Leo Gartenberg

Background

Leo Gartenberg was born in 1906 in Hungary.

Education

Gartenberg was educated in Jewish schools in Europe, and attended night school in the United States after arriving there about 1930.

Career

Leo worked as an insurance broker early in his career, in the 1930s, before coming to manage the first of a series of resort hotels in 1936. He owned and operated the Pioneer Country Club Hotel at Greenfield Park, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, for about forty years.

His first book was Legends of Israel (1964). He also published a series of six volumes on Torah Thoughts between 1964 and 1972, plus another five books on various Jewish religious topics.

Gartenberg also served as vice president of Children's Salvation and was active in other fund-raising organizations for Jewish relief.

Achievements

• Leo Gartenberg was a successful owner of Jewish Kosher hotels. He is best remembered as the author of books on Jewish religious topics, most known of which is Torah thoughts in six volumes.

Works

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  • My Life In Your Hands

    (Memoir of Leo Gartenberg, author of many books, and owner...)

    1984
  • Torah Thoughts

    (Book three)

    1966
  • Torah Toughts

    (Book four. Autour wide variety of little know legends, st...)

    1967
  • Torah Thoughts

    (Book five)

    1969
  • Torah Thoughts

    (Book two)

    1964
  • Torah thoughts

    (Book one)

    1964
  • Tomorrow Is Today 1977
  • Legends of Zion 1986

References

• Contemporary Authors A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields
  2008