Seder Ritual Committee records, undated, 1952-1969

The Seder Ritual Committee was created to compose a prayer memorializing the suffering and persecution of the Holocaust. This collection documents their activities and includes correspondence, publicity, orders, and copies of the Seder Ritual of Remembrance.The Seder Ritual Committee was founded in 1952 by the American Jewish Congress and lead by the historian Israel Goldberg (Rufus Learsi). The task of the committee was to compose a prayer memorializing the suffering and persecution of the Holocaust. The Seder Ritual of Remembrance, the prayer they composed, was broadly distributed to various Jewish organizations, press, and synagogues. Source: A. Katz, â€Supplement: The Seder Ritual of Remembrance,” Beurei Hatefila 7, no. 28 (2010), http://www.beureihatefila.com/files/Seder_Ritual_Of_Remembrance2.pdfFinding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Seder Ritual Committee Records; I-50; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.far031

Israel Goldberg papers undated, 1911-1964

The collection consists primarily of the author's unpublished manuscripts and songs (set to music), and printed texts of plays, short stories, essays and other literary works. Includes also material relating to several organized attempts to ban The merchant of Venice from the NYC public school curriculum, and other matters pertaining to American Jewish life. Also contains a detailed record, consisting of letters, a dated handwritten account, and news clippings, of the 1927 Zionist Convention in Atlantic City, centering on an internal schism as to the competence of the Lipsky administration, as well as some follow-up material in 1928. Prominent in these papers is correspondence with Louis D. Brandeis; among the other figures referred to are Henrietta Szold and Chaim Weizmann. Also contains personal documents and correspondence, newspaper clippings as well as other material utilized as sources for his writings. The correspondence is primarily with publishers and Emanuel Neumann and relating to Zionism in general. Also contains 4 items by Seder Ritual CommitteeGoldberg wrote under the pseudonym Rufus LearsiGift of David E. GoldbergBatch change test 0806201