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Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Meditation on Work” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 5-6. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Prayer when in Trouble” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 28-29. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Prayer for a Dear Relation or Friend Who is Ill” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 26-27. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Prayer for a Dear Relation or Friend Who is Ill” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 26-27. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“On Recovering from Sickness” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), page 26. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“In Sickness” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), page 25. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“A Prayer for Girls entering Domestic Service” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), page 24. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“On Ending Apprenticeship and Beginning Paid Work” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 22-23. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Birthday Prayer” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 29-30. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“On Leaving School and Beginning Apprenticeship” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 21-22. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Prayer for those who are unavoidably prevented from keeping the Sabbath” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 20-21. . . .
Contributed by: Lilian Helen Montagu, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“[Prayer] for the Persecuted” was written by Lilian Helen Montagu and published in Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895), pp. 31-32. . . .
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation), Katharine Lee Bates
“America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). . . .
Contributed by: Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR], Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. . . .
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. . . .
Contributed by: Eugene Kohn, the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Before HaTikvah was chosen, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “People’s Blessing” (בִּרְכַּת עָם, also known by its incipit תֶחֱזַֽקְנָה Teḥezaqnah) was once considered for the State of Israel’s national anthem. Bialik was 21 years old when he composed the work in 1894. It later was chosen as the anthem of the Labor Zionist movement. We hereby present the first ever complete English translation of this poem. . . .
Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ben Aronin, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The poem “Gamodei Layil” (Gnomes of the Night) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, ca. 1894. . . .
Contributed by: National Council of Jewish Women, Miriam del Banco, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A poem on interfaith tolerance during the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893, part of the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition. . . .
Contributed by: National Council of Jewish Women, Rachel Frank-Litman, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The opening prayer of the Jewish Women’s Congress held at the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition as published in the Papers of the Jewish Women’s Congress: held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893 (1894), p. 8. . . .
Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for the end of a cholera epidemic written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster in 1892. . . .
