Full Friday evening Shabbat service led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn with sermon “Brandeis the Jew. December 14, 1956. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.

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Title:
Full Friday evening Shabbat service led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn with sermon “Brandeis the Jew. December 14, 1956. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Description:
Full Friday evening Shabbat service led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn with sermon “Brandeis the Jew.” This is the second of two sermons commemorating the centennial of Louis Dembitz Brandeis’s birth. Rabbi Gittelsohn traces the trajectory of Brandeis’ activist career on behalf of a Jewish state and lauds Brandeis as a “defender of human freedom.” He states that Brandeis was in his fifties when he became a fervent Zionist, and was esteemed by Jewish organizations and presidents for his role in creating Israel. Gittelsohn also notes that while Brandeis was disinterested in practicing Judaism, he believed that “an American Jew can be a Zionist,” and proclaimed that “to be the highest kind of American Jew, one must be a Zionist.” A setting of Psalm 150 that was a new composition by Herbert Fromm, Temple Israel’s Music Director, and was commissioned by Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, TX for the dedication of their new sanctuary, was performed as part of the service. Choral music performed by the Temple Israel Choir, Herbert Fromm, conductor.
Speaker:
Gittelsohn, Roland Bertram, 1910-1995
Musical director:
Fromm, Herbert
Composer:
Fromm, Herbert
Creator:
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Date:
December 14, 1956
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Location:
Temple Israel of Boston
Wyner Archives
Collection (local):
Past Voices, Audio Recordings, 1934-1979
Subjects:
Reform Judaism--United States
Jewish sermons--United States
Synagogue music--Sabbath services--United States
Zionism
Brandeis, Louis D., 1856-1941
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1/4" audio tape (1 hour, 30 min., 07 sec.)
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Language:
English
Hebrew
Notes:
Related item: TI-AV-90044.001
Preferred Citation:
Full Friday evening Shabbat service led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn with sermon “Brandeis the Jew. December 14, 1956. Audiovisual Collection, Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Notes (funding):
This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Notes (historical):
Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn (1910-1995), social justice activist, Zionist, and writer, was Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel from 1953-1977 and Rabbi Emeritus thereafter. He served as founding rabbi of Central Synagogue in Rockville Center, NY from 1936-1953. During WWII, he became the first Jewish Marine Corps chaplain, and, in 1945, he delivered a moving, oft-quoted eulogy on brotherhood at Iwo Jima. After his retirement he was a co-founder of ARZA (the Association of Reform Zionists).
Herbert Fromm (1905-1995), Temple Israel’s organist and Music Director (1941-1973), was a German-born conductor and composer forced to leave Germany in 1937. A prolific composer of religious music, much of which became part of the standard synagogue repertoire, and secular works, he also published many articles and essays and several books.
Identifier:
TI-AV-90045.002