tagged: German orientalism • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Prinzessin Sabbat | Princess Shabbat, by Heinrich Heine (1851)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Margaret Armour (translation) and Heinrich Heine

Categories:

Se'udat Leil Shabbat, Se'udat Yom Shabbat, Se'udah haShlishit

Tags:

Sardonic poetry, 57th century A.M., שכינה Shekhinah, לכה דודי Lekhah Dodi, Ode to Joy, Sabbath Queen, Gashmiut and Ruchniut, Elysium, lycanthropy, 19th century C.E., German orientalism, food, German romanticism

“Prinzessin Sabbat” by Heinrich Heine, in Romanzero III: Hebraeische Melodien, (“Princess Shabbat,” in Romanzero III, Hebrew Melodies.), 1851 was translated into English by Margaret Armour (1860-1943), The Works of Heinrich Heine vol. 12: Romancero: Book III, Last Poems (1891). We have replaced “schalet” (unchanged in Armour’s translation) with cholent. . . .