Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Marcus Heinrich (also Mordecai Ḥayyim/Hyman/Heyman) Bresslau (ca. 1808-15 May 1864) was a Hebraist and newspaper editor. Born in Hamburg, he settled in England when young. For some time from 1834 he was Baal Ḳoreh (reader) at the Western Synagogue. He then taught Hebrew at the Westminster Jews’ Free School and went on to tutor privately. A maskil, he became involved with M. J. Raphall’s Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature (1834-6). In October 1844 he was appointed editor of the relaunched Jewish Chronicle by proprietor Joseph Mitchell. Prickly and quarrelsome, he resigned in July 1848 but returned in around September. He remained until about October 1850. After Mitchell’s death in June 1854 he became proprietor (his middle name appearing as Heyman) and edited it until February 1855 when new proprietor Abraham Benisch succeeded him. Bresslau, who tried vainly to revive the Hebrew Review, wrote Hebrew poetry, produced a Hebrew grammar and a Hebrew dictionary, and translated various Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library. Bresslau compiled (we think) the first compilation of teḥinot in English for women. (Much of this information via Bresslau's entry in The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History)
Addenda | Additional Morning Prayers | Bedtime Shema | Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers | Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Child care | Dying | Friday | Ḥanukkah | Hoshana Rabba | Marriage | Monday | Mourning | Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers | 7th Day of Pesaḥ | Pesaḥ Yamei Ḥag | Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth | Purim | Rosh Ḥodesh | Saturday | Shabbat Məvorkhim | Minḥah l'Shabbat | Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah) | Shiv'ah b'Adar | Sukkot | Sunday | Thursday | Tishah b'Av | Tuesday | Engagements & Weddings | Wednesday | Well-being, health, and caregiving
Anglo Jewry | baby daughters | ברכת הגומל birkat hagomel | birthday prayers | cemetery prayers | children's prayers | divine light | אלהי נצור Elohai Netsor | engagement | English Translation | English vernacular prayer | Freedom | gender roles | הזכרת נשמות hazkarat neshamot | infants | Jewish Women's Prayers | liberty | love your fellow as yourself | martyrdom | מודים Modim | mortality | Mosheh Rabbenu | naming | naming ceremonies | night | עולם הבא Olam Haba | paraliturgical az yashir | paraliturgical hazkarat neshamot | paraliturgical mah tovu | Paraliturgical Prayer for the New Month | Paraliturgical yizkor | Parents blessing children | prayers concerning children | Prayers on behalf of children | prayers on behalf of parents | prayers for siblings | prayers of orphans | Problematic prayers | Sunday | teḥinot in English | תחינות teḥinot | thankfulness | thanksgiving | vows | יאָרצײַט yahrẓeit | יצר הרע yetser hara | יזכור yizkor | 19th century C.E. | 57th century A.M.
Night Prayer, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)
Contributed on: 11 Jun 2020 by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
A prayer before going to sleep at night. . . .