Seyder Tkhines: The Forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women

by Devra Kay

The Seyder Tkhines, translated from its original Yiddish by noted tkhines scholar, Devra Kay, and centerpiece of this groundbreaking work, was a standard Yiddish prayer book for women. It first appeared in Amsterdam in 1648, and continued to be published for the next three generations, usually inside the Hebrew synagogue prayer book. A product of an age when mysticism pervaded mainstream Judaism, the Seyder Tkhines provided women with newly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827607733
• ISBN13: 9780827607736
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"