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🇺🇸 Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) Readings

This is an archive of public readings selected for Juneteenth, (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth) – officially Juneteenth National Independence Day (also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day). Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans after the defeat of the pro-slavery Confederacy in the Civil War. Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States, and since 2021, as a federal holiday, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. It is commemorated on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865 announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas.

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💬 The Bill of Rights: Amendments Ⅰ through Ⅹ of the Constitution of the United States (1791, with translations in Hebrew and Yiddish by Judah David Eisenstein 1891)

The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America, were first adopted in 1791. They were closely modeled on the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason in May 1776. This translation, by Judah David Eisenstein was published in 1891. . . .

Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., civil declarations and charters, civil rights, Constitution of the United States, Hebrew translation, Yiddish translation

Contributor(s): Judah David Eisenstein (translation), James Madison and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 הַצְהָרַת הָאֵמַנְצִיפַּצְיָה | The Emancipation Proclamation (1 January 1863), translated, vocalized and cantillated by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

In honor of Juneteenth, the holiday of American liberation, this is a translation of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation into Biblical Hebrew. . . .

Categories: Modern Miscellany, 🇺🇸 Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) Readings

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), Black Lives Matter, civil declarations and charters, Emancipation

Contributor(s): Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation)

💬 Amendment ⅩⅣ to the Constitution of the United States of America (1866/1868, with translations in Hebrew and Yiddish by Judah David Eisenstein 1891)

The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, initially proposed by Congress on 13 June 1866 and adopted on 9 July 1868 was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments addressing citizenship rights and equal protection under the law. It was enacted in response to issues related to emancipated slaves following the failure of the Slaveholders’ Rebellion (1861-1865). . . .

Categories: Modern Miscellany, 🇺🇸 Juneteenth (Emancipation Day) Readings, Addenda, 🇺🇸 Constitution & Citizenship Day Readings, 🌐 Day of Democracy (September 15th)

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., civil declarations and charters, civil rights, Constitution of the United States, Hebrew translation, Reconstruction Amendments, Yiddish translation

Contributor(s): Judah David Eisenstein (translation), the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, 1863. 'Reading the Emancipation Proclamation.' Engraving, 1864.

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