Armistice Day (November 11th) • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

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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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)

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Armistice Day (November 11th), War, United Kingdom

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

“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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, Armistice Day (November 11th), War, United Kingdom

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th), United States of America

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

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

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Max D. Klein

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th), War

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

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

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

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th)

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

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). . . .

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

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Hyman Solomon

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags:

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

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

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)

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th)

Tags:

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

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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th), War, United Kingdom

Tags:

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

“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. . . .

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

Contributor(s):

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

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th), War, United Kingdom

Tags:

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

“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. . . .

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]

Contributor(s):

Dovi Seldowitz and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

Germany, Armistice Day (November 11th), War

Tags:

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

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. . . .