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Rare: Kol Nidrei and Hazkarat Neshamot, Reform nusach. Hannover 1937.

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Printed page on both sides, from the Hannover community synagogue (Synagogen Gemeinde Hannover) in Germany, with a non-traditional nusach of the Kol Nidrei and Yizkor prayer for Yom Kippur, in Hebrew and German translation. Probably attached to the community newsletter which was released in advance of the Tishrei chagim in 1937. [1] leaf. 30×21.8cm. Folding creases, overall good condition.
Background: in a Jewish-Christian polemical controversy of the time, Christians claimed that Jewish vows were worthless because of the Kol Nidrei prayer, so a Reform committee in Brunswick decided in 1844 to cancel the Kol Nidrei prayer. Members of the Reform movement itself considered the prayer to be important and its melody was very familiar and fixed in the public consciousness, so their rabbis released a number of alternate versions using the traditional melody. The most common alternative was published in 1899, and opens with the words “Kol Nidrei”: “All the vows of the children of Israel which they swear to you … all will go up and come and arrive and see before you.” The uniform siddur of the Reform movement in the US reintroduced the traditional nusach in 1978, and has since been slowly reintroduced to most Reform communities in Europe.

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