tagged: Post–World War II economic expansion • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Prayer for American Enterprise [at the opening of a Kresge’s department store], by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1956)

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Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A prayer offered at the opening of a department store during the post-WWII economic expansion in the United States. . . .

[Prayer before] the Chamber of Commerce and Civics [of the Oranges & Maplewood, New Jersey], a Cold War prayer by Rabbi Avraham Samuel Soltes (1950)

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Avraham Samuel Soltes and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

A prayer for the continuance of “the American way of life” offered during the Cold War (1947-1953) in northern New Jersey. . . .

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

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

“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. . . .