Prayer for Lajos Kossuth, by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (5 June 1852)
Contributed by: Isaac Mayer Wise, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
This is an opening prayer offered by Rabbi Dr. Isaac Mayer Wise, before an address by Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894) sponsored by the Young Men’s Hungarian Liberty Association in Albany, New York on 5 June 1852. The prayer was published as part of the “Programme of Exercises,” in The Asmonean (12 June 1852). . . .