- Title Pages
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Prefatory Note
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
-
3 Cincinnati (1854–1900) -
1. Queen City of the West -
2. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun -
3. The Israelite -
4. Zion College -
5. Conference—Union—;Synod -
6. David Einhorn -
7. Cleveland Platform: Quick Victory—Lengthy War -
8. Minhag America -
9. The Essence of Judaism -
10. Fighting for Jewish Rights -
11. Political Diversions -
12. The Civil War -
13. At North College Hill -
14. First Fruits in Cincinnati -
15. Wider Ambitions -
16. Among the Gentiles (1867–1878) -
17. Years of Sorrow and Strife (1869–1874) -
18. Flirting with the Orthodox -
19. Reformers in Conflict: East versus West (1869) -
20. Establishing the Union (1871–1873) -
21. Call to New York (1873) -
22. ‘We must have “Union in Israel’” -
23. President of Hebrew Union College - Bibliographical Note
- Glossary
- Index
- Plates
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
- Chapter:
- 2. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
- Source:
- Creating American Reform Judaism
- Author(s):
Sefton D. Temkin
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter shows that changes in the B’nai Jeshurun service did not lag far behind Isaac Mayer Wise’s arrival. First he set about introducing a choir, which had been attempted before but without lasting success. Overcoming the doubts of the president, Wise persisted, and when the trustees met in 1854, a letter from Wise was read announcing that the choir, twenty-five in number, would be ready to take part in the service on the ensuing Friday evening. The repertoire was taken from Sulzer and Naumbourg. He went on to suggest a number of liturgical modifications. With one exception (the omission of the talmudic passage Bameh madlikin, dealing with the laws of the Sabbath lamp), these affected style rather than content.
Keywords: B’nai Jeshurun, rabbinic reforms, liturgical modifications, choir, ministry
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- Title Pages
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Prefatory Note
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
-
3 Cincinnati (1854–1900) -
1. Queen City of the West -
2. Congregation B’nai Jeshurun -
3. The Israelite -
4. Zion College -
5. Conference—Union—;Synod -
6. David Einhorn -
7. Cleveland Platform: Quick Victory—Lengthy War -
8. Minhag America -
9. The Essence of Judaism -
10. Fighting for Jewish Rights -
11. Political Diversions -
12. The Civil War -
13. At North College Hill -
14. First Fruits in Cincinnati -
15. Wider Ambitions -
16. Among the Gentiles (1867–1878) -
17. Years of Sorrow and Strife (1869–1874) -
18. Flirting with the Orthodox -
19. Reformers in Conflict: East versus West (1869) -
20. Establishing the Union (1871–1873) -
21. Call to New York (1873) -
22. ‘We must have “Union in Israel’” -
23. President of Hebrew Union College - Bibliographical Note
- Glossary
- Index
- Plates