tagged: Prohibition in the United States • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

שיר מזמור לפורים | Shir Mizmor l’Purim, an anti-Prohibition drinking song for Purim by Rabbi Sabato Morais (1889)

Contributor(s):

Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sabato Morais

Categories:

Purim

Tags:

19th century C.E., זמירות zemirot, 57th century A.M., Philadelphia, American Jewry of the United States, Prohibition in the United States

This “Shir Mizmor l’Purim” by Rabbi Sabato Morais (we think) was first published in The Jewish Exponent on 15 March 1889. It was preserved by Rabbi Sabato Morais in his ledger, an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. . . .