📖 סדר עבודת ישראל (אשכנז) | Seder Avodat Yisroel, a critical text of the Siddur annotated by Isaac Seligman Baer (1868)
Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=904
open_content_license: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Date: 2010-07-28
Last Updated: 2023-04-06
Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim
Tags: Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation
Excerpt: Join us in creating a faithful digital transcription of the Seder Avodat Yisrael (Isaac Seligman Baer, 1868), a critical text of the nusaḥ Ashkeanaz. After transcription and proofreading, this new digital edition will be shared under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain dedication. The edition will then be encoded in TEI XML and archived in the Open Siddur database, a libre Open Access liturgy database. . . .
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Join us in creating a faithful digital transcription of the Seder Avodat Yisrael (Isaac Seligman Baer, 1868), a critical text of the nusaḥ Ashkeanaz.
Seder Avodat Yisroel was originally published in 1868 by the Rödelheim printing press. The edition we are transcribing is from 1901. Avodat Yisrael is respected as a carefully edited work. Its sources are cited in the introduction, and Baer’s commentary frequently explains his choice of text among the variants in his source manuscripts. Its text forms the basis for many of the 20th century’s Ashkenazic siddurim (including the Singer Siddur, whose translation we have already transcribed). Its extensive commentary is frequently quoted in academic studies of the Jewish liturgy.
Transcribing Seder Avodat Yisroel began in 2009 and continues today. In December 2009, we received transcription which Gabriel Wasserman transcribed for his Machzor l’Shabbat Hanukkah. Integrating Wasserman’s transcription into this transcription effort should save us some time.
After transcription and proofreading, this new digital edition will be shared under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain dedication. The edition will then be encoded in TEI XML and archived in the Open Siddur database, a libre Open Access liturgy database.
Skills necessary
To participate in this transcription project, you will need the following:
- basic literacy in the Hebrew/Ladino script popularized by Abraham Garton as “Rashi” script. Knowledge of Spanish is helpful
- typing with a Hebrew keyboard layout (see here for more information)
- registration in the collaborative transcription project, Hebrew Wikisource.
Contributor: Isaac Seligman Baer
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Name: Isaac Seligman Baer
Bio: Seligman (Isaac) Baer was a masoretic scholar, and an editor of the Hebrew Bible and of Jewish liturgy. He was born in Mosbach, the northern district of Biebrich, Sept. 18, 1825 and died at Biebrich-on-the-Rhine, March, 1897. He belonged to the school of Wolf Heidenheim, and had in his possession some of Heidenheim's original manuscripts and personal copies of his published works with handwritten marginal notes. Baer's monumental edition of the Jewish prayerbook according to the Ashkenazic rite, Seder Avodat Yisrael (Rödelheim, 1868), accompanied by a critical commentary, became the authoritative model for numerous editions published subsequently in the 20th century. His editions of the Jewish liturgy also include Kinnot for the fast of the ninth of Av. He never occupied an academic position, but was content with the office of Hebrew teacher to the Jewish community of Biebrich. In recognition of his services to the Commission for the History of the Jews in Germany, the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy was conferred upon him by the University of Leipzig.
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Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/isaac-seligman-baer
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Name: Efraim Feinstein
Bio: Efraim Feinstein is the lead developer of the Open Siddur web application.
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