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Title

Jewish liturgy : a comprehensive history / by Ismar Elbogen ; translated by Raymond P. Scheindlin.

Author

Elbogen, Ismar, 1874-1943

Publication

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society ; New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, [1993]

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Publisher description

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Description

xxi, 501 pages; 27 cm

Summary

• The Jewish prayer book, the siddur, is the longest continuous record of the history, philosophy, literature, and ethos of the Jewish people. It has been read and reread in every generation, in every Jewish community. Now, for the first time, Ismar Elbogen's Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History, the most complete scholarly study of Jewish liturgy in existence today, is available to the English-speaking community. Originally published in German, the work was reissued in.
• An updated Hebrew version in 1972. It has now been masterfully translated from the German and the Hebrew by Raymond P. Scheindlin. Elbogen's analysis covers the entire range of Jewish liturgical development - beginning with the early cornerstones of the siddur, such as the Amidah, the Shema, and Ashrei, through the evolution of the medieval piyyut tradition, to modern prayerbook reform in Germany and the United States. The book traces the origins of present-day prayers
• Noting the many variants that arose within historical periods and different geographic communities. Elbogen includes generous citations from primary sources such as rabbinic texts, comparative historical documents, medieval commentators, and modern scholarship. The work is complemented by a study of the history of the synagogue as an institution; its functionaries, architecture, and music. Also included are full bibliographies and several useful indexes, among them an.
• Index of prayers in Hebrew and English. Elbogen's studies will prove invaluable to Jewish scholars because of the presentation of primary sources and variants, to interested laypersons because of his comprehensive overview and systematic format, and to Christian scholars because of his attention to parallel developments in Christian liturgy. Eighty years after its first appearance, Elbogen's magisterial work remains the most thorough academic study of the Jewish liturgy.
• Ever written. It is a monument to the historical and philological approach that characterized Jewish studies - and humanistic studies generally - in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Uniform Title

Jüdische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung. English

Alternative Title

Jüdische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung.

Subjects

• History
• Judaism > Liturgy > History

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Based on the original 1913 German edition and the 1972 Hebrew edition edited by Joseph Heinemann, et al."
• הכותר העברי: התפילה בישראל בהתפתחותה ההיסטורית.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-481) and indexes.

Audience (note)

• 1370L

Contents

PART ONE: DESCRIPTION OF THE JEWISH LITURGY -- Weekday prayers -- Prayers for special days -- Reading of the Torah and the sermon -- Poetic additions -- PART TWO: THE HISTORY OF JEWISH LITURGY -- Period of the statutory prayers -- Period of the Piyyut -- Modern period -- PART THREE: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE JEWISH LITURGY -- Synagogues -- Liturgical community -- Conduct of the service.

Call Number

BM660

ISBN

• 0827604459
• 9780827604452

LCCN

93018401

OCLC

27640594

Author

Elbogen, Ismar, 1874-1943, author.

Title

Jewish liturgy : a comprehensive history / by Ismar Elbogen ; translated by Raymond P. Scheindlin.

Publisher

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society ; New York : Jewish Theological Seminary of America, [1993]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-481) and indexes.

Audience

1370L Lexile

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Research Call Number

Desk-JWS BM660 .E513 1993