Contributed by: Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Alice Montefiore Lucas
Alice Lucas’s The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year (1898) is a collection of 75 adapted English translations of piyyutim (including 12 original works by Lucas) intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection expanded on an earlier publication of Lucas, Songs of Zion (1894). This work contains all but three of the works published in Songs of Zion.
Contributed by: Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation)
Alice Lucas’s Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894) is a collection of twenty-five adapted English translations, mainly of piyyutim, all intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection was expanded upon in a follow-up publication of Lucas, The Jewish Year (1898).
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Yitsḥak Luria
An abridged rhymed translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Daniel ben Yehudah Dayyan
The philosophical-creed-as-piyyut, Yigdal, in Hebrew with a rhyming English translation by Alice Lucas first published in 1894.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown
A rhymed translation of Tsur Mishelo, a paralitugical Birkat haMazon.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown
A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
A rhyming English translation of the piyyut Adonai Negdekha kol Ta’avati.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi
“Servant of God” is an adapted English rhmying translation by Alice Montefiore Lucas of a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi, first published in the former’s first collection of translations Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894), pp. 9-12.
Contributed by: the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol
“Prayer” for Sabbath—ⅩⅬⅢ is Alice Lucas’s English verse adaptation of the piyyut “Shaḥar Avaqeshkha Tsuri u-Misgabi” by Shlomo ibn Gabirol, published in her The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year (1898), page 97.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown
The cosmological piyyut, Adon Olam, in its Ashkenazi variation in Hebrew with an English translation.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Yitsḥak ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyāth HaLevi
A rhymed translation of the piyyut sung following the Havdallah ritual.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Elazar ben Qallir
This is the piyyut, “Aamir Otekha Selah” by Elazar ben Qallir for Sukkot, as translated into rhyming English verse by Alice Montefiore Lucas, first published in her anthology of versified translations Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894). Her translation was later set opposite Qallir’s Hebrew text in Maḥzor Avodat Ohel Moed: Avodat Ḥag haSukkot (ed. Arthur Davis & Herbert Adler, 1908).
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown
A rhyming translation of Elohai Neshamah.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown
A rhyming translation of the evening prayer Hashkivenu.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown
A rhymed paraliturgical translation of the prayer over sleeping.

