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![]() ![]() ![]() Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayer “For Home” was first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, pages 95-96. . . . ![]() ![]() “Beruria” by Lisa Tarlau is an eponymous ode provided as the preface to Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages v-viii. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() This prayer by Rabbi Arnold Kiss for the well-being of a husband by their wife, “A nő imája férjéért,” was first published in his anthology of prayers for Jewish women, Mirjam (1897) on p.246-248. It doesn’t appear to me to have been translated in the subsequent German edition (1907). I’ve set my English translation side-by-side with the Magyar. –Aharon Varady . . . ![]() ![]() A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() A prayer of a woman contemplating her relationship with her husband in marriage. . . . Gebet einer Frau, deren Mann auf Reisen ist | Prayer of a woman whose husband is travelling, by Fanny Neuda (1855)![]() ![]() A prayer of a wife whose spouse is away from home, travelling. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() “Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin” by Fanny Neuda was first published in her collection of teḥinot, Stunden der Andacht. ein Gebet⸗ und Erbauungs-buch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen (1855), pp. 92-93. In the 1864 Judeo-German edition, it is found on pp. 118-120. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() “Exercise for a Wife who is married to an irreligious Husband” appears on pages 131-132 of רֻחָמָה (Ruḥamah): Devotional Exercises for the Use of the Daughters of Israel (1852) edited by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1798–1868). The prayer appears unique to this collection which otherwise contain selections from the teḥinot anthologies in German of Meir Letteris (1800-1871), Max Emanuel Stern (1811-1873), and Yehoshua Heshil Miro. If you know of another collection from which this prayer first appeared, please leave a comment or contact us. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() “Prayer of a Wife for her Husband” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 57. . . . Blest is the Bond of Wedded Love, a hymn on “Matrimonial Love” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)![]() ![]() ![]() “Blest is the bond of wedded love,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Matrimonial Love” as Hymn 42 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 45-46. . . . Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin | Prayer of an unhappy wife, a teḥinah by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)![]() ![]() ![]() “Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in Die fromme Zionstochter (1841), pp. 124-127. In its 1846 printing, the prayer is found on pp. 127-129. . . . Gebet einer Braut vor der Trauung | Prayer of a bride before the wedding ceremony, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1833)![]() ![]() ![]() “Gebet einer Braut vor der Trauung” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears added to the 1833 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion on pp. 133-135. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №80 on pp. 148-149. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №83 on pp. 153-154. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() “Gebet einer Wittwe” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №83 on pp. 131-133. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №83 on pp. 154-157. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №86 on pp. 159-162. . . . Gebet einer Mutter am Hochzeittage ihrer Tochter | Prayer of a mother on the wedding day of her daughter, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)![]() ![]() ![]() “Gebet einer Mutter am Hochzeittage ihrer Tochter” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №81 on pp. 127-129. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №81 on pp. 150-151. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №84 on pp. 155-156. . . . ![]() ![]() “Gebet einer Stiefmutter” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №82 on pp. 129-131. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №82 on pp. 151-154. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №85 on pp. 156-159. . . . Andachtsübung einer Braut an ihrem Hochzeitstage | Devotional exercise of a bride on her wedding day, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)![]() ![]() ![]() “Andachtsübung einer Braut an ihrem Hochzeitstage” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №80 on pp. 124-127. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №79 on pp. 144-147. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №82 on pp. 149-152. . . . ![]() ![]() ![]() “Unglückliche Ehe (Unhappy Marriage)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №39 on p. 127-129 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №39 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on p. 108-110. A variation can also be found in the Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №40 on p. 107-109. . . . |