tkhines

The language of the tkhines (known from the seventeenth century on as “tkhine-loshn”) is relatively fixed, rather like an increasingly archaic “prayer-book English,” and displays few of the distinctive linguistic features of the developing Eastern European varieties of Yiddish; thus, linguistic analysis is of little help in determining place of composition.

Tkhines. 2009

Although there are manuscript tkhines, none are known that precede the appearance of the genre in print.

Tkhines. 2009

Jewish feminists have found role models in the historical tkhines uncovered by scholars and have also written new tkhines in their current vernaculars, English or Hebrew.

Tkhines. 2009

Interestingly, however, tkhines from the end of the eighteenth century show little evidence of influence from hasidism.

Tkhines. 2009

Maskilim, or “enlighteners,” men who wished to reform Eastern European Jewish life, wrote tkhines to reach the “benighted” traditional women with their reform program.

Tkhines. 2009

In Eastern Europe as well, the ideal of the bourgeois family came into play in nineteenth century tkhines, but in a rather different fashion.

Tkhines. 2009

Indeed, the tkhines show how much women were a part of this intellectual and spiritual world.

Tkhines. 2009

Several women are known to have composed one or more of the surviving supplicatory prayers (tkhines).

Old Yiddish Language and Literature. 2009

Western European tkhines were published in collections of between thirty-five and one hundred and twenty prayers, addressing many topics: either in small books or as appendices to Hebrew prayerbooks, often prayer books with Yiddish translation.

Tkhines. 2009

One of the tkhines for infertility begins: “Lord of the whole world, I, poor woman, come before you to bemoan my suffering and the sorrow I carry in my heart.”

Tkhines. 2009

Say the mourners kaddish or one of the tkhines, womens’ traditional Yiddish prayers for the dead when you can’t locate the gravesite.

But maybe everything that dies one day comes back Mariya Strauss 2021