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This is an archive of unique and representative prayers offered for the welfare of one’s government and country in the Jewish Diaspora. (For specific historical versions of the prayer “Hanoten Teshuah” not appearing in this category, look under the category for the country in which it was offered.)

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Az uralkodóház és a hazáért | Prayer for the King [Franz Joseph Ⅰ] and the [Hungarian] Homeland, by Rabbi Gyula Fischer (1908)

Modeled after the prayer Hanoten T’shuah, this patriotic paraliturgical prayer for the Kingdom of Hungary by Rabbi Gyula Fischer was published in the prayerbook for Jewish women, Rachel: imák zsidó nők számára (1908). . . .

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Government & Country, 🇭🇺 Hungary

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Franz Joseph I of Austria, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Magyar vernacular prayer, paraliturgical hanoten teshuah

Contributor(s):

Chana Deutsch (Magyar translation) and Gyula Fischer

Ima a királyért és a hazáért | Prayer for the King and the Homeland [of Hungary], by Rabbi Simon Hevesi (1911)

A paraliturgical prayer for the government presented opposite Hanoten T’shuah in Rabbi Simon Hevesi’s siddur Ateret Shalom v’Emet (1911). . . .

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Government & Country, 🇭🇺 Hungary

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Magyar vernacular prayer, paraliturgical prayer for the government

Contributor(s):

Chana Deutsch (Magyar translation) and Simon Hevesi

תפלה בעד שלום המדינה | Prayer for the Welfare of the Government and Country of the United States of America, by Avraham Hyman Charlap (1912)

A prayer for the government offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . .

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Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., civic prayers, democratic process, United States

Contributor(s):

Alan Belsky (translation) and Abraham Hyman Charlap

תפלה בעד שלום המדינה | Prayer for the Government of William Howard Taft, by Avraham Hyman Charlap (1912)

A prayer for the government of President William Howard Taft and Vice-President James Sherman offered by a first generation immigrant to the United States. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., civic prayers, democratic process, United States, William Howard Taft

Contributor(s):

Abraham Hyman Charlap and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Government of the United States of America, by Rabbi Leo Jung (1927)

A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s):

Leo Jung and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for the Government of the United States of America, by Rabbi Norman Salit (1927)

A prayer on behalf of the government of the United States of America by one of the leading architects of Modern Orthodoxy in America. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Americanism, English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s):

Norman Salit and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלָּה בְּעַד הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה | Prayer for the Government, by Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg (1927)

The prayer for the government familiar to all Conservative movement congregations, as written by Rabbi Dr. Louis Ginzberg with an English translation by Rabbi Tim Bernard. . . .

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Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇺🇸 United States of America

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Conservative, Nusaḥ Masorti, United States

Contributor(s):

Tim Bernard (translation), Louis Ginzberg and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלָּה בְּעַד שְׁלוֹם הַמַּמְלָכָה | Modlitwa za Rzeczpospolitą | Prayer for the Second Polish Republic, by Mojżesz Schorr (1936)

“Modlitwa za Rzeczpospolitą” by Rabbi Moses Schorr was published in his סדר תפלה Modlitewnik na wszystkie dni w roku oraz modlitwę za Rzeczpospolitą (1936), recto of p. 232. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇵🇱 Poland

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., interwar period, Second Polish Republic

Contributor(s):

Mojżesz Schorr and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇩🇪 Germany

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

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

תפילה לשלום מדינת ישראל | Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel, by Rabbi Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog (1948)

The Prayer for the Welfare of the State of Israel was composed by Rabbi Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog, edited by S.Y. Agnon, and first published in the newspaper Ha-Tsofeh on 20 September 1948. . . .

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Government & Country, After the Aliyot, 🇮🇱 Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael, משיח Moshiaḥ, National Religious Zionist, Zionist Prayers

Contributor(s):

Yitsḥak haLevi Hertzog, Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּפִלָּה לִשְׁלוֹם הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה | Prayer for the Wellbeing of the Government of the USSR, by Rabbi Solomon Shleifer (Choral Synagogue, Moscow 1956)

The prayer for peace and prayer for the government of the Choral Synagogue in Moscow in 1956. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇷🇺 Russia

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Soviet Jewry, Soviet Union (USSR/CCCP)

Contributor(s):

Solomon Schleifer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

אַ בְּרָכָה פֿאַרן קײסער | A Blessing for the Kaiser, from Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein – Yiddish translation by Shraga Friedman (1965)

The blessing for Tsar Nicholas II as given in the lines of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇷🇺 Russia, 🇺🇦 Ukraine

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., parody, satire, Tsar Nicholas II, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Shraga Friedman (Yiddish translation), Joseph Stein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Invocation by Rabbi Jacob Goldstein at the Democratic National Convention (1992)

The full text of Rabbi Jacob Goldstein’s prayer offered at the Democratic National Convention, July 14th, 1992. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇺🇸 United States of America, Elections & Voting

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Democratic National Convention 1992, Democratic National Conventions, English vernacular prayer, Invocation, תחינות teḥinot, United States, United States General Election 1992

Contributor(s):

Jacob Goldstein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Canada, by Rabbi Victor Reinstein (1993)

A prayer on behalf of Canada: its government, its leaders, and its people. . . .

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Government & Country, 🇨🇦 Canada

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Canada, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Victor Reinstein

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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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