They Who Control the Time : The Orthodox Alliance of Abraham De Sola and Jacques Judah Lyons and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish Calendar

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They Who Control the Time : The Orthodox Alliance of Abraham De Sola and Jacques Judah Lyons and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish Calendar
Abstract
In 1853, two North Americans separately proposed publishing a fifty-year Jewish calendar. One was Jacques Judah Lyons, the minister of Shearith Israel of New York, and the other was Abraham De Sola (1825-1882), rabbi of Montreal’s Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel and professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at McGill University. To avoid duplication of their efforts, Lyons and De Sola agreed to jointly produce one calendar, and in 1854 they published "Jewish Calendar for Fifty Years." The author points out that North American Jews greeted the calendar with quick enthusiasm, and the book remainded in demand until the final decades of the nineteenth century. The author examines the content of the calendar.
Book Title
Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes : Reflections and Refractions between Canadian and American Jews
Place
Waterloo, ON
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Date
2016
Pages
95-110
Language
en
ISBN
978-1-77112-231-3
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Citation
Eleff, Zev. “They Who Control the Time : The Orthodox Alliance of Abraham De Sola and Jacques Judah Lyons and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish Calendar.” In Neither in Dark Speeches nor in Similitudes : Reflections and Refractions between Canadian and American Jews, edited by Barry L. Stiefel and Hernan Tesler-Mabé, 95–110. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/30895334/_They_Who_Control_the_Time_The_Orthodox_Alliance_of_Abraham_De_Sola_and_Jacques_Judah_Lyons_and_the_Nineteenth_Century_Jewish_Calendar_95-110._In_The_Borderlands_of_Jewish_Identity._Eds._Barry_Stiefel_and_Herman_Tesler-Mabe._Waterloo_Ontario_Wilfrid_Laurier_University_Press_2016.
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