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German language prayer book for Jewish women prepared by Dr. Saul Isaac Kaempf. The title page describes the work as Gebete des Hauses Jakob’s (prayers of the house of Jacob), it is a Gebetbuch für isr Frauen and Mädchen für die öffentliche und häusliche Andacht in allen Verhältnissen des lebens (prayer book for married and single woman, for public and private services in all conditions of life). There is a forward from Dr. Kaempf and then the prayers, which are divided into four parts. The first part contains morning prayers, and the amidah for Sabbath and festival prayers. The second part prayers for the table, evening prayers, other Shabbat prayers, Rosh HaShanah, and Yom Kippur. Part three has prayers for a large number of occasions and situations, including an ill child or a son in the army, recovery from illness, etc. The fourth part has yartzheit prayers. There is also an appendix. The type is in a single column in Fraktur, with the text of each page set within a single line border. Headings are in Hebrew as well as in German. The volume is bound with a gold stamped cover.
Dr. Saul Isaac ben Aaron Jacob Kaempf, (1818–1892) was a rabbi and orientalist. He was born at Lissa (Leszno), Poznania, where he studied under R. Akiva Eger. He later studied at the University of Halle where he was a student of Gesenius. In 1845 he became a preacher in Prague and in 1858 professor of Semitics at the University of Prague. He received the degree of Ph. D. and his rabbinical diploma, and accepted a call to Mecklenburg-Strelitz as teacher and preacher, in the same year (1844). Two years later he was called to Prague as preacher of the Temple Congregation, succeeding Michael Sachs; he remained there until his retirement in 1890.
Dr. Kaempf was a prolific writer. His works include: "Biographie des Hochberühmten Hochseligen Herrn Akiba Eger, Oberrabbiner zu Posen, Nebst einem Hebräischen Trauergedicht" (with other Hebrew and German poems, Lissa, 1838); "Die Ersten Makamen aus dem Tachkemoni, oder Divan des Charisi" (Berlin, 1845); "Simrath Jah: Gottesdienstliches Gesangbuch, Eingeführt im Israelitischen Tempel zu Prag" (Prague, 1849); "Nichtandalusische Poesie Andalusischer Dichter aus dem Elften, Zwölften und Dreizehnten Jahrhundert" (vol. ii. printed under the title "Zehn Makamen aus dem Tachkemoni, oder Divan des Charisi," ib. 1858); "Suleiman: Dramatisches Gedicht" (ib. 1859); "Mamtik Sod: Beleuchtung des Frankelschen Werkes 'Hodegetik zur Mischna' in Dogmatischer Beziehung," a defense of Frankel in his controversy with S. R. Hirsch (ib. 1861); "Die Inschrift auf dem Denkmal Mesa's, König von Moab" (ib. 1870); "Phönizische Epigraphik: Die Grabschrift Eschmunazars, Königs der Sidonier" (ib. 1874); "Das Hohelied ins Deutsche Uebertragen" (ib. 1877). His collection of prayers for Jewish holidays and festivals, according to the ritual of the Temple Congregation of Prague (ib. 1854; also translated), has been frequently republished. In cooperation with L. Philippson and W. Landau he edited the Bible for the Jewish Bible Society. |
