📖 Gebetbuch für israelitische Soldaten im Kriege, a prayerbook for Jewish military personnel serving in the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces during World War Ⅰ by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald (1914)

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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Max Grunwald

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Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim, Martial siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Austria-Hungary, Austrian Empire, Austrian Jewry, Franz Joseph I of Austria, military, World War Ⅰ

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.

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

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

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.

Max Grunwald

Max Grunwald (born October 10, 1871 in Zabrze, Upper Silesia; died January 24, 1953 in Jerusalem) was a Conservative rabbi in Hamburg and Vienna and author of works on Jewish history and folklore. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau in 1892 and in 1895 began serving as the rabbi of the New Dammthor Synagogue in Hamburg. In 1903, after moving to Vienna he began serving the Turnergasse synagogue, and from 1913, the Leopoldstadt Temple. An erudite scholar, he founded the Society for Jewish Folklore and served as its editor of correspondence until 1929.

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