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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)

📖 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) | 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

📖 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)

📖 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)

📖 ברכה ותהלה | Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923)

ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (CCAR 1923) is a collection of fifty teḥinot and devotional readings in vernacular English. The work was compiled by a committee chaired by Rabbi Solomon Freehof, along with Rabbi Israel Bettan, Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, and Rabbi Abram Simon.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, paraliturgical teḥinot, תחינות teḥinot

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Solomon B. Freehof, Israel Bettan, Abraham Cronbach, Morris Samuel Lazaron, Abram Simon and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

📖 Techinah-Book, by Rabbi Simon Glazer (1930)

A collection of teḥinot, in English, edited by Rabbi Simon Glazer.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Needing Decompilation, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Simon Glazer and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951)

The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. In the largest section, “Meditations,” the collection re-published 36 of the prayers from CCAR’s ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (1923), omitting 15. To these, three new prayers were added, along with some new sections: “Family Worship,” “Personal Prayers for Special Occassions,” “Prayers for Night and Morning,” and “Prayers in Time of Sickness and Death.”

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

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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