Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn: “Deutero Isaiah”, February 5,1960. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.

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Title:
Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn: “Deutero Isaiah”, February 5,1960. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Description:
Full Friday evening Sabbath service at Temple Israel led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn with sermon entitled “Deutero Isaiah”. Gittelsohn discusses Second Isaiah, which refers to Chapter 40-55 of the Biblical Book of Isaiah and was written by an anonymous author about 200 years after the first chapters. He notes that these chapters differ in historical context and in the mood of the Jewish people, and that they offer three measures of comfort to a traumatized people: the assurance that God still lives and rules; the promise that God’s law still governs the world of nature; and the confidence that Israel’s suffering, no less than its success, serves a universal ethical purpose for all mankind. 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:
February 5, 1960
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
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1/4" open reel tape (1 hour, 28 min., 22 sec.)
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Language:
English
Hebrew
Preferred Citation:
Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn: “Deutero Isaiah”, February 5,1960. Audiovisual Collection, 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_90097.002