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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.

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📖 Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951)

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. . . .


📖 Techinah-Book, by Rabbi Simon Glazer (1930)

Contributed by Simon Glazer | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

A collection of teḥinot, in English, edited by Rabbi Simon Glazer. . . .


📖 (רפורמי) Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue, by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (1929)

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”). . . .


📖 The Helpful Manual, by Rabbi Clifton Harby Levy (Centre of Jewish Science 1927)

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. . . .


📖 Jewish Science and Health: Textbook of Jewish Science, by Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein (Society of Jewish Science 1925)

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. . . .


📖 Prayers of the Jewish Advance, by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach (1924)

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. . . .


📖 תפלת ישראל | Tefilat Yisrael: A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921)

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. . . .


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

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. . . .


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

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. . . .


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

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. . . .


📖 Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen Mannschaften des Heeres, by Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Münz (1914)

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. . . .


📖 Shahar, by Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh (1910)

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. . . .


📖 Rachel: Imák Zsidó Nők Számára, by Gyula Fischer with József Patai (1908)

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. . . .


📖 Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old, arranged and written by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)

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.) . . .


📖 סידור קרבן מנחה (נוסח האר״י)‏ | Siddur Ḳorban Minḥah (1897)

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. . . .


📖 Prayers for Jewish Working Girls, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

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. . . .