Subject: Prayers

A four-stanza manuscript prayer, possibly recited by a child attending a Hebrew Sunday school, a Jewish foster home, or the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum. The prayer was found tipped into a family Bible belonging to Rebecca Gratz and appears to be a copy of another source. Date of creation is unknown, but the manuscript was discovered in a Bible with a connection to the Gratz family.

Booklet of prayers for mourners, published in New York by M. Thalmessinger, Stationer and Printer in 1871. The booklet is 12mo, 17 pages long, and originally bound in paper wrappers. The spine has been rebacked. The Singerman collection lists only copies at OCH.

This 12-page pamphlet contains a service of prayer and thanksgiving used in synagogues throughout the British Empire on October 26, 1884, to commemorate Sir Moses Montefiore's 100th birthday. Published in Philadelphia, it reflects the widespread esteem and reverence for Montefiore within Jewish communities across the globe.