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Contributed by:
Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Masoretic Hebrew text of Proverbs 30:10-31, the alphabetic acrostic “Eshet Ḥayil,” with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig.
Contributed by:
Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Ḳaddish d’Rabbanan in Aramaic with its German translation by Franz Rosenzweig.
Contributed by:
Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The popular adjuration of the angels of peace and ministering angels, Shalom Aleikhem, in Hebrew with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig.
Contributed by:
Franz Rosenzweig (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A German translation of the Birkat haMazon prepared by Franz Rosenzweig.
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Felix Adler, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Preis der Gotteslehre” is a hymn translated by Felix Adler from one found in Gebete und Gesänge zu dem von der Genossenschaft für Reform im Judenthum zu Berlin eingerichteten Gottesdienst für die Zeit zwischen dem Schewuoth- und Roschhaschanah-Fest des Weltjahres 5606/7, hymn №23, pp. 19-20 (1846) and published in Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871), hymn №3, pp. 6-7. We have tentatively dated this translation to 1868, since another hymn by Adler (“School-hymn, no. 36”) can be found appended from another unattributed work in A Guide to Instruction in the Israelitsh Religion (Samuel Adler, trans. M. Mayer, Temple Emanu-El, 1864, 4th printing 1868). The original hymn in German has three stanzas.
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James Koppel Gutheim, Gotthold Salomon, Immanuel Wohlwill, Maimon Fraenkel, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“Erhöre, Herr, mein Wort” is a hymn selected by Rabbi Gotthold Salomon, Immanuel Wohlwill, and Maimon Fraenkel for inclusion in the Hamburg Temple Hymnal (1833), hymn №300, pp. 367-368. The first three stanzas were translated by Rabbi James Koppel Gutheim and published as “Erhebung zu Gott! (Trust in God)” in his Hymns, for Divine Service in the Temple Emanu-El (1871) as hymn №2, pp. 4-5.
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Offenbach, Unknown
A German-language Lied, or art song, retelling Ḥad Gadya, by the great cantor (and father of an even greater composer) Isaac Offenbach. First published in his 1838 “Hagadah, oder Erzählung von Israels Auszug aus Egypten” in Cologne, along with sheet music of a setting for voice and piano, it is here typed in modernized German spelling.
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Paul Christian Kirchner (translation), Unknown
This is a German translation of the first nine stanzas of the counting song popularly sung at the Passover seder, made by Paul Christian Kirchner in 1717.
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Isaac Offenbach, Unknown
A German-language Lied, or art song, retelling Ḥad Gadya, by the great cantor (and father of an even greater composer) Isaac Offenbach. First published in his 1838 “Hagadah, oder Erzählung von Israels Auszug aus Egypten” in Cologne, along with sheet music of a setting for voice and piano, it is here typed in modernized German spelling.
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Paul Christian Kirchner (translation), Unknown
This is a German translation of the Passover table-song Ḥad Gadya as translated by Paul Christian Kirchner in 1717.
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Seligman Baer, Unknown
This is a transcription of “Atanu l’Kha Yotsér,” a seliḥah for the 17th of Tammuz of unknown authorship found in 13th century Ashkenazi manuscripts and translated by Isaac Seligman Baer in הסליחות לכל השנה: לפי מנהג האשכנזים Ha-Seliḥot le-khol ha-shanah: le-fi minhag ha-Ashkenazim (1865), pp. 558-561..
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Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
This Western Yiddish alphabetical adaptation of Adir Hu is first found in the 1769 Selig Haggadah, under the name of “Baugesang” (meaning Building Song). It grew to be a beloved part of the Western Ashkenazi rite, to the point where the traditional German Jewish greeting after the Seder was “Bau gut,” or “build well!”
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Paul Christian Kirchner (translation), Unknown
This is a variation of the “Baugesang,” a variation of the piyyut Adir Hu sung in German translation. Better known in form found in the 1769 Selig Haggadah, this is a variation published in 1717 by Paul Christian Kirchner.
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Lise Tarlau, Unknown
Contributed by:
Franz Rosenzweig (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Psalms 126 in Masoretic Hebrew, with a German translation by Franz Rosenzweig.
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