Seckel Isaac Fränkel (1765–1835) was a German-Jewish communal activist and scholar. In 1818, when the new

Hamburg Temple The Hamburg Temple (german: link=no, Israelitischer Tempel) was the first permanent Reform synagogue and the first ever to have a Reform prayer rite. It operated in Hamburg (Germany) from 1818 to 1938. On 18 October 1818 the Temple was inaugurated ...

was formally inaugurated, Fränkel, with

Meyer Israel Bresselau Meyer Israel Bresselau (25 April 1785 – 25 December 1839) was a founding member and chairman of the Hamburg Temple, one of the first Jewish reform congregations in Germany. Bresselau earned his living as notary from 1811. He was among the firs ...

, published a new prayer book for the Temple, considered the first

Reform Reform ( lat, reformo) means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The use of the word in this way emerges in the late 18th century and is believed to originate from Christopher Wyvill#The Yorkshire Associati ...

liturgy.Michael A. Meyer, ''Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism'', 1995, p. 54: "Two members of the directorate, Seckel Isaac Frankel (1765-1835) and

(1785–1839), devoted themselves to the cause of the new association with particular intensity." He was also translated most of the

Jewish apocrypha The Jewish apocrypha () are books written in large part by Jews, especially during the Second Temple period, not accepted as sacred manuscripts when the Hebrew Bible was canonized. Some of these books are considered sacred by most Christians, and ...

from

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into

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(1830).

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* 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

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1765 births 1835 deaths German Reform rabbis Bible translators Translators of Ancient Greek texts Translators to Hebrew {{Germany-rabbi-stub

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