Brich aus in lauten Klagen | Break out in loud lamenting, a qinah by Heinrich Heine (1824)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Heinrich Heine, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Brich aus in lauten Klagen” by Heinrich Heine was preserved in a letter he wrote to his friend Moses Moser dated 25 October 1824. The poem is included in Heinrich Heine’s Letters on The Rabbi of Bacharach, the manuscript of which only survived in a fragment, the rest having been lost, according to Heine, in a fire. The English translation here by Nina Salaman was transcribed from her anthology, Apples & Honey (1921) where it appears under the title of “Martyr-Song,” published at an earlier date in The Jewish Chronicle. . . .
יְדִיד נֶפֶשׁ | Yedid Nefesh, a piyyut transmitted by Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (ca. 16th c.) translation by Nina Salaman (1897)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The piyyut, Yedid Nefesh, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
יוֹם זֶה לְיִשְׁרַאֵל | Yom Zeh l’Yisrael, a piyyut by Rabbi Yitsḥaq Luria (translation by Nina Salaman, 1914)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Yitsḥak Luria, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A translation of the piyyut Yom Zeh l’Yisrael. . . .
צוּר מִשֶּׁלּוֹ אָכַֽלְנוּ | Tsur Mishelo Akhalnu, a paraliturgical Birkat haMazon (translation by Nina Salaman 1914)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The paralitugical Birkat haMazon Tsur Mishelo, in Hebrew with an English translation. . . .
חרוז על שחוק האישקקי | Rhymed Poem on Chess (short), by Avraham ibn Ezra (HS. Vatican 171 f.2, oben S. 180)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A medieval Jewish poem on the game of Chess by Avraham ibn Ezra.. . . .
חֲרוּזִים עַל שְּׂחוֹק שָׁ״הּ־מָ״תּ | Rhymed Poem on Chess (long), by Avraham ibn Ezra (ca. 12th c.)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Thomas Hyde (Latin translation), Avraham ibn Ezra, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A poem on how to play chess, one of the oldest historical descriptions of the game of Chess, by Avraham ibn Ezra (12th century) . . .
יָהּ, אָנָה אֶמְצָאֶךָּ | Yah, Where shall I find you?, a piyyut by Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
A piyyut that expresses the paradox of a divinity that is both “Beyond” and “Present.” . . .
אֱלִי, רְפָאֵנִי וְאֵרָפֵא | Eli Refa’eni v’Erafé, the personal physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah haLevi (ca. early 12th c.)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
The physician’s prayer of Rabbi Dr. Yehudah ben Shmuel haLevi in the 12th century CE. . . .
שַׁחַר אֲבַקֶּשְׁךָ | Shaḥar Avaqeshkha (At dawn I seek you), a reshut by Shlomo ibn Gabirol (ca. 11th c.) translated by Nina Salaman (1901)
Contributed by: Nina Davis Salaman (translation), Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The reshut for praying at dawn, in Hebrew with English translation. . . .