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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In Hebrew and English. [2], 12, 12 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Worldcat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 5. This edition has no illustrations. Reform version. Hebrew and English texts on facing pages. pp.(6), ff. 2-12. Yudlov 850; Yaari 619. The first reform Haggadah. "Reform Judaism began in Germany in the early nineteenth century, and the first Reform prayer book appeared in Hamburg in 1818. However, the first separate edition of a Reform Haggadah did not appear until 1842 and was published, not in Germany, but in England. In the late 1830s some members of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation in London came into conflict with the communal leaders over the issue of reforms in the service. After several unsuccessful attempts at compromise, in 1840 the group formed an independent Reform congregation known as the West London Synagogue of British Jews. Their first prayer book was published in 1841; their Haggadah, offered here, was printed the following year." It calls for one cup of wine instead of four and one seder night instead of two. (Yerushalmi plate 96).