📖 Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen Mannschaften des Heeres, by Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Münz (1914)

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Leo Baeck, Wilhelm Münz and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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18 January 2023 under the Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication

Categories:

Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Martial siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Empire, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, military, Second Reich, Teḥinot in German, World War Ⅰ

Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen Mannschaften des Heeres (1914) by Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Münz is a small prayerbook for German-Jewish men serving as military personnel on behalf of the German Empire (Second Reich) during what later became known as World War Ⅰ. The work was edited by Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck who at the time was serving as a military chaplain.

This work is in the Public Domain due to its having been published more than 95 years ago.

This work was scanned by Aharon Varady for the Open Siddur Project from a volume held in the collection of the HUC Klau Library, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Thank you!) This work is cross-posted to the Internet Archive, as a repository for our transcription efforts.

Scanning this work (making digital images of each page) is the first step in a more comprehensive project of transcribing each prayer and associating it with its translation. You are invited to participate in this collaborative transcription effort!

Source (German) Translation (English)
INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Morgengebete
Abendgebete
Nachtgebet
Tischgebet
Sabbatgebet
Neumondgebet
Festgebet
Bußtaggebet
Chanukalied
Psalmen
Volkslieder
Hebräische Gebete
Morning prayers
Evening prayers
Night prayer
Table prayer
Sabbath prayer
New Moon Prayer
Festival prayer
Day of Atonement Prayer
Ḥanukkah song
Psalms (1, 3, 8, 13, 15, 20, 23, 27, 46, 91, 103, 116, 117, 118, 120, 121, 124, 126, 130)
Folk songs
Hebrew prayers

Leo Baeck

Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck (23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th-century German rabbi, scholar, and theologian. He served as leader of Reform Judaism in his native country and internationally, and later represented all German Jews during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, he settled in London, in the United Kingdom, where he served as the chairman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. In 1955, the Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry was established, and Baeck was its first international president. The Leo Baeck Medal has been awarded since 1978 to those who have helped preserve the spirit of German-speaking Jewry in culture, academia, politics, and philanthropy.

Wilhelm Münz

Wilhelm Münz (also, Mintz; born April 2, 1856 in Tarnów, western Galicia; died January 20, 1917 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia) was a German-Jewish rabbi and author.

Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." (Psalms 90:17)

📖 Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen Mannschaften des Heeres, by Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Münz (1914)

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