(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

by The Editor

Philadelphia

1873

Avodath Yisrael - Israelitish Prayer Book for all the Public Services of the Year. Originally Arranged by Rev. Dr. Benjamin Szold. Second edition (Hebrew and German). Revised by Rev. Drs. M. Jastrow and H. Hochheimer. Hebrew and English Edition…by M. Jastrow.

Singerman 2399; Goldman 61.

“Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s prayerbook in German and Hebrew first published in 1864 was relatively conservative in its approach to reforming the liturgy - certainly by comparison with the work of Einhorn, Wise, or Merzbacher. Later Szold issued a second edition, this time in English and Hebrew, with his own translation, further revised by Marcus Jastrow, the rabbi at Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, who also made some retranslations and H. Hochheimer, the rabbi at Oheb Israel in Baltimore. Known henceforth as “Jastrow-Szold” or “Szold-Jastrow,” it was embraced by reform-bound congregations of a cautious bent that were less ready than others for more thoroughgoing revisions.” N.W. Levi, Jewish Voices in the New World: The Song of Prayer in Colonial and 19th-Century America (www.milkenarchive.org).