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    Title

  • Rabbi Max Nussbaum : Temple Israel of Hollywood

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 26 x 20 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    [Hollywood]

  • Depicted

    Nussbaum, Max, 1910-1974

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Max Nussbaum Collection, AR 1693

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Max Nussbaum was born 1908 in Suczawa, Bukovina (Suceava, Romania), and was ordained in 1933 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Germany, where he also earned a Ph.D. He served as a rabbi in Berlin from 1934 until 1940, when he immigrated to the United States and briefed the US government on the situation of Jews in Nazi Germany. In 1942, he was appointed rabbi of Temple Israel in Hollywood, California, where he served as rabbi to many Hollywood stars and remained until his death in 1974.

Rabbi Max Nussbaum was a member of LBI's Board of Directors in 1972.

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Citation

Rabbi Max Nussbaum : Temple Israel of Hollywood, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2833.