Contributed by: Angie Irma Cohon, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“The Pilgrim March” by Angie Irma Cohon is a hymn for Sukkot published in her תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 22.
Contributed by: Angie Irma Cohon, Felix Adler, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Hymn for Shaḇuoth (Father, See Thy Children)” is based on “Confirmation (Father, see thy suppliant children)” an original hymn by Felix Adler published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn 34, p. 68. The last four lines of the hymn have been amended and replaced with “Till our lives shall bud and blossom…” by Angie Irma Cohon, for use on Shavuot. This version was published in her תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 19.
Contributed by: Angie Irma Cohon, Frederick Lucian Hosmer, Leopold Stein, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Angie Irma Cohon’s “Day of God” is a hymn for Yom Kippur, an abbreviated adaptation of “O Tag des Herrn!,” a paraliturgical Kol Nidrei by Leopold Stein, translated from German to English by Frederick Lucian Hosmer. Cohon’s abridged rendering is published in תפלת ישראל (Tefilat Yisrael) A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921), p. 20.
Contributed by: Mordecai Kaplan, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This is a restatement of the Decalogue offered as life wisdom by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan for his daughters, sometime in the 1920s, possibly as early as 1922 at the Bat Mitsvah of his oldest daughter Judith. The document was found by Mel Scult and shared by him from his Mordecai Kaplan Discussion Group on Facebook.
Contributed by: Yaakov Klein (translation), Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This is a prayer offered by the Piacezna Rebbe, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943) and likely written down sometime in the 1920s before it was printed among other letters and writings in his sefer Derekh haMelekh (1931). The prayer, vocalized from the 2011 Feldheim edition and translated into English, was circulated online via the Lost Princess Initiative of Rabbi Yaakov Klein (Eilecha) beginning 25 May 2023.
Contributed by: Norman Salit, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This untitled prayer was written by Rabbi Norman Salit and published in Rabbi Jacob Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 35-36 (in the section titled “Prayers for Succoth”).
Contributed by: Norman Salit, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“A Passover Prayer” was written by Rabbi Norman Salit and published in Rabbi Jacob Bosniak’s לקוטי תפלות Liḳutei Tefilot: Pulpit and Public Prayers (1927), pp. 46-47.
Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Tsaar Balei Ḥayyim” ([It is forbidden to cause] suffering to a living creature), source unknown. Many thanks to Tiferet Zimmern-Kahan for recording the niggun for the song and to Naftali Ejdelman and The Jewish Daily Forward for providing the lyrics.
Contributed by: Hyman Solomon, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer written for Armistice Day after the first World War.
Contributed by: Abraham Cronbach, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer for “After the Epidemic [of 1918]” by Rabbi Abraham Cronbach is found in his, Prayers of the Jewish Advance (1924), on page 127.
Contributed by: Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A German translation of the Birkat haMazon prepared by Franz Rosenzweig.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jacob Gerstein
In this song written in rhymed Yiddish verse, Rabbi Gerstein celebrates the day of 11 May 1920, the date upon which determined the fate of the Ottoman Empire after World War Ⅰ was concluded and the Balfour Declaration of 1917 reïfied in favor of Jewish national objectives in the Land of Israel.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming translation and paraphrase of the blessing at bedtime (birkat hamapil) was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), pp. 89-90.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer by Jessie Ethel Sampter to accompany the bedtime shema was published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 44.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming paraphrase of the blessing before waving the lulav on Sukkot was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 17.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This rhyming paraphrase and translation of the blessing over the lighting of the Ḥanukkiah was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 31.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation and supplement for the blessing before listening to Megilat Esther on Purim was made by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 48.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing upon seeing lightning was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 88.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical supplement to the blessing upon hearing thunder was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 87.
Contributed by: Jessie Ethel Sampter, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This paraliturgical prayer for the end of Shabbat havdalah was made by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 64.

