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He helped found the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, a worldwide program for Orthodox Jewish pre-teens and teenagers, in 1955. Rosenberg died in 1985, and in 1986, Congregation B’nai B’rith Jacob dedicated the Abraham I. Rosenberg Education Complex in honor of his work in establishing educational programs for Savannah's Jewish children.
Full Extent
2.1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Papers and cassette tapes relating to the work of Abraham I.
Rosenberg, a rabbi in Savannah, Georgia and Baltimore, Maryland.
Arrangement
This collection is organized into three series: Series 1: Savannah; Series 2: Baltimore; and Series 3: Miscellaneous papers
Custodial History
The Abraham I. Rosenberg Papers are part of the Savannah Jewish Archives that were transferred from the Georgia Historical Society to the Breman Museum in 2015.
Separated Materials
Photographs removed to Visual Arts Collection and cassette tapes removed to Audio Visual Collection
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Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Abraham I.
Rosenberg Papers, Mss 338
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jeremy Katz (2015)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum Repository
Contact:
1440 Spring St.
NW
AtlantaGeorgia30309United States
678-222-3700
Box #, Folder #, Mss 338, Abraham I. Rosenberg Papers, The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309.
Box #, Folder #, Mss 338, Abraham I.
Rosenberg Papers, The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. In 1972, Rosenberg received the Chief Rabbi Herzog Gold Medal Award from the Religious Zionists of America. Rosenberg first finds Abraham at his father’s workshop in the cosmopolitan city of ancient Ur and follows his journey through what is today the Middle East.
Papers include correspondence, organizational records, certificates, programs, clippings, surveys, research materials, prayer books, photographs, drawings, and cassette tapes. Congregations represented in the collection include Congreation B'nai B'rith Jacob (Savannah, GA), Congregation Har Zion (Baltimore, MD), and Congregation Petach Tikvoh (Baltimore, MD).
Organizations represented in the collection include B'nai B'rith Women, B'nai B'rith Brotherhood and Sisterhood, Savannah Hebrew School, Hebrew Academy of Savannah, Bureau of Education, Chevra Kadisha, and Savannah's Jewish Educational Alliance.
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Rosenberg helped design the stained glass windows and murals which decorate the synagogue. Locally, he was involved in Savannah's civil rights movement during the 1960s, the Chatham Clinic for Alcoholism, and the Chatham-Savannah Mental Health Association. In 1944, he began over forty years of service as rabbi to Congregation B'nai B'rith Jacob and served during the congregation's move to its present site at 5444 Abercorn Street.
Abraham: The First Historical Biography
The world’s major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a common root in one man: Abraham. He regards Abraham, who lived in the 18th century B.C., as the first historical individual who can be studied through several cultures. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright.
https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/resources/181 Accessed January 01, 2026.
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Abraham does more than present a founding spiritual figure and his dynamic relationships with father, wife, and son. Of all the horrific Old Testament stories, this one may be the most difficult to grasp. Rosenberg was married to Sylvia Rabinowitz with whom he had a son, Jules Rosenberg, and a daughter, Judy Rosenberg Sklar.Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Abraham Isaac Rosenberg (June 2, 1912-February 10, 1985), a native of Poland and descendent of a line of rabbis, first came to Savannah, Georgia, from Baltimore, Maryland in 1944 as a military chaplain for Jewish soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Stewart.
Yet Abraham looms so large in the realm of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than a flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity. Instead of the "wild-eyed ascetic who, having smashed his father's idols, wanders off into the desert," Rosenberg sees a prosperous, well-educated man who was born into Sumerian culture (in what is now southern Iraq).
Abraham's religious beliefs grew out of that culture, which was so threatened by Babylon's dominance that his father, Terah, moved his family to Canaan.
Part of the problem is that it seems like a sick joke on the part of God, who, as it turns out, didn't really mean it.
Translating the story directly from the Hebrew text, Rosenberg sees the deity as testing Abraham, who proves by his willingness to sacrifice his own son that he has "an integrity dedicated to God." In the "cosmic theater" that Rosenberg envisions, the Isaac story is proof of a covenant with the God who revealed himself to Abraham after he left Mesopotamia.
"Abraham" is subtitled "The First Historical Biography," and Rosenberg is quick to justify the claim.
Their migration led to some of the Bible's more scandalous episodes. We witness this man as he transforms his heritage into an anxious embrace of religion with secular culture-the human condition in which we are still enfolded today.
"Abraham": Biblical patriarch not as mythical figure but as flesh and blood
"Abraham: The First Historical Biography"
by David Rosenberg
Basic Books, 352 pp., $26.95
David Rosenberg, co-author of "The Book of J," puts great trust in "J," the ancient and apparently female scholar who is widely regarded as the earliest identifiable author of the Bible.
In his scholarly, troubling solo effort, "Abraham," Rosenberg claims that "J" wrote her contributions to the Old Testament while facing an unstable future, when "the kingdom of David and Solomon was breaking up." In trying to reconstruct the history of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, Rosenberg uses other sources, including non-Biblical material recently discovered in Turkey, but it's "J" he respects as "a great author." Sometimes the book resembles a literary critique rather than a historical account.
Rosenberg relies on her repeatedly to shed light on the personality of Abraham, the Jewish patriarch whose popular image may be far from the truth.