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Contributed by:
Unknown, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)
The African-American Christian spiritual adapted for a Pesaḥ song in Hebrew and English.
Contributed by:
Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation), Unknown
A tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog
Contributed by:
Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This prayer of praise of Tsar Alexander II (1818-1881), for largely ending feudalism by emancipating the serfs of the Russian Empire was written by an unknown author and published in HaMelitz on Thursday, 28 March 1861.
Contributed by:
Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Contributed by:
Unknown, Jonah S. Boyarin (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This tekhina (supplication) upon candlelighting for Shavuot in Hebrew and Yiddish appears in the Maḥzor for Shavuot Rav Peninim (Vilna 1911) although we are uncertain whether it first appeared here. We welcome your help in correctly attributing and translating it.
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown
Hälē Hälē yebärkewo (Praise, Praise, Bless the One) is the fourth prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd.
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown
Wäṣoru Tabotomu (They Carried Out Their Ark) is the first prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd. It is a prayer said upon the removal of the Orit from the synagogue ark.
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown
Wäy’ärgu Debre (And They Climbed the Mount) is the second prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd. It is the first prayer said upon arriving on the mountain, based on the ritual described in Neḥemyah 9.
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown
Mänabərätä betä Dawitə (Thrones of David’s House) is the sixth prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd. It is an ancient text inspired by and quoting Psalm 122, partially in Geʿez and partially in Agaw.
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown
Yitbärēk Egzi’äbḥer (Blessed be YHVH) is the third prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd. It is a morning blessing.
Contributed by:
Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown
Nəʽu nəsəgədə (Come, Let Us Bow) is the fifth prayer in this order of prayers for the morning of Sigd.
Contributed by:
Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (translation)
This is a transcription, vocalization, and translation of a manuscript of a prayer for peace in Europe held in the collection of the Columbia University Library. The prayer is undated but the language of the prayer and the use of Italian indicate to me that this was a prayer made by an Italian Jewish community during either the first Italian War of Independence 1848-9, or one of the two succeeding wars in 1860 and 1870.
Contributed by:
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.
Contributed by:
Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Contributed by:
Norman Tarnor (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for a childless woman seeking to conception.
Contributed by:
Mendel Spalter (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A tkhine (supplication) for a mother to say before her daughter’s wedding, transcribed and translated from the Siddur Qorban Minḥah (1897).
Contributed by:
Mendel Spalter (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A tkhine (supplication) for a bride to say before their wedding, transcribed and translated from the Siddur Qorban Minḥah (1897).
Contributed by:
Isaac Leeser (translation), David de Aaron de Sola, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for those traveling over water on a sea or ocean voyage.
Contributed by:
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.
Contributed by:
Hyman Hurwitz, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
“God Save the King” was originally written by an unknown author and circulated in three stanzas during the reign of Britain’s King George Ⅱ, circa 1745. This Hebrew translation, “El Shemor haMelekh,” as translated by Hyman Hurwitz with an added fourth stanza, was first published in his The Etymology and Syntax of the Hebrew Language (1831), pp. 276-279, during the reign of King William Ⅳ (1765-1837).
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