Box 3

Scope and Contents Volume of fair copy of minutes details repair of building, union of KK Beth Elohim and Shearith Israel, hiring and keeping of ministers and ritual butchers, upkeep and use of various cemeteries, etc. With much data on ritual and observance, behavior expected of worshippers, directions to choir and organist. With annual reports, lists of members in arrears, data on amending the constitution (1871), income from the amateur theatricals (1871) and creating the Union of American Hebrew...

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Volume records hiring ministers, organist, choir director, etc, selling of seats, changing from seats to pews, use and upkeep of cemeteries, annual meetings, budgets, making changes to services and running a Sunday School; with letters (1877) from minister David Levy, advocating more Reform, including mixed seating and (1881) helping Russian Jews. Mentions of copyright of Penina Moise hymns, her funeral, and attempts to install a memorial in her honor.

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Volume details annual, regular and extra meetings; budgets; discussions re the choir; Sunday School; new, overdue and deceased members; use and upkeep of cemeteries; changes in ritual, such as removing hats (1900), etc. With resolutions re allowing those who have married beyond the faith to participate in temple affairs; allowing Barnett Elzas to minister to Beth Elohim, Georgetown, and creating the Perpetual Care Trust fund.

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Volume records semi-annual, regular and extra meetings of the board, with details of finances, hiring ministers, administering the buildings, graveyards, Sunday School, contracting with choir, etc. With letters of ministers Barnett Elzas and Isaac Marcusson laid in; and lists of members and assessments charged.