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This is an archive of prayers composed for or relevant to Independence Day, a civic day in the United States celebrated on July 4th.

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The Star-Spangled Banner | די שטערן־שטרײפיקע פאָן | דֶגֶל הַכּוֹכָבִים — the national anthem of the United States by Francis Scott Key (1814)

The National Anthem of the United States of America with a Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin. . . .

Categories:

🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th), 🇺🇸 United States of America

Tags:

19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., Battle of Baltimore, flags banners and escutcheons, national anthems, Patriotic hymns, vexillology, War of 1812, Yiddish translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation), Gershon Rosenzweig (translation) and Francis Scott Key

America (My Country, ‘Tis of Thee) | מײן לאנד, מײן ליבע דו | לְאַרְצֵֽנוּ מִזְמוֹר שִׁיר — a patriotic hymn by Samuel Francis Smith (1832)

The well-known patriotic hymn with a Hebrew and a Yiddish translation. . . .

Categories:

🇺🇸 Arbor Day (last Friday of April), 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th)

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, doikayt, hereness, Patriotic hymns, United States, Yiddish songs, Yiddish translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation), Gershon Rosenzweig (translation) and Samuel Francis Smith

🆕 Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean or The Red, White and Blue (קָלֹמְבִּיָּה! צִיץ נֵֽזֶר הַיָּם או אָדוֹם, לָבָן וּתְֿכֵֽלֶת) — a patriotic hymn by Thomas A’Becket, Sr. (ca. 1843)

“Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean” (originally “Columbia, the Land of the Brave”) was an American patriotic song popular in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Adapted by Thomas A’Becket, Sr. around 1843 from the British patriotic song “Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean”, Columbia was long used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States, in competition with other songs. . . .

Categories:

🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th)

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-fascist, Patriotic hymns, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Gershon Rosenzweig (translation) and Thomas A'Becket, Sr.

America the Beautiful (אַמעריקע די פּרעכטיקע) — a patriotic hymn by Katharine Lee Bates (1895)

“America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). . . .

Categories:

🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th)

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, doikayt, hereness, Patriotic hymns, United States, Yiddish songs, Yiddish translation, זמירות zemirot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation) and Katharine Lee Bates

מײן אַמעריקא (אונזער נײע הימנע) | My America (Our New Hymn) by Morris Rosenfeld (1917)

“My America (Our New Hymn)” was written by Morris Rosenfeld and published by the Jewish Morning Journal sometime mid-April 1917. On April 2nd, the United States had entered the World War against Germany and its allies. In the xenophobic atmosphere of the United States during World War Ⅰ, Representative Isaac Siegel (1880-1947), R-NY, offered the hymn as evidence of the patriotism of America’s “foreign-born” Jewish immigrants. The poem in its English translation was added to the Congressional Record on 18 April 1917 in an extension of remarks. Xenophobia in the United States though did not ebb. Nearly a year later, on April 4, 1918, a German immigrant, Robert Prager, was lynched in Collinsville, Illinois. . . .

Categories:

🇺🇸 Independence Day (July 4th), 🇺🇸 Veterans Day (11 November), 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic hymns, Prayers as poems, rhyming translation, United States home front during World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅰ, Yiddish translation, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Morris Rosenfeld and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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