The Memorable Passover of the Civil 'War: Mourning for Abe Lincoln.
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before had Leeser been known to will roll upon ages, but thy plishments of the tragic President
mory will still live in the whose death had so moved them.
lack for words. This ti
of thy countrymen until Rabbi Bernard Felsenthal, of
stood before his congregation,
st generation."
Chicago, opened his eulogy of
gulped, wiped away so
ews mourned deeply that Lincoln by quoting Isaiah:
said chokingly: "
thoughts
ble Passover of 1865. But "Then shall thy light break forth
refuse to ar
themselves in
hemselves, for America,
as the morning,
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world—they also had .hope And thy healing shall. spring
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forth speedily."
knowledge of the accom-
rtually the same seen
-enacted in synagogi,
pies throughout the
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and North. The Dai
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Greetings of the Season
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appened
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dr w e gie parallel bet en
th Jewis Festival of Lib o tion
an the
nion's celebr on of
vic ry— en a memb of the
con •egation told hi
of Lin-
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coln death. He bur into tears,
told the congregati•, and did not
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deliver his prep d sermon.
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were hung. Traditional
sover liturgy was set aside.
Yom Kippur prayers were
Passover Greetings
chanted instead. El Molel Rach-
mim was heard in all Jewish
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houses of prayer.
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Jewish soldiers observed Pass-
over. A report on one such ob-
servance, significant because of
its essential Jewish character,
Passover Greetings
and at times hilariously funny,
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has been reproduced by the great
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members of the 23rd Ohio Volun-
teer Regiment celebrated Pass-
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over in the woods outside their
encampment at Fayett, W. Va.
Holiday Greetings
Observances were conducted
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by many other Jewish service-
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Michelbacher, spiritual leader of
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One lone Union soldier, a Jew
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named Myer Levy, of Philadel-
Greetings on Passover
phia, found himself one Passover
in a Virginia town captured from
the Confederacy. Walking down a
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eating matzoh. When he asked
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the child for a piece, the boy
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ran into the house yelling:
"Mother, there's a damyankee
Jew outside." Myer Levy was
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Passover Best Wishes
invited to a Passover dinner.
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phlet appeared, entitled "Life,
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Crime and Capture of J. W.
Booth." The writer of that piece
of hack-work had the audacity to
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invent a canard of his own:
Sincerest Passover Greetings
"Booth, he claimed, was of Jew-
ish origin! According to that
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sensationalist "journalist," he had
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been told that "fact" by a
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eeey clergyman who presumably had
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known the father of Lincoln's as-
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sassin, Junius Brutus Booth, Of
Junius Booth—a truly Shake-
spearean actor—it had been writ-
ten: "When he acted Shylock in
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the evening, he was a Jew all day
long." All that meant, of course,
was that the actor tried, as many
modern actors do, "to live his
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Booth's alleged Jewish origin
never caught on — fortunately.
The country knew how the Jews
felt about Lincoln. Not only did
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Jews in the North mourn. In the
South, also, they wept. Said
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