- Creator
- Beth Ha-Tefilah Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation (Mount Vernon, N.Y.)
- Call number
- Sc MG 568
- Physical description
- 0.21 linear feet (1 box)
- Language
- English
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], Beth Ha-Tefilah Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation records, Sc MG 568, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Sponsor
- Zakor: Israelite History and Archives Project
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
In 1972, Rabbi and Rabbinit Yahonatan founded the Beth Ha-Tefilah Ethiopian (Black) Hebrew Congregation in St. Albans, Queens, New York, as a spiritual branch of the Headquarters Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Harlem. By the early 1980s, the Beth Ha-Tefilah congregation had relocated to Mount Vernon, New York. Although the temple was still in existence as of 2005, there was no congregation. The Beth Ha-Tefilah Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation records include the constitution; by-laws; minutes of board meetings (1963-1988); and a scrapbook containing correspondence with other Hebrew congregations, newsletters, flyers, programs, and copies of telegrams expressing sympathy upon the death of members' relatives.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift of Leana Yahonatan, July 1996.
Revision History
Finding aid updated by Lauren Stark. (2022 February 17)
Processing information
Accessioned by Chandra Buie, July 1996, and Janice Quinter, May 2005.
Separated material
Transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division: audio materials. For more information, please contact the division at schomburgaudiovisual@nypl.org or 212-491-2270.
Transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division: photographs.
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor