Background
Pool, David De Sola was born on May 16, 1885 in London, England. Son of Eleazar Solomon and Abigail (Davis) Pool.
Pool, David De Sola was born on May 16, 1885 in London, England. Son of Eleazar Solomon and Abigail (Davis) Pool.
Bachelor of Arts, 1st class honors, University of London, 1903. Studied university of Berlin and Heidelberg. Doctor of Philosophy, summa cum laude, Heidelberg.
Rabbinerseminar, Berlin. Honorary degrees Columbia, New York University, Jewish Theological Seminary American, Hebrew Theological College, Chicago, Chicago College Jewish Studies.
Ithiel de Sola, Doctor Naomi de Sola. Minister Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel, New York City, 1907-1970. One of the three Jewish representatives appointed to serve on Herbert Hoover’s food conservation staff, 1917.
Co-founder, vice president Jewish Welfare Board. Field organizer of army welfare work, 1917-1918, and chairman Committee Army and Navy Religious Activities of J.W.B. 1940-1947. Appointed one of three American representatives on Zionist Commission to Palestine, 1919.
Regional director for Palestine and Syria of America Joint Distribution Committee War Relief and Reconstrn., 1920, 21. A founder Palestine Lighthouse, American-Israel Cultural Foundation, American Friends of Alliance Israelite Universelle, United Service Organizations, Conference Christians and Jews. Director Jewish Education assosiation, New York.
President Young Judea of America, 1915-1919, 24, 25. President New York Board Jewish Mins., 1916-1917. Founder, president Union Sephardic Congregarions, 1928-1967, honorary president, 1967-1970.
Co-founder, president Synagogue Council American, 1938-1940. Member President’s Advisory Committee National Youth Administration. Representative of Jewish Army and Navy chaplains to Chief of Chaplains.
United States delegate North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Congress, London, 1959. Lecturer Jewish music. Organizer American Jewish Tercentenary.
Author: The Kaddish, 1909. Hebrew Learning Among the Puritans of New England, 1911. Capital Punishment in Jewish Literature, 1916.
Portraits Etched in Stone, published in 1952. (with Tamar de Sola Pool) An Old Faith in the New World, 1955. Why I Am a Jew, 1957.
(with Tamar de Sola Pool) Is There An Answer? An Inquiry Into Some Human Dilemmas, 1966. Editor, translator numerous volumes Hebrew liturgy, Spanish, Jewry, pamphlets. Reviews. Home: New York City New York.
Member President’s Advisory Committee National Youth Administration.
Married Tamar Hirschenson, February 6, 1917. Children: Professor.