Publications
Hertz edited notable commentaries on the Torah (1929–36, one volume edition 1937) and the Jewish Prayer Book or Siddur (1946). He also contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Encyclopædia Britannica.
- Affirmations of Judaism, a collection of his sermons, was well regarded. He published a further three volumes of Sermons, Addresses, and Studies.
- A Book of Jewish Thoughts (1917), a selection of Jewish wisdom through the millennia, was immensely popular and ran to 25 editions.
- The Battle for the Sabbath at Geneva, an account of his work opposing calendar reform.
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