UNION OF SEPHARDIC CONGREGATIONS, THE
- UNION OF SEPHARDIC CONGREGATIONS, THE
- The Union of Sephardic Congregations was established in 1929 by leaders
of Sephardi communities in America to promote the religious interests of
Sephardi Jews. Its primary aim was to give cohesion and the strength of
union to the scattered and comparatively weak congregational units of
the Sephardim. It also assisted Sephardi communities outside of the
United States.
The main activity of the union was the preparation and publication of
Sephardi prayer books with English translations by the union's first
president, Dr. David de Sola Pool. These books were distributed to
Sephardi communities throughout the world, including South America,
Europe, Africa, India, Canada, Rhodesia, and Iraq. The union also
assisted American Sephardi communities in finding and bringing to the
United States trained Sephardi rabbis, cantors, and scholars, and it
provided scholarships for religious training for promising Sephardim in
yeshivot in the United States. During the 1930s and 1940s it assisted in
the rescue of Sephardi scholars and religious leaders from Europe, was
involved with the Sephardi refugees interred at Fort Ontario in Oswego,
New York, and collected financial support for the Marranos in Portugal.
Additionally, the union supported the adoption of Sephardi Hebrew for
use in Israel.
(Mark Angel (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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