SZOLD, BENJAMIN. Vaterland und Freiheit. Predigt bei der Erinnerungsfreier des verstorbenen Präsidenten, Abraham Lincoln am 1 Juni 1865, (dem zweiten Tag Schabuoth)

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

W. Polmner

Baltimore

1865

FIRST EDITION

Singerman 1919

“Fatherland and Freedom,” a sermon delivered on the day designated by President Andrew Johnson for services in memory of the martyred President Abraham Lincoln, June 1st 1865, which happened to be the second day of the Festival of Shavu’oth. A native of Hungary, Benjamin Szold (1829-1902) accepted an invitation to become Rabbi in Baltimore, where he led Congregation Oheb Shalom to be one of the foremost synagogues in the United States. His eldest daughter, was the philanthropic Zionist, Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and leader of Youth Aliyah. See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) pp.258-61 (illustrated)