tagged: British Empire • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

A prayer upon the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty on 28 June 1919, included in a special service by the Liberal Jewish Synagogue of London on the following Shabbat. . . .

📖 Prayers for Trench and Base, by Lt. Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1918)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) and Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques

A small prayerbook for British-Jewish men serving as military personnel on behalf of the British Empire during what later became known as World War Ⅰ. . . .

📖 [Abridged] Prayer Book for Jewish Sailors and Soldiers [in H.M. Forces] (Office of the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire 1914)

Contributor(s):

Michael Adler and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

A bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook for soldiers and sailors in the service of His Majesty’s army and navy during World War One . . .

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of King Edward Ⅶ (1904)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Arthur Davis and Herbert Adler (translation)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Edward VII. . . .

Prayer on the Jubilee of Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, by Rabbi Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler (21 June 1887)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Nathan Marcus Adler

This prayer by chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire Nathan Marcus Adler is found in an order of service prepared for the celebration of Queen Victoria’s jubilee in 1887. . . .

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of Queen Victoria (1864)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

The text of the prayer, haNoten Teshuah, as adapted for Queen Victoria. . . .

Universal Intercessory Prayer, a prayer for Queen Victoria and the United Kingdom by Grace Aguilar (ca. 1837)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Grace Aguilar

“Universal intercessory prayer” by Grace Aguilar was published posthumously by her mother Sarah Aguilar in the UK edition of Sacred Communings, pp. 76-77. It is not found in the US edition. . . .

אֵל שְׁמֹר הַמֶּֽלֶךְ | God Save the King (Hebrew translation with an additional stanza by Hyman Hurwitz 1831)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Hyman Hurwitz and Unknown Author(s)

“God Save the King” was originally written by an unknown author and circulated in three stanzas during the reign of Britain’s King George Ⅱ, circa 1745. This Hebrew translation, “El Shemor haMelekh,” as translated by Hyman Hurwitz with an added fourth stanza, was first published in his The Etymology and Syntax of the Hebrew Language (1831), pp. 276-279, during the reign of King William Ⅳ (1765-1837). . . .

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Royal Family of King George Ⅲ (1810)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

The prayer, haNoten Teshu’a, as adapted for King George III in 1810. . . .

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for King George Ⅲ (1766)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Isaac Pinto (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

The prayer for King George III in the English colonies before the Revolutionary War. . . .