Seder Ritual Committee Records undated, 1952-1969

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Seder Ritual Committee Records undated, 1952-1969

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The Seder Ritual Committee was created to compose a prayer memorializing the suffering and persecution of the Holocaust. This collection documents their activities and includes correspondence, publicity, orders, and copies of the Seder Ritual of Remembrance.

0.25 linear feet (1 manuscript box).

eng,

American Jewish Historical Society

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Seder Ritual Committee

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The Seder Ritual Committee was founded in 1952 by the American Jewish Congress and lead by the historian Israel Goldberg (Rufus Learsi). The task of the committee was to compose a prayer memorializing the suffering and persecution of the Holocaust. The Seder Ritual of Remembrance, the prayer they composed, was broadly distributed to various Jewish organizations, press, and synagogues. Source: A. Katz, “Supplement: The Seder Ritual of Remembrance,” Beurei Hatefila 7, no. ...

Goldberg, Israel, 1887-1964

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American Jewish congress

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The American Jewish Congress was founded originally in 1918 by a group of Jewish American leaders as an umbrella structure for Jewish organizations to represent the American Jewish interests at the Peace Conference following the end of World War I. It was seen as a national parliamentary assembly representing all American Jews. Representatives to the Congress were selected by all major national Jewish organizations and delegates representing local communities were elected by some 35...