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Reverend's manual : manuscript.
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 654
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, William, (Reverend), -1897, author, composer, former owner.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Hazkarat neshamot--19th century--Sermons.
- Hazkarat neshamot.
- Bar mitzvah sermons--19th century.
- Bar mitzvah sermons.
- Funeral sermons--19th century.
- Funeral sermons.
- Fasts and feasts--Judaism--19th century--Sermons.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Simḥat Torah--19th century--Songs and music.
- Simḥat Torah.
- Rabbis--England--Liverpool--19th century.
- Rabbis.
- Jews--England--Liverpool--19th century--History--Sources.
- Jews.
- Genre:
- Codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Gedula S. Ausdauer (ink inscription, f. 99v).
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (blind stamp, f. 98r).
- Formerly owned by Reverend William Stern (inscription in ink, f. 1r, "Rev. Dr. W. Stern, Minister, 3 Hope Place"; inscription in pencil, "Rev. Dr. W. Stern" (f. 2r); inscription in ink, "D. W. Stern, הק' בנימ[י]ן זאב המכונה וואלף שטערן" (f. 98v); inscription in pencil, "Dr. W. Stern, Minister of the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation, Hope Place" (f. 99v).
- Physical Description:
- 99 leaves, 1 manuscript score : paper ; 16 x 10 cm.
- Production:
- Liverpool, [1868-1898?].
- Language Note:
- Text in English and Hebrew; ceremony to precede nuptials in Judeo-German (f. 59v-61r).
- Biography/History:
- Stern (in Hebrew: בנימין זאב וואלף שטערן) served as reverend and minister to the Liverpool New Hebrew Congregation and principal of the Aria [Hebrew] College, Portsea; died in Copenhagen, 23 Kislev 5657 (18 December 1897; The Jewish World, Vol. XLIX, no. 15); Stern probably in this position when the congregation moved to a new synagogue building on Hope Place, Liverpool, in 1857 (the congregation broke away from the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation in 1842; the synagogue building was finally sold in 1937, and today used by the Unity Theatre, Liverpool).
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript manual created for the use of Reverend William Stern in Liverpool, written on the blank leaves of a printed cantor's manual (Moreh le-shaliaḥ tsibur : Handbuch für Cantoren [...] von Wilhelm Flamm; Prag, 1868; see the print record), recording occasional prayers and sermons; for example, Bar Mitzvah (f. 12v-13r), service for Hazkarat neshamot (f. 16v-19r), grave-side and mourner's prayers (f. 19v-25r), nuptials services (f. 25v-26v; "בייא איינר פרויע", that is, engagement and couple's introduction ceremony, f. 26r-v; additional services continue, "Worthy bride & bridegroom", f. 27v-32r, another on f. 36v-); for the Bar mitzvah of Avraham Levy, 18 Tevet 5635, 26 December [18]74 (f. 33r-36r), and a nuptial prayer in Judeo-German (f. 60v-62v). The musical score (f. 14r) is a composition for Simhat Torah, a march from Psalms CXI (the notes for the first two verses are recorded, followed by the final few words of the Psalm, signifying repetition).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Cited as:
- Reverend's manual (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 654). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
- Contains:
- Bible. Psalms, CXI.
- OCLC:
- 1402286576
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