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This is an archive of prayers for International Armistice Day.

Armistice Day (and Remembrance Day) is commemorated internationally by many countries to mark the anniversary of the end of World War Ⅰ. Major hostilities of World War Ⅰ were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.

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תפלה בבתי כנסיות דק״ק פירטה שנת תרע״ד | A Prayer for the Synagogues of the Holy Jewish Community of Fürth [Germany, at the onset of war] – 5674 [1914]

This prayer appears to have been issued for Jewish soldiers serving in the German army at the start of World War Ⅰ and was recited in the synagogues in Fürth, Germany in 1914. The prayer was printed as a single leaflet by the printer Druck von Lehrberger & Co. in Frankfurt am Main. A leaflet ended up in the Central Chabad Lubavitch Library in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY (Card #87119), although no explanation has been offered how a Chasidic group based in Russia came to acquire this work. The original leaflet was digitized and made accessible via the Chabad library website. . . .

Categories: 🇩🇪 Germany, War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Fürth, German Empire, German Jewry, military, Second Reich, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Dovi Seldowitz and Unknown Author(s)

Prayer for Sailors and Soldiers on Active Service, by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1914)

“Prayer for Sailors and Soldiers on Active Service,” was likely written by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz and published at the outset of the Prayer Book for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers [of H.M. Forces] (Office of the Chief Rabbi 1914), p. 5. . . .

Categories: War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th), 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, German Empire, military, Second Reich, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Joseph Herman Hertz, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer on the Declaration of War [against Imperial Germany], by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1914)

“Prayer Composed by the Chief Rabbi on the Declaration of War. (August 1914.),” by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, was published in the Prayer Book for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers [of H.M. Forces] (Office of the Chief Rabbi 1914), p. 32. . . .

Categories: War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th), 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, German Empire, military, Second Reich, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Joseph Herman Hertz, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer on the Signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty on June 28th 1919 ending World War Ⅰ (Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London, 5 July 1919)

A prayer upon the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty on 28 June 1919, included in a special service by the Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London on the following Shabbat. . . .

Categories: 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Empire, British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, Versailles Peace Treaty, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Israel Mattuck, Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Armistice Day Prayer, by Rabbi Hyman Solomon (after World War Ⅰ, circa 1920s)

A prayer written for Armistice Day after the first World War. . . .

Categories: 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, English vernacular prayer, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Hyman Solomon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Armistice Day Prayer, by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1923)

This “Armistice Day Prayer” was composed in 1923 by the Office of the Chief Rabbi on the Anniversary of the cessation of conflict on November 11th marking the end of the Great War (later known as World War I). . . .

Categories: 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, United Kingdom, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s): Joseph Herman Hertz, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

May Wars Cease, a hymn by Rabbi Max Klein (1926)

A hymn for the end of war by Rabbi Max D. Klein. . . .

Categories: War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anti-war, English vernacular prayer, hymns, Philadelphia

Contributor(s): Max D. Klein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

גאָט בענטש אַמעריקע | God Bless America, for Armistice Day by Irving Berlin (1918/1938) with Yiddish translation

The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. . . .

Categories: 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th), 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, doikayt, hereness, Patriotic hymns, United States, Yiddish songs, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s): Henry Sapoznik (translation/Yiddish), Irving Berlin and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer on the Declaration of War [against Nazi Germany], by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1940)

This prayer for victory and deliverance in the war against Nazi Germany, simply titled “War Prayer,” appears in the Prayer Book of Jewish Members of H.M. Forces (Office of the Chief Rabbi 1940), pp. 16-17. Sections of the prayer were adapted from the prayer on the declaration of war by Rabbi Hertz in 1914 at the outset of World War I. In the preface to the payer book, Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz specifically mentions this prayer, among others, as having been newly revised for this publication. The initial version of the prayer, likely to have been written by Rabbi Hertz, was published by the Office of the Chief Rabbi for a 17 Tammuz service in July 1938. A revision was disseminated after Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938). This is the third version of the prayer. . . .

Categories: 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th), 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-fascist, anti-Nazi, British Jewry, military, Third Reich, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s): Joseph Herman Hertz, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of Intercession [for Britain in the War against Nazi Germany], by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1940)

“Prayer for Intercession,” almost certainly written by Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, was published in the Prayer Book of Jewish Members of H.M. Forces (Office of the Chief Rabbi 1940), pp. 18-19. . . .

Categories: 🌐 Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), 🇺🇸 Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th), 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-fascist, anti-Nazi, British Jewry, military, Third Reich, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s): Joseph Herman Hertz, Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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