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.

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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

“📖 Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen Mannschaften des Heeres, by Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Münz (1914)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication 1.0 Universal license.

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.

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.

Works of related interest:

 

📖 Gebete in Kriegszeit für isralitische Frauen und Madchen, by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald (1914)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Gebet für den Regenten | Prayer for the Regent (Friedrich Wilhelm Ⅲ, King of Prussia), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1833)

📖 הֶגְיוֹן לֵב | Hegyon Lev (Meditations of the Heart): Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht, arranged by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (revised by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow 1875)

📖 הֶגְיוֹן לֵב | Hegyon Lev (Meditations of the Heart): Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht, arranged by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1867)

תפלה בבתי כנסיות דק״ק פירטה שנת תרע״ד | A Prayer for the Synagogues of the Holy Jewish Community of Fürth [Germany, at the onset of war] – 5674 [1914]

📖 Die Fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Max Emanuel Stern (1841, 1846)

Prayer on the Declaration of War [against Imperial Germany], by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1914)

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