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Dov Berl Edelstein
Rabbi Dov Berl Edelstein (דב אדלשטיין, b. 1926), from Bedek (near Szatmár), Romania, is a retired rabbi, educator, and lecturer. A survivor of the Holocaust, he published his memoir Worlds Torn Asunder in 1985. After World War II, he came to Israel via Cyprus in 1947 and and taught Hebrew. In 1962, he emigrated to the United States where he served Beth Israel Synagogue in Weirton, West Virginia. In the early 1970s he moved to Appleton, Wisconsin where he served the Moses Montefiore Synagogue. While there, he earned a graduate degree in American history and studied the relationship of the Wisconsin press toward President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
96th Congress | English vernacular prayer | U.S. House of Representatives | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | תחינות teḥinot | 20th century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Dov Edelstein on 8 March 1979
Contributed on: 04 Mar 2024 by Dov Berl Edelstein | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 March 1979. . . .
