📖 תפלות ישראל (אשכנז)‏ | Tefilot Yisrael, a bilingual Hebrew-English prayerbook translated and arranged by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (1862/1872)

Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=41275

Date: 2021-12-05

Last Updated: 2025-02-18

Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Anglo Jewry, British Jewry, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation, Needing Proofreading

Excerpt: An Ashkenazi siddur with an original translation by Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski. . . .

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This is the second printing of a nusaḥ Ashkenaz siddur compiled by Tsvi Herschell Filipowski containing his translations and even his own hand-cut Hebrew type. The first edition was printed in 1862; this second printing was published the year of his death in 1872.

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This work is in the Public Domain due to its having been published more than 95 years ago.

 

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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  Name: Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation)
  Bio: Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (1816-13 July 1872), Hebraist and actuary, sometimes referred to as Herschell Phillips Filipowski. A maskil born in Virbalis, Lithuania, he arrived in London in 1839 and taught Jewish boys. In 1846 he published Mo’ed Mo’adim, a study of Jewish and other calendars, and in 1847 The Annual Hebrew Magazine (Hebrew title Ha-Asif, The Harvest’). His A Table of Anti Logarithms appeared in 1849, and his translation from Latin into English of Napier’s treatise on logarithms in 1857. In 1851, when he was listed in the Census as a London printer, he founded the Chevrat Me’orerei Yeshenim (Hebrew Antiquarian Society) in order to publish medieval Hebrew texts. Major works that he edited and printed for it included Menahem ibn Saruq’s Mahberet Menahem (1854) and Abraham Zacuto’s Sefer Yuhasin ha-Shalem (1857). During the late 1850s he worked in Edinburgh as an actuary, returning to London in about 1860. He compiled the Colonial Life Assurance Company’s 1861 Almanac and edited Baily’s Doctrine of Life Annuities and Assurance (1864-6). In 1862 he published, using a Hebrew type of his own design, Tefilot Yisrael, a pocket edition of the Ashkenazi prayer book with his own English translation. In 1867 he founded a short-lived periodical, The Hebrew National. His Biblical Prophecies (1870) dealt mainly with messianic passages in Isaiah.
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  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/tsvi-hirsch-filipowsky
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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)
  Bio: Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project, is a copyright researcher and amateur book scanner. He prepares digital images and new digital editions of prayer books and related works in the Public Domain in order to make their constituent parts (prayers, translations, annotations, etc.) publicly accessible for collaborative transcription by project volunteers. (In some cases, he finds existing digital editions prepared by others that require correction and reformatting.) If you appreciate his efforts, please send him a kind note or contribute to his patreon account.
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  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/aharon-varady-digital-imaging

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Title: Tefilot Yisrael (Herschell Filipowski 1872) – title page
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