» Clothbound ‘autographs’ book of Barnett A. Elzas, 1890-1893

Clothbound “autographs” book of Rabbi Barnett A. Elzas, rabbi of Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Congregation of Charleston, South Carolina, from 1894 to 1901. Book contains pasted and laid-in newspaper clippings concerning Elzas during his time in Toronto, Sacramento, and Charleston and detail the sermons Elzas gave in the different synagogues he presided over, lectures on linguistics he gave in different cities, and a profile and biography clipping. Also included are clippings reviewing The Sabbath-School Companion, reports on Russian Jews escaping persecution and being helped by Rabbi Elzas in Toronto, news of a prominent Toronto Jewish wedding with Elzas presiding, the Charleston anti-Organ controversy, the previous rabbi at the synagogue in Charleston before and immediately after Elzas became rabbi, news of an Orthodox Jewish divorce given in the county jail of Jeffersonville, Indiana, and a Kansas City man converting to Judaism in order to marry.