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This is a collection of seder teḥinot -- arrangements of vernacular supplicatory and paraliturgical prayers intended for private devotional use outside and supplementary to prayers offered publicly in the synagogue.

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📖 Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Pereẓ Beer (1815, 1839, 1843)

The first anthology of teḥinot published in Judeo-German rather than Yiddish.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Pereẓ (Peter) Beer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 תְּחִנּוֹת בְּנוֹת יְשֻׁרוּן | Techinôs Benôs Jeschurun ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Wolf Mayer (1828)

The second anthology of teḥinot published in Judeo-German rather than Yiddish.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Ohad Stolarz (transcription), Wolf Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 בֵּית יַעֲקֹב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829/1833, 1835/1842)

These are Yehoshua Heshil Miro’s anthologies of teḥinot, beginning with תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1829), one of the earliest anthologies of teḥinot published in German rather than Yiddish. A slightly revised edition with six pieces added and three removed followed in 1833. That work served as the basis for a much larger compilation, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion (1835), which, for the first time, printed the tehinot in German in a Latin (rather than Hebrew) script using the then common Fraktur typeface. A slightly enlarged expanded edition of Beit Yaaqov published in 1842 contains an additional teḥinah (as well as approbations by Rabbi Abraham Geiger and Rabbi Solomon Tiktin).

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Memorial, Funeral, and Cemetery Prayer Guides, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, pedagogy, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

📖 Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings, by Grace Aguilar [ca. late 1830s] (ed. Sarah Aguilar 1852/1853)

Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings (1852/1853) is a collection of prayers in vernacular English by Grace Aguilar (1816-1847), published posthumously by her mother, Sarah Aguilar née Dias Fernandes (1786-1854).

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Grace Aguilar and Sarah Aguilar

📖 Die Fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Max Emanuel Stern (1841, 1846)

An anthology of teḥinot in German compiled by Max Emanuel Stern, Die fromme Zionstochter: Andachtsbuch für Israels Frauen und Mädchen zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Gottesverehrung an allen Wochen -Fest – und Busse-Tagen und für alle Verhältnisse (1841). A second edition with slight changes to the typeface and layout was published in 1846.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Menaḥem Mendel Stern and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Meïr haLevi Letteris (1846)

This is the anthology of teḥinot in in German compiled by Meir haLevi Letteris, תחנוני בת יהודה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah) Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Erbauung in allen Berhältnissen des Lebens als Jungfrau, Brant, Gattin und Mutter, originally published in 1846.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Meïr haLevi Letteris and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 אמרי לב (Imrei Lev) Prières D’un Cœur Israélite, a collection of paraliturgical prayers and teḥinot in French by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1848/53)

A collection of paraliturgical prayers and teḥinot, edited by the chief rabbi of Strasbourg and translated into French by Jonas Ennery, as a supplement to the Jewish liturgy of the synagogue.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron, Consistoire central israélite de France and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

📖 Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions, an anthology of teḥinot by Miriam Wertheimer (1852) translated from the work of Dr. Meïr Letteris (1846)

This is the anthology of teḥinot, Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), translated by Miriam Wertheimer from Taḥnunei bat Yehudah (1846) by Meïr Letteris. On the title page and the preface, the author of the work translated by Wertheimer was somehow misidentified as Wolfgang Wessely.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Jewry, English Translation, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Miriam Wertheimer (translation), Meïr haLevi Letteris and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 רֻחָמָה | Ruḥamah: Devotional Exercises for the Use of the Daughters of Israel, by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1852)

A collection of teḥinot translated, adapted, and republished in English. This is one of the first collections of teḥinot published for an English speaking audience and the first prayerbook in English for use by Jewish women published in the United States.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Anglo Jewry, English Translation, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morris Jacob Raphall, Meïr haLevi Letteris, Menaḥem Mendel Stern and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

📖 תחנות בנות ישראל | Devotions for the Daughters of Israel, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

A collection of teḥinot translated, adapted, and republished in English. This is one of the first collections of teḥinot published for an English speaking audience.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Anglo Jewry, English Translation, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 אמרי לב | Prayers and Meditations, and abridged translation by Hester Rothschild (1855) of a collection of teḥinot and paraliturgial prayers by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1852)

This is an abridged translation by Hester Rothschild in 1855 titled אמרי לב Prayers and Meditations, adapted from Prières d’un Cœur Israelite published by the “Société Consistoriale de Bons Livres” (1848). The original work by Rabbi Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery contains tkhines translated into French, prayers by German reformers in French translation, and many additional liturgical translations and paraliturgical prayers. Rothschild’s work presents several prayers in English unique to her compilation by Anglo-Jewish writers. This second edition (1859) contains revisions and corrections (“there are some additions and many improvements”). This second edition was also later republished without permission in the United States by Isaac Leeser containing additional corrections.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Anglo Jewry, English Translation, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot

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Hester Rothschild (translation), Arnaud Aron, Jonas Ennery and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 אמרי לב | Meditations and Prayers, an unendorsed revision by Isaac Leeser (1863) of an abridged translation by Hester Rothschild (1855) of a collection of teḥinot by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1852)

General public forms of prayer may not always be adapted to the peculiar exigencies of every mind; the compilers of this work have therefore striven to supply in some measure this spiritual need, by meditations and prayers suited to every situation and occasion in life; and it has been the humble yet anxious endeavour of the translator to preserve the spirit of the original in its English garb.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Anglo-Jewish, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Decompilation, Needing Proofreading, Needing Transcription, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Isaac Leeser (translation), Jonas Ennery, Arnaud Aron and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 Stunden der Andacht. ein Gebet⸗ und Erbauungs-buch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen | Hours of Devotion. a Book of Prayer and Edification for Israel’s Women and Maiden, a collection of teḥinot in German by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda (1855)

A complete transcription of a collection of teḥinot written in German, the first compilation of Jewish prayers known to be authored by a Jewish woman in a language other than English, Stunden der Andacht (1855/1858) by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Decompilation, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 Hours of Devotion: A Book of Prayers & Meditations for the Use of the Daughters of Israel, an anthology of teḥinot compiled by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A collection of Jewish women’s prayers compiled by Rabbi Moritz Mayer, including twenty-four original English translations of prayers by Fanny Neuda from her collection, Stunden der Andacht 1855.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Translation, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer (translation), Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 הֶגְיוֹן לֵב | Hegyon Lev (Meditations of the Heart): Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht, arranged by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (1867)

This is Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s הגיון לב (Hegyon Lev, “Meditation of the Heart”) Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht (1867).

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, German-speaking Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Benjamin Szold and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

📖 Hanna. Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauen und Mädchen. (Jacob Freund et al, 1867)

After the popular reception among German speaking Jewry of Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), additional sifrei teḥinnot, collections of prayers composed in the vernacular for women, were published in German. One of them, Hanna. Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauen und Mädchen, published in 1867, was compiled with teḥinnot composed by the leading luminaries of Liberal Judaism in Breslau, Silesia: Jacob Freund (1827-1877), Rabbi Abraham Geiger (1810-1874), and Rabbi Moritz Güdemann (1835-1918), Manuel Joël (1826-1890), and Moritz Abraham Levy (1817-1872). The title of the collection is a direct reference to the biblical figure, Ḥanna whose petitionary prayer for a child was answered with the birth of her son, the prophet Shmuel.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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Deutsch, German, Jewish Women's Prayers, Liberal, Reform Movement

Contributor(s):

Jacob Freund and Enrico Segre (transcription)

📖 תפלות בני ישורון (רפורמי) | Hymns, Psalms & Prayers in English and German, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, et al (Minhag America, 1868)

A collection of hymns, psalms, and paraliturgical prayers for festivals and other events in German and English compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa.

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Hymn-Books & Religious poetry, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Pulpit & Ceremonial collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, North America, North American Jewry

Contributor(s):

Minna Cohen Kleeberg and Isaac Mayer Wise

📖 תפלות בני ישורון (רפורמי) | Selected Prayers for Various Occasions in Life, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (Minhag America, 1872)

A siddur supplement compiled by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise containing teḥinot in English for Liberal/Reform congregations establishing a Minhag Ameriḳa.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer, Needing Decompilation, Needing Transcription, North America, North American Jewry, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Isaac Mayer Wise

📖 הֶגְיוֹן לֵב | Hegyon Lev (Meditations of the Heart): Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die häusliche Andacht, arranged by Rabbi Benjamin Szold (revised by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow 1875)

This is Rabbi Benjamin Szold’s הגיון לב (Higayon Lev) Israelitisches Gebetbuch für die Häusliche Andacht, “second completely revised edition” edited by Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (1875). This work was subsequently translated into English by Benjamin Szold’s daughter, Henrietta Szold, and her manuscript used as the draft for the Jewish Ministers’ Association’s Jewish Home Prayer-Book (1887).

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, German-speaking Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Marcus Jastrow and Benjamin Szold

📖 The Jewish Home Prayer-Book: A Manual of Household Devotion (Committee of the Jewish Ministers’ Association, 1887)

A prayerbook containing prayers for private and family use in the home, in vernacular English, expanding upon a prayerbook intended for the same purpose but in German by Benjamin Szold and Marcus Jastrow.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Frederick de Sola Mendes, Gustav Gottheil, Alexander Kohut, Louis Stern, Henrietta Szold, Benjamin Szold and Marcus Jastrow

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