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The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers by Tracy Guren Klirs textbook-shipeasy deep colorsEnglish and Yiddish text Translated by Tracy Guren Klirs For many centuries Jewish prayer was so dominated by its male creators and male readers that the Jewish womans role in prayer seems to have been all but obliterated. Yet Jewish women have always prayed and, before prayer became standardized into a formal liturgy, Israelite women offered up spontaneous petitions and hymns to God as freely as did men. While they may not have been able to help