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Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morris Rosenfeld, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
“My America (Our New Hymn)” was written by Morris Rosenfeld and published by the Jewish Morning Journal sometime mid-April 1917. On April 2nd, the United States had entered the World War against Germany and its allies. In the xenophobic atmosphere of the United States during World War Ⅰ, Representative Isaac Siegel (1880-1947), R-NY, offered the hymn as evidence of the patriotism of America’s “foreign-born” Jewish immigrants. The poem in its English translation was added to the Congressional Record on 18 April 1917 in an extension of remarks. Xenophobia in the United States though did not ebb. Nearly a year later, on April 4, 1918, a German immigrant, Robert Prager, was lynched in Collinsville, Illinois.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Edward Benjamin Morris Browne, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 December 1917.
Contributed by: Leo M. Franklin, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 19 January 1917.
Contributed by: Isidore Lewinthal, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 17 January 1917.
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Martin A. Meyer, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the third session of the 63rd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 52 part 2 (13 January 1915), page 1514.
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Louis Stern on 10 June 1914
Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Louis Stern, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the fourth month of the first session of the 63rd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 51 part 10 (10 June 1914), page 10175.
Contributed by: Isidore Lewinthal, the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 1 July 1912.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Abram Simon
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 16 February 1905.
Contributed by: Abram Simon, the Congressional Record of the United States of America
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 16 January 1905.
Contributed by: the Congressional Record of the United States of America, David Philipson
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 2 February 1904, the first prayer of a rabbinic guest chaplain recorded in the Congressional Record
Contributed by: Judah David Eisenstein (translation), the Congressional Record of the United States of America, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, initially proposed by Congress on 13 June 1866 and adopted on 9 July 1868 was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments addressing citizenship rights and equal protection under the law. It was enacted in response to issues related to emancipated slaves following the failure of the Slaveholders’ Rebellion (1861-1865).
