Partial Friday evening Sabbath service for Purim with short sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, February 24, 1956. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston

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Title:
Partial Friday evening Sabbath service for Purim with short sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, February 24, 1956. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston
Description:
Partial Friday evening family worship Sabbath service for Purim at Temple Israel, led by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, with the reading of the Book of Esther and a short sermon by Rabbi Gittelsohn. The liturgy for this Purim youth service was written by Director of Education Samuel Nemzoff and Rabbi Gittelsohn. Following the reading of the Book of Esther, Rabbi Gittelsohn tells a short story that embellishes on the Purim story, whose moral is that people who succeed and become happy and useful are good people inside themselves. The service also includes priestly blessings in front of the Bima for boys and girls with birthdays between January 1 and April 1. 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 24, 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
Purim
Holidays--Religious aspects--Judaism
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1/4" audio tape (1 hour, 08 min., 16 sec.)
Permalink:
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Language:
English
Hebrew
Preferred Citation:
Partial Friday evening Sabbath service for Purim with short sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, February 24, 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.
Samuel A. (Sy) Nemzoff (1905-1983), secular and religious educator and leader, was the principal of Temple Israel’s religious school from 1942-1972. He was also master at Boston Latin School for 31 years, a camp director for 20 years, and the author of several works on education published by the UAHC.
Identifier:
TI-AV-90038.001