Background
Levinthal, Israel Herbert was born on February 12, 1888 in Vilna, Russia. Son of Rabbi Bernard L. and Minna (Kleinberg) Levinthal.
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Israel Herbert Levinthal
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Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1908, Master of Arts, 1910. Rabbi, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1910, Doctor of Hebrew Literature, 1920, honorary Doctor of Divinity, 1940. Juris Doctor, New York University, 1914.
Doctorate.J.T. (honorary) Jewish Institute of Religion, 1948.
Career
Jewish Center, 1919-1982. Founder and director Institute Jewish Studies for Adults.
Achievements
Membership
Member advising committee burial survey Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1926-1928. Lecturer in homiletics Jewish Theological Seminary, 1937-1938, visiting professor homiletics, 1948-1962. Member of advisory council Jewish Information Bureau.
Member executive council United Synagogue of America.
Member of New York Board of Jewish Ministers. Member of council Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1929-1933.
Member Brooklyn Citizen’s Committee for Racial and Religious Amity. Member of Executive Committee Brooklyn Tuberculosis and Health Association of Brooklyn bureau of Charities.
Member American Schools of Oriental Research, Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy Jewish Research, Rabbinical Assembly of America (president 1930-1932), Brooklyn Jewish Ministers Association (1st president 1929-1931).
Member Joint Prayer Book communications of Rabbinical Assembly and United Synagogue of America Winner Curtis medal (oratorical), Columbia, 1908. Club: The Judaeans.
Connections
Married May R. Bogdanoff, August 12, 1908. Children: Helen Hadassah Lyons, Lazar East. Rabbi Temple B’nai Sholom, Brooklyn.
