Fanny Neuda

Fanny Neuda (née Schmiedl, 6 March 1819 in Lomnice – 6 April 1894 in Merano) was a German-language Jewish writer best known for her popular collection of prayers, Stunden der Andacht (1855).

By the time Fanny was two years old, the family had moved to nearby Prostějov, home to her grandfather Moshe, a center of Talmudic study and the growing Jewish Enlightenment.

Like his father, grandfather, and uncles before him, Adolf became a rabbi, eventually assuming a prominent rabbinical post in Vienna.

Stunden der Andacht: Ein Gebet- und Erbauungsbuch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Andacht (Hours of Devotion: Book of Prayer and Edification for Jewish Wives and Young Women) was the first collection of Jewish prayers known to have been written by a woman for women, and the first collection of women's teḥinot (supplicatory prayers) to be offered in German rather than Yiddish.

In 1866, Rabbi Moritz Mayer published his abridged English translation, Hours of Devotion: A Book of Prayers and Meditations (1866), in New York.

A revised version accounting for the special conditions existing in Nazi Germany was prepared by Martha Wertheimer and titled Alle Tage deines Leben: Ein Buch für jüdische Frauen (All the Days of Your Life: A Book for Jewish Women; 1935).