📖 Gebete in Kriegszeit für isralitische Frauen und Madchen, by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald (1914)

Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=48373

Date: 2023-01-12

Last Updated: 2023-04-06

Categories: Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Austria-Hungary, Austrian Jewry, Central Powers, German Empire, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Second Reich, Teḥinot in German, World War Ⅰ

Excerpt: A collection of five teḥinot compiled for the use of German-Jewish women gravely concerned for the well-being of their husbands, fathers, and sons serving as military personnel during what became known as World War Ⅰ. . . .

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Gebete in Kriegszeit für isralitische Frauen und Madchen (1914) by Rabbi Dr. Max Grunwald is a collection of five teḥinot compiled for the use of German-Jewish women gravely concerned for the well-being of their husbands, fathers, and sons serving as military personnel during what became known as World War Ⅰ.

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

This work was scanned by Aharon Varady for the Open Siddur Project from a volume held in the collection of the HUC Klau Library, Cincinnati, Ohio. (Thank you!) This work is cross-posted to the Internet Archive, as a repository for our transcription efforts.

Scanning this work (making digital images of each page) is the first step in a more comprehensive project of transcribing each prayer and associating it with its translation. You are invited to participate in this collaborative transcription effort!

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In the absence of a table of contents for this short collection, I have prepared one below in order that we may link forthcoming transcriptions and translations. –Aharon Varady

Source (German)	Translation (English)
[INHALT]	[CONTENTS]
Gebet während des Krieges Gebet um Frieden Gebet einer Mutter für ihren Sohn im Felde Gebet für den zum Kriegsdienst einberfenen Gatten Für den Vater, der zu den Fahnen einberufen 1st	Prayer during the war Prayer for peace Prayer of a mother for her son in the field Prayer for the husband called up for military service For the father who is called up for the first time

 

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

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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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  Name: Max Grunwald
  Bio: Max Grunwald (born October 10, 1871 in Zabrze, Upper Silesia; died January 24, 1953 in Jerusalem) was a Conservative rabbi in Hamburg and Vienna and author of works on Jewish history and folklore. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau in 1892 and in 1895 began serving as the rabbi of the New Dammthor Synagogue in Hamburg. In 1903, after moving to Vienna he began serving the Turnergasse synagogue, and from 1913, the Leopoldstadt Temple. An erudite scholar, he founded the Society for Jewish Folklore and served as its editor of correspondence until 1929.
  Website: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Grunwald
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/max-grunwald

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