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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)

📖 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

📖 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

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Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Meïr haLevi Letteris 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

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Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda 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

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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

📖 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

📖 Mirjam, by Rabbi Arnold Kiss (1897)

A collection of prayers in Magyar for Jewish women composed by the rabbi of Veszprém, later, the chief rabbi of Buda.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, teḥinot in Magyar

Contributor(s):

Arnold Kiss

📖 Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen, by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald (1907)

An anthology of prayers (teḥinot) for Jewish women written in vernacular German by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald and thirty-one other authors including women.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s):

Max Grunwald

📖 Feldgebetbuch für die jüdischen Mannschaften des Heeres, by Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm Münz (1914)

A small prayerbook for German-Jewish men serving as military personnel on behalf of the German Empire (Second Reich) during what later became known as World War Ⅰ.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Martial siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Empire, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, military, Second Reich, Teḥinot in German, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s):

Leo Baeck, Wilhelm Münz and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Gebete in Kriegszeit für isralitische Frauen und Madchen, by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald (1914)

A collection of five teḥinot compiled for the use of German-Jewish women gravely concerned for the well-being of their husbands, fathers, and sons serving as military personnel during what became known as World War Ⅰ.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Austria-Hungary, Austrian Jewry, Central Powers, German Empire, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Second Reich, Teḥinot in German, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s):

Max Grunwald and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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