Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Solomon Rubinstein
A bilingual Yiddish-English anthology of teḥinot containing 21 prayers compiled and translated by Rabbi Solomon Rubinstein soon after
Contributed by: Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR], Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. In the largest section, “Meditations,” the collection re-published 36 of the prayers from CCAR’s ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (1923), omitting 15. To these, three new prayers were added, along with some new sections: “Family Worship,” “Personal Prayers for Special Occassions,” “Prayers for Night and Morning,” and “Prayers in Time of Sickness and Death.”
Contributed by: Simon Glazer, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A collection of teḥinot, in English, edited by Rabbi Simon Glazer.
Contributed by: Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue, compiled by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques in 1929, contains services for Shabbat, Rosh haShanah (with readings), and a selection of teḥinot (“special prayers for private worship) and hymns (“anthems”).
Contributed by: Clifton Harby Levy, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
The Helpful Manual is a prayerbook containing supplications and affirmations expressing the teachings of the then nascent Jewish Science movement, prepared by one of the movement’s founders, Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy in 1927, on behalf of the Centre of Jewish Science. The Jewish Science movement was at the time intended to counter the popularity of the Christian Science movement among Jews in the United States.
Contributed by: Morris Lichtenstein, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science (1925) presents the philosophy and practice of Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein’s “Jewish Science movement” (an uncoordinated response to the then popular Christian Science movement), which he also referred to as “Applied Judaism.” Rabbi Lichtenstein emphasized the efficacy of visualization in the practice of prayer, and lacking that, the use of affirmations.
Contributed by: Abraham Cronbach, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
This is a collection of forty prayers and twelve short essays/addresses in English by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924). The work contains two opening prayers and one closing prayer (i.e., the “Prayers of the Jewish Advance”), prayers for ten days on the festival calendar including the Sabbath, a full confirmation service with seven prayers, and twenty miscellaneous prayers. The full program and notes to the Confirmation Service append the work.
Contributed by: Angie Irma Cohon, Women of Miẓpah, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A small work of Jewish prayer intended for Jewish women published by the sisterhood of Temple Miẓpah in Chicago.
Contributed by: Morris Samuel Lazaron, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
An ecumenical prayerbook for men serving as United States military personnel during what later became known as World War Ⅰ.
Contributed by: Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A small prayerbook for British-Jewish men serving as military personnel on behalf of the British Empire during what later became known as World War Ⅰ.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Maurice Liber, Mayer Lambert, Isaïe Schwartz, Consistoire central israélite de France
La Tefila du Soldat is an abridged bilingual Hebrew-French prayerbook for French-Jewish soldiers prepared in 1939 by Rabbi Maurice Liber, the former interim Chief Rabbi of France under Rabbi Israël Lévi (from 1934-1939). In addition to abridged liturgy, the prayerbook also contains a curated selection of teḥinot in vernacular French, and psalms in French translation. Rabbi Isaie Schwartz, appointed chief rabbi in 1939, wrote the introductory letter to Jewish soldiers at the start of the French section of the siddur. In it, he notes the prayerbook is, essential, a copy of one offered to French-Jewish soldiers by the Consistoire central israelíte de France during World War Ⅰ.
Contributed by: Max Grunwald, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A collection of five teḥinot compiled for the use of German-Jewish women gravely concerned for the well-being of their husbands, fathers, and sons serving as military personnel during what became known as World War Ⅰ.
Contributed by: Leo Baeck, Wilhelm Münz, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
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.
Contributed by: Artur Carlos de Barros Basto, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Shahar is a morning prayerbook in vernacular Portuguese prepared in 1910 by Artur Carlos de Barros Basto under his Hebrew name, Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh. This is the second edition or printing of the prayerbook, under the auspices of the Instituto Oryamita Do Porto, published in 1920.
Contributed by: József Patai, Gyula Fischer, Gabor Weisz, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
A collection of prayers in Magyar for Jewish women by Gyula Fischer and József Patai from 1908.
Contributed by: Annie Josephine Levi, Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old (1900) is a collection of teḥinot in English, selected, arranged, and written by Annie Josephine Levi. The introduction was written by the Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. We know very little else about Levi save that she contributed short stories, poems, and essays to periodicals and was active from 1895-1905. (If you know more about her, please contact us.)
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
Siddur Qorban Minḥah, a Jewish prayerbook collecting the customs of the school of the ARI z”l, accompanied by tkhines and translations in Yiddish.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Lilian Helen Montagu
Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895) is a collection of prayers in vernacular English by Lilian Helen Montagu (1873-1963). The prayerbook was dedicated to the members of the West Central Girls’ Club, founded in 1893 by Lilian and co-led by her and her sister Marian Montagu.

