- Title Pages
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Prefatory Note
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
-
3 Cincinnati (1854–1900) -
1. Queen City of the West -
2. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun -
3. The Israelite -
4. Zion College -
5. Conference—Union—;Synod -
6. David Einhorn -
7. Cleveland Platform: Quick Victory—Lengthy War -
8. Minhag America -
9. The Essence of Judaism -
10. Fighting for Jewish Rights -
11. Political Diversions -
12. The Civil War -
13. At North College Hill -
14. First Fruits in Cincinnati -
15. Wider Ambitions -
16. Among the Gentiles (1867–1878) -
17. Years of Sorrow and Strife (1869–1874) -
18. Flirting with the Orthodox -
19. Reformers in Conflict: East versus West (1869) -
20. Establishing the Union (1871–1873) -
21. Call to New York (1873) -
22. ‘We must have “Union in Israel’” -
23. President of Hebrew Union College - Bibliographical Note
- Glossary
- Index
- Plates
Minhag America
Minhag America
- Chapter:
- 8. Minhag America
- Source:
- Creating American Reform Judaism
- Author(s):
Sefton D. Temkin
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter examines Isaac Mayer Wise’s Minhag America prayer-book. This book was used by many congregations in the United States until, nearly forty years after it first appeared, Wise withdrew it in favour of the Union Prayer Book. Minhag America can be described as the most important among Wise’s many books. History and theology interested a limited few; the market for Jewish literature was thin; but a prayer-book was a minimum necessity. Aided by Wise’s promotion, Minhag America attained a certain vogue and therefore came into the hands of a larger number of people. It was a practical embodiment of his quest for unity among the Jews of America. Though described as a collective enterprise (‘By the committee of the Cleveland Conference’), it was regarded as Wise’s very own child. He advanced its claims without inhibition, and attempts to supersede it aroused his protective instincts.
Keywords: Minhag America, prayer-book, American congregations, Jewish unity, Union Prayer Book, Cleveland Conference, American Jewry
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- Title Pages
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Prefatory Note
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
-
3 Cincinnati (1854–1900) -
1. Queen City of the West -
2. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun -
3. The Israelite -
4. Zion College -
5. Conference—Union—;Synod -
6. David Einhorn -
7. Cleveland Platform: Quick Victory—Lengthy War -
8. Minhag America -
9. The Essence of Judaism -
10. Fighting for Jewish Rights -
11. Political Diversions -
12. The Civil War -
13. At North College Hill -
14. First Fruits in Cincinnati -
15. Wider Ambitions -
16. Among the Gentiles (1867–1878) -
17. Years of Sorrow and Strife (1869–1874) -
18. Flirting with the Orthodox -
19. Reformers in Conflict: East versus West (1869) -
20. Establishing the Union (1871–1873) -
21. Call to New York (1873) -
22. ‘We must have “Union in Israel’” -
23. President of Hebrew Union College - Bibliographical Note
- Glossary
- Index
- Plates
