Word: emanu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1900 to 1925 St. George's has shared Harry Burleigh with Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El (he is the only Negro ever to sing in that choir). He once sang at two command performances for King Edward VII. By old Mr. Morgan's request, Harry Burleigh sang Calvary at his funeral. Harry Burleigh is proud of all these things. But to St. George's Harry Burleigh's proudest achievement is that he has sung Faure's The Palms on every Palm Sunday for the past 45 years...
...November for $750,000. The Methodists, their investment lost for good, were invited to move out of the hotel, their quarters to be used for more lucrative operations, including a garage. Temple Church was as homeless and penniless as any evicted tenement family, but it had kind neighbors. Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagog, offered the use of its building on Sundays. A small Methodist church offered the Templers a place to worship in between regular services. And San Francisco's most vigorous Congregational church made what Temple's pastor called an offer of "marriage...
Composer Saminsky is neat, bald, hardly more than five feet high. He helped found the League of Composers, persuaded it to put on modern operas and ballets. Since 1924 he has been music director at Temple Emanu-El, biggest synagog in Manhattan...
Among the 2,000 who reverently followed the remains of Louis Wiley out of Manhattan's Temple Emanu-El last week, few felt the rabbi's eulogy was unduly exaggerated. For Louis Wiley, the undersized, dynamic and somewhat pompous business manager of the New York Times, was not only an extraordinary newspaperman but one of the kindliest individuals his profession ever produced...
...months distant in time from the allotted refuge in the Gobi Desert. There are banking Jews from the Paris Bourse, London's City, the New York Stock Exchange; pork-eating Jews from Germany; strictly kosher Jews from Galicia and Palestine; liberal Jews from the New York of Temple Emanu-El; Socialist Jews from the locals of the Second International; Communist Jews from the Saar and from Union Square. Although Mr. Nathan names no names, his types fit into the headlines of the daily newspapers of a dozen countries...