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Lot #    21545
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 10:21:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Dov Arye Levinthal
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר דוב ארי' לעווינטהאל, אב'ד פילאדעלפיא
Author    [Ms.]
City    Philadelphia
Publication Date    1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 267:205 mm., light age staining, creased on folds, ink on stationary, neat Ashkenazic script, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Dov Arye b. Abraham ha-Kohen Levinthal (Bernard Louis, 1865–1952), was born in Lithuania, went to the United States in 1891 after having studied at the yeshivot of Kovno, Vilna, and Bialystok. Settling in Philadelphia, he succeeded his father-in-law, Eleazar Kleinberg, as rabbi of Congregation B'nai Abraham, where he served until his death, and as head of the United Orthodox Hebrew Congregations of Philadelphia. Levinthal was an able organizer and was responsible for the establishment of a number of institutions tending to the religious and social needs of the immigrant Jewish community, such as the Central Talmud Torah, out of which later grew the Yeshivah Mishkan Israel, and a municipal va'ad ha-kashruth to supervise ritual slaughtering. One of the founders of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada in 1902, of which he was the first president, his energy and wide range of interests enabled him to represent the Orthodox point of view in the greater Jewish community. He was a founder of the American Jewish Committee and a member of the delegation sent by the American Jewish Congress to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. An active Zionist as well, he helped to establish the Mizrachi Organization of America and was an honorary vice-president of the Federation of American Zionists.
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica