Contributed by: Israel Wolf Slotki, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A translation of the piyyut, Anim Zemirot. . . .
Contributed by: Israel Abrahams (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut and popular shabbat table song, Ki Eshmera Shabbat, in Hebrew with a rhyming translation. . . .
Contributed by: Alice Lucas (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur. . . .
Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation of “Ki Eshmera Shabbat” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by Avraham ibn Ezra was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .
Contributed by: Wikisource Contributors (transcription), David Asher (translation), Ephraim ben Avraham ben Yitsḥaq, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A pizmon recited on the Fast of Tevet in the tradition of nusaḥ Ashkenaz. . . .
Contributed by: David de Aaron de Sola (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This translation by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of “Elohim Yisadenu” by a paytan named Avraham (possibly Avraham ibn Ezra) was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .
Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The prayer of Azaryah and his song of praise with Ḥananyah, and Mishael from within the Furnace (also known as “the song of the three holy children”) found in Aramaic in the Divrei Yeraḥmiel (the Chronicles of Jeraḥmeel, Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11). . . .
Contributed by: Ivan G. Marcus (translation), Eleazar ben Yehudah ben Ḳalonymus of Worms, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This an an untitled piyyut by Eleazer of Worms, eulogizing his beloved wife Dulcea (Heb: דולצא, also, Dulcia and Dolce). The Hebrew text is derived from the transcription offered by Israel Kamelhar inRabbenu Eleazar mi-Germaiza, ha-Roqeah (Rzeazow, 1930), pp. 17-19. The translation and annotation come from Dr. Ivan G. Marcus from his article, “Mothers, Martyrs, and Moneymakers: Some Jewish Women in Medieval Europe” in Conservative Judaism, vol. 38(3), Spring 1986. . . .
Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The story of Daniel and the dragon held captive by the neo-Babylonians found in Aramaic in the Divrei Yeraḥmiel (the Chronicles of Jeraḥmeel, Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11). . . .
Contributed by: Moses Gaster, Yeraḥmiel ben Shlomo, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
Daniel’s battle with the Dragon, one of the apocryphal Additions to Daniel, is affixed to the end of the book in the Septuagint. The editor has here included a new vocalized and cantillated edition of the Aramaic text preserved in the 12th century Divrei Yeraḥmiel (Oxford Bodleian Heb d.11 transcribed by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster). The language of this passage is an odd synthesis of Targumic, pseudo-Biblical Aramaic, and even some Syriac forms, so the editor’s vocalization is aiming for a happy medium of all the possibilities. (In several locations Divrei Yeraḥmiel uses incorrect Hebrew-specific forms, probably due to scribal error. These are here marked as a qere-ketiv split.) . . .
Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
An interpretive translation of a piyyut composed as an introduction to the prayer Nishmat Kol Ḥai. . . .
Contributed by: Unknown (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A popular piyyut for all occasions by Avraham ibn Ezra. . . .
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A medieval Jewish poem on the game of Chess by Avraham ibn Ezra.. . . .
חֲרוּזִים עַל שְּׂחוֹק שָׁ״הּ־מָ״תּ | Rhymed Poem on Chess (long), by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Thomas Hyde (Latin translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A poem on how to play chess, one of the oldest historical descriptions of the game of Chess, by Avraham ibn Ezra (12th century) . . .
Contributed by: Alice Lucas (translation), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A rhyming English translation of the piyyut Adonai Negdekha kol Ta’avati. . . .
Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Emma Lazarus, Mosheh ben Yaaqov ibn Ezra
Emma Lazarus’s translation, “In the Night” — derived from the piyyut נַפְשִׁי אִוִּיתִיךָ בַּלַּיְלָה by Moses ibn Ezra — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 78-80. . . .
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Emma Lazarus, Shlomo ibn Gabirol
Emma Lazarus’s translation, simply referred to as “Hymn” — derived from the piyyut יְיָ מָה אָדָם by Shlomo ibn Gabirol — was first published in her anthology, Songs of a Semite: The dance to death and other poems (1882), pages 68-70. . . .
Contributed by: Richard Collis (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This Chinese translation of an Ashkenazi nusaḥ for the piyyut “Adon Olam,” is found on page 73 of the liner notes for the Chinese edition of Richard Collis’s album We Sing We Stay Together: Shabbat Morning Service Prayers (Wǒmen gēchàng, wǒmen xiāngjù — Ānxírì chén dǎo qídǎo). . . .
Contributed by: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s interpretive “praying translation” of the piyyut, Adon Olam. . . .
Contributed by: Ben-Zion Bokser, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .