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Samuel Thurman  Samuel ThurmanBorn in Russia, Rabbi Samuel Thurman came to America as a child and grew up in Boston. There he attended Boston Latin Grammar School and then Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude. From there he enrolled in Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati to prepare for the rabbinate. After serving in Lexington, Kentucky (ca.1908), Kalamazoo, Michigan (ca.1908-1912, and Trenton, New Jersey (ca.1912-1914, he came to United Hebrew in St. Louis, Missouri in 1914, where he served the congregation until he died in 1963 at the age of eighty. An exceptionally dynamic orator, he spoke frequently before other congregations, including many Christian churches. Thurman was instrumental in bringing together rabbis of fellow Jewish congregations through his role in the creation of the St. Louis Rabbinical Association. A Thirty-Third Degree Mason, he was a longtime fiend of Harry S. Truman. Thurman was singularly honored when he was invited to deliver the invocation at President Truman's inauguration in January 1949, the first rabbi in American history to participate in a presidential inauguration. Filter resources by Category 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week | Coronations & Inaugurations | 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th) | Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies | 🇺🇸 United States of America Filter resources by Tag democratic process | English vernacular prayer | inaugurations | Prayers of Guest Chaplains | U.S. Senate | תחינות teḥinot | United States | World War Ⅱ | 79th Congress | 20th century C.E. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Sorted Chronologically (new to old). Sort oldest first? Inauguration Day Prayer for President Harry S. Truman, by Rabbi Samuel Thurman (1949)Contributed by Samuel Thurman | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | ❧ This prayer by Rabbi Samuel Thurman, of the United Hebrew Temple (St. Louis, Missouri), was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1949. . . . Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Samuel Thurman on 26 February 1945Contributed by Samuel Thurman | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | ❧ The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 26 February 1945. . . . | ||
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