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Nochum Dovid Herman
Rabbi Nachum David Herman (נחום דוד הרמן) (1908-1984) served Congregation Tifereth Israel (a/k/a Park Slope Jewish Center, Brooklyn, New York) and, in 1950, was the first Orthodox rabbi to offer a prayer before Congress since Rabbi Harry Mendes in 1888. We know very little else about him save that he was the son of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Herman and studied at Mir Yeshivah in Poland; if you know more, please contact us. (Image cropped from a painting by Miriam Shaw derived from a photograph in the collection of the Herman family.)
anti-communist | English vernacular prayer | U.S. House of Representatives | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | תחינות teḥinot | 81st Congress | Cold War (1947–1953) | 20th century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Nachum David Herman on 7 March 1950
Contributed by Nochum Dovid Herman | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | ❧
The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 7 March 1950. . . .
