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Gershon Lazarus
Gershon Lazarus (also Gershom Lazarus Larendon, 1804-1868) was a member of Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina and steamboat inspector in the Custom House of the Port of Charleston (1847-1858).With Rapture I Behold the Light, a hymn for Shabbat by Gershon Lazarus (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)
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“With Rapture I Behold the Light,” by Gershon Lazarus (1809-1869), published in 1842, appears under the subject “Sabbath” as Hymn 58 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 60. . . .
