White Day of Peace, a poem by Miriam del Banco for the Jewish Women’s Congress (World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893)

A poem on interfaith tolerance during the Jewish Women’s Congress held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893, part of the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition.

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🇺🇸 United States of America

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, interfaith tolerance, Jewish Women's Conference, United States

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National Council of Jewish Women, Miriam del Banco and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Opening Prayer for the Jewish Women’s Congress, by Rachel Frank-Litman (World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893)

The opening prayer of the Jewish Women’s Congress held at the World Parliament of Religion at the World’s Columbian Exposition as published in the Papers of the Jewish Women’s Congress: held at Chicago, September 4-7, 1893 (1894), p. 8.

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Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, interfaith prayer, Jewish Women's Conference, Opening Prayers, United States

Contributor(s):

National Council of Jewish Women, Rachel Frank-Litman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

He of Prayer, a poem concerning the angel Sandalphon by an Unknown Author (ca. 1870s)

The poem, “He of Prayer” as published in Henry Abarbanel’s English School and Family Reader (1883), p.14, where it is attributed to the newspaper The Jewish Times, a New York newspaper that circulated from 1869-1877.

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Qedushah

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Nature, angelology, Angels, Coronation, Crown, English poetry, English Romanticism, ההיכלות ויורדי המרכבה haHeikhalot v'Yordei haMerkavah, Keter, קדושה Qedushah, romanticism, סנדלפון Sandalfon, Wheel, Wreath

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Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)