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Isaac Leeser (translation)

Isaac Leeser (December 12, 1806 – February 1, 1868) was an American, Ashkenazi Jewish lay minister of religion, author, translator, editor, and publisher; pioneer of the Jewish pulpit in the United States, and founder of the Jewish press of America. He produced the first Jewish translation of the Bible into English, as well as editions of the liturgy. He is considered one of the most important American Jewish personalities of nineteenth century America.

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📖 אמרי לב | Meditations and Prayers, an unendorsed revision by Isaac Leeser (1863) of an abridged translation by Hester Rothschild (1855) of a collection of teḥinot by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1852)

Contributed on: 23 Nov 2014 by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Jonas Ennery | Arnaud Aron | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) |

General public forms of prayer may not always be adapted to the peculiar exigencies of every mind; the compilers of this work have therefore striven to supply in some measure this spiritual need, by meditations and prayers suited to every situation and occasion in life; and it has been the humble yet anxious endeavour of the translator to preserve the spirit of the original in its English garb. . . .


On Composing Prayers Outside of the Prayerbook, an introduction by Isaac Leeser to “Two Short Prayers” (1851)

Contributed on: 23 Sep 2021 by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) |

Thoughts on petitionary prayer literature (teḥinot) and Jewish women’s prayer literature in the mid-19th century United States of America. . . .


תפלת הים | Prayer for a Seaship Voyage, or During a Storm at Sea (1837)

Contributed on: 13 Feb 2021 by Isaac Leeser (translation) | David de Aaron de Sola | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) |

A prayer for those traveling over water on a sea or ocean voyage. . . .


בַּחֹֽדֶשׁ הָֽרְבִיעִי | baḤodesh haRevi’i (In the fourth month), a ḳinah for the 17th of Tamuz attributed to Solomon ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.)

Contributed on: 27 Jun 2021 by Isaac Leeser (translation) | Unknown Translator(s) | Shlomo ibn Gabirol | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) |

The seliḥah with its English translation as found in Siddur Siftei Tsadiqim (The Form of Prayers) vol. 6: Seder haTefilot laTaaniyot (ed. Isaac Leeser 1838) p.107-109. . . .