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    Title

  • Rabbi Leo Baerwald

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 17 x 24 centimeters

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    [Munich (Germany)]

  • Depicted

    Baerwald, Leo, 1883-1970

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Leo Baerwald Collection, AR 2228

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Rabbi Leo Baerwald was born in Saaz, Bohemia in 1883. He studied in Breslau before becoming a rabbi in Munich. Shortly after his emigration to New York, he became the first rabbi in a new immigrants’ congregation in Washington Heights, “Congregation Beth Hillel”, a position he held until 1955. He was a member of the boards of the Leo Baeck Institute and of the American Federation of Jews from Central Europe. Leo Baerwald died in New York in 1970.

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Citation

Rabbi Leo Baerwald, Leo Baeck Institute, F 1890.