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Bidding Information
Lot #    18785
Auction End Date    8/21/2007 12:08:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Prayer book for the Sabbath: order of service
Author    [Liturgy - Reform] Barnett A. Elzas, comp.
City    New York
Publication Date    1914
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    64,64 pp., 169:115 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth wrappers.
          
Paragraph 1    The preface states the this Order of Service was arranged for the use of the Synagogue, Long Branch, NJ. The Hebrew text is basically what had been used in the Congregation for many years. The English version is a conglomeration from various sources which permits the "service to be read in the vernacular".
          
Detailed
Description		    Barnett Abraham Elzas (1867–1939): U.S. Reform rabbi and historian. Elzas was born in Germany, the son of a Hebrew teacher, and moved with his parents to Holland and then to London where he was educated at Jews' College and the University of London. In 1890 he went to America and served congregations in Toronto, Canada and Sacramento, California, being eventually appointed to the pulpit of Congregation Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina (1894). Elzas became keenly interested in local Jewish history and made an exhaustive study of records of Charleston Jewry and of the older smaller communities of the state. After writing a number of studies on the subject, he produced the comprehensive Jews of South Carolina: From Earliest Times to the Present Day (1905), which still ranks as one of the best historical studies of an American Jewish community. While in Charleston, Elzas also qualified at the Medical College of South Carolina (1900), although he never practiced. In 1910 he moved to New York City where he ministered to the Hebrew Congregation of the Deaf and served as Jewish chaplain to the City Department of Correction and the State Mental Hygiene Department. He also served as president of the New York Board of Rabbis. In 1912 Elzas became rabbi of Beth Miriam Congregation, Long Branch, N.J.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Wachs 890 (5 copies)
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
Reform:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    English, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica