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A Child’s Prayer on its Birthday, by Frederick de Sola Mendes (1887)

Contributed on: 25 Apr 2023 by Frederick de Sola Mendes | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧

“A Child’s Prayer on its Birthday” was written by Frederick de Sola Mendes and published in the anthology, The Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887), page 130. . . .

A Child’s Prayer on its Parent’s Birthday, by Frederick de Sola Mendes (1887)

Contributed on: 25 Apr 2023 by Frederick de Sola Mendes | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧

“A Child’s Prayer on its Parent’s Birthday” was written by Frederick de Sola Mendes and published in the anthology, The Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887), pages 130-131. . . .

📖 The Jewish Home Prayer-Book: A Manual of Household Devotion (Committee of the Jewish Ministers’ Association, 1887)

A prayerbook containing prayers for private and family use in the home, in vernacular English, expanding upon a prayerbook intended for the same purpose but in German by Benjamin Szold and Marcus Jastrow. . . .

מָעוֹז צוּר | Maoz Tsur (trans. by Frederick de Sola Mendes 1914)

Contributed on: 29 Nov 2021 by Frederick de Sola Mendes | Mordecai ben Yitsḥok ha-Levi | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) | ❧

A singable translation of Maoz Tsur by the great ḥakham Frederick de Sola Mendes, here transcribed from the Union Hymnal (CCAR 1914), hymn 190. The translation largely reflects the Hebrew, omitting two verses — the final (and according to some, last added) verse, and the fourth verse about Purim and Haman. . . .