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    Title

  • Feldrabbiner Dr. Sali Levi, Breslau

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white reproduction ; 11.5 x 8 cm

  • Date

    circa 1916?

  • Summary

    Portrait (standing) of field chaplain Rabbi Dr. Sali Levi in military uniform.

    Verso: German Jewish Chaplain Rabbi Dr. Sali Levi (1883-1941). During World War I he was instrumental in organizing Jewish relief work in Vilna. (YIVO Archive).

  • Depicted

    Levi, Sali, 1883-1941

  • Subject

    World War, 1914-1918; Portraits, Men; Chaplains; Rabbis

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Robert Weltsch Collection, AR 7185

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Sali Levi was born in Walldorf (Baden) in 1883. After studies in Breslau and in Erlangen, he was an ordained rabbi and served as a chaplain on Germany’s eastern front during WW I. In 1918, he became the last rabbi in Mainz before WW II. Sali Levi died in Berlin in 1941.

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Citation

Feldrabbiner Dr. Sali Levi, Breslau, Leo Baeck Institute, F 83113.