(Newspaper). The New York Herald. Main headline: “In State. The Dead Body in the Capitol.”

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

21st April

New York

1865

Amidst the six-column front-page of this newspaper, columns 5-6 are occupied with reports of synagogues services mourning the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

Keenly displays the grief that Jews shared alongside their fellow-Americans upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln six days earlier. By recommendation of New York Governor Reuben Fenton, this day was devoted to “humiliation and prayer” and appropriate services were conducted in New York’s various Houses of Worship. Amidst the six-column front-page of this newspaper, columns 5-6 are occupied with reports from New York’s synagogues, detailing the services and sermons held mourning the death of President Lincoln. Provides detailed accounts of affairs conducted at New York synagogues “B`nai Israel, Bikur Cholim U-Kadisha and Shaari Zedek” in which each synagogue was draped in mourning black.