[Avodah] Alternate texts for the Prayer for the Government

Chesky Salomon via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Sat Jun 27 20:29:36 PDT 2015


An hour or so ago, I wrote:
> What alternative texts exist for the tefillah l'shlom malchus?

I remember this topic coming up in the past, though I have not been
successful in searching the archives for it. I did find an article by
Dr Jonathan Sarna, "A Forgotten 19th-Century Prayer for the United
States Government: Its Meaning, Significance, and Surprising Author"
[1] which pointed to the "Orthodox prayerbook for American Jews
entitled Tefilot Yisra'el. Prayers of Israel. with an English
Translation."

The variant text Sarna discusses, "Ribbon kol ha-olamim",  can be seen
at <https://books.google.com/books?id=a9e0Ei5HHPsC&pg=PA226> -- but he
makes the case that the prayer's author was Rabbi Max Lilienthal,
leaving me in the same position as before.

(As a side note: I recall one of the J-blogs mentioning a Tefillah for
the State written for 1930s Germany under the Nazi government, but I
cannot find the post again. Any help?)

--Chesky Salomon

[1]: http://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna/americanjewishcultureandscholarship/Archive3/AForgottenNineteenthCenturyPrayerfortheUnitedStatesGovenment.pdf



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