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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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📖 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.) . . .


📖 בזמרות נריע לו | Die häuslichen Sabbathgesänge für Freitag⸗Abend, Sabbath⸗Tag und Sabbath⸗Ausgang, by Dr. Leo Jehudah Hirschfeld (1898)

Contributed by Leo Jehudah Hirschfeld | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

Birkonim (bentschers) with table songs sung on the Sabbath with accompanying translations are now commonplace, but they not always were. The first major collection with accompanying translations was Dr. Leo Hirschfeld’s בזמרות נריע לו Die häuslichen Sabbathgesänge für Freitag⸗Abend, Sabbath⸗Tag und Sabbath⸗Ausgang (1898), an anthology of Sabbath table songs organized according to their traditional feast (Sabbath night, day, and Sabbath afternoon) in the Ashkenazi tradition. . . .


📖 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. . . .


📖 סדר תפלות כל השנה (אשכנז)‏ | The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, translated and arranged by Rabbi Simeon Singer (1890)

Contributed by Simeon Singer (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

Before the Koren-Sacks Siddur (2009), there was the Authorised Daily Prayer Book first published in 1890 and used by Jews throughout the British Empire, while there was a British Empire. It was originally published under the authorization of Great Britain’s first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler with a Hebrew liturgy based on Isaac Seligman Baer’s Seder Avodat Yisroel (1868). The translation by Rabbi Simeon Singer (1846-1906) was the most extensive English translation of the Siddur ever published, and for this reason most editions are simply referred colloquially as The Singer Siddur. The Standard Prayer Book, published by Bloch in 1915, was an American reprint of The Authorized Daily Prayer Book. . . .


📖 ספר תפילת החדש (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | The Daily Prayers, a bilingual Hebrew-Marathi prayerbook arranged and translated by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1889)

Contributed by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

A comprehensive (“kol bo”) siddur in the liturgical tradition of the eastern Sefaradim, prepared for the Bene Israel community in India. . . .


📖 סדר תפילות (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Καθημεριναι Προσευχαι | Seder Tefilot, a bilingual Hebrew-Greek prayerbook translated and arranged by R’ Yosef Naḥmuli (Corfu 1885)

Contributed by Yosef Naḥmuli | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

Index page for the transcription, proofreading, and decompilation of Καθημεριναι Προσευχαι (Yosef Naḥmuli 1885), a Greek-Hebrew kol bo siddur, nusaḥ sefaradi (minhag Corfu). . . .


📖 תפלת ישראל (רפורמי) | Prayers of Israel according to the minhag of Ḳ.Ḳ. Shaarei Tiqvah (Temple Gates of Hope), a prayerbook compiled by Rabbi Dr. Edward B.M. Browne (1885)

Contributed by Edward Benjamin Morris Browne | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

A prayerbook prepared by Rabbi Edward B.M. Browne according to the Reform movement custom of Temple Gates of Hope (now Prospect Park Synagogue) in 1885. . . .


📖 סידור עבודת ישראל | Siddur Aḇodath Yisrael, arranged by R’ Benjamin Szold and translated by R’ Marcus Jastrow (1873)

Contributed by Benjamin Szold | Marcus Jastrow | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

The siddur, Aḇodath Yisrael was first prepared for Temple Oheb Shalom (Baltimore, Maryland) by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1829-1902). Before Szold’s arrival in 1859, the congregation had adopted for use in its Shabbat service the Minhag America by the Reform rabbi, Isaac Meyer Wise. After much discussion with his congregation Szold introduced Aḇodath Yisrael, which hewed more closely to traditional Ashkenazi custom. The first edition of this prayer-book appeared in 1863 with German translation, and was widely adopted by congregations in the United States. New editions were published in 1864 and 1865 (the latter with English translation), and another, revised edition in 1871, by Rabbis Marcus Jastrow of Philadelphia (1829-1903) and Henry Hochheimer of Baltimore (1818-1912). . . .


📖 תפלות ישראל (אשכנז)‏ | Tefilot Yisrael, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated and arranged by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (1862/1872)

Contributed by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

An Ashkenazi siddur with an original translation by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski. . . .


📖 סדר התפלות או סדור לכל ימי השנה (אשכנז) | Séder haThephiloth, ou Rituel Prières Journalières à l’usage des Israélites du Rite Allemand (2nd ed. Elḥanan Durlacher 1869)

Contributed by Elḥanan Durlacher | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

An Ashkenazi siddur with a French translation compiled by Elḥanan ben Netanel Durlacher. . . .


📖 עלת תמיד (רפורמי) | Olat Tamid: Gebetbuch für Israelitische Reform-Gemeinden, by Rabbi David Einhorn (1858)

Contributed by David Einhorn | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

Rabbi David Einhorn’s prayer book `Olat Tamid (lit. the perpetual sacrifice)…first penned in Germany, served as the model for the Union Prayer Book,….the prayer book of the American Reform movement for almost eight decades. It reflected what is now called “classical Reform,” eliminating prayers for the restoration of Zion, mentions of the messiah, and bodily resurrection of the dead, while diminishing mentions of Jewish chosenness and the like. This is עלת תמיד Olat Tamid by Rev. Dr. David Einhorn (1809-1878), in its German-Hebrew edition (1858). . . .


📖 תפלות ישראל (אשכנז)‏ | Tefilot Yisrael: Prayers of Israel with an English Translation (S.B. Gusdorfer, 1854)

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

This is a bilingual Hebrew-English siddur published in Fürth, Germany by S.B. Gusdorfer, intended for German immigrants to the United States. The siddur contains a prayer for the government composed by Rabbi Max Lilienthal (substituted for the traditional prayer for sovereigns, hanoten teshuah). Later editions were printed in New York by L. Henry Frank. We would like to image a copy of the original 1848 edition of this prayerbook. If you have a copy available, please contact us. . . .


📖 סדור שפתי צדיקים (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 3: Seder haTefilot l’Yom haKipurim (1838)

Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

For Yom Kipur, the third volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837. . . .


📖 סדור שפתי צדיקים (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 5: Seder haTefilot l’Pesaḥ u’l’Shavuot (1837)

Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

For Pesaḥ and Shavuot, the fifth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837. . . .


📖 סדור שפתי צדיקים (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 4: Seder haTefilot l’Ḥag haSukkot (1837)

Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

For Sukkot (and including Shemini Atseret and Simḥat Torah), the fourth volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837. . . .


📖 סדור שפתי צדיקים (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 2: Seder haTefilot l’Rosh haShanah (1837)

Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

For Rosh haShanah, the second volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837. . . .


📖 סדור שפתי צדיקים (מנהג הספרדים)‏ | Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 1: Seder haTefilot miKol haShanah (1837)

Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) |

The first volume in a set of prayerbooks compiled for Spanish & Portuguese Jews in the United States, edited by Isaac Leeser, in 1837. . . .