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19th century C.E. —⟶ tag: 19th century C.E. Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration Categories: 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 United States of America Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, George Washington, inaugurations, Needing Vocalization, New York City, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, United States Contributor(s): इस्राएलांचीं पंचोपोषणें The Prayers of the Five Jewish Fasts (1890), is a prayerbook in Marathi translation for the Bene Israel community in India translated and arranged by Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar (1834-1905). Before the Koren-Sacks Siddur (2009), there was the Authorised Daily Prayer Book first published in 1890 and used by Jews throughout the British Empire, while there was a British Empire. It was originally published under the authorization of Great Britain’s first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler with a Hebrew liturgy based on Isaac Seligman Baer’s Seder Avodat Yisroel (1868). The translation by Rabbi Simeon Singer (1846-1906) was the most extensive English translation of the Siddur ever published, and for this reason most editions are simply referred colloquially as The Singer Siddur. The Standard Prayer Book, published by Bloch in 1915, was an American reprint of The Authorized Daily Prayer Book. The sephardic folk-song “Kuando el rey Nimrod” in Ladino with English translation. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Avraham Avinu, fire, Ladino vernacular prayer, Morocco, the Furnace, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): A bilingual Hebrew-Ladino Sefaradi siddur from the Ottoman Empire. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Eastern Sefaradim, Ladino Translation, Nusaḥ Sefaradi, Ottoman Jewry Contributor(s): An authoritative edition of the Seder Teḥinot (Seyder Tkhines) from the esteemed Rödelheim publishing house. “The Tabernacle” by Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman was published in The Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star vol. 56, p. 688. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, המשכן the Mishkan, Trees Contributor(s): A prayer for the end of a cholera epidemic written by Rabbi Dr. Moses Gaster in 1892. Categories: Tags: 1881–1896 cholera pandemic, 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Epidemic, Spanish-Portuguese Contributor(s): A prayerbook compiled for Beth Ahaḇa, a Reform movement congregation in Richmond, Virginia. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The opening prayer of the Jewish Women’s Congress held at the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition as published in the Papers of the Jewish Women’s Congress: held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893 (1894), p. 8. A poem on interfaith tolerance during the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893, part of the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition. The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part two), a maḥzor for Rosh haShanah and Yom Kippur. Alice Lucas’s Songs of Zion by Hebrew Singers of Mediæval Times (1894) is a collection of twenty-five adapted English translations, mainly of piyyutim, all intended “for devotion,” i.e., prayer. The collection was expanded upon in a follow-up publication of Lucas, The Jewish Year (1898). The poem “Gamodei Layil” (Gnomes of the Night) by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, ca. 1894. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., animistic spirits, creatures of the night, entering magical territory, evening spirits, Jewish faeries, magical beings, modern hebrew poetry, mythopoetic, night, romanticism, שדים sheydim, װילדע חיה vilde ḥayye, where the wild things are, whimsy Contributor(s): Before HaTikvah was chosen, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “People’s Blessing” (בִּרְכַּת עָם, also known by its incipit תֶחֱזַֽקְנָה Teḥezaqnah) was once considered for the State of Israel’s national anthem. Bialik was 21 years old when he composed the work in 1894. It later was chosen as the anthem of the Labor Zionist movement. We hereby present the first ever complete English translation of this poem. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Early Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, national anthems, physical labor, Prayers as poems, תחזקנה Teḥezaqnah Contributor(s): Rock of Ages” (a/k/a, “Hanukkah-Hymn”) was written by the prominent Reform movement rabbi Gustav Gottheil, and composed in English verse to be sung to a popular melody for the piyyut Maoz Tsur. It was first published in The Jewish Chronicle, №1341 (new series), 21 December 1894, p. 18. The work cannot be regarded as a translation, or even a free translation or paraphrasic translation, but rather as a song inspired by the initial lines of the first and last stanzas of Maoz Tsur. Three of the five stanzas were published as “Hanukkah-Hymn” in The Union Prayerbook (1895), p. 46. Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): The first edition of the Union Prayer Book (part one), the official prayerbook of the Reform Movement in the United States of America until its revision. Prayers for Jewish Working Girls (1895) is a collection of prayers in vernacular English by Lilian Helen Montagu (1873-1963). The prayerbook was dedicated to the members of the West Central Girls’ Club, founded in 1893 by Lilian and co-led by her and her sister Marian Montagu. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English, West Central Girls' Club Contributor(s): A prayer for the government composed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and included in their Union Prayer Book. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Reform Movement, Classical Reform, English vernacular prayer, United States Contributor(s): “America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). Categories: 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): | ||
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