Were Our Mouths Filled with Song: Studies in Liberal Jewish Liturgy

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In an introductory essay, Eric Friedland provides an overview of Jewish worship since the period of its standardization, illustrating that there was hardly a time when the liturgy was not somehow in a state of flux. The seventeen chapters that follow explore a goodly number of the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of themselves, their place in society, and their sancta. In the tradition of ...
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In an introductory essay, Eric Friedland provides an overview of Jewish worship since the period of its standardization, illustrating that there was hardly a time when the liturgy was not somehow in a state of flux. The seventeen chapters that follow explore a goodly number of the countless ways that the Siddur, Mahzor, and Haggadah have been adjusted, amplified, or transformed so as to faithfully mirror modern Jews' understanding of themselves, their place in society, and their sancta. In the tradition of liturgiologists such as Elbogen, Idelsohn, and Petuchowski, Friedland focuses on latter-day adaptations of the Prayerbook, giving proper recognition to more recent exertions on behalf of intellectual integrity, cultural congruity, group and individual self-redefinition, and honest speech in Jewish prayer.
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Preface
Introduction: Jewish Worship Since the Time of its Standardization 1
Ch. 1 David Einhorn and Olath Tamid 17
Ch. 2 Isaac Mayer Wise and Minhag Amerika 50
Ch. 3 Marcus Jastrow and Abodath Israel 55
Ch. 4 Hebrew Liturgical Creativity in Nineteenth-Century America 70
Ch. 5 Hebrew Liturgical Creativity in British Reform 89
Ch. 6 Leo Merzbacher and an Unusual Eyn k-Eloheynu 137
Ch. 7 The Yom Kippur Yizkor Service in the American Mahzor 146
Ch. 8 The American Reform High Holy Day Liturgy: Historical Notes 185
Ch. 9 The Mahzor Twice Recycled: High Holy Day Liturgy in Great Britain and Israel 202
Ch. 10 Gates of Prayer in Historical-Critical Perspective 227
Ch. 11 Kol Haneshamah: "Let Every Living Thing Yah's Praises Sing": Reconstructionist Rites of the 1990s 244
Ch. 12 Ha-Avodah sheba-Lev (1982): A Siddur from Zion 259
Ch. 13 Sephardic Influences on Non-Orthodox American Liturgy 269
Ch. 14 Mystical Influences on Jewish Liturgical Renewal 278
Ch. 15 Messianism in the Progressive Passover Haggadah 294
Ch. 16 "O God of Vengeance, Appear!": Neqamah in the Siddur 317
Ch. 17 Tish'ah be-Av Services: A Recommendation 326
Bibliography 333
Index of Prayers, Piyyutim, and Hymns Cited 353
Index or Persons Cited 361
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