Szold, Benjamin. Vaterland und Freiheit. Predigt bei der Erinnerungsfeier des verstorbenen Praesidenten Abraham Lincoln

“Fatherland and Freedom,” a sermon delivered on the day designated by President Andrew Johnson for services in memory of the martyred Abraham Lincoln, June 1st 1865, which happened to be the second day of the Festival of Shavu’oth. A native of Hungary, Benjamin Szold (1829-1902) accepted an invitation to become rabbi in Baltimore, where he led Congregation Oheb Shalom to become one of the foremost synagogues in the United States. His eldest daughter, was Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and leader of Youth Aliyah. See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) pp.258-61 (illustrated)