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Max Raisin

Rabbi Max Raisin (1881-1957), born in Nesvizh (currently in Belarus), was a rabbi in the American Reform movement and author (in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew). He emigrated to the United States in 1893. Living in the Lower East Side, he was a founding member of Hovevei Sefat Ever, dedicated to studying and mastering literary Hebrew. Early in his career he served he led Congregation Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi) and later on served in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the course of his life, he authored twenty books, including Out of the Book of My Life (1957). More on the life Max and his brother Jacob Raisin, are written in the article, Two Anomalous Reform Rabbis: The Brothers Jacob and Max Raisin (Michael Meyer, 2016).

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Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Max Raisin on 30 January 1947

Contributed by: Max Raisin, the Congressional Record of the United States of America

The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 30 January 1947. . . .