Seyder tkhines : the forgotten book of common prayer for Jewish women / / translated and edited with commentary by Devra Kay.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Kay, Devra.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; Yiddish; Hebrew
• Physical Description: xiii, 269 p.
• Notes: Includes English translation and discussion of Book of tkhines for a pregnant woman, a 17th century Yiddish and Hebrew manuscript in the Bodleian library.

Table of Contents

Commentary. Introducing tkhines -- Profit and prayer: women and a unique pan-European printing industry -- The Seyder tkhines: a book for a messianic age -- Seyder tkhines: definitions -- Side by side by seyder -- A rare manuscript lost and found: Book of tkhines for a pregnant woman -- Other Yiddish prayers and religious songs and their authors -- Seyder tkhines in the twenty-first century: the messianic inheritance -- Prayers in translation. The Seyder tkhines -- Daily tkhines -- Sabbath tkhines -- Nide tkhines -- Fast-day tkhines -- Four Graveside tkhines -- New Year tkhines and Day of Atonement tkhines -- Book of tkhines for a pregnant woman -- Single prayers and songs in tkhine language -- Sabbath prayer / Khane Katz -- How good (Ma toyvu) / Khane Katz -- Simkhes toyre song / Rivkke Tiktiner -- A tkhine to be said before kedushe / Beyle Hurvits -- A song of the Ten commandments / Sheyndele, wife of Gershon ben Shmuel -- Song (lid) / Yankev ben Elyohu -- Father, king / Toybe Pan -- Daily tkhine (an extract) / Rokhl, daughter of Mordkhe Soyfer.