Schreiber, Moses Aaron. Minchath Yehudah - Judah’s Offering. Shir LaMa’aloth Kevod Ha’Amim Be’America.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Ed. W. Welcke & Bro. Photo-Lithographers

New York

1876

Text in Hebrew and English. Lithograph broadside printed on thick paper. Lettered in Hebrew and English by Adolph Leszczynski. Translation by Fredrick de Sola Mendes.

Singerman no. *2592 (unseen).

An Exceptionally Rare Hebrew-English Broadside Issued to Commemorate the Fourth of July, 1876. Only One Copy Recorded by Singerman. “Dedicated to the People of America on the Centennial of their Liberty, July 4th 1876. On behalf of the People of Israel by Moses A. Schreiber of the 44th Street Synagogue, City of New York.” A highly original production by Moses Aaron Schreiber, Rabbi of Cong. Sha’arei Tephillah, New York. This lengthy ode celebrating the Centennial of America’s Independence is evenly divided in Hebrew and in English and ingeniously, rhymes in both languages, while being an exact translation of each other. Following an Introduction it is set into seven sections, entitled: “Taxation; Declaration; Constitution, Immigration; Arts & Sciences, Exhibition and Judah’s Offering.” Written with immense patriotic fervor informed by a passionate religious belief, - clearly, Rabbi Moses Schreiber’s sense of being a patriotic American is certainly no less than his pride in being an Orthodox Jew.