High Holiday Prayer Book by Rabbi Morris Silverman - 1947: Rosh Hashanah, New Years Day, Yom Kippur, Day Of Atonement With A New Translation And Explanatory Notes, Together With Supplementary Prayers, Meditations And Readings In Prose And Verse

Like most machzorim, the Silverman primarily consists of the liturgy itself, in Hebrew on the right and in English translation on the left. Occasionally editorial commentary is inserted in the form of notes or footnotes. And occasionally passages from the Hebrew are left untranslated.

I'm sure there's a lot to be said about the choices of what to include and not to include in the liturgy and particular translation choices that lie far beyond my extraordinarily limited Hebrew (and my basically non-existent Aramaic). But in this post I just want to point to a few things in the Silverman that strike me as interesting and potentially suggestive of larger questions in American Jewish culture.