Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Leon A. Jick: “No Wonder”, January 25,1957. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.

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Title:
Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Leon A. Jick: “No Wonder”, January 25,1957. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Description:
Full Friday evening Sabbath service led by Rabbi Leon A. Jick with a sermon entitled ”No Wonder”. Rabbi Jick argues that this is the Age of Bewilderment which has led to a feeling of boredom, listlessness, and disappointment, and that this “mood” results from the loss of the ability to wonder, to be in awe of the grandeur of life. He goes on to state that the ability to wonder can be reawakened in all of us, and that Judaism’s very essence, its rituals and its blessings can be a path to that reawakening. Choral music performed by the Temple Israel Choir, Herbert Fromm, conductor.
Speaker:
Jick, Leon A.
Musical director:
Fromm, Herbert
Composer:
Fromm, Herbert
Creator:
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Date:
January 25, 1957
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, 19 min., 03 sec.)
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Language:
English
Hebrew
Preferred Citation:
Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Leon A. Jick: “No Wonder”, January 25,1957. 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 Leon A. Jick (1924-2005), professor, historian, activist, and Zionist, was Assistant Rabbi at Temple Israel from 1954-1957. From 1957-1966, he served as rabbi of the Free Synagogue of Westchester in Mount Vernon, NY. He then became Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Brandeis University, where he held several positions, including Dean, over the next 24 years. His book, The Americanization of the Synagogue, 1820-1870 (1992) has become a classic.
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_90101.002