Letter from Solis-Cohen, Solomon to Morais, Sabato. Hanover, NH; Sep 1892
- Title
- Letter from Solis-Cohen, Solomon to Morais, Sabato. Hanover, NH; Sep 1892
- Date Created
- 18 September 1892
- Format
- 7 pages on 4 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 6, Folder 11
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3222rr8w/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3222rr8w
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx6FF11_2.xml
- content
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DR. S. SOLIS-COHEN,
OFFICE HOURS: 8-10 A.M.
4-6 P.M.
Hanover NH 219 S. Seventeenth Street,
Sep 18th 1892 Philadelphia,____189
My dear friend & teacher
Your letter returning Max's reached me in due course. There was nothing more to be said on the subject & therefore I have not hastened to reply. My work here is quite exacting, but in every other way pleasant. I was glad to hear of the move to establish
a choir to lead the congregation. Horace Nathan is the right one to have it in charge.
I wish you would seriously consider the advisability of offering to the Sephardic commu-nity in general, by publi-cation, definite suggestions as to changes in the authorized liturgy--as a basis for present discus-sion and future convoca-tion for action.
Changes will have to come, and as I have so often
said to you, unless you make them, they will be made by incompetent hands.
What I would like would be for you to simply write a brief history of the liturgy for popular understanding, not for scholars, and say that it would be well to omit such and such portions of the Daily service, such and such portions of the Sabbath service, such and such portions
of the fast and festival services etc.
That it would be well to introduce such and such a selection from the psalter or from Judah Ha Levi at such and such a place--to arrange such and such a collection of Hebrew hymns for occasions such and such English hymns for occasions-- In other words without making any alterations to lay down not generally but specifically just
what you consider advisable and permissible. It goes then without saying that the parts not mentioned are to be let alone and there need be no dis-cussion about them. I want to talk to you also about issuing a little book for home services--Hebrew and English. It is needed & if issued in your name would carry authority.
I would like it to be quite small so as to be easily handled by a child and with large type that a child can read easily. There should be also several pages at the back containing musical notation for the various hymns Lechah Dodi Ain Kelohenu etc.
I hope the New Year may be one of peace prosperity health and happiness to you and yours and of redemption and mercy to our oppressed brethren. [Hebrew].
Affectionately
Your pupil Solomon Solis Cohen
[...]th Seventeenth Street,
[...]and Chestnut Station,
Philadelphia.
Rev. Dr. S. Morais
Philadelphia
546 N 5th St Pa - Identifier
- p3222rr8w
- identifier
- SMBx6FF11_2
Part of Letter from Solis-Cohen, Solomon to Morais, Sabato. Hanover, NH; Sep 1892
Solis-Cohen, Solomon and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Solis-Cohen, Solomon to Morais, Sabato. Hanover, NH; Sep 1892”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/90014