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Lot #    25033
Auction End Date    10/27/2009 11:40:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    A vision of Jewish womanhood
Author    Louis I. Newman
City    New York
Publisher    Bloch Publishing Company
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    15 pp. 167:114 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound as issued.
          
Detailed
Description		    The subtitle of this booklet is "a series of tableaux". "It is to take place in a frame, especially constructed for the purpose. During the "Vision" appropriate musical numbers are played behind the stage."

"These tableaux were written in 1915 for the Women's Circle of the First Hebrew Congregation of Berkeley, California. It has been produced from manuscript by them, by the Young Women's Hebrew Association of San Francisco, the High School Association of the Free Synagogue of New York and other groups."

          
Paragraph 2    Louis Israel Newman was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1893. He received an A.B. degree from Brown University in 1913, an A.M. from University of California in 1917 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1924. Brown University later presented him with an honorary degree in 1942. Newman became an assistant to Rabbi Stephen Wise at the Free Synagogue in 1917. In 1918, Wise and Rabbi Martin Meyer of Temple Emanu-El of San Francisco ordained him. Newman subsequently served pulpits at the Bronx Free Synagogue (1917-1921) and Temple Israel in New York City (1921-1924). Newman was affiliated with the faculty of the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City from its 1922 inception. He served as a professor of apologetics intermittently until 1933. During this period, Newman was also the president of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association. Then he left New York City to serve as rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco. Newman returned to New York City in 1930 to become the rabbi at Temple Rodef Shalom, where he was to remain until retirement. During the 1930s, Newman became identified with the Zionist revisionist movement. He believed that Zionism was primarily a political movement and that the creation of a Jewish Palestine state was essential. Newman was both the honorary chairman of the Revisionist Tel Hai fund and also the chairman of the Palestine Mandate Defense Fund. Additionally, he was an honorary chairman of the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine and on the American advisory committee for Hebrew University. In the 1920s, he was a vice-president of the American Jewish Congress. His books include Jewish Influence on Christian Reform Movements (1924); Jewish People, Faith and Life (1935) and a translation/compilation entitled Hasidic Anthology (1934). His 1922 work, A Jewish University in America? influenced the founding of Brandeis University. Newman was also a poet and a playwright, creating numerous plays and cantatas. His The Woman at the Wall became the libretto for the opera Tamar and Judah. Newman married Lucile Helene Uhry on 14 June 1923. They had three children: Jeremy Uhry Newman, Jonathan Uhry Newman, and Daniel Uhry Newman. Newman died in 1972 in New York City.
          
Reference
Description		    http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/FindingAids/LouisNewman.htm
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Women
  
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Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica