Another noteworthy point connected with the _Synagogale Poesie_ is, that it contains a considerable number of versified German translations of pieces of liturgical Hebrew poetry, which renders them more intelligible to the ordinary reader than would otherwise have been the case. The following example may serve here as an illustration. One of the dullest liturgical pieces composed by the Hebrew writer Kaliri (about 700 A. D.) is no doubt the Hebrew hymn beginning with the words, _Adam-u-behemah_ (‪אדם ובהמה‬), which is read in most of the synagogues on _Hoshanah Rabbah_. Yet Zunz translated it into excellent German. A free English translation is appended:— On all that lives and moves Look down, O Lord, with grace; Preserve in health and strength The feeble human race. Oh, let the earth again In spring-like aspect shine, Producing lovely flowers, Delicious figs and vine. Let rain bedew the fields, The mountains high and low, That plants, and herbs, and trees Luxuriously grow. Arouse anew to life All that abides on earth, And let our hearts rejoice In lively songs and mirth. It may be mentioned here, in passing, that some of Zunz's poetical German translations are in style and form hardly inferior to the specimen renderings of Eastern poetry found in the works of Goethe, Herder, Rückert, and Bodenstedt. In fact, it is not too much to say that Zunz's German poetry and prose are classical. His style is praised by Varnhagen von Ense, who describes it in his _Diary_ as being in many places most elegant and attractive. As already stated, it was in 1859 that Zunz published an additional volume to the _Synagogale Poesie_, called _Die Ritus des synagogalen Gottesdienstes_, which mostly consists of inquiries into synagogal rites. He alludes to the varied rites that had been in vogue among Jews living in different countries, and he points out certain customs adopted by the synagogue which had their origin in the Christian Church. To these, he says, belong the customs of making monetary offerings in the synagogue during the reading of the Law, which had, however, long been in use in the Gallic Church. There, in return for such offerings, the officiating priest was wont to read a prayer, called in Latin _Oratio post nomina_. This prayer corresponds, according to Zunz, to the one still recited in some synagogues by the precentor on mentioning the offerings made by the person “called-up” to the reading of the Law, which is well known by the name of _Mi-Sheberach_ (‪מי שברך‬). Zunz also thinks that the usage practised in the synagogue of reciting prayers in memory of the souls of departed parents and near relations, likewise originated in the Christian Church, as mention is made of it in the early Christian liturgy.