In Old Egypt: A Story About The Bible But Not In The Bible (1903)
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The Lifting of the Veil: Introductory Lecture of the Course on Hebrew History and Literature
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Jewish history ethically presented: for private or Sunday-school use : the Pentateuch
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Ruach Hayim (The Spirit Of Life), Or, Jewish Daily Life Ethically Presented
Henry Pereira Mendes
Bloch, 1917
Religion; Judaism; General; Jewish ethics; Jewish way of life; Judaism; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice
Henry Pereira Mendes was the third son and third of twelve children of the Rev. Abraham Pereira and Eliza (de Sola) Mendes. He was born on 13 April 1852 in Birmingham, England, where his fatherwas then a minister. One of his two older brothers died in infancy. His mother's father was London's beloved Sephardic religious leader, David Aaron de Sola, son-in-law of London's Sephardic rabbi, Raphael Meldola. A descendant of long lines of rabbis on both his father's and his mother's side, young Mendes early consecrated himself to the rabbinate, as his older brother Frederic de Sola Mendes had done.
Education
Mendes received his general education in London in Northwick College conducted by his father, and afterward for two years in University College; his Hebrew education came from private instruction. During the early years of his ministry he also studied medicine, receiving the M. D. degree from the University Medical College in 1885, though he never engaged in medical practice. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, gave him an honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1904, and the Jewish Institute of Religion awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters in 1937.
Career
At the age of twenty-three, Mendes was appointed reader and preacher in the newly formed Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Manchester, England. After serving there for two years, he accepted in 1877 the call to become preacher and assistant reader in the historic Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel in New York City, where he was to serve for forty-three years. Cofounder, with Rabbi Sabato Morais, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (1887), he was president of its advisory board, for some time its professor of Jewish history, and from 1897 to 1902 its acting president. He taught homiletics in the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary from 1917 to 1920.
He was the father of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, that was founded in 1898, and its first president, an office to which he was continuously reelected for fifteen years. One of the earliest in America to rally to the cause of Zionism as launched by Theodor Herzl, he served for a time as a vice-president of the Federation of American Zionists. He was also a Mason and the first Jew to serve as grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, a position he held in 1895 and in 1897.
In 1892 he was shot and severely wounded by a demented man whom he had been helping. In 1910 he suffered a severe breakdown in health. In the following years he traveled widely in search of recovery, at times resuming his congregational duties, retiring finally in 1920. He died as a result of a heart attack at his home in Mount Vernon, New York, and was buried in the cemetery of his congregation at Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, New York.
Achievements
Mendes was chairman of the committee which organized the Crippled Children's East Side Free School. He founded the Horeb Home for Jewish Deaf-Mutes, stimulated the organization of work for the Jewish blind, and organized several Jewish schools to offset missions that were trying to draw young children away from their Jewish homes. He helped to organize the first Young Women's Hebrew Association, and it was as a result of his initiative that the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, later the Montefiore Hospital, was called into being. He was a founder of New York's Board of Jewish Ministers, for more than two decades its secretary, and later its president.
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Politics
From the beginning of his American ministry, Mendes found time to throw himself tirelessly into public causes. At Washington he pleaded for more liberal immigration laws; at Albany he defended the rights of Sabbath-keeping storekeepers under proposed Sunday laws; at New York's City Hall he urged that the public schools be kept free of sectarianism.
Views
Spiritual Zionism was a dominant theme in Henry's teaching throughout his life.
Membership
Mason
Personality
Small in stature, dignified, gentle, always cheerful, tireless in giving service, a man of deep faith and unfailing spirituality, Mendes was for sixty years a beloved figure in New York.
Mendes was a prolific writer, publishing articles in the American Hebrew, of which he was a founder, pamphlets, poems, hymns, for which he also composed the music, plays for religious schools, books for the young, the last often marked by a whimsical humor, and Jewish religious and educational books.
Connections
Mendes married in October 1890 Rebecca Rosalie Piza and had three sons.
