Report on Revision of Liturgy and Objections of Rabbi Joseph H.M. Chumaceiro.

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

New Orleans

1875

From the library of Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool.

Singerman 2530.

Exceptionally scarce. Singerman records only a single copy in JTSAL, but unseen. Not in WorldCat. The pamphlet records motions that the proponents for change wished to see to synagogue service in New Orlean’s Portuguese Nefutzot Yehudah congregation. This is followed here by the oppositional response penned by its traditionalist Rabbi. Rabbi Joseph Hayim Mendes Chumaceiro was born in Amsterdam in 1844 and studied for the rabbinate under his father at Curaçao. He served congregations in Charleston, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Augusta, before being recalled in 1898 to serve as rabbi in Curaçao. He died there in 1905. Congregation Dispersed of Judah (Nefutzot Yehudah) merged in 1881 with Shangarai Chasset (Shaarei Chesed) to form the present-day Touro Synagogue of New Orleans.