tagged: Patriotic hymns • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

גאָט בענטש אַמעריקע | God Bless America, for Armistice Day by Irving Berlin (1918/1938) with Yiddish translation

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Henry Sapoznik (translation/Yiddish) and Irving Berlin

Categories:

Armistice Day (November 11th), United States of America

Tags:

Yiddish songs, American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic hymns, doikayt, hereness, 20th century C.E., United States, זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M.

The words of the prayer for Armistice Day 1938, “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin, in English and Yiddish. . . .

אַמעריקע די פּרעכטיקע | America the Beautiful, a patriotic hymn by Katharine Lee Bates (1895) with Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1950)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Berl Lapin (translation) and Katharine Lee Bates

Categories:

Independence Day (July 4th)

Tags:

57th century A.M., Yiddish translation, Yiddish songs, American Jewry of the United States, Patriotic hymns, doikayt, hereness, 19th century C.E., United States, זמירות zemirot

“America the Beautiful,” the patriotic hymn (1911 version) by Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) in its Yiddish translation by Berl Lapin (1889-1952). . . .

Father of Nations! Judge Divine! – a hymn on “Our Country” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1856)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina) and Penina Moïse

Categories:

Government & Country, United States of America

Tags:

United States, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Patriotic hymns, South Carolina, hymns, ABAB rhyming scheme, 19th century C.E.

“Father of nations! Judge divine!” by Penina Moïse, was published in 1856, and appears under the subject of “Our Country” as Hymn 149 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), pp. 144-146. . . .