📖 תפלות ושירים | Prayers & Readings, selected and arranged by Rabbi Solomon Goldman (1938)

The experimental siddur, Prayers & Readings Selected and Arranged by Rabbi Solomon Goldman can be found appended to Harry Coopersmith’s songbook, Songs of My People (1938). The work, I believe, is an excellent reflection of the creative spirit of the nascent Reconstructionist movement. Goldman’s prayerbook is both traditional and expansive, seeking to bring into its pages both familiar liturgy along with additional works from all over Jewish literary history. The work represents what Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan would call a “Binder Siddur” — the siddur as a container of inspired works for collective reading and reflection in the synagogue. Perhaps even for personal use. With its good number of authors and translators expressing different voices appealing to Goldman, Prayers & Readings is also a kind of proto-Open Siddur. However, unlike the Open Siddur, Goldman only provides acknowledgement of the various authors and translators in his preface, and we are left uncertain as to which works should actually be attributed to each contributor. If you can tell which of the listed authors and translators contributed what, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .

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Shabbat Siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Chicago, Conservative Jewry, Early Reconstructionist, North American Jewry

Contributor(s):

Solomon Goldman and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 תְּפִלּוֹת וּזְמִרוֹת לִכְבוֹד שַׁבָּת | Sabbath Eve Services and Hymns, a Friday night prayerbook compiled and arranged by Rabbi Sidney Guthman and Robert Segal (1944)

A Friday night siddur compiled by two Conservative movement rabbis for use in traditional leaning congregations familiar with Reform movement arrangements. Besides containing four alternative services for Friday nights, the prayerbook also contains extensive musical notation for congregational participation in singing liturgical melodies and hymns. . . .

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Shabbat Siddurim

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., North American Jewry

Contributor(s):

Sidney S. Guthman, Robert H. Segal and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 ספר תפילות לשבת | Sabbath Prayer Book, by the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation (1945)

Arranged and translated by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the Sabbath Prayer Book is the first Reconstructionist prayerbook we know of to have entered the Public Domain. . . .

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Shabbat Siddurim

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Burnt Books, Early Reconstructionist, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, North America, North American Jewry, Nusḥaot l'Yahadut Mitkhadeshet, Reconstructionist Jewry, Siddurim for Shabbat

Contributor(s):

Mordecai Kaplan, Eugene Kohn, Ira Eisenstein, Milton Steinberg, Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 סדר תפלות ישראל (אשכנז)‏ | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book, compiled by the Rabbinical Assembly & United Synagogue of America (1946)

The Rabbinical Assembly of America’s popular mid-20th century modern prayerbook for Conservative American Jewry based upon the work of Rabbi Morris Silverman. . . .

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Maḥzorim for Pesaḥ, Maḥzorim for Shavuot, Maḥzorim for Sukkot, Shabbat Siddurim, Maḥzorim for Shemini Atseret

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Conservative Jewry, Conservative Judaism, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, North America, North American Jewry, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Nusaḥ Masorti, Rabbinical Assembly of America, United Synagogue of America

Contributor(s):

Morris Silverman, Robert Gordis, the Rabbinical Assembly of America, United Synagogue of America and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 תפלת מנחה לשבת | Shabbat Minḥah Prayers, a prayer-pamphlet by Dr. Jakob J. Petuchowski (1966)

This prayer-leaflet was primarily intended for a group of Hebrew Union College students who met every sabbath afternoon for extra-curricular (noncredit) Torah study with Rabbi Dr. Jakob Petuchowki in the mid-1960s. Their service was conducted entirely in Hebrew and in the traditional nusaḥ with some minor but interesting Liberal innovations. Petuchowki writes, “We have omitted only the various repetitions as well as the prayer for the restoration of the sacrificial service. (But we have retained the place of Zion as the symbol of the messianic hope.) In the ‘Alenu prayer, we have preferred a positive formulation of the “Election of Israel” to the traditional negative one.” . . .

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Shabbat Siddurim

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cincinnati, HUC-JIR, Needing Decompilation, North American Jewry, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Reform Jewry, Reform Movement, Siddurim for Shabbat

Contributor(s):

Jakob Petuchowski (translation) and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Shabbat Siddurim

📖 תפלות ישראל לשבת ושלוש רגלים (אשכנז)‏ | Tefilot Yisrael l’Shabbat v’Shalosh Regalim — Prayers of Israel vol. 2: For the Sabbath and the Festivals, arranged and edited by Rabbi Jacob Bosniak (third revised edition, 1937)

📖 תפלות ושירים | Songs of My People, compiled and edited by Harry Coopersmith (1938)

📖 תפלות ושירים | Prayers & Readings, selected and arranged by Rabbi Solomon Goldman (1938)

📖 תְּפִלּוֹת וּזְמִרוֹת לִכְבוֹד שַׁבָּת | Sabbath Eve Services and Hymns, a Friday night prayerbook compiled and arranged by Rabbi Sidney Guthman and Robert Segal (1944)

📖 ספר תפילות לשבת | Sabbath Prayer Book, by the Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation (1945)

📖 סדר תפלות ישראל (אשכנז)‏ | Seder Tefilot Yisrael: Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book, compiled by the Rabbinical Assembly & United Synagogue of America (1946)

📖 תפלת מנחה לשבת | Shabbat Minḥah Prayers, a prayer-pamphlet by Dr. Jakob J. Petuchowski (1966)