📖 Mediæval Hebrew Minstrelsy: Songs for the Bride Queen’s Feast, by Herbert Loewe (1926)

Mediæval Hebrew Minstrelsy: Songs for the Bride Queen’s Feast (1926), an anthology of Sabbath table songs with rhymed English translations by the compiler, Herbert Loewe as well as others identified in his “Introduction.” The sixteen zemirot included have commentaries based on those provided by Dr. Leo Hirschfeld in his בזמרות נריע לו Die häuslichen Sabbathgesänge für Freitag⸗Abend, Sabbath⸗Tag und Sabbath⸗Ausgang (1898). Musical notation for the zemirot melodies were prepared, and a chapter on the music was written, by Rose L. Henriques. There are also delightful illustrations throughout by Beatrice Hirschfeld. Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz provided the foreword.

Categories:

Hymn-Books & Religious poetry, Shabbat Siddurim

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English Translation, rhyming translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Herbert Loewe

📖 בזמרות נריע לו | Die häuslichen Sabbathgesänge für Freitag⸗Abend, Sabbath⸗Tag und Sabbath⸗Ausgang, by Dr. Leo Jehudah Hirschfeld (1898)

Birkonim (bentschers) with table songs sung on the Sabbath with accompanying translations are now commonplace, but they not always were. The first major collection with accompanying translations was Dr. Leo Hirschfeld’s בזמרות נריע לו Die häuslichen Sabbathgesänge für Freitag⸗Abend, Sabbath⸗Tag und Sabbath⸗Ausgang (1898), an anthology of Sabbath table songs organized according to their traditional feast (Sabbath night, day, and Sabbath afternoon) in the Ashkenazi tradition.

Categories:

Hymn-Books & Religious poetry, Shabbat Siddurim

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, German translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Leo Jehudah Hirschfeld and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)