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2025 📅 Resources published in 2025 Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A bilingual Yiddish-English anthology of teḥinot containing 21 prayers compiled and translated by Rabbi Solomon Rubinstein soon after A bilingual, nusaḥ Sefaradi, Hebrew-Bulgarian prayerbook compiled by Rabbi Daniel Solomon Ẓion (1883-1979) in 1946 after being appointed chief rabbi of Sofia, and before his 1949 immigration to the then new State of Israel. This prayer for a New World Order by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, representing many of the hopes of a United Nations after World War Ⅱ, was found by Mel Scult among Mordecai Kaplan’s papers and shared by Dr. Scult in a Facebook post. The prayer is undated, although we tentatively date it between 1945 and 1951. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer Contributor(s): מְנוּחַת שָׁלוֹם: תְּפִלַת לֵיל שַׁבָּת Menuchat Shalom: Late Service for Sabbath Eve (1943) was arranged by Isadore Shalom Ravetch as used in his congregation Temple Sinai (Long Beach, California). The four freedoms as articulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his address before the 77th Congress of the United States. This prayer for the United States of America was offered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his Radio Campaign Address at Hyde Park, New York on 4 November 1940. The prayer was adapted by Roosevelt from one he referred to it in his speech as “an old prayer.” That prayer was originally offered by Rev. Anson Phelps Stoke, canon of the Washington Cathedral (Washington DC), a guest chaplain before the Senate on 25 April 1932. Roosevelt, or a speech write, adapted the text of the prayer by removing the final line, thereby making the prayer a more inclusive and ecumenical civic prayer. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): Originally written by Aaron Zeitlin for the Yiddish play “Esterke” in 1940, ‘Dona Dona’ is a popular song the world over, having been adapted to many languages — often not preserving the original, deeply Jewish context. The gist of the original lyrics, which never state their metaphor outright, is: a calf is bound to a wagon being dragged to the slaughterhouse. It looks up and sees a swallow flying around. The farmer shouts at it, saying “it’s your own fault for being a calf and not a bird!” The implication being: the people telling the Jews it’s our own fault we’re persecuted are the ones driving the wagon. Gentiles will murder Jews, the song implies to us, and then say Jews are to blame because of how murderable our Jewish face is, so maybe we should get a less murderable and more goyish face. But the whole time they’re the one with the knife. Here included is the original Yiddish text (in the Ukrainish theatre dialect), as well as new translations into Ladino and Aramaic. Categories: 🇮🇱 Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry, Pogroms & Genocide, Slavery & Captivity, Terror Tags: anti-predatory, Aramaic translation, Ladino Translation, predation, עין הרע predatory gaze (ill will/evil eye), predatory nature, צער באלי חיים tsa'ar baalei ḥayyim, Yiddish songs Contributor(s): This is the invocation of Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman offered at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois on 16 June 1932, as found in The Washington Times, “The Rabbi Prayes for Nation’s Needy at Convention.” Categories: Tags: English vernacular prayer, Great Depression in the United States, Republican National Convention 1932, Republican National Conventions Contributor(s): This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Our Enemies,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section Ⅲ: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on pages 100-101. This prayer seems to me to be inspired by (or a reformulation of) the traditional twelfth blessing of the weekday Amidah, שׁוֹבֵר אוֹיְבִים וּמַכְנִיעַ זֵדִים shovér oyvim u-makhniya zedim (“who breaks enemies and overpowers evil ones”) a/k/a la-malshinim or al haminim. This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Our Country,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): This prayer, entitled “[Prayer for] Unity,” was published in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. Following the prayer, Rabbi Cronbach notes the prayer is “from Peace Service, compiled by [the] National Council for the Prevention of War (NCPW).” The prayer reads to me as alternative formulation of the prayer Shfokh Ḥamatkha offered at the traditional pouring of Elijah’s cup before the Pesaḥ seder’s Hallel service. Categories: Tags: American Jewry of the United States, anti-war, English vernacular prayer, interwar period, Jewish pacifism, שפוך חמתך shfokh ḥamatekha Contributor(s): A manual for Reform movement rabbis compiled by the Central Conference of American Rabbis in 1928, containing ceremonial prayers for life cycle events in the synagogue, cemetery, and other contexts. This is the opening prayer of the First Biennial Convention of the National Jewish Welfare Board offered by Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, and published in the Report of First Biennial Convention [of the National Jewish Welfare Board] (1922), p. 14. Part Two of the “Revised Edition” of the Union Prayerbook arranged by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, published in 1918, containing services for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. This blessing, entitled “Prayer for Peace,” was first published in The Union Prayerbook for Jewish Worship, revised edition, part Ⅰ (CCAR, 1918) on page 110. The blessing is the concluding prayer of the weekday and festival Amidah. Here, in this adapted formulation in English, it is combined with a blessing for “our country” (the United States of America). Rabbi Abraham Cronbach includes the prayer in The Jewish Peace Book for Home and School (1932) under “Section III: Peace Devotions for Jewish Use — Prayers for Peace” on page 100. We are not certain whether Rabbi Cronbach authored this prayer, although it is suggested by its inclusion here. Categories: Tags: American Jewry of the United States, עמידה amidah, English vernacular prayer, interwar period, Jewish pacifism, paraliturgical sim shalom, שים שלום sim shalom Contributor(s): Part One of the “Revised Edition” of the Union Prayerbook arranged by the Central Conference of American Rabbis, published in 1918, containing services for Shabbat, Festivals, Weekdays, and a section of prayers for private devotion (i.e., travel and life cycle prayers). On 19 June, the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention in 1916, the invocation was offered by Rabbi Gerson B. Levi of Temple Israel (Chicago) at the Chicago Coliseum in Chicago, Illinois, as recorded in The Official Report of the Proceedings of the Republican National Convention 1916, page 101. La Tefila du Soldat is an abridged bilingual Hebrew-French prayerbook for French-Jewish soldiers prepared in 1939 by Rabbi Maurice Liber, the former interim Chief Rabbi of France under Rabbi Israël Lévi (from 1934-1939). In addition to abridged liturgy, the prayerbook also contains a curated selection of teḥinot in vernacular French, and psalms in French translation. Rabbi Isaie Schwartz, appointed chief rabbi in 1939, wrote the introductory letter to Jewish soldiers at the start of the French section of the siddur. In it, he notes the prayerbook is, essential, a copy of one offered to French-Jewish soldiers by the Consistoire central israelíte de France during World War Ⅰ. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, military, World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅱ Contributor(s): The prayer for the sovereign as dedicated to the Austrian emperor (and King of Hungary) at the outset of World War Ⅰ. Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Austrian Empire, Austrian Jewry, Franz Joseph I of Austria, Prayers for leaders, World War Ⅰ Contributor(s): Gebetbuch für israelitische Soldaten im Kriege (1914) was translated and arranged by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald for Jewish military personnel in the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in service to Kaiser Franz Joseph Ⅰ (1830-1916) during what became known as World War Ⅰ. | ||
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