Rabbi Israel Harold Sharfman research material, 1841-2013.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Sharfman, I. Harold, creator.

Language:

English

German

Hebrew

Multiple languages

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Rice, Abraham Joseph.

Jews.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Jews--United States.

Genre:

correspondence

drafts (documents)

photographic prints

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Robert Lehmann, 2019.

Physical Description:

1 box (.5 linear foot)

Arrangement:

Organized into 3 series: I. Research on Rabbi Abraham Rice; II. II. The first rabbi : origins of conflict between Orthodox & Reform : Jewish polemic warfare in pre-Civil War America : a biographical history materials; and III. The first rabbi companion volume.

Place of Publication:

1841-2013.

Biography/History:

Rabbi Israel Harold Sharfman was born in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York. He attended multiple schools including the University of Southern California, New York University and Yeshiva University, where he became an ordained rabbi. Sharfman served as rabbi at Temple Tifereth Israel (New York) and the Beverlywood Jewish Center (Los Angeles). He was the director of B'nai B'rith Hillel at the University of Manitoba and a professor of philosophy at Torah University. Sharfman was an officer and administrator for the Orthodox Rabbinical Association and the Kosher Overseers Association of America, Inc. During his lifetime, Rabbi Sharfman published three books: Nothing left to commemorate : the story of the pioneer Jews of Jackson, Amador County, California (1969), The first rabbi : origins of conflict between Orthodox & Reform : Jewish polemic warfare in pre-Civil War America : a biographical history (1988), and Jews on the frontier : an account of Jewish pioneers and settlers in early America (1990). Rabbi Israel Harold Sharfman passed away in 2000 in Beverly Hills, California. Rabbi Abraham Joseph Rice was considered the first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States. He was born in 1800 in Gochsheim, Germany. Abraham Rice was ordained as a rabbi by Rabbi Abraham Bing. While in Europe, Rice studied under Rabbi Wolf Hamburger. In 1840, Abraham Rice immigrated to the United States where he began his career as the rabbi for Congregation Nidche Israel in Baltimore. Rice briefly served as the rabbi at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation until his death. Many of Rice's sermons were published in Isaac Leeser's the Occident and American Jewish Advocate . Rabbi Abraham Joseph Rice passed away in 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Summary:

The Rabbi Israel Harold Sharfman research material contains research material on Rabbi Abraham Rice, as well as drafts for a companion volume to Sharman's The first rabbi : origins of conflict between Orthodox & Reform : Jewish polemic warfare in pre-Civil War America : a biographical history , dating from 1841 to 2013. Sharfman published The first rabbi in 1988 and, at the back of the volume, it states: "Notes, Appendices, References in Companion Volume of The First Rabbi Homilies, Responsa, Polemics, Letters and Documents Transcribed, Translated, Edited by Rabbi I. Harold Sharfman, D.H.L." It is unclear whether this companion volume was ever published, but drafts and research for the appendix and the homily, sermon and polemic sections are found in this collection. In the collection there is a letter from a Joseph Simon to Sharfman concerning a price estimate for the second volume dated 1993. In addition to materials for the companion novel, this collection includes a folder of photographic prints of archival documents, books and paintings used in the published version of The first rabbi.

OCLC:

1525682774