The Sorrowing Jew: Sheet Music (1841)


Sheet music for "The Sorrowing Jew," written by a Friend of Israel in London and dedicated to the Ladies Jew Society of Newburyport. Published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1841, it is considered the earliest published hymn of Jewish content in America, as noted in *The Jews of Boston*, page 50. A copy is located in the Eric Mandell Library of Jewish Music at the University of Pennsylvania.


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Arc.MS.56, Volume F, Page 22