Dr. Max J. Routtenberg (1909–1987), born in Montreal, Canada, was a Conservative movement rabbi in the United States and former executive vice president of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS), and an author. He studied at McGill University and graduated with a B.S. from New York University. In addition to a rabbinical degree, he held the degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters from JTS. During WWII, he served as a chaplain in the US Army's United Kingdom base. After the war he took the pulpit at Kesher Zion (Reading, Pennsylvania) from 1932 till 1948) after which he served as rabbi of Temple B'nai Sholom of Rockville Centre, Long Island from 1954 till 1972. He authored Seedtime and harvest (1969), Decades of Decision (1973), and One in a Minyan, and other stories (1977). He collaborated on the JWB's Prayer Book for Jewish personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (1984) and on Sim Shalom, the Conservative movement prayerbook published in 1985.
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Contributed by:
Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Leonard S. Kravitz, Gilbert Klaperman, Max J. Routtenberg, Stephan O. Parnes, the National Jewish Welfare Board
תפלות לחיילי צבא ארצות הברית Prayer Book for Jewish Personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States (1984) is a trans-denominational and bilingual Hebrew-English siddur arranged by the Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy of the Jewish Welfare Board. The siddur served to update the prayerbook offered by the organization in 1958. It included elements from The Traditional Prayer Book for Sabbaths and Festivals (ed. Rabbi David de Sola Pool, 1960), The Gates of Prayer (ed. Rabbi Chaim Stern, 1975), and a siddur that had not yet been published in 1984: Sim Shalom (ed. Rabbi Jules Harlow, 1985). On the verso of the title page Rabbi Stephan O. Parnes is credited as editor, while Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman, Rabbi Leonard S. Kravitz, and Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg are credited for their editorial work in preparing the manuscript of the siddur in the Acknowledgments section.
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