- unitid
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{"value"=>"188297", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22267032", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Congregation 1995-58", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1986-2004", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1986/2004"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Congregation Mount Horeb audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"11 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Congregation Mount Horeb, a Black Hebrew congregation, was founded by Rabbi Albert Moses in 1945. The collection consists of eleven audio recordings and two videos relating to or collected by Congregation Mount Horeb, dating from 1986 to 2004."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Congregation Mount Horeb (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Congregation Mount Horeb, a Black Hebrew congregation, was founded by Rabbi Albert Moses in 1945. In 1954, the congregation was reorganized by Rabbi Joseph Thomas. In 1964, Kohol Beth B'nai Yisrael, a Black Hebrew congregation founded in 1947 by Rabbi Yirmeyahu Yisrael, merged with Congregation Mount Horeb. The congregation is located at 1036 Reverend Polite Place in the Bronx, New York.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of eleven audio recordings and two videos relating to or collected by Congregation Mount Horeb, dating from 1986 to 2004. Recordings include monthly membership meetings held in 1987, and a 2004 public access television interview with Rabbi Hailu Paris. The original format of the audio recordings was cassette, with many items containing two or more parts.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Congregation Mount Horeb audio and moving image collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188297#c1909269'>SERIES I: CONGREGATION MOUNT HOREB</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1987-2004</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series consists of eight audio recordings dating from 1987 to 1988, and one video dated 2004. The recordings are organized chronologically. Audio recordings include six meetings of congregation leadership, and an episode of the <span class=\"title\">The Gary Byrd Experience</span> radio program. The video is of a public access television show featuring Rabbi Hailu Paris, Congregation Mount Horeb's head rabbi.</p> <p>Five of the audio recordings are monthly membership meetings that primarily concern a legal dispute with a congregation member regarding the mismanagement of funds and the ownership of buildings at 134-49 228th Street, Laurelton, Queens, and 445 West 153rd Street, Manhattan, New York. One audio recording is a meeting between congregation leadership and an attorney. The transcripts of the minutes for a number of membership meetings can be found in the Congregation Mount Horeb Records, Sc MG 591.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scl/188297#c1909280'>SERIES II: COLLECTED RECORDINGS</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1986-1997</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The series consists of three audio recordings and one video collected by an unidentified individual, dating from 1986 to 1997. The recordings are organized alphabetically by title. They include a WLIB radio broadcast, and a video by the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry, a nonprofit organization providing aid to Ethiopian Jews.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Rabbi Hailu Paris and Zakor: Israelite History and Archives Project, 1995.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Congregation Mount Horeb records, Sc MG 591.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the photographs.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Benjamin-Hunter</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Kohol Beth B'nai Yisrad Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation records, Sc MG 575.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Beth Elohim Hebrew Congregation audio collection, Sc MIRS Beth 1995-25.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation records, Sc MG 574.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Item AMI identifiers, titles, and scope and content notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-06-02"}
- date_start
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1986
- keydate
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1986
- date_end
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2004
- date_inclusive_start
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1986
- date_inclusive_end
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2004
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Congregation Mount Horeb audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}