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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ivan G. Marcus (translation) and Eleazar ben Yehudah ben Ḳalonymus of Worms
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Mourning
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12th century C.E., Alphabetic Acrostic, 49th century A.M., Acrostic signature, Ḥasidei Ashkenaz, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, elegy, firzogerin
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This an an untitled piyyut by Eleazer of Worms, eulogizing his beloved wife Dulcea (Heb: דולצא, also, Dulcia and Dolce). The Hebrew text is derived from the transcription offered by Israel Kamelhar inRabbenu Eleazar mi-Germaiza, ha-Roqeah (Rzeazow, 1930), pp. 17-19. The translation and annotation come from Dr. Ivan G. Marcus from his article, “Mothers, Martyrs, and Moneymakers: Some Jewish Women in Medieval Europe” in Conservative Judaism, vol. 38(3), Spring 1986. . . . |
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Richard Collis
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Shabbat Siddurim
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Russian translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Nusaḥ Ashkenaz
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In 2019, Richard Collis released an album providing recordings of the prayers for the Shabbat Morning Services, from Nishmat til the end of Musaf, We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers. Accompanying liner notes included the romanized Hebrew text for each recorded prayer track, with an original translation in English below each sung phrase. Describing it he wrote, “The 64 track music CD album set We Sing We Stay Together of the Shabbat Morning Service Prayers, and a companion Sing-Along Prayer Book of the same name (to make it beyond easy to learn) is designed to help everyone access the beauty of their Judaic heritage, no prior knowledge required. These prayers belong to all of us.” In 2022, Collis released a follow-up edition with translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian. This is Richard Collis’s sing-a-long prayerbook for Shabbat morning in Russian. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Nirtsah
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24th century C.E., חד גדיא Ḥad Gadya, constructed languages, זמירות zemirot, Valyrian translation, Aramaic, Nirtsah, פיוטים piyyutim, Song of Ice and Fire, predation, Game of Thrones, salvation, 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M.
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This is the translation of Ḥad Gadya into Judeo-Valyrian with a Hebraicization schema for Valyrian by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . . |
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Richard Collis
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Shabbat Siddurim
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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., German translation, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz
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In 2019, Richard Collis released an album providing recordings of the prayers for the Shabbat Morning Services, from Nishmat til the end of Musaf, We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers. Accompanying liner notes included the romanized Hebrew text for each recorded prayer track, with an original translation in English below each sung phrase. Describing it he wrote, “The 64 track music CD album set We Sing We Stay Together of the Shabbat Morning Service Prayers, and a companion Sing-Along Prayer Book of the same name (to make it beyond easy to learn) is designed to help everyone access the beauty of their Judaic heritage, no prior knowledge required. These prayers belong to all of us.” In 2022, Collis released a follow-up edition with translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian. This is Richard Collis’s sing-a-long prayerbook for Shabbat morning in German. . . . |
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Richard Collis
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Shabbat Siddurim
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Portuguese translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Nusaḥ Ashkenaz
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In 2019, Richard Collis released an album providing recordings of the prayers for the Shabbat Morning Services, from Nishmat til the end of Musaf, We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers. Accompanying liner notes included the romanized Hebrew text for each recorded prayer track, with an original translation in English below each sung phrase. Describing it he wrote, “The 64 track music CD album set We Sing We Stay Together of the Shabbat Morning Service Prayers, and a companion Sing-Along Prayer Book of the same name (to make it beyond easy to learn) is designed to help everyone access the beauty of their Judaic heritage, no prior knowledge required. These prayers belong to all of us.” In 2022, Collis released a follow-up edition with translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian. This is Richard Collis’s sing-a-long prayerbook for Shabbat morning in Portuguese. . . . |
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Richard Collis
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Shabbat Siddurim
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21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., French translation, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz
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In 2019, Richard Collis released an album providing recordings of the prayers for the Shabbat Morning Services, from Nishmat til the end of Musaf, We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers. Accompanying liner notes included the romanized Hebrew text for each recorded prayer track, with an original translation in English below each sung phrase. Describing it he wrote, “The 64 track music CD album set We Sing We Stay Together of the Shabbat Morning Service Prayers, and a companion Sing-Along Prayer Book of the same name (to make it beyond easy to learn) is designed to help everyone access the beauty of their Judaic heritage, no prior knowledge required. These prayers belong to all of us.” In 2022, Collis released a follow-up edition with translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian. This is Richard Collis’s sing-a-long prayerbook for Shabbat morning in French. . . . |
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Richard Collis
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Shabbat Siddurim
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Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Spanish Translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
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In 2019, Richard Collis released an album providing recordings of the prayers for the Shabbat Morning Services, from Nishmat til the end of Musaf, We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers. Accompanying liner notes included the romanized Hebrew text for each recorded prayer track, with an original translation in English below each sung phrase. Describing it he wrote, “The 64 track music CD album set We Sing We Stay Together of the Shabbat Morning Service Prayers, and a companion Sing-Along Prayer Book of the same name (to make it beyond easy to learn) is designed to help everyone access the beauty of their Judaic heritage, no prior knowledge required. These prayers belong to all of us.” In 2022, Collis released a follow-up edition with translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian. This is Richard Collis’s sing-a-long prayerbook for Shabbat morning in Spanish. . . . |
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Richard Collis
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Shabbat Siddurim
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English Translation, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Nusaḥ Ashkenaz
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In 2019, Richard Collis released an album providing recordings of the prayers for the Shabbat Morning Services, from Nishmat til the end of Musaf, We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers. Accompanying liner notes included the romanized Hebrew text for each recorded prayer track, with an original translation in English below each sung phrase. Describing it he wrote, “The 64 track music CD album set We Sing We Stay Together of the Shabbat Morning Service Prayers, and a companion Sing-Along Prayer Book of the same name (to make it beyond easy to learn) is designed to help everyone access the beauty of their Judaic heritage, no prior knowledge required. These prayers belong to all of us.” In 2022, Collis released a follow-up edition with translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian. This is Richard Collis’s sing-a-long prayerbook for Shabbat morning in English. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), David Stromberg (translation) and Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Congregation & Community, Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av
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58th century A.M., Three Weeks of Mourning, אהבת ישראל loving Yisrael, paraliturgical ribon haOlamim, 20th century C.E., Needing Proofreading
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This untitled prayer written by Isaac Bashevis Singer on the back of a receipt (dated 1 March 1952) was discovered by David Stromberg in 2014 in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and published online by Tablet (1, 2) with permission of the Susan Schulman Literary Agency. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Felix Adler
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Learning, Study, and School
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57th century A.M., children's prayers, English vernacular prayer, hymns, 19th century C.E., Ethical Humanism, universalist
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“Task of the Ages” is a short hymn by Felix Adler, first published in The Ethical Record vol. 1, no. 1. (April 1888), sheet music pages 2-3. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Felix Adler
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Learning, Study, and School
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universalist, 57th century A.M., children's prayers, child mortality, English vernacular prayer, hymns, 19th century C.E., Ethical Humanism
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“The Children’s Song” is a hymn by Felix Adler, first published in The Ethical Record vol. 1, no. 1. (April 1888), sheet music page 5. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Felix Adler
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Learning, Study, and School
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English vernacular prayer, children's education, hymns, 19th century C.E., Ethical Humanism, universalist, 57th century A.M., children's prayers, English poetry
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“Morning Song [splendor of the morning sunlight]” is a hymn by Felix Adler, published in The Sabbath School Hymnal, a collection of songs, services and responses for Jewish Sabbath schools, and homes (4th rev. ed., 1897), hymn no. 23. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Felix Adler
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Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness
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Ethical Humanism, universalist, 57th century A.M., English poetry, English vernacular prayer, צדקה tsedaqah, hymns, 19th century C.E.
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“Charity” is a hymn by Felix Adler, first published in The Ethical Record vol. 1, no. 1. (April 1888), sheet music page 4. For an account of this hymn being sung, find The Journal of Industrial Education, “Autumn Festival of the Workingman’s School. Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1889.” vol. 4, no. 9 (May 1890). . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais
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Homes & Community Centers
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57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, צדקה tsedaqah, dedications and consecrations, prayers for fund-raising, 19th century C.E.
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This prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais on the second anniversary of the founding of the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia was offered in opening to an address “before the Jewish Foster Home Society, February 10, 1857” and recorded in The Asmonean on 20 February 1857. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (page 9, clipping 008), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. A note next to the clipping reads, “Isaac Leeser took exception at this lecture and became abusive.” (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Nina Davis Salaman (translation) and Heinrich Heine
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Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av
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19th century C.E., English Translation, קינות Ḳinnot, 56th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, rhyming translation
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“Brich aus in lauten Klagen” by Heinrich Heine was preserved in a letter he wrote to his friend Moses Moser dated 25 October 1824. The poem is included in Heinrich Heine’s Letters on The Rabbi of Bacharach, the manuscript of which only survived in a fragment, the rest having been lost, according to Heine, in a fire. The English translation here by Nina Salaman was transcribed from her anthology, Apples & Honey (1921) where it appears under the title of “Martyr-Song,” published at an earlier date in The Jewish Chronicle. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Mayer Wise and Leopold Stein
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Yom Kippur
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Classical Reform, paraliturgical kol nidrei, O Tag des Herrn, 19th century C.E., English Translation, 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, English vernacular prayer
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One of the most revolutionary alterations made by the early Reform movement in Germany was their replacement of Kol Nidre with a German hymn, sung to the same melody: O Tag des Herrn. But when the early Reformers came to the United States, they adopted a new language, English. In 1866, the American Reform Jewish community was largely bilingual in German and English, and Isaac Mayer (No Relation) Wise’s 1866 service for the Day of Atonement took account for that, including a singable English translation of the singable German replacement for Kol Nidre. I have also included a musical score which uses I. M. Wise’s English text in Louis Lewandowsky’s original setting of O Tag des Herrn. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais
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United States of America
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Assassination of James A. Garfield, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Chester A. Arthur
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This prayer for the government by Rabbi Sabato Morais, preserved in an undated newspaper clipping from an unknown newspaper, was offered on Thanksgiving Day (24 November) in 1881. It was preserved by Rabbi Sabato Morais in his ledger (p. 234, clipping 414), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) We were able to date the prayer from the context offered by surrounding clippings that detailed the circumstances in which the prayer was given. Another clipping provided an outline of the sixty-first annual meeting of the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society (founded 1820, thus giving the date of 1881). With that date likely, references to activities in surrounding clippings began to make sense, especially the attention given to the relief work that year of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in eastern Europe. The Kiev pogrom of 1881 began during the spring that year. In the prayer itself, the year 1881 provides the necessary context for understanding Rabbi Morais’s references to the “hour of peril” and “the stability of the government” — the mortal injury to President James A. Garfield shot that summer and who died that fall. When this prayer was offered, Chester A. Arthur, was president of the United States. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais
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Man-made Disasters
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19th century C.E., Boston, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers for municipalities, Great Boston Fire of 1872
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This prayer offered by Rabbi Sabato Morais in response to what became known as the Great Boston Fire of 1872, was recorded in an article in Philaedlphia’s Evening Telegraph, “Boston’s Fire. A Prayer by a Hebrew Minster,” reprinted from the Boston Transcript. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (p. 234, clipping 406), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais
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United States of America
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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, thanksgiving
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This Thanksgiving Day prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais was offered at the conclusion of a “The Watchfulness of Providence over Nations. A Thanksgiving Address delivered by the Rev. S. Morais, Minister of the Portuguese Synagogue, of Philadelphia, on the 20th November, 1856.” and recorded in The Asmonean (on 28 November 1856. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (page 8, clipping 007), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. A note next to the clipping reads, “His lecture aimed to oppose knownothingism (???) antagonism indirectly shown.” (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and James Koppel Gutheim
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United States of America
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dedications and consecrations, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), Alabama, Confederate States of America, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers
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This civic prayer, recorded by an unknown Montgomery, Alabama newspaper on 16 May 1862, was offered at the dedication of the new Ḳahl Montgomery synagogue building, by Rabbi James Koppel Gutheim. The newspaper clipping, found in the I. Solomon Collection in the manuscript department of Duke University Library, was transcribed by Dr. Bertram W. Korn for his article, “The Jews of the Confederacy,” American Jewish Archives vol. 13, no. 1 (Apr 1961), on pages 40-42. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais
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Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), War, United States of America
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United States, 57th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, English vernacular prayer, Prayers for leaders, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), 19th century C.E.
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This prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais (1828-1897), of Congregation Mikveh Israel in Philadelphia, was authored sometime before 13 May 1862 (the date acknowledged in a letter by its recipient, President Abraham Lincoln). The letter was read into the congressional record on 29 February 1944 by Arthur G. Klein (1904-1968, D-NY) after it was brought to light by Moshe Davis at the 44th annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society on 12-13 February 1944 (Lincoln’s Birthday). . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Maximilian Joseph Michelbacher
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War, United States of America, Military Personnel & Veterans
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Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), Confederate States of America, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers
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This “Prayer for of the C.S. Soldiers” was written by Max Michelbacher of Congregation Beth Ahabah, Richmond, Virginia, and distributed to Jewish soldiers in the Confederate armed forces during the Slaveholders’ Rebellion (1861-1865). While this prayer is undated, we have tentatively given the date ca. 1861 given the proximity of Richmond, Virginia to the First Battle of Bull Run. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais
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War, United States of America
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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Philadelphia, English vernacular prayer, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), Ḳahal Ḳadosh Mikveh Israel
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This prayer by Rabbi Sabato Morais was offered on the day decreed by President Abraham Lincoln for “public humiliation, prayer and fasting” (26 September 1861) as recorded in an “Address. Delivered by the Rev. S. Morais, Minister of the Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, on the National ‘Fast Day.'” published in The Jewish Messenger on 4 October 1861. It was preserved by Rabbi Morais in his ledger (page 21, clipping 022), an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. The annotation accompanying the clipping reads, “at the breaking out of the unfortunate Civil War.” (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Morris Jacob Raphall
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United States of America
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Prayers of Guest Chaplains, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), 36th Congress, 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, House of Representatives
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This is the text of the Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall’s prayer offered before the U.S. House of Representatives as recorded in the Congressional Globe, (part 1, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1859-1860) pp. 648-649, and reprinted in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, 18:46 9 Feb 1860, pp. 275-276. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) and Yanai haPayetan
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Shivah Asar b'Tamuz, Tishah b'Av, Asarah b'Tevet
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Acrostic translation, קינות Ḳinnot, Cairo Geniza, Mourning this Broken World, First Shabbat of Admonition, Shabbatot of Admonition, Three Weeks of Mourning, 6th century C.E., 43rd century A.M., Yetsiat Mitsrayim, Ḥurban, Siege of Jerusalem (597 BCE), Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE), alphabetic mesostic, פיוטים piyyutim
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The works of the great paytan Yannai were, with the exception of a small handful of poems, almost completely lost until their rediscovery in the Cairo Geniza. This poem, an acrostic comparison of the days of Moses and Jeremiah, was written by Yannai to serve as part of the Musaf Ḳedushah on the first Shabbat after 17 Tammuz, on which the opening section of Jeremiah is recited. It bears structural and linguistic similarities to the later famous ḳinah Esh Tuqad. In its liturgical context, it was intended to introduce the final few verses of the Ḳedushah . Nowadays the custom of poetic inserts into the ḳedushah is nearly extinct, but the poem stands as a moving and powerful work nonetheless. . . . |
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