The Earliest Published Yiddish Tehinnot (1590–1609)
Prayers of supplication [tehinnot] are among the oldest forms of Jewish prayer. King Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple is the earliest prayer in the Bible that uses the term tehinnah. The Talmudic rabbis distinguished between the three daily statutory prayers and personal prayers...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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HUC
2021
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Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 2020, Volume: 91, Pages: 157-206 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Prayer
/ Prayer of petition
/ Bible. Könige 1. 8,22-53
/ Judaism
/ Yiddish
/ Literature
/ History
/ History 1590-1609
/ Form
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CA Christianity |
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| Summary: | Prayers of supplication [tehinnot] are among the oldest forms of Jewish prayer. King Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple is the earliest prayer in the Bible that uses the term tehinnah. The Talmudic rabbis distinguished between the three daily statutory prayers and personal prayers of petition that were uttered by individuals in a variety of circumstances, positive or negative. From the post-Talmudic period through the early modern period a variety of prayers of supplication were composed that were called tehinnot or tahanunim. Most of these prayers were in Hebrew and some in Aramaic. Some of these prayers even entered the regular orders of prayer and prayer books. There may have been tehinnot in other Jewish vernaculars, but they remain to be discovered. The subject of this study is a subset of this genre of literature, tehinnot in Yiddish, the vernacular of Ashkenazi Jewry, and its purpose is to reconsider some of the basic assumptions of the conventional wisdom concerning this genre. The earliest published Tehinnah in this study is from Prague, 1590 and the last collection of tehinnot in this study is from Basel, 1609. The tehinnot are found in a variety of publications, including freestanding pamphlets and individual tehinnot included in larger works. The audience for these works included both men and women. The tehinnot discussed are published in the original Yiddish and translated into English with annotations. The history of Tehinnot as a genre of Early Modern Yiddish literature remains to be written. This study is a first attempt at writing the first chapter of this history. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15650/hebruniocollannu.91.2020.0157 |