבודה Form of Daily Prayers, according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews (London: H. Abrahams, 1836) is a daily, shabbat, and festival prayerbook.

Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings (1852/1853) is a collection of prayers in vernacular English by Grace Aguilar (1816-1847), published posthumously by her mother, Sarah Aguilar née Dias Fernandes (1786-1854).

Isaac Levi’s The Form of Daily Prayers according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews (London: M. Phillips, 1830) is a daily, shabbat, and festival prayerbook.

These are Yehoshua Heshil Miro’s anthologies of teḥinot, beginning with תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1829), one of the earliest anthologies of teḥinot published in German rather than Yiddish. A slightly revised edition with six pieces added and three removed followed in 1833. That work served as the basis for a much larger compilation, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion (1835), which, for the first time, printed the tehinot in German in a Latin (rather than Hebrew) script using the then common Fraktur typeface. A slightly enlarged expanded edition of Beit Yaaqov published in 1842 contains an additional teḥinah (as well as approbations by Rabbi Abraham Geiger and Rabbi Solomon Tiktin).

The second anthology of teḥinot published in Judeo-German rather than Yiddish.

The first Reform prayerbook in the United States, and the fourth oldest Reform liturgy in the world.

The first anthology of teḥinot published in Judeo-German rather than Yiddish.

One of the earliest bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the British Empire.

מחזור של שבועות The Form of the Prayers for the Feast of Pentecost According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was translated by Isaac Levi in 1807, ostensibly as a “revision” of a 1795 maḥzor compiled, translated, and published by David Levi (no relation). This later printing of Isaac Levi’s translation, made by the printer H. Abrahams (“Tsvi bar Michael” in Hebrew) in 1852, mistakenly credits “David Levy” instead of Isaac Levi. I’ve provided both editions so that their contents can more easily be compared with one another. –Aharon Varady

מחזור לשבועות The Form of Prayers for the Feast of Pentecost According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was compiled and translated in 1796 by David Levi (1742-1801). It is the sixth volume in a set of nusaḥ Ashkenaz maḥzorim by Levi.

מחזור לפסח The Form of Prayers for the Feast of Passover According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was compiled and translated in 1796 by David Levi (1742-1801). It is the fifth volume in a set of nusaḥ Ashkenaz maḥzorim by Levi.

מחזור לסוכות The Form of the Prayers for the Feast of Tabernacles According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was compiled and translated in 1795 by David Levi (1742-1801). Besides Sukkot, additional services for Shemini Atseret and Simḥat Torah are included. It is the fourth volume in a set of nusaḥ Ashkenaz maḥzorim by Levi.

מחזור ליום כיפור The Form of the Additional and Afternoon Prayers for the Day of Atonement According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was compiled and translated in 1795 by David Levi (1742-1801). It is the second volume in a set of nusaḥ Ashkenaz maḥzorim by Levi. The Arvit and Shaḥarit services for Yom Kippur are found in the previous volume in this six volume set of maḥzorim.

מחזור לראש השנה The Form of Prayers for the New Year According to the Custom of the German & Polish Jews was compiled and translated in 1794 by David Levi (1742-1801). It is the first volume in a set of nusaḥ Ashkenaz maḥzorim by Levi, and his introduction sets forth his principles of translation used throughout the rest of the volumes. Due to the high esteem accorded it, this set served as a template for later maḥzorim in their translations and layout.