📖 Liberal Jewish Prayer Book vol. Ⅱ: Services for the Day of Memorial (Rosh haShanah) and the Day of Atonement (Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London 1923)

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Excerpt: Liberal Jewish Prayer Book vol. Ⅱ: Services for the Day of Memorial (Rosh haShanah) and the Day of Atonement (1926) was the communal maḥzor of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue (London) for the High Holy Days. . . .

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Liberal Jewish Prayer Book vol. Ⅱ: Services for the Day of Memorial (Rosh haShanah) and the Day of Atonement (1926) was the communal maḥzor of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue (London) for the High Holy Days.

This work is in the Public Domain due to the expiration of the term of copyright for the copyright holder listed in the copyright notice (ninety-five years having passed since its publication).

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PREFACE.

These Services have, in their form and order, been largely‏ modelled on the Union Prayer Book (published by the‏ Central Conference of American Rabbis), which up to‏ now has been used by our Congregation for the services‏ during the High Holy Days. Some of the prayers and‏ hymns, and almost all of the Memorial Service, have been‏ taken from that book, and our thanks are due to the‏ Central Conference of American Rabbis, who, through‏ their executive officers, gave us permission to do this.‏ Thanks are also due to the Jewish Publication Society‏ of America for permission to use the hymn on page 121;‏ to the Trustees of the Arthur Davis Memorial Fund for‏ permission to use some of the translations in Service‏ of the Synagogue; to the West London Synagogue of‏ British Jews for the prayers adapted from their Prayer‏ Book; and to Mrs. Alice Lucas for the poems on pages 172‏ and 212 taken from her Jewish Year. What has been‏ taken or adapted from these sources is set out in detail in‏ the Appendix. The traditional Ashkenazi and Sephardi‏ prayer books, and the Bible (Revised Version), have‏ contributed the larger portions of nearly all the Services.‏ The Appendix shows the source of each prayer, or group‏ of prayers, except those Bible passages whose several‏ sources are indicated in the text. Many of the prayers‏ are new, having been specially written for these‏ services; they are indicated in the Appendix.‏

The English that accompanies the Hebrew prayers contains, in most cases, a paraphrase—not a translation—of the Hebrew. Sometimes it also enlarges the meaning of a Hebrew phrase or sentence.

Circumstances have necessitated the publication of Volume Ⅱ,.—that is this book—of our Services before Volume Ⅰ. That volume, will, it is hoped, be published soon. It will contain the Services for the Sabbath, the Festivals, and for other occasions; also an introduction to the Prayer Book, explaining the principles and ideas which guided its compilation.

London, July, 1923.

 

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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
  Bio: Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.
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  Name: Israel Mattuck
  Bio: Rabbi Israel Isidore Mattuck (1884–1954) was a leader of the Liberal (Reform movement) in the United Kingfom. Born in Lithuania, he came as a child to the United States with his family and grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard University, he was ordained at the Hebrew Union College in 1910 having only spent two years in residence. He held a pulpit in Far Rockaway, New York, for a year and then went to England to serve a young congregation, the Liberal Synagogue in London. He served as senior minister for 36 years and then after 1947 was minister emeritus. Under his leadership the synagogue grew into one of the largest synagogues in London. The building that he helped build was bombed in World War II, but Mattuck lived to see it restored and rededicated. He was succeeded by his disciple and son-in-law Rabbi Leslie Edgar. He was a leading figure, perhaps the leading figure in English Liberal Jewry, its philosopher and its public face. He was known as one of the "Three Ms": Montagu, Montefiore, and Mattuck. He helped form the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues and helped establish the World Union for Progressive Judaism in 1926 and served as its first chairman from 1926 until his death. He was chairman of the Society of Jews and Christians. He compiled and edited the Liberal prayer book, first in three volumes in 1923–26 and in a revised edition in 1937. He is the author of several books: What Are the Jews (1939); The Essentials of Liberal Judaism (1947); Jewish Ethics (1953); and The Thought of the Prophets (1953). He also edited Aspects of Progressive Jewish Thought (1955), which was dedicated in honor of Leo Baeck's 80th birthday. It was published posthumously.
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  Name: Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London
  Bio: The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, or LJS (קהל קדוש לב חדש, Qahal Qadosh Lev Ḥadash), is a house of prayer in St John's Wood, London, founded in 1911. It is the oldest and largest member of Britain's Liberal Judaism, a constituent member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.
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