
Reformed Society of Israelites
The Reformed Society of Israelites (1824-1833) was a group of forty-seven congregants of Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina, who gathered in late 1824 to petition the congregation to modify the service of prayers with an adapted liturgy emphasizing English translations, original hymns, and other modifications. Among other reforms, the group called for shorter services and sermons conducted in English that would relate the weekly parashah to everyday life. Prominent leaders in the group were Isaac Harby (1788–1828), Abraham Moïse (1799-1869), and David Nunes Carvalho (1784-1860). After Harby's death in 1828, the group published a prayerbook (later reprinted by Barnett Elzas/Bloch in 1916). In 1833, the group dissolved but in rejoining Beth Elohim they also managed to succeed in their original mission in putting the congregation on a firm Reform movement trajectory.
After the Aliyot | Bedtime Shema | Government & Country | Morning Baqashot | Psuqei d'Zimrah/Zemirot l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov | Saturday | Shabbat Siddurim | Tishah b'Av | 🇺🇸 United States of America | Shaḥarit l'Shabbat ul'Yom Tov
ABAB rhyming scheme | alternate rhyming scheme | American Jewry of the United States | American Reform Movement | Classical Reform | English vernacular prayer | hymns | paraliturgical adon olam | paraliturgical modim | paraliturgical yotser ohr | Reform Jewry | South Carolina | United States | אדון עולם Adon Olam | מודים Modim | 19th century C.E. | paraliturgical Psalms 23 | Psalms 23 | 56th century A.M. | paraliturgical Psalms 133 | Psalms 133
Caroline de Litchfield Harby | Isaac Harby | Abraham Moïse | Columbus Moïse | David Nunes Carvalho | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina)
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