Goodman Lipkind

Rabbi Goodman Lipkind (1878 – 1973)[1] was a London rabbi who later emigrated to New York. He wrote several articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia in 1906. He is today mainly remembered for having been the factual base for the picture of Joseph Strelitski, the rabbi who emigrated to America in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto.[2][3]

Biography

Lipkind was born on 27 June 1878 in Whitechapel, London. His parents were John and Rebecca Lipkind.[1]

On 13 June 1911 the Milwaukee Journal reported that "the largest Hebrew congregation in the United States", at St Louis, had elected Lipkind, who was then at the Sinai congregation in Milwaukee, to succeed Henry Messing as it new Rabbi.[4]

On 15 October 1915 the New York Times reported his marriage to Charlotte G Harris in Eighty-Sixth Street Temple where he was Rabbi.[1]

He was rabbi of the Gates of Heaven temple in Schenectady, New York until 1926.[5]

He died on 1 May 1973 at Long Beach, Nassau County, New York.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Brent Stevens (20 January 2012). "Rabbi Goodman Lipkind". Find a Grave. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Israel Zangwill Children of the ghetto: a study of a peculiar people ed.1977 "These chapters enable Zangwill to portray the opposite extreme of the London Jewish community, for the Kensington Synagogue is no doubt based on ... Joseph Strelitski is Rabbi Goodman Lipkind, who later served as a Rabbi in New York."
  3. ↑ Joseph Leftwich Israel Zangwill 1957 I have been told that Rabbi Goodman Lipkind, who wrote the note on Zimmer in the Jewish Encyclopedia, served Zangwill for some of the characteristics of Joseph Strelitski, the Rabbi who emigrated to America. ...
  4. ↑ "Rabbi Lipkind called". Milwaukee Journal. 13 June 1911. p. 1.
  5. ↑ American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger: Volume 118, Issue 20 1926 "Dr. Goodman Lipkind, rabbi of Temple Gates of Heaven, of Schenectady, has resigned his spiritual leadership, much to the regret of his congregation"

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