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.Michael A. Meyer, The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European, p. 212, 1979: "Especially Bresselau, and Seckel Isaac Frankel, Schutzschrift des zu Hamburg erschienenen Israelitischen Gebetbuchs."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 Meyer Israel Bresselau (1785–1839), devoted themselves to the cause of the new association with particular intensity."
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
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