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Judaism

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Polemic works limited to any one of the sects, schisms, or cleavages within Judaism are entered under the name of such a movement, e.g. Hasidism, Jewish Science, Reform Judaism.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Judaism

 Sub-Sub-Series
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Material related to Special Collections's eight county region in Southeast North Carolina of Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender, Onslow, and Sampson Counties.

Dates: Various

Rabbi Samuel Mendelsohn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-058
Scope and Contents This collection contains over two hundred sermons, lectures, addresses and letters written by Rabbi Samuel Mendelsohn in the 1870s-1880s. Sermons were written for congregants at Beth-El in Norfolk, Virginia and later at the Temple of Israel in Wilmington. Rabbi Mendelsohn's lectures and addresses were often performed for his congregants, but he also made addresses at other synagogues or public venues, such as the Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, then known as The Opera House, in...
Dates: 1871-1969; Majority of material found within 1871-1887

Rabbi Thurman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-096
Abstract

Actively involved with the religious, civic, and cultural life of the community, Rabbi Mordecai Thurman was Rabbi for Wilmington's Temple of Israel, the oldest Jewish temple in North Carolina, from 1936 until 1945. This collection contains oversized volumes of cantor's music in Hebrew, loose leaves of printed music, Yiddish posters, Hebrew choral manuscripts in parts Haggadah (Hebrew-English), an oral history with Trudi Rosenthal of the Holocaust and Rabbi Thurman's last sermon.

Dates: Undated