Jewish Year, The.
[Judaica]. Lucas, Alice, translator and composer. The Jewish Year. A Collection of Devotional Poems for Sabbaths and Holidays Throughout the Year. London: MacMillan, 1898.
12mo.; contemporary ownership stamps to front endpaper; very light foxing to endpapers and pastedowns; t.e.g.; green cloth, extremities bumped.
First edition of this collection of poems; many are translations of medieval Hebrew poems. Also included are “original poems, a few paraphrases of Psalms, and three or four versified Talmud legends.” Lucas notes that the translations are mainly of hymns added after the Jewish liturgy was fixed so that they do not appear identically in all services. While she claims that the book is intended for devotion and not study, her mastery of the Jewish liturgy is clear in her judicial choices of what to include. She follows the traditional practice of arranging them for each Sabbath and holiday. Of the seventy-five pieces, Lucas wrote twelve, though all bear her stamp as translator and adapter.
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