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The Historic High Holy Day Prayer Books of the National Library of Israel
From medieval Worms to colonial New York.
In the absence of sacrificial goats, the observance of Yom Kippur today consists mainly of fasting and the recitation of the day’s long and intricate liturgy, which, along with that for Rosh Hashanah, is usually found in a special prayerbook called a mahzor. The writer David Geffen describes some of the outstanding mahzorim found at the National Library of Israel, including one published in New York in 1760. The oldest is known somewhat misleadingly as the Worms mahzor:
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