tagged: Netherlandish Jewry • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

אֵל מָלֵא רַחֲמִים | El Malé Raḥamim for Victims of the Shoah (the Netherlands, ca. late 1940s)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Translator(s) and Unknown Author(s)

Categories:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), Yom Kippur, Yom haShoah (27 Nisan), 12 Marḥeshvan, Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust

Tags:

נעילה‎ neilah, 20th century C.E., Dutch Jewry, השואה the Shoah, אל מלא רחמים El Malé Raḥamim, 58th century A.M., Netherlandish Jewry, the Holocaust

This is an undated El Malé Raḥamim prayer for the victims of the Shoah translated into Dutch for a Yom Kippur ne’ilah service, likely sometime soon after the Holocaust had ended. To this I have added an English translation for those not fluent in Dutch or Hebrew. We are grateful to Shufra Judaica (Ellie Fisher and David Selis) for sharing a digital copy of this prayer. . . .

הַנּוֹתֵן תְּשׁוּעָה | Prayer for the Prosperity of his Royal Majesty, delivered by Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leon Templo to King Charles Ⅱ (1675)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leão (translation)

Categories:

United Kingdom

Tags:

reconstructed text, King Charles Ⅱ, Great Britain, 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., Western Sepharadim, Sephardic Diaspora, Netherlandish Jewry, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, British Monarchy

Rabbi Jacob Judah Leon’s Prayer for King Charles II, from his 1675 booklet, was the first Jewish prayer in English for an English king (Mocatta Library, University College London). . . .