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Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation)

Alice Julia Lucas (née Montefiore) (2 August 1851 – 25 March 1935) was a British Jewish poet, translator, and communal worker. Alice Julia Montefiore was born in 1851, the elder daughter of Nathaniel M. Montefiore and Emma Goldsmid. Alongside her brother Claude Montefiore, she studied Judaism under Solomon Schechter at the Hochschule in Berlin. On 24 April 1873 she married barrister Henry Lucas, who later served as treasurer and vice-president of the United Synagogue. In 1900 she helped establish the Jewish Study Society, modelled after the Council of Jewish Women, of which she served as the first president. Lucas also sat on the women's committee of the Westminster Jews' Free School and its preparatory nursery, the Jews' Infant School.

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📖 The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year, by Alice Montefiore Lucas (1898)

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.


📖 Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times, by Alice Lucas (1894)

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).


יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyuṭ by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (abridged rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Yitsḥak Luria

An abridged rhymed translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael.


יִגְדַּל (אשכנז)‏ | Yigdal, by Daniel ben Yehudah Dayan (rhyming translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

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.


צוּר מִשֶּׁלּוֹ אָכַֽלְנוּ | Tsur Mishelo Akhalnu, a paraliturgical Birkat haMazon (rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown

A rhymed translation of Tsur Mishelo, a paralitugical Birkat haMazon.


כִּי הִנֵּה כַּחֹֽמֶר | Ki Hinéh Kaḥomer, rhymed translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown

A rhyming translation of the pizmon for maariv on Yom Kippur.


אֲֽדֹנָי נֶגְדְּךָ כׇל־תַּאֲוָתִי | Adonai Negdekha kol Ta’avati (“The Hearts Desire”), a piyyuṭ by Yehudah haLevi (early 12th c.) rhyming translation by Alice Lucas (1894)

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.


מִי יִתְּנֵנִי עֶבֶד אֱלוֹהַּ עוֹשֵׂנִי | Mi Yitneni Eved Elo’ah Oseni (“Servant of God”), a piyyut by Yehudah ha-Levi (adapted rhyming English translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

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.


שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ צוּרִי וּמִשְׂגַּבִּי | Shaḥar Avaqeshkha Tsuri u-Misgabi (Unto thy Rock, my soul, uplift thy gaze) — a piyyut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (rhyming English adaptation by Alice Lucas, 1898)

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.


אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם (אשכנז)‏ | Adōn Olam, translated by Alice Lucas (1894)

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.


הַמַּבְדִּיל בֵּין קֹדֶשׁ לְחֹל | Hamavdil Bein Ḳodesh l’Ḥol, a piyyuṭ attributed to Yitsḥaq ben Yehudah ibn Ghayyat (rhymed translation by Alice Lucas, 1894)

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.


אַאֲמִיר אוֹתְךָ סֶֽלָה | Aamir Otekha Selah, an ofan piyyut for Sukkot by Elazar ben Qallir (rhymed translation by Alice Lucas 1894)

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).


אֱלֹהַי נְשָׁמָה | Elohai Neshamah, a rhyming translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown

A rhyming translation of Elohai Neshamah.


הַשְׁכִּיבֵנוּ | Hashkivenu, rhymed translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown

A rhyming translation of the evening prayer Hashkivenu.


בִּרְכָּת הַמַּפִּיל | Birkat haMapil, rhymed translation by Alice Lucas (1898)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation), Unknown

A rhymed paraliturgical translation of the prayer over sleeping.



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