Two-page letter written by Solomon Cohen of Savannah, Georgia to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1859. Cohen discusses the decline in readership of Leeser's publications and attributes it to the changing attitudes of educated American Jews towards traditional synagogue worship. He argues for a reform of synagogue services while maintaining core tenets of Judaism.
Subject: Religious Change
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This 11-page book, from the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool, records the proposed changes to the liturgy of New Orleans' Portuguese Congregation Nefutzot Yehudah (Dispersed of Judah) in 1875. It details the motions supporting the revisions and the counterarguments presented by Rabbi Joseph Hayim Mendes Chumaceiro, who opposed the changes. The Congregation Nefutzot Yehudah merged with Congregation Shaarei Chesed in 1881 to form the present-day Touro Synagogue of New Orleans.