The first edition of the first Reform mahzor printed in America.

Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), leader of nineteenth-century American Reform Jewry, issued his Minhag America daily and Sabbath prayer book in 1857 to great acclaim. He then followed up on this success with two Reform High Holiday mahzorim in 1866, including Hebrew text with English translation, as well as German and English hymns. The present lot is the first edition of Wise’s Rosh Hashanah mahzor, from which passages relating to a personal messiah, the priesthood, and a return to and restoration of a political Israel have been 🦋omitted, consistent with contemporary Reform the🧔ology.