Contributed by: Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR], Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. In the largest section, “Meditations,” the collection re-published 36 of the prayers from CCAR’s ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (1923), omitting 15. To these, three new prayers were added, along with some new sections: “Family Worship,” “Personal Prayers for Special Occassions,” “Prayers for Night and Morning,” and “Prayers in Time of Sickness and Death.”
Contributed by: Angie Irma Cohon, Women of Miẓpah, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A small work of Jewish prayer intended for Jewish women published by the sisterhood of Temple Miẓpah in Chicago.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), J. Leonard Levy
The Children’s Service for Use in Religious Schools (1902) is Rabbi J. Leonard Levy’s prayerbook compiled for the religious school at Congregation Rodeph Shalom, a Reform movement synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The siddur is comprised of four children’s services and twenty supplemental services for special days on the calendar. A hymnal comprises a third section. This is the second revised edition of the prayerbook, printed in 1904, containing additional services and hymns.
Contributed by: J. Leonard Levy, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A prayerbook compiled for Rodeph Shalom, a Reform movement congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Contributed by: Edward Benjamin Morris Browne, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
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.
Contributed by: David Einhorn, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Rabbi David Einhorn’s prayer book `Olat Tamid (lit. the perpetual sacrifice)…first penned in Germany, served as the model for the Union Prayer Book,….the prayer book of the American Reform movement for almost eight decades. It reflected what is now called “classical Reform,” eliminating prayers for the restoration of Zion, mentions of the messiah, and bodily resurrection of the dead, while diminishing mentions of Jewish chosenness and the like. This is עלת תמיד Olat Tamid by Rev. Dr. David Einhorn (1809-1878), in its German-Hebrew edition (1858).
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Barnett Abraham Elzas, David Nunes Carvalho, Isaac Harby, Abraham Moïse, Reformed Society of Israelites
The first Reform prayerbook in the United States, and the fourth oldest Reform liturgy in the world.

