tagged: American War of Independence • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Gershom Mendes Seixas
Shared on:	י״ט בכסלו ה׳תשע״ט (2018-11-27)
Terms:	Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:	Government & Country, Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November)
Tags:	56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., K.K. Shearith Israel, American War of Independence, George Washington, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, American Jewry of the United States
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The prayer for the government presented by Gershom Seixas at K.K. Shearith Israel on Thanksgiving Day 1789. . . .

תפילה לשלום המלכות | Prayer for the Welfare of George Washington, George Clinton, and the Thirteen States of America by Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen (1784)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Lyons Collection Committee (translation) and Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen
Shared on:	ו׳ באדר א׳ ה׳תשע״ו (2016-02-15)
Terms:	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Categories:	Government & Country, Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February)
Tags:	United States, Presidents Day, Spanish-Portuguese, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., K.K. Shearith Israel, Sepharadi Diaspora, American War of Independence, Western Sepharadim, American Jewry of the United States
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • Prayers recited on special occasions and thus not part of the fixed liturgy offered America’s foremost Jewish congregation far greater latitude for originality in prayer. At such services, particularly when the prayers were delivered in English and written with the knowledge that non-Jews would hear them, leaders of Shearith Israel often dispensed with the traditional prayer for the government and substituted revealing new compositions appropriate to the concerns of the day. A prayer composed in 1784 (in this case in Hebrew) by the otherwise unknown Rabbi (Cantor?) Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen, for example, thanked God who “in His goodness prospered our warfare.” Mentioning by name both Governor George Clinton and General George Washington, the rabbi prayed for peace and offered a restorationist Jewish twist on the popular idea of America as “redeemer nation”: “As Thou hast granted to these thirteen states of America everlasting freedom,” he declared, “so mayst Thou bring us forth once again from bondage into freedom and mayst Thou sound the great horn for our freedom.” . . .

די דעקלאראציע פון אומאָפּהענגיקײט | הצהרת העצמאות של ארצות־הברית | The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America (1776), with translations in Yiddish (1892) and Hebrew (1945)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ḥen Melekh Merkhaviyah (translation/Hebrew), Sarasohn & Son, Publishers (translation/Yiddish) and Thomas Jefferson
Shared on:	ל׳ בסיון ה׳תשע״ט (2019-07-03)
Terms:	Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication
Categories:	Modern Miscellany, Independence Day (United States) Readings
Tags:	56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., American War of Independence, American Jewry of the United States, Enlightenment, United States of America, Needing Attribution
Description:	• • • • • • • • • • The text of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and its signatories in English, with a Yiddish translation published in 1954. . . .

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