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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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📖 סדר תחנות ובקשות | Seder Teḥinot u’Baqashot (Rödelheim 1891)

An authoritative edition of the Seder Teḥinot (Seyder Tkhines) from the esteemed Rödelheim publishing house.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

J. Lehrberger & Co. [Rödelheim]

📖 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

📖 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

📖 סידור קרבן מנחה (נוסח האר״י)‏ | Siddur Ḳorban Minḥah (1897)

Siddur Qorban Minḥah, a Jewish prayerbook collecting the customs of the school of the ARI z”l, accompanied by tkhines and translations in Yiddish.

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Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Nusaḥ Ha-Ari z"l, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 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)

📖 Noémi, by Rabbi Arnold Kiss (1906)

A collection of prayers for Jewish girls by the chief rabbi of Buda.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th 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

📖 Rachel: Imák Zsidó Nők Számára, by Gyula Fischer with József Patai (1908)

A collection of prayers in Magyar for Jewish women by Gyula Fischer and József Patai from 1908.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, teḥinot in Magyar

Contributor(s):

József Patai, Gyula Fischer, Gabor Weisz and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 Shahar, by Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh (1910)

Shahar is a morning prayerbook in vernacular Portuguese prepared in 1910 by Artur Carlos de Barros Basto under his Hebrew name, Abraham Israel Ben-Rosh. This is the second edition or printing of the prayerbook, under the auspices of the Instituto Oryamita Do Porto, published in 1920.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Oryam movement, Portuguese Jewry, Portuguese vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Artur Carlos de Barros Basto and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

📖 ש״ס תחנה חדשה | Shas Teḥinah Ḥadashah (A New Tkhine of Six Orders), compiled by Ben-Tsiyon Alfes (Vilna 1910)

A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by Ben-Tsiyon Alfes.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Ben-Tsiyon Alfes

📖 רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל־בָּנֶיהָ | Rokhl M’vako al Boneho: A Nayye Shas Tekhine :: Raḥel Weeps for Her Children: A New Collection of Teḥinot (Vilna 1910)

A compilation of Jewish women’s prayers in Yiddish published in Vilna in 1910, with prayers attributed to Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil, a Jewish woman living in Jerusalem.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil and Unknown

📖 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)

📖 סדר תפלה בקצרה | La Tefila du Soldat, an abridged bilingual Hebrew-French prayerbook for Jewish soldiers compiled by Rabbi Maurice Liber (Consistoire central israelíte de France 1914/1939)

La Tefila du Soldat is an abridged bilingual Hebrew-French prayerbook for French-Jewish soldiers prepared in 1939 by Rabbi Maurice Liber, the former interim Chief Rabbi of France under Rabbi Israël Lévi (from 1934-1939). In addition to abridged liturgy, the prayerbook also contains a curated selection of teḥinot in vernacular French, and psalms in French translation. Rabbi Isaie Schwartz, appointed chief rabbi in 1939, wrote the introductory letter to Jewish soldiers at the start of the French section of the siddur. In it, he notes the prayerbook is, essential, a copy of one offered to French-Jewish soldiers by the Consistoire central israelíte de France during World War Ⅰ.

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Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers, Martial siddurim

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, military, World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Maurice Liber, Mayer Lambert, Isaïe Schwartz and Consistoire central israélite de France

📖 ש״ס תחנה רב פנינים | Shas Teḥinah Rav Peninim (Hebrew Publishing Company 1916)

A popular collection of tkhines compiled from earlier collections by the Hebrew Publishing Company.

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Hebrew Publishing Company

📖 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)

📖 תפלת ישראל | Tefilat Yisrael: A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Miẓpah 1921)

A small work of Jewish prayer intended for Jewish women published by the sisterhood of Temple Miẓpah in Chicago.

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

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Reform Jewry

Contributor(s):

Angie Irma Cohon, Women of Miẓpah and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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