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Joseph Leonard Levy was born in London, England, the son of the Rev. Solomon and Elizabeth (Cohen) Levy.
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Abraham Lincoln : a Sunday lecture before Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa., April 16, 1905
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Domestic Facts and Forces, Vi-Marriage: A Sunday Lecture Before Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Eight Street, Near Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa
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Jewish Affirmations; III. The Holy Bible: A Sunday Lecture Before the Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburgh, Pa;, February 18th, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Jewish Affirmations; III. The Holy Bible: A Sunday Lecture Before the Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburgh, Pa;, February 18th, 1903 It may be well to remember these facts in considering the case of the Bible and the people who gave it to the world. If it be true that Shakespeare has been the source of inspiration to thousands of volumes, it is equally true that the Bible has inspired tens of thou sands. I believe that I am thoroughly conservative when I say that hundreds of thousands of books are either inspired by it, directly or in directly, or are, in someway or other, indebted to it for some one theme or more. A vast number of commentaries, dictionaries, gram mars, encyclopedias, treatises, lectures, sermons, criticisms, essays of every kind, have appeared from time to time, the Bible being their in spiration. The Work itself has passed through edition after edition, until, as you have before heard, in the last century, conservatively, estimated, five hundred million copies of it were circulated through out the world. Such has been mankind's spontaneous recognition of the value of this product of the genius of the descendants of Abraham. Were the Bible a nothing, and were the claims made by the people of the Bible also nothing, both would have escaped detection. I take it that the controversies, the commentaries, the attacks on, as well as the friendship shown to the Scriptures and the people who wrote them, are the world's tribute to the high value placed upon the Book itself and upon the people of the Book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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The Taming of the Shrew: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, December 29, 1912 (Classic Reprint)
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The Reform Pulpit V3, 1903-1904: Sunday Lectures (1904)
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Text-book Of Religion And Ethics For Jewish Children, Parts 1-3
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The President and his policies; a Sunday address before the Rodeph Shalom congregation Volume 1
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The Children's Service: For Use in Religious Schools
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The Spoilt Child: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, November 17, 1912
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Religion and Social Theories: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh
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Joseph Leonard Levy
Edit ProfileEducation
He received his Jewish training at Jews' College, London, and his secular education at the universities of London (B. A. with honors, 1884), and Bristol (1885 - 1886).
Career
At the early age of twenty Levy assumed his first clerical charge at Bristol. After four years, in 1889, he came to America, called by the Synagogue at Sacramento, California. From 1893 to 1901 he was associated with Joseph Krauskopf as rabbi of Temple Keneseth Israel of Philadelphia. From there he was called to Temple Rodeph Shalom of Pittsburgh in 1901, of which he was the rabbi for the rest of his life.
Though orthodox in training and early inclination, in America he identified himself with reform Judaism, becoming one of its leaders. Gaining national fame as a preacher and orator, he attracted large congregations of both Jews and Christians. He frequently exchanged pulpits with preachers of Christian denominations, and in 1908 he introduced in Pittsburgh interdenominational services for Thanksgiving day.
Levy was a man of wide interests. He was a governor of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, and a trustee of the University of Pittsburgh. He was especially active in spreading propaganda and in raising funds for the Department of Synagogue Extension of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. As an earnest peace advocate, he was affiliated as founder, trustee, or officer, with several local, state, and world peace societies. He opposed the manufacture of military toys for children, and he advocated that Palestine be neutralized as the center of a world peace council empowered by an international force to prevent war. He aided in founding (1894), the Philadelphia Sterilized Milk, Ice and Coal Society and (1895) the Home of Delight Settlement, was a founder of the Pennsylvania Anti-Tuberculosis League, and a trustee of the Denver National Hospital for Consumptives. He took an active interest in the solution of the vice problem, urging the building of model tenement houses. He advocated pensions for widowed mothers, higher education for negroes, and the settlement of Jews in farming districts. In Pittsburgh he was active in virtually every public-welfare movement in the city.
In the literary field, Levy was editor of the Atlantic Coast Jewish Annual (1896), editor (1901 - 1905) and contributing editor (1905 - 1910) of The Jewish Criterion, and author of A Book of Prayer (1902), Questions for Our Consideration (1898), Nineteenth Century Prophets (1907), Founders of the Faiths (1908), Old Arrows from New Quivers (1909), sermons, and a number of prayer manuals and textbooks for Jewish religious schools.
Achievements
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Levy was famous in his day as a preacher; about 16 volumes of his sermons were published. He was active in local and international peace associations and in health, housing, and other welfare organizations in Pittsburgh. His special contribution to American Judaism was his success in correlating the Synagogue with the forces of social welfare.
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The Taming of the Shrew: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, December 29, 1912 (Classic Reprint)
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Abraham Lincoln : a Sunday lecture before Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa., April 16, 1905
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The Children's Service: For Use in Religious Schools
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Text-book Of Religion And Ethics For Jewish Children, Parts 1-3
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The Spoilt Child: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, November 17, 1912
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Religion and Social Theories: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh
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The Reform Pulpit V3, 1903-1904: Sunday Lectures (1904)
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Domestic Facts and Forces, Vi-Marriage: A Sunday Lecture Before Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Eight Street, Near Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa
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The President and his policies; a Sunday address before the Rodeph Shalom congregation Volume 1
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Jewish Affirmations; III. The Holy Bible: A Sunday Lecture Before the Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburgh, Pa;, February 18th, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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The Taming of the Shrew: An Address in the Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, Sunday, December 29, 1912 (Classic Reprint)
Connections
In Bristol on December 26, 1888, Levy was married to Henrietta Platnauer. Two daughters were born to the union.
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Religion
Judaist