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tag: United States Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? This is a Torah reading (divided into three aliyot) and a Haftarah reading to be recited on Memorial Day or any local equivalent day to honor those who died for their nation. The prayer for the government presented by Gershom Seixas at K.K. Shearith Israel on Thanksgiving Day 1789. Categories: Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American War of Independence, George Washington, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, Ḳ.Ḳ. Shearith Israel, United States Contributor(s): A prayer for the welfare of the government in Yiddish from A Naye Shas Tkhine Rav Pninim (after 1933). Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, הנותן תשועה haNotén Teshuah, paraliturgical hanoten teshuah, תחינות tkhines, United States, World War Ⅱ, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): The Prayer for the Government offered by Rabbi David de Sola Pool in his service for Thanksgiving Day in 1945. The text of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America and its signatories in English, with a Yiddish translation published in 1954. Prayers recited on special occasions and thus not part of the fixed liturgy offered America’s foremost Jewish congregation far greater latitude for originality in prayer. At such services, particularly when the prayers were delivered in English and written with the knowledge that non-Jews would hear them, leaders of Shearith Israel often dispensed with the traditional prayer for the government and substituted revealing new compositions appropriate to the concerns of the day. A prayer composed in 1784 (in this case in Hebrew) by the otherwise unknown Rabbi (Cantor?) Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen, for example, thanked God who “in His goodness prospered our warfare.” Mentioning by name both Governor George Clinton and General George Washington, the rabbi prayed for peace and offered a restorationist Jewish twist on the popular idea of America as “redeemer nation”: “As Thou hast granted to these thirteen states of America everlasting freedom,” he declared, “so mayst Thou bring us forth once again from bondage into freedom and mayst Thou sound the great horn for our freedom.” Categories: Government & Country, 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 United States of America Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American War of Independence, Ḳ.Ḳ. Shearith Israel, Presidents Day, Sepharadi Diaspora, Spanish-Portuguese, United States, Western Sefaradim Contributor(s): The following prayer for the government was composed by Congregation Beth Shalome in Richmond, Virginia in 1789. Please note the acrostic portion of the prayer in which the initial letters of the succeeding lines form the name: Washington. Categories: Government & Country, 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 United States of America Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., acrostic, American Jewry of the United States, George Washington, inaugurations, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, United States, Western Sefaradim Contributor(s): This historically significant prayer for the government of the United States of America offered by the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.), appears in The Sabbath service and miscellaneous prayers, adopted by the Reformed society of Israelites, founded in Charleston, S.C., November 21, 1825 (1830, Bloch: 1916). Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1826. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1826. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1830. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, מודים Modim, paraliturgical modim, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1826. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1826. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1826. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1826. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, paraliturgical Psalms 23, Psalms 23, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): A hymn provided for opening or concluding the morning Sabbath service of the Reformed Society of Israelites (Charleston, S.C.) ca. 1830. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, paraliturgical Psalms 133, Psalms 133, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): The well-known patriotic hymn with a Hebrew and a Yiddish translation. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, doikayt, hereness, Patriotic hymns, United States, Yiddish songs, Yiddish translation, זמירות zemirot Contributor(s): “Israel! to holy numbers tune thy harp’s exalting strain,” by Columbus Moïse (1809-1871), was first delivered in 1842 as part of the consecration of the new synagogue building for Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim and published that year in the congregation’s hymnal. It appears as Hymn 3 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), p. 8. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): “Ribon kol ha-Olamim” was almost certainly written by Rabbi Max Lilienthal in 1846 soon after he arrived in New York City where he was elected chief rabbi of New York’s “united German-Jewish community.” It was first published in L. Henry Frank’s prayerbook, Tefilot Yisrael: Prayers of Israel with an English translation (1848) without attribution. In 1998, Dr. Jonathan Sarna elucidated its authorship in an article, “A Forgotten 19th Century Prayer for the U.S. Government: Its Meaning, Significance and Surprising Author.” In Hesed Ve-Emet: Studies in Honor of Ernest S. Frerichs, eds. J. Magness and S. Gitin, 431-440. Athens, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1998. “Father of nations! Judge divine!” by Penina Moïse, was published in 1856, and appears under the subject of “Our Country” as Hymn 149 in Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1856), pp. 144-146. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, Patriotic hymns, South Carolina, United States Contributor(s): | ||
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