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This is an archive of prayers composed for, or relevant to, United Nations Day, the anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations, ratified by its member states on 24 October 1945, at the end of World War Ⅱ.

In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly declared the day as one which “shall be devoted to making known to the people of the world the aims and achievements of the United Nations and to gaining their support for” its work. In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a further resolution (United Nations Resolution 2782) declaring that United Nations Day shall be an international observance or international holiday and recommended that it should be observed as a public holiday by United Nations member states. (This summary contains material derived from Wikipedia)

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A Prayer for Peace and Goodwill Among the Nations of the Earth, by Rabbi Jonas Kaminkowski (1927)

A prayer for intra-national peace during the interwar period (after World War I).

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, League of Nations, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s):

Jonas Kaminkowski and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer for Brotherhood, by Stephen Vincent Benét on United Nations Flag Day (14 June 1942)

This prayer by Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) was first publicly read in 1942 in the course of a United Nations Day speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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🇺🇳 United Nations, 🇺🇸 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12th), 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🇺🇸 Flag Day (June 14), 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, United States, Universal Peace, universalist prayers, vexillology, World War Ⅱ

Contributor(s):

Stephen Vincent Benét and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Interdependence, a prayer by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (19 November 1944)

“Interdependence” by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was originally written for the 50th Anniversary of the World’s Young Women’s Christian Association, 19 November 1944. The prayer was included by Rabbi Morrison David Bial in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 55. It’s likely that Rabbi Bial first read the prayer in an anthology of prayer by Stephen Hole Fritchman, Prayers of the Free Spirit (1945), p. 38.

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🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., interdependence, Post–World War II economic expansion

Contributor(s):

Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer for a New World Order, by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan (ca. 1945-1951)

This prayer for a New World Order by Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, representing many of the hopes of a United Nations after World War Ⅱ, was found by Mel Scult among Mordecai Kaplan’s papers and shared by Dr. Scult in a Facebook post. The prayer is undated, although we tentatively date it between 1945 and 1951.

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🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Mordecai Kaplan

[Prayer on] the Birthday of the United Nations, by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1947)

A prayer for United Nations Day, the anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.

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🇺🇳 United Nations, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, North American Jewry, Universal Peace, universalist prayers

Contributor(s):

Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

War Can Be Abolished, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

“War Can Be Abolished,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 262-265.

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🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th), War

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-war, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, United States

Contributor(s):

John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Opening Prayer for United Nations Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

This opening prayer for United Nations Day, “The Significance of the Day,” was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 249-250.

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🇺🇳 United Nations, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, interdependence, United States

Contributor(s):

John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Closing Prayer for United Nations Day, by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, J. Paul Williams, and Eugene Kohn (1951)

This closing prayer for United Nations Day was first published in The Faith of America: Readings, Songs, and Prayers for the Celebration of American Holidays (Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation 1951), p. 272-273.

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🇺🇳 United Nations, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, anti-war, civic prayers, ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, United States, world government

Contributor(s):

John Paul Williams, Eugene Kohn, Mordecai Kaplan and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] for Peace Among the Nations, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“[Prayer] For Peace Among the Nations” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 59, from where this prayer was transcribed.

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🇺🇳 United Nations, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th), War, 🌐 Armistice Day (November 11th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., anti-war, Cold War (1953–1962), English vernacular prayer, United States, universalist

Contributor(s):

Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Prayer for the United Nations, by Lilian Helen Montagu

This undated “Prayer for the United Nations” by the Hon. Lily H. Montagu (1873-1963) from the archives of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London, was published in, Lily Montagu: Sermons, Addresses, Letters, and Prayers (ed. Ellen M. Umansky, 1985), pp. 357-358.

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🇺🇳 United Nations, 🌐 United Nations Day (October 24th)

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Lilian Helen Montagu and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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