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Henry Pereira Mendes (Hebrew: חיים פריירה מנדס, 13 April 1852 – 21 October 1937), was an American rabbi who was born in Birmingham, England and died in New York City. He was also known as Haim Pereira Mendes.
Mendes was a prolific writer of literary criticism, novels, children's books and textbooks, as well as a stream of articles in the contemporary periodicals on various phases of Judaism and Jewish life.
Henry Mendes. 1852 – 1937. Henry Pereira Mendes was, at various times, a hazzan -minister and a preacher, as well as a teacher at New York’s Western Sephardi synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel [the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue]—America’s first and oldest continuously functioning Jewish congregation, dating to the first ...
From 1875 to 1877 Reverend Pereira Mendes served as the spiritual leader of the Sephardic Congregation in Manchester, England.
Born in Birmingham, England, Henry Pereira Mendes grew up in a family well-known for its history of producing religious leaders. Indeed, his father Abraham was Minister of the Jewish congregation in Birmingham.
23 de nov. de 2011 · Championing an enlightened modern Orthodoxy, Rabbi Mendes used his privileged position as rabbi at Shearith Israel to work closely with all sectarian and social elements in Jewish life. He was one of the founders and leaders of the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America and the New York Board of Jewish Ministers.
H. Pereira Mendes, ‘The Plague of Inconsistency’ (selections), 23 April 1898, New York; Marc Saperstein, King's College London; Book: Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800–2001; Online publication: 10 July 2020
