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MS-5489 Abba Hillel Silver Audio Collection. 1940-1964

Arrangement Note: The Abba Hillel Silver Audio Collection is arranged into two series by media type: Series 1: Reels; Series 2: Vinyl Records.

Scope and Content Note: The collection consists of reels and vinyl records of Silver's sermons and special lectures, anniversaries, or other special engagements. Most of the sermons, dated from April 8, 1956, to November 17, 1963, are on reels, while most of the other recordings are on vinyl records. Most of the sermons are also available on vinyl records; the more complete collection on reels is listed here. The collection will be of special interest to those who wish to learn more about the practice of Reform Judaism in Northeast Ohio and the United States and the spiritual and intellectual leadership of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver. Rabbi Silver addressed a variety of topics, including trends in Jewish religious life, Israel and the Middle East, and international and domestic politics. This collection will be of value to researchers investigating the life and career of a notable Cleveland, Ohio, rabbi, Zionist, orator, and community activist.

Series 1. Reels. 1953-1964, undated

Arrangement Note: Series 1 is arranged into two (2) Sub-series: Sub-series A. Sermons; Sub-series B. Speaking Engagements.

	Description	Date	Box/Folder
Sub-series A. Sermons. 1956-1963, undated Arrangement Note: Arranged chronologically.
Listen	Embattled Israel	1956 April 8	1/1
Listen	In the academy of Hillel, part II	1956 April 22	1/2
Listen	Communist salesmen in democratic lands	1956 April 29	1/3
Listen	Life with Mother	1956 May 13	1/4
Listen	The Suez affair--Munich on the Nile	1956 October 7	1/5
Listen	Communism in the confessional--Soviet dictatorships in self appraisal	1956 October 14	1/6
Listen	Thoughts on the coming elections	1956 October 28	1/7
Listen	Fires in the Middle East	1956 November 4	1/8
Listen	Why ministers break down	1956 November 11	1/9
Listen	The Ten Commandments	1956 November 25	1/10
Listen	Fighting for freedom in ancient Israel--in modern Hungary	1956 December 2	1/11
Listen	From generation to generation	1956 December 16	1/12
Listen	The service of the heart--how to pray--how to serve	1956 December 23	1/13
Listen	Taking stock of 1956	1956 December 30	1/14
Listen	Are Americans drifting toward sex anarchy?	1957 January 20	1/15
Listen	Religion and mental health	1957 January 27	1/16
Listen	Censorship and morals	1957 February 3	1/17
Listen	Opening the windows on life	1957 February 10	1/18
Listen	The Middle East, Israel and the United States	1957 March 3	1/19
Listen	How to build a home	1957 March 10	1/20
Listen	Service of Thanksgiving (note: Dr. Silver's address not recorded)	1957 March 24	1/21
Listen	The endless adventure	1957 March 31	1/22
Listen	Is our country fit for world leadership?	1957 April 14	1/23
Listen	The song of songs--a sermon for Passover	1957 April 21	1/24
Listen	With our eyes toward the future	1957 May 5	1/25
Listen	The uses of wealth and the uses of poverty	1957 May 19	1/26
Listen	The Russian space satellite	1957 October 20	1/27
Listen	Segregation and American world leadership	1957 October 27	1/28
Listen	A rabbi visits Spain	1957 November 10	1/29
Listen	Goals and outlooks for Jewish life in America	1957 November 24	1/30
Listen	Is America afraid? And why?	1957 December 8	1/31
Listen	Freedom and the Hebraic spirit	1957 December 22	1/32
Listen	1957-Year of sobering	1958 January 5	1/33
Listen	The angry young men of the Bible	1958 January 19	1/34
Listen	Is this a good world in which to raise children?	1958 February 2	1/35
Listen	How to be independent	1958 February 16	2/1
Listen	The great prayers of our people	1958 March 2	2/2
Listen	Three ways of educating our children	1958 March 16	2/3
Listen	What to do in a recession	1958 March 23	2/4
Listen	The return from a pilgrimage	1958 April 4	2/5
Listen	The bread of affliction--the wine of freedom	1958 April 6	2/6
Listen	Wherein lies America's security	1958 October 25	2/7
Listen	Dr. Zhivago	1958 November 9	2/8
Listen	What makes or breaks a family?	1958 November 30	2/9
Listen	What is a Jew? The answer of the Maccabees	1958 December 7	2/10
Listen	Around the world	1959 February 22	2/11
Listen	Home again	1959 March 1	2/12
Listen	Sholem Aleichem	1959 March 22	2/13
Listen	Who am I? What am I? Why am I?	1959 April 5	2/14
Listen	Exodus	1959 April 26	2/15
Listen	A new Secretary of State--a new foreign policy?	1959 May 3	2/16
Listen	A Catholic president in the White House?	1959 May 17	2/17
Listen	Fooling the public	1959 November 1	2/18
Listen	The steel strike	1959 November 15	2/19
Listen	The anatomy of ambition	1959 November 29	2/20
Listen	J.B.--the play and the book of Job	1959 December 20	2/21
Listen	Taking stock of 1959	1959 December 27	2/22
Listen	The world Jewish scene	1960 January 10	2/23
Listen	The measure of a man's worth	1960 January 24	2/24
Listen	My trip to Italy and Israel	1960 March 20	2/25
Listen	Enemies of the spirit	1960 April 3	2/26
Listen	Ancient Egypt--modern South Africa	1960 April 17	2/27
Listen	Dr. Theodore Herzl	1960 May 1	2/28
Listen	Shadows over the Summit	1960 May 15	2/29
Listen	Tumult and shouting at the U.N.	1960 October 23	2/30
Listen	As the political campaign draws to a close	1960 November 6	2/31
Listen	Return unto rest, O my soul	1960 November 20	2/32
Listen	The originality of Moses	1960 December 4	2/33
Listen	The originality of the prophets	1961 January 8	2/34
Listen	Reaching old age empty-handed	1961 January 15	2/35
Listen	Mr. Abraham Lincoln looks over the scene	1961 February 12	2/36
Listen	Once upon a time there was a…	1961 March 5	3/1
Listen	Is our youth eager for new frontiers?	1961 March 12	3/2
Listen	Passover and human dignity	1961 April 2	3/3
Listen	Ways which lead to divorce	1961 April 16	3/4
Listen	My visit to the Soviet Union, part I	1961 November 15	3/5
Listen	My visit to the Soviet Union, part II	1961 November 22	3/6
Listen	My new book-"Moses and the Original Torah"	1961 November 5	3/7
Listen	Building walls and shelters	1961 November 19	3/8
Listen	Is there something you have omitted from your life?	1961 December 10	3/9
Listen	Taking stock of 1961 (read by Rabbi Daniel Jeremy Silver)	1961 December 31	3/10
Listen	Looking for security in an insecure world	1962 January 14	3/11
Listen	What one learns in faraway places	1962 March 11	3/12
Listen	The ways in which we fool ourselves	1962 April 1	3/13
Listen	Four great choices which Moses made	1962 April 22	3/14
Listen	People whom I like very much	1962 May 13	3/15
	[could not digitize]		3/16
Listen	I wish I were free	1962 November 11	3/17
Listen	How much are you worth?	1962 December 2	3/18
Listen	When the odds are against you	1962 December 16	3/19
Listen	Taking stock of 1962	1962 December 30	3/20
Listen	Some breakthroughs in Jewish history	1963 February 10	3/21
Listen	The newspaper strike	1963 February 14	3/22
Listen	Why do men really hate?	1963 March 10	3/23
Listen	The State of Israel after fifteen years	1963 April 21	3/24
Listen	The seven pillars of an enduring home	1963 May 12	3/25
Listen	What is justice? What is love?	1963 October 20	3/26
Listen	The Jewish impact on civilization, part I	1963 November 10	3/27
Listen	The Jewish impact on civilization, part II	1963 November 17	3/28
Listen	Moses	undated	3/29
Listen	Private recordings	undated	3/30
Sub-series B. Speaking Engagements. 1953-1964, undated Arrangement Note: Arranged chronologically.
	Description	Date	Box/Folder
Listen	60th anniversary celebration of Dr. Silver in Tel Aviv	1953 February 5	3/31
Listen	A good age--address in Shreveport, Louisiana	1954 October 31	3/32
Listen	Untitled, Milwaukee	1956 February 14	3/33
Listen	The place of the Sephardim in Jewish history	1957 March 7	3/34
Listen	Zionist Organization of America convention (several speakers), September 12, 1957 through September 15, 1957	1957 September 12	3/35
Listen	Address at Dropsie College, symposium on Judaism and Christianity at the Parting of the Ways, honorary degree conferred, Jubilee Convocation, Philadelphia, April 29, 1957, and October 23, 1957	1957 April 29	3/36
Listen	National Conference of Christians and Jews--Human Relations Award Dinner	1959 March 8	4/1
Listen	Passover Seder (several speakers)	1960 April 11	4/5
Listen	Long Island Zionist Region, 25th anniversary dinner	1960 April 24	4/7
Listen	Dag Hammarskjold memorial service	1961 October 1	4/8
Listen	Rabbi Silver Testimonial	1963 January 20	4/9
Listen	Service of celebration for Dr. Silver's birthday	1963 January 20	5/1
Listen	Funeral service for Dr. Silver	1963 December 1	5/2
Listen	Koblitz Memorial Lecture--Senator Abraham Ribicoff	1964 April 5	5/3
Listen	Blueprint for life	undated	5/6
Listen	Seminar on religion and America	undated	5/7

Series 2. Vinyl Records. 1940-1963, undated

	Description	Date	Box/Folder
Listen	Church of the Air, CBS	1940 December 15	6/1
Listen	25th anniversary service	1943 January 24	6/3
Listen	U.N. address at Lake Success	1947 October 2	6/5
Listen	Feature on Memo from Lake Success, program #9	1948 May 15	6/6
Listen	Ohio Story, The Silver Years	1950 May 12	6/7
Listen	Rabbi Silver NBC Radio broadcast	1951 February 18	6/9
Listen	Jewish National Fund Golden Jubilee Banquet, Johannesburg, South Africa	1951 May 25	6/11
Listen	A special message to the Jews and Zionists of America	circa 1951	6/12
Listen	Prayer at the inauguration of President Eisenhower	1953 January 23	6/13
Listen	35th anniversary and 60th birthday	1953 January 28	6/14
Listen	On the threshold of the 4th century	1953 April 23	6/15
Listen	Jewish Liturgy	1953 June 13	6/16
Listen	Mr. and Mrs. Club: Dinner at Home	1953 October 16	7/1
Listen	Fellowship dinner honoring Dr. Barnett Brickner and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver	1956 March 19	7/5
Listen	Zionist dinner address	1956 December 17	7/6
Listen	Invocation at the Cleveland Science Center	1958 September 4	7/7
Listen	Palestine carries on	undated	7/9
Listen	Samuel Untermeyer testimonial dinner	undated	7/12
Listen	Unidentified	undated	8/1
Listen	I Speak for Democracy	undated	8/2
Listen	I Speak for Democracy	undated	8/2
Listen	Unidentified aluminum	undated	8/3
Listen	National Day of Prayer	1940	8/4
Listen	CBS broadcast. National Conference for Palestine	undated	8/5
Listen	I Speak for Democracy	1955	8/6
Listen	Hanukkah	undated	9/6
Listen	Yom Kippur	undated	9/6

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MS-5489 Abba Hillel Silver Audio Collection. 1940-1964

Series 1. Reels. 1953-1964, undated

Sub-series A. Sermons. 1956-1963, undated

Sub-series B. Speaking Engagements. 1953-1964, undated

Series 2. Vinyl Records. 1940-1963, undated

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