SEDER HAGADAH SHEL PESAH. PESSACH-HAGADA; ODER, KURZGEFASSTE ERZÄHLUNG VON DEN SHICKSALEN DER VORFAHREN ISRAELS, UND VON DEREN AUSZUG AUS EGYPTEN, ZUM GEBRAUCHE DER BEIDEN ERSTEN ABENDE DES MAZOT-FESTES. NEBST EINEM ANHANGE, EINE FREIE BEARB. DER HAGADA, UND VIELE IN MUSIK GESETZTEN LIEDER ENTHALTEND. HAGADA, ODER ERZÄHLUNG VOM AUSZUGE AUS AEGYPTEN DEUTSCH BEARB. UND MIT NEUEN LIEDERN VERMEHRT VON LEOPOLD STEIN: סדר הגדה של פסח

Frankfurt am Main: J.S. Adler, 1841. 1st edition. Original yellow printed publisher's boards, 8vo, 74 + 36 pages. Includes three sheets of musical scores, two fold-outs ; 22 cm. In Hebrew and German on opposite pages. Includes three title pages: one Hebrew title page as well as two differently worded German title pages on each side of the book (the "Hebrew" side and the "German" side). Hebrew and German on opposite pages.
The first Hagadah with Reform elements. Yudlov 854. According to Yerushalmi (pl. 96), the earliest Reform Hagadah was published in 1842 "not in Germany but in England." Clearly this Hagadah was unknown to him.
Leopold Stein (1810-82) was Rabbi of Burgkunstadt (Franconia) who accepted the call to lead Frankfurt's Reform Community in 1843. In addition to the traditional text, the Hagadah Stein prepared here also contains an abbreviated German-language "New Hagadah" ("Eine freie Bearbeitung der Hagada") with freshly composed songs. This was essentially a modern dramatized account of the Seder-service featuring women's voices providing a female perspective of the reported events. In regard to how Stein's Hagadah reflects 19th-century sensibilities concerning contemporary political and social issues - including the role of women within the family, see B.M. Baader, Gender, Judaism and Bourgeois Culture in Germany (2006) pp. 129-31. SUBJECT(S): Haggadot -- Texts. Seder -- Liturgy -- Judaism -- Haggadot -- Textes. Judai¨sme -- Liturgie -- Textes. OCLC: 27234602
German manuscript corrections. Endpapers with Yiddish manuscript comments to the Seder service. Worn and stained in places, fold-out musical sheet torn and detached (but present). Spine rebacked. Good Condition. (Hag-12-11).