tagged: modern hebrew poetry • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

গীতাঞ্জলি | גִּיטַאנְיַ׳אלִי (קרבן־זמרה)‏ | Gitanjali (Song-offerings), by Rabindranath Tagore (1912); translated into Hebrew by David Frischmann (1922)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), David Frischmann (translation) and Rabindranath Tagore

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Modern Miscellany

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57th century A.M., Hebrew translation, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Bengal, William Rothenstein, 20th century C.E., Indian devotional poetry, English Translation, Bengali vernacular prayer, first person, modern hebrew poetry

The Nobel prize winning collection of “song-offerings” or Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, in Bengali and English, translated to Hebrew by David Frischmann. . . .

אַיֵּךְ | Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1904)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ruth Nevo (translation) and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat, Purim Qatan

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eros, modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., Prayers as poems, Queens, Mrozy, מי או מה who or what, אנה אמצאך ana emtsaeka, 20th century C.E.

The poem, Ayekh (Where are you?), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik. . . .

שַׁבָּת הַמַּלְכָּה | The Shabbat Queen, by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1903)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Israel Meir Lask (translation), Angie Irma Cohon and Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik

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Ḳabbalat Shabbat

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20th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, English Translation, modern hebrew poetry, 57th century A.M., Queens, rhyming translation

This translation of Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “Shabbat ha-Malkah” by Israel Meir Lask can be found on pages 280-281 in the Sabbath Prayer Book (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation, 1945) where it appears as “Greeting to Queen Sabbath.” The poem is based on the shabbat song, “Shalom Alekhem” and first published in the poetry collection, Hazamir, in 1903. I have made a faithful transcription of the Hebrew and its English translation as it appears in the Sabbath Prayer Book. The first stanza of Lask’s translation was adapted from an earlier translation made by Angie Irma Cohon and published in 1920 in Song and Praise for Sabbath Eve (1920), p. 87. (Cohon’s translation of Bialik’s second stanza of “Shabbat ha-Malkah” does not appear to have been adapted by Lask.) . . .