The Hamburg temple, with its prayer book, organ, and sermons in German, becomes the flagship of Reform Judaism; the controversy over its prayer book draws the lines between Reform and its Orthodox opponents.
Tagged: Jewish Reform Judaism
The Event
- Date
- 1819 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Hamburg; today Hamburg, Germany
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Reform Judaism
- Key figures
- Israel Jacobson
- Key texts
- Hamburg prayer book (1819)
Primary Sources
- Hamburg prayer book
Secondary Sources
- Meyer, Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism (Oxford, 1988)
Provenance: HIST-0124; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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