Seckel Isaac Fränkel
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Seckel Isaac Fränkel (1765–1835) was a German-Jewish communal activist and scholar. In 1818, when the new Hamburg Temple was formally inaugurated, Fränkel, with Meyer Israel Bresselau, published a new siddur (prayer book) for the Temple, considered the first Reform liturgy. The siddur was known as "Seder ha-'Abodah, Minhag Ḳehal Bayit Ḥadash" ("Ordnung der Oeffentlichen Andacht für die Sabbath und Festtage des Ganzen Jahres, nach dem Gebrauche des Neuen Tempel-Vereins") and was written in both Hebrew and German. The reading began from left to right and the Hebrew pronunciation was Sephardi.[1][2]
He was also translated most of the Jewish apocrypha from Greek into Hebrew (1830).
Works
- כתובים אחרונים ("Later Scriptures") Ketuvim aḥaronim: ha-noda`im be-shem Apoḳrifa asher lo nod`u... (Latin: Hagiographa posteriora: denominata Apocrypha, hactenus Israelitis ignota, nunc autem e textu Gracco in linguam Hebraicam convertit atque in lucem emisit Seckel Isaac Fraenkel), Leipzig, 1830
Further reading
Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Fränkel, Seckel Isaac". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
