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.

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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 Folk songs Hebrew prayers

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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.

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.

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "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

Works of related interest:

 

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

Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen, by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald (1907)

Prayers for Trench and Base, by Lt. Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1918)

Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors, by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron (1918)

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

Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Pereẓ Beer (1815, 1839, 1843)

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

Prayer for Sailors and Soldiers on Active Service, by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1914)

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