b'27(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) Congregation Shaaray Tefila. West End Synagogue Ceremony of Laying the Corner Stone.pp. 4. 8vo. [Unlisted by Singerman.] New York, October, 5th, 1893. $500 - $700 The order of ceremonies include choral performances of Mah Tovu, English hymns, and prayers and addresses by New York area rabbis and dignitaries. A history of the congregation from its inception is included.Congregation Shaaray Tefila (Gates of Prayer) was founded in 1845. Over a period of many decades, shifts in the traditional service were introduced, and by 1921 it had fully journeyed away from Orthodoxy and joined the American Reform movement. Since 1958 the Congregation has occupied a former theater, located at East 79th Street at the corner of 2nd Avenue.28(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) Playbill for The Jewel of Asia a Comic Opera in Honor of the Seventeenth Council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. English text composed in faux-Japanese fonts and printed in green on thin Japanese paper; descending lettering accompanying illustrations. pp. (4). Original color pictorial wrappers tied with ribbon. 8vo. Cincinnati, 1901. $400 - $600 This nely produced playbill executed in Japanese-style.A review of the opera appeared in the American Israelite in its coverage of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Biennial Council: The entertainment that surprised and delighted the visitors most was the manner in which the operetta The Jewel of Asia was presented and staged at the Cincinnati Club. The technical work was above that of the average professional stage, while the ensemble of fresh, young, well-trained voices, of beautiful girls in the early dawn of womanhood and handsome young men was such as to rouse the envy of the most successful impresario (American Israelite, January 24, 1901, p. 1).29(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) A Scroll Honoring the United Nations. Special V-Day Services Temple Oheb Sholom, Goldsboro, North Carolina. Commemorating the Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany. English text and transliterated Hebrew. Mimeographed text set on 15 sheets and taped togther to form a continuous scroll. Few simple line-illustrations. Scroll, 212 inches in length, set on traditional wooden roller. Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1945. $1000 - $1500 A detailed and most unusual production by Rabbi Jerome Gerson Tolochko for the membership of his small Reform congregation. Includes an encapsulated history of the war, memorial to President Roosevelt and collected prayers and Torah readings.14'