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Eugene Kohn
Eugene Kohn (January 26, 1887 - April 1, 1977) was an American Reconstructionist rabbi, writer and editor. Born in Newark, New Jersey he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and in 1912 received ordination. It was here that he met Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan who taught him homiletics. Between 1912 and 1939 he served as a congregational rabbi in Conservative synagogues in the U.S. states of Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin and Ohio. He also served as the president of the Rabbinical Assembly 1936-1937. He played a central role in the Reconstructionist movement. He edited its journal The Reconstructionist and, alongside Kaplan and Ira Eisenstein, edited The New Haggadah (1941), The Sabbath Prayer Book (1945) and The Reconstructionist Prayer Book (1948). Alongside Jack Cohen, Eisenstein and Milton Steinberg he was one of Kaplan's main disciples.
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the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) | Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik | Members of the Faculty of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School | David de Sola Pool | Ira Eisenstein | Solomon B. Freehof | David Frischmann (translation) | Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation | Mordecai Kaplan | the National Jewish Welfare Board | Milton Steinberg | Rabindranath Tagore | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) | John Paul Williams | Hillel Zeitlin
בִּרְכַּת עָם (תֶחֱזַקְנָה) | The People’s Blessing (a/k/a Teḥezaqnah), by Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik (1894)
Contributed on: 20 Aug 2018 by Eugene Kohn | the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription) | Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
Before HaTikvah was chosen, Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik’s “People’s Blessing” (בִּרְכַּת עָם, also known by its incipit תֶחֱזַֽקְנָה Teḥezaqnah) was once considered for the State of Israel’s national anthem. Bialik was 21 years old when he composed the work in 1894. It later was chosen as the anthem of the Labor Zionist movement. We hereby present the first ever complete English translation of this poem. . . .
