Prayers in Magyar for Jewish women by Gyula Fischer and József Patai. This collection was bound together with a Hebrew-Magyar prayerbook by Rabbi Gabor Weisz from 1883.

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József Patai

József Patai (1882–1953), poet, scholar, and Zionist leader. In his life and work, József Patai is representative of the first generation of Hungarian Zionist intellectuals. He changed his name from Klein to Patai after his birthplace, Gyöngyöspata, a small village in northern Hungary. Patai’s father was a grocer and Talmudic scholar, a follower first of the rebbe of Belz and then of the rebbe of Satmar. It was this world that Patai depicted in his lyrical social study, his most enduring prose work, A középső kapu (1927; new ed., 1998 [published in English as The Middle Gate; 1994]). (from his article by YIVO)

Gyula Fischer

Gyula Fischer (also Julius Fischer; 1861–1944), Hungarian scholar and rabbi, Born in Sárkeresztur, Fischer studied at the Budapest rabbinical seminary and was appointed rabbi of Györ (Raab) in 1887, Prague in 1898, and Budapest (1905) where he was chief rabbi (1921–43). In 1905 he became lecturer in rabbinic literature and Midrash at the rabbinical seminary, and for a time was acting director of the seminary. A man of wide Jewish and general erudition, Fischer wrote a monograph on Judah ibn Tibbon (1885) and translated into Hungarian Philo's Life of Moses (1925). He contributed many articles and essays in German and Hungarian to Jewish and general periodicals. Fischer was a gifted orator and one of the first Hungarian Neolog rabbis to support the rebuilding of Erets Israel.

Gabor Weisz

Gábor Weisz (b.1857 Albertirsa - d. 1943 Pécs) served his community as a teacher and as a herald of youth worship, secretary and deputy rabbi of the Ḥevrah Kadishah (1888–1889, 1914–1920). From his settlement in Pécs he was the secretary of the community (1888–1943). He completed his rabbinical studies in the yeshiva of Hőgyész (Tolna m.), Dr. Ármin Perls in Pécs he continued his education in the theological sciences alongside the chief rabbi. He published Rachel, a prayer book for women (1883) and A Textbook for the History of the Jewish People for Israelite students in folk and civil schools. He was a member of the editorial board of the Jewish Lexicon. He compiled and published a list of his master's literary work, Memory of Ármin Perls, and wrote the history of the community of Pécs: The monograph of the Jewish community of Pécs (1929). In his work Visiting the Jewish Cemetery in Pécs, he remembered the famous personalities resting in the Jewish cemetery.

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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Title page of Rachel – imák zsidó nők számára (Julius Fischer, Gábor Weisz, József Patai 1908)

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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