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Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves, a poem by Alter Abelson (1913)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alter Abelson

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Yom Kippur

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57th century A.M., English poetry, memento mori, ABAB rhyming scheme, feldmesten, ḳever mesten, 20th century C.E.

“Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves” by Alter Abelson, appears in the section “The Modern Period” in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (Joseph Friedlander and George Alexander Kohut, 1917), pp. 698-699. The poem may have first been published in the 26 September 1913 edition of the Hebrew Standard, p.10. . . .

פעלד־מעסטען | Feldmesten | Measuring of the Graves, a prayer-poem by Morris Rosenfeld (before 1898)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Helena Frank (translation), Rose Pastor Stokes (translation), Leo Wiener (translation) and Morris Rosenfeld

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Yom Kippur

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Yiddish vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers, rhyming translation, feldmesten

This is the poem “פעלד־מעסטען” by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) written before 1898. We have transcribed the poem as it was published in Rosenfeld’s collection of poems Gezamelṭe lieder (1906) pp. 135-136. The poem was romanized and translated into English by Leo Wiener and published under the title, “The Measuring of the Graves” in Songs from the Ghetto (1898), pp. 46-49. A rhyming translation by Rose Pastor Stokes & Helena Frank under the title, “Measuring of the Graves” was published in Songs of Labor and Other Poems (1914), pp. 70-71. If you know the date of the earliest publication of this prayer, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .

Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht | Prayers said at various points as you circumambulate the burial ground, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness

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56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, in the merit of our ancestors, תשובה teshuvah, cemetery prayers, 19th century C.E., memento mori, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, feldmesten, תחינות teḥinot, ḳever mesten

“Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht” 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 1835 edition as teḥinah №103 on pp. 202-207. . . .

תחנה פאר די ליכט מאכין אום ערב יום כפור | Tkhine for Candlemaking on Erev Yom Kippur, by Sarah bat Tovim (ca. early 18th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Sarah bat Tovim

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Yom Kippur

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תחינות teḥinot, 55th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, memento mori, erev yom kippur, feldmesten, תחינות tkhines, ḳever mesten, candles, ימים נוראים yamim noraim

This is the tkhine for candlemaking on erev Yom Kippur as found in Sarah bat Tovim’s Tkhine of Three Gates, likely written by her sometime in the early 18th century. . . .