ברכה לאדונינו הקיסר ירה | Prayer for the Holy Roman Emperor and Empress, Leopold Ⅰ and Margaret (1658/1666)

This is a 17th century prayer for the Holy Roman Emperor found in Ms. 110 (Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic). . . .

Categories: Government & Country, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇭🇺 Hungary

Tags: 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Holy Roman Empire, Leopold I

Contributor(s): Jacob Chatinover (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Gebet für den Regenten | Prayer for the Regent (Friedrich Wilhelm Ⅲ, King of Prussia), by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1833)

“Gebet für den Regenten” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro from the traditional prayer for the sovereign (“Hanoten Teshua”) and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1833 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion on pp. 66-67. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №45 on pp. 75-76. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №47 on pp. 78-79, with the name of Friedrich Wilhelm Ⅲ (1770-1840) replaced by Friedrich Wilhelm Ⅳ (1795-1861). The Hebrew liturgy from which Miro’s translation was derived was reconstructed from variations of Hanoten Teshua current in the 19th century at the time this prayer was published. . . .

Categories: 🇩🇪 Germany

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Kingdom of Prussia

Contributor(s): Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Recovery of Emperor Frederick Ⅲ, King of Prussia — by Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler (1888)

A prayer for the well-being, health and recovery of Emperor Frederick Ⅲ by Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler (Temple Beth-El, New York) published in “In Town: Praying for the Emperor,” The Jewish Messenger (4 May 1888), page 2. . . .

Categories: 🇩🇪 Germany

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Emperor Friedrick III, Prayers for leaders

Contributor(s): Kaufmann Kohler and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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)

Gebet für das Vaterland | A Prayer for the Fatherland (Siddur Sephat Emeth, Rödelheim, 1938)

This prayer for the country is found in the Siddur Sephat Emeth, which was published by the venerable Rödelheim publishing house in Frankfurt in 1938. This was probably the last siddur ever published in pre-Holocaust Germany. This prayer is full of pathos and yearning, and in a time of rising government-sponsored antisemitism worldwide it’s worth keeping in mind. . . .

Categories: Government & Country, 🇩🇪 Germany

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, Needing Attribution, Third Reich

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

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