📖 סדר תפלות כל השנה (אשכנז)‏ | The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, translated and arranged by Rabbi Simeon Singer (1890)

Source Link: https://opensiddur.org/?p=1166

Date: 2010-08-05

Last Updated: 2023-04-06

Categories: Comprehensive (Kol Bo) Siddurim

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Minhag Poland, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation

Excerpt: Before the Koren-Sacks Siddur (2009), there was the Authorised Daily Prayer Book first published in 1890 and used by Jews throughout the British Empire, while there was a British Empire. It was originally published under the authorization of Great Britain's first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler with a Hebrew liturgy based on Isaac Seligman Baer's Seder Avodat Yisroel (1868). The translation by Rabbi Simeon Singer (1846-1906) was the most extensive English translation of the Siddur ever published, and for this reason most editions are simply referred colloquially as The Singer Siddur. The Standard Prayer Book, published by Bloch in 1915, was an American reprint of The Authorized Daily Prayer Book. . . .

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Before the Koren-Sacks Siddur (2009), there was the Authorised Daily Prayer Book first published in 1890 and used by Jews throughout the British Empire, while there was a British Empire.^[1] The latest edition of the Authorised Daily Prayer Book (“Singer’s Siddur”) with translation and commentary by Rabbi Sacks – from which the translation in the Koren-Sacks Siddur is taken – was published in 2006. The penultimate edition the Authorised Daily Prayer Book from 1992 was edited by Rabbi Sacks and translated by Rabbi Eli Cashdan. [Thanks to reader, Ben, for this correction in the comments.]   It was originally published under the authorization of Great Britain’s first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler with a Hebrew liturgy based on Isaac Seligman Baer’s Seder Avodat Yisroel (1868). The translation by Rabbi Simeon Singer (1846-1906) was the most extensive English translation of the Siddur ever published, and for this reason most editions are simply referred colloquially as The Singer Siddur. The Standard Prayer Book, published by Bloch in 1915, was an American reprint of The Authorized Daily Prayer Book.

Before his death in April 2010, John Hare, z”l, of the Internet Sacred Text Archive, asked us what he could do for us in return for our help on the 1917 JPS. He had just acquired a copy of the Standard Prayer Book and wondered whether we needed that. He completed the work in January 2010, one of the last projects he completed. The full text of Rabbi Singer’s English translation in the Singer Siddur is available at the Internet Sacred Text Archive. A PDF of the Singer Siddur without Hare’s transcription is available from Archive.org.

Hare’s transcription of the 1915 Bloch edition of Singer’s Siddur does not include Rabbi Singer’s extensive notes. We are actively transcribing these notes which were arranged by Israel Abrahams and published posthumously in a 1914 edition of the Authorised Daily Prayer Book. Please help us transcribe and proofread these notes at Wikisource.

Given our work transcribing Seder Avodat Yisroel, having Singer’s translation offers an opportunity to link both Public Domain texts together in our open source public database. Recently, we moved closer to this goal by fully encoding Singer’s translation in our open standard XML format and uploading it into our database. Many thanks to Ze’ev Clementson and Efraim Feinstein for working on this.

 

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The latest edition of the Authorised Daily Prayer Book (“Singer’s Siddur”) with translation and commentary by Rabbi Sacks – from which the translation in the Koren-Sacks Siddur is taken – was published in 2006. The penultimate edition the Authorised Daily Prayer Book from 1992 was edited by Rabbi Sacks and translated by Rabbi Eli Cashdan. [Thanks to reader, Ben, for this correction in the comments.]

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

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  Name: Simeon Singer (translation)
  Bio: Simeon Singer (1846–1906) was an English rabbi, preacher, lecturer and public worker. He is best known for his English translation of the Siddur, the Authorized Daily Prayer Book, informally known as the "Singer's Siddur". Singer's most famous work was his new edition and English translation of the Authorized Daily Prayer Book (published in 1890). The Siddur was expanded in 1917 under Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz. In 1915 the Bloch Publishing Company published an American version, The Standard Prayer Book, which was widely used until the introduction of Philip Birnbaum's Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem in 1949.
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  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/simeon-singer
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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: Simeon Singer – title page, Authorised Daily Prayer Book (1912)
Caption: Title Page, The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire (1912)