[Prayer] on Recovering from Sickness, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
[Prayer] in Sickness, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
A Prayer for Girls entering Domestic Service, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
[Prayer] on Ending Apprenticeship and Beginning Paid Work, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
[Prayer] on Leaving School and Beginning Apprenticeship, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
Birthday Prayer, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
[Prayer] for the Persecuted, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
Prayer for those who are unavoidably prevented from keeping the Sabbath, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)
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. . . .
Prayer for the Congregation and the Government, by the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1895)
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. . . .
אַמעריקע די פּרעכטיקע | America the Beautiful, a patriotic hymn by Katharine Lee Bates (1895) with Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1950)
Contributed by: Berl Lapin (translation), Katharine Lee Bates, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). . . .
📖 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. . . .
בִּרְכַּת עָם (תֶחֱזַקְנָה) | The People’s Blessing (a/k/a Teḥezaqnah), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1894)
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. . . .
גַּמָּדֵי לָיִל | Gnomes of the Night, a poem by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (ca. 1894)
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. . . .
White Day of Peace, a poem by Miriam del Banco for the Jewish Women’s Congress (World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893)
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. . . .
Opening Prayer for the Jewish Women’s Congress, by Rachel Frank-Litman (World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893)
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. . . .
תפלה על המגפה שתעצר | Prayer for Cessation of the Disease Now Raging, by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster (1892)
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. . . .
The Tabernacle, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1891)
Contributed by: Rosa Emma Salaman, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“The Tabernacle” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in The Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star vol. 56, p. 688. . . .
תפלת בית אהבה (רפורמי) (Tefilat Beit Ahaḇah) A Book of Prayer for Jewish Worship, compiled by Rabbi Edward N. Calisch (1893)
Contributed by: Edward Nathan Calisch, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayerbook compiled for Beth Ahaḇa, a Reform movement congregation in Richmond, Virginia. . . .
Kuando el rey Nimrod (When Nimrod was King), a song relating the story of Avraham & the Furnace (ca. 1890)
Contributed by: Unknown (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The sephardic folk-song “Kuando el rey Nimrod” in Ladino with English translation. . . .
Prayer on the Centennial of the Inauguration of George Washington, by Rabbi Yaakov Yosef (1889)
Contributed by: Yaakov Yosef, Judah David Eisenstein (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration . . .