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![]() Lise TarlauLise Tarlau (also known as L'Ysaye/Isaye/Ysaye/Ysale, Lisa, Lize, Elizabeth, Luise, and Louise Tarleau; 1879-1952), was a writer born to a prominent Viennese Bohemian Jewish family, the daughter of Rabbi Dr. Joseph Samuel Bloch and Laura Lachmann. In an essay published in 1906, "The Religious Problem," she expressed enthusiasm for Zionism and a deep sympathy for East European, Yiddish speaking Jewry, praising them for having retained their own distinctive cultural identity and their own language. This posture was accompanied by harsh criticism of Western European Jewish cultural assimilation, writing that they have “lived as parasites on the creative possibilities of the dreams of beauty of other peoples” (as quoted in Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away, 2003). Before emigrating to the United States in 1908, nearly two dozen prayers she wrote were published in Beruria (1907), an anthology of teḥinot in German compiled by her sister's husband Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald. A decade later in the US, Houghton Mifflin Company and Riverside Press published The Inn of Disenchantment (1917), a collection of her prose and several short stories. Tarlau's fiction also appeared in major magazines of the day, including The Nation (105:2725, September 20, 1917), The Atlantic Monthly (in 1919), and Harper's Magazine. In 1924, her short story "Loutré" was awarded second place in Harper's first ever short story contest. During World War II, she wrote a number of scripts for radio and film and worked as a translator for the US military. Several of her works were included in The Fireside Book of Romance (ed. C. Edward Wagenknecht, 1948). She died on October 9, 1952 in Kew Gardens, Queens, Long Island, New York. https://www.geni.com/people/Louise-Tarlau/6000000039642814681 |
Contributed on: 25 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Abendlied” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 29. . . .
Contributed on: 26 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
The paraliturgical adaptation and expansion of “Adaun Aulom” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 93-94. I have set the stanzas or verses from Adon Olam in their original Hebrew side-by-side with Lise Tarlau’s adapted text (according to the arrangement that seems closest to me) so that their proximity may illuminate her inspiration. . . .
Contributed on: 08 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Am Grabe der Mutter” by Lisa Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 540-541. . . .
Contributed on: 08 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Am Grabe des Gatten” by Lisa Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 544-545. . . .
Contributed on: 09 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Am Grabe einer jungen Schwester” by Lisa Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 547-549. . . .
Contributed on: 09 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Am Grabe eines jungen Bruders” by Lisa Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 546-547. . . .
Contributed on: 25 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Beruria” by Lisa Tarlau is an eponymous ode provided as the preface to Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages v-viii. . . .
Contributed on: 02 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Der Schmerz” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 523-525. . . .
Contributed on: 06 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
This paraliturgical adaptation of the piyyut Shalom Aleikhem by Lise Tarlau (“Engelsgruß. (Scholaum alechem.)”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 85. . . .
Contributed on: 02 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Gebet einer Mutter am Hochzeitstage ihrer Tochter” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 441-444. . . .
Contributed on: 05 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Gebet eines jungen Mädchens am Neujahrsfeste” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 126-128. . . .
Contributed on: 02 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Gebet eines Waisenkindes” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 530. . . .
Contributed on: 04 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
This paraliturgical prayer-poem, “Gebet während des Priestersegens (Ribbaunau schel aulom)” by Lise Tarlau, can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 318-319. . . .
Contributed on: 01 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Geschem” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 363-365. . . .
Contributed on: 26 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
This paraliturgical translation of “Haschkiwenu” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 78. . . .
Contributed on: 06 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
This paraliturgical reflection of the piyyut “Lekha Dodi” by Lise Tarlau (“Lecho daudi”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 74-76. . . .
Contributed on: 06 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
This paraliturgical reflection of the prayer “Magen Avot” by Lise Tarlau (“Mogen owaus”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 79. . . .
Contributed on: 25 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Nachtgebet eines Kindes” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 30. . . .
Contributed on: 01 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Olenu” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 80-81. . . .
Contributed on: 25 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Schlußgebet” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), page 23. . . .
Contributed on: 05 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
This untitled prayer by Lise Tarlau for concluding the vidui prayers on Yom Kippur (“Sündenbekenntnis. (Widduj.)”) can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 217-218. . . .
Contributed on: 27 Dec 2022 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Tal” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 315-317. . . .
Contributed on: 04 Jan 2023 by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Lise Tarlau | ❧
“Zum Offenbarungsfeste” by Lise Tarlau can be found in Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages 340-341. . . .