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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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📖 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

📖 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

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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

Contributor(s):

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)

📖 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)

📖 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

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

📖 Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times, by Alice Lucas (1894)

Alice Lucas’s Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894) is a collection of twenty-five adapted English translations, mainly of piyyutim, all intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection was expanded upon in a follow-up publication of Lucas, The Jewish Year (1898).

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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

Contributor(s):

Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation)

📖 Prayers for Jewish Working Girls, by Lilian Helen Montagu (1895)

Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895) is a collection of prayers in vernacular English by Lilian Helen Montagu (1873-1963). The prayerbook was dedicated to the members of the West Central Girls’ Club, founded in 1893 by Lilian and co-led by her and her sister Marian Montagu.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, West Central Girls' Club

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Lilian Helen Montagu

📖 The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year, by Alice Montefiore Lucas (1898)

Alice Lucas’s The Jewish Year: A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays throughout the Year (1898) is a collection of 75 adapted English translations of piyyutim (including 12 original works by Lucas) intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection expanded on an earlier publication of Lucas, Songs of Zion (1894). This work contains all but three of the works published in Songs of Zion.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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

Contributor(s):

Alice Montefiore Lucas (translation) and Alice Montefiore Lucas

📖 Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old, arranged and written by Annie Josephine Levi (1900)

Meditation of the Heart: A Book of Private Devotion for Young and Old (1900) is a collection of teḥinot in English, selected, arranged, and written by Annie Josephine Levi. The introduction was written by the Rabbi Gustav Gottheil. We know very little else about Levi save that she contributed short stories, poems, and essays to periodicals and was active from 1895-1905. (If you know more about her, please contact us.)

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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

Contributor(s):

Annie Josephine Levi and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 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)

📖 Prayers for Trench and Base, by Lt. Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1918)

A small prayerbook for British-Jewish men serving as military personnel on behalf of the British Empire 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., British Commonwealth, British Empire, British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, military, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s):

Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors, by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron (1918)

An ecumenical prayerbook for men serving as United States military personnel during what later became known as World War Ⅰ.

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Interfaith & Ecumenical collections of prayers, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Martial siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, masculinity, military, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s):

Morris Samuel Lazaron and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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