Rabbi Samuel Gershon “Mook” LEVIAge: 81 years1908–1990
- Name
- Rabbi Samuel Gershon “Mook” LEVI
- Name prefix
- Rabbi
- Given names
- Samuel Gershon
- Surname
- LEVI
- Nickname
- Mook
- Hebrew
- שמואל גרשון לוי
Birth | June 13, 1908 (Sivan 14, 5668) 37 36 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה |
Death of a paternal grandmother | Leah BROUDO June 1908 (Sivan 5668) St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - סנט ג'ון, קנדה |
Birth of a sister | Leah Ruth LEVI March 1, 1910 (Adar I 20, 5670) (Age 20 months) St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - סנט ג'ון, קנדה |
Death of a paternal grandfather | Moshe Dov Baer LEVI November 23, 1910 (Heshvan 21, 5671) (Age 2 years) Eretz Israel (Ottoman) - ארץ ישראל, טורקיה |
Birth of a brother | Donald Moses “Moe” LEVI April 18, 1912 (Iyar 1, 5672) (Age 3 years) St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada - סנט ג'ון, קנדה |
Birth of a sister | Tobey Deborah LEVI January 4, 1915 (Tevet 18, 5675) (Age 6 years) Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה |
Death of a maternal grandmother | Sheina “Jennie” MOREELL May 13, 1917 (Iyar 21, 5677) (Age 8 years) St. Louis, Missouri, USA - סנט לואיס, ארה"ב Source: Find a Grave - USA Publication: http://www.findagrave.com/ Citation details: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=fleishman&GSfn=s&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=39782748&df=all& Text: Shenia Fleishman
Death: May 13, 1917
Burial:
Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery
9125 Ladue Road
Saint Louis MO 63124
USA
Phone: + 1 (314) 991-0264
Record added: Jul 23, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 39782748 |
Death of a mother | Minnie FLEISCHMAN November 9, 1933 (Heshvan 20, 5694) (Age 25 years) Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה Address: Burial:
Jones Avenue Cemetery,
Toronto,
Toronto Municipality,
Ontario,
Canada Source: Find a Grave - USA Publication: http://www.findagrave.com/ Citation details: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=168111712 Text: Birth: unknown
Death: Nov. 9, 1933
Burial:
Jones Avenue Cemetery
Toronto
Toronto Municipality
Ontario, Canada
Plot: JONES AVE. G.T., *A,, M, 24
Created by: P. Tyrie
Record added: Aug 12, 2016
Find A Grave Memorial# 168111712
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Marriage of a sibling | Ira Dolkart SKLOVSKY — Tobey Deborah LEVI — View this family February 5, 1935 (Adar I 2, 5695) (Age 26 years) Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה |
Death of a father | Paul Arthur LEVI August 27, 1943 (Av 26, 5703) (Age 35 years) Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה |
Immigration | 1946 (5706) (Age 37 years) New York, New York State, USA - ניו יורק, ארה"ב |
Immigration | 1975 (5735) (Age 66 years) Jerusalem, Israel - ירושלים, ישראל |
Death of a brother | Shlomo David “Pom” LEVI October 24, 1976 (Tishrei 30, 5737) (Age 68 years) |
Death of a brother | Eliezer Asher LEVI April 19, 1978 (Nissan 12, 5738) (Age 69 years) |
Death of a brother | Donald Moses “Moe” LEVI April 23, 1981 (Nissan 19, 5741) (Age 72 years) Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה |
Death of a sister | Rivka Rebecca LEVI January 4, 1988 (Tevet 14, 5748) (Age 79 years) |
Death of a sister | Dr. Mattie Margaret LEVI November 8, 1989 (Heshvan 10, 5750) (Age 81 years) Toronto, Ontario, Canada - טורונטו, קנדה Address: Burial:
Jones Avenue Cemetery,
Toronto,
Toronto Municipality,
Ontario, Canada,
Plot: JONES AVE. C.K., *B, SOUTH, 15, 7 Source: Find a Grave - USA Publication: http://www.findagrave.com/ Citation details: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=168111927 Text: Birth: unknown
Death: Nov. 8, 1989
Burial:
Jones Avenue Cemetery
Toronto
Toronto Municipality
Ontario, Canada
Plot: JONES AVE. C.K., *B, SOUTH, 15, 7
Created by: P. Tyrie
Record added: Aug 12, 2016
Find A Grave Memorial# 168111927 |
Occupation | Rabbi, Translator Jerusalem, Israel - רב, מתרגם |
Death | April 5, 1990 (Nissan 10, 5750) (Age 81 years) Jerusalem, Israel - ירושלים, ישראל Cause of death: Heart Failure |
Family with parents |
father |
Paul Arthur LEVI פסח אריה פול ארתור לוי Birth: January 1, 1871 (Tevet 8, 5631) 29 24 — Mogilev, Russia (Belarus) Death: August 27, 1943 (Av 26, 5703) — Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
mother |
Minnie FLEISCHMAN מיני פליישמן Birth: January 4, 1872 (Tevet 23, 5632) 38 38 — Birzai, Russia (Lithuania) Death: November 9, 1933 (Heshvan 20, 5694) — Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Marriage: 1895 (5655) — Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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2 years elder sister |
Dr. Mattie Margaret LEVI מטי מטלה לוי Birth: January 30, 1897 (Shevat 27, 5657) 26 25 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: November 8, 1989 (Heshvan 10, 5750) — Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
17 months elder sister |
Sara Etta Jane LEVI שרה אטה ג'יין לוי Birth: June 30, 1898 (Tamuz 10, 5658) 27 26 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: March 29, 1994 (Nissan 17, 5754) — Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
20 months elder sister |
Rivka Rebecca LEVI רבקה לוי Birth: February 25, 1900 (Adar I 26, 5660) 29 28 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: January 4, 1988 (Tevet 14, 5748) — Miami, Florida, USA |
23 months elder brother |
Abraham Abba LEVI אברהם אבא לוי Birth: January 31, 1902 (Shevat 23, 5662) 31 30 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: July 8, 1992 (Tamuz 7, 5752) — Detroit, Michigan, USA |
3 years elder brother |
Shlomo David “Pom” LEVI שלמה דוד לוי Birth: July 31, 1904 (Av 19, 5664) 33 32 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: October 24, 1976 (Tishrei 30, 5737) — Detroit, Michigan, USA |
19 months elder brother |
Eliezer Asher LEVI אליעזר אשר לוי Birth: March 11, 1906 (Adar 14, 5666) 35 34 — York, Ontario, Canada Death: April 19, 1978 (Nissan 12, 5738) — Miami, Florida, USA |
2 years himself |
Rabbi Samuel Gershon “Mook” LEVI שמואל גרשון לוי Birth: June 13, 1908 (Sivan 14, 5668) 37 36 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: April 5, 1990 (Nissan 10, 5750) — Jerusalem, Israel |
21 months younger sister |
Leah Ruth LEVI לאה רות לוי Birth: March 1, 1910 (Adar I 20, 5670) 39 38 — St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Death: May 8, 1991 (Iyar 24, 5751) — Detroit, Michigan, USA |
2 years younger brother |
Donald Moses “Moe” LEVI דונאלד משה לוי Birth: April 18, 1912 (Iyar 1, 5672) 41 40 — St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Death: April 23, 1981 (Nissan 19, 5741) — Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
3 years younger sister |
Tobey Deborah LEVI טובי דבורה לוי Birth: January 4, 1915 (Tevet 18, 5675) 44 43 — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Death: February 8, 1997 (Adar I 1, 5757) — Detroit, Michigan, USA |
Source | Stella Baldev - Personal Testimony Publication: Email from Stella Baldev, September 2010
sbaldev@comcast.net |
Source | Geni Website Publication: http://www.geni.com/home Citation details: Lori Swartz |
Source | Ella Fleishman-Auerbach & Dorothy Fleishman-Schucart - personal testimonies Publication: 'Fleishman Family History''' by Ella Fleishman Auerbach of Omaha NE, USA. 1965. Fleishman family hostory by Dorothy Fleishman Schucart, Los Angeles, USA. 1985. |
Source | Gross-Weinberg Family Tree Publication: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/79955952/family Citation details: http://person.ancestry.com/tree/79955952/person/34443399267/facts Text: Birth
Jun 13, 1908 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1908
(AGE)
Birth of Sister Leah Ruth Levi(1910–1991)
Mar 1, 1910 • St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
1910
1
Birth of Half-Sister Leah Ruth Levi(1910–1991)
Mar 1, 1910 • St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
1910
1
Birth of Brother Donald Moses Moe Levi(1912–1981)
Apr 18, 1912 • St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
1912
3
Birth of Half-Brother Donald Moses Moe Levi(1912–1981)
Apr 18, 1912 • St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
1912
3
Birth of Sister Tobey Deborah Levi(1915–1997)
Jan 4, 1915 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1915
6
Birth of Half-Sister Tobey Deborah Levi(1915–1997)
Jan 4, 1915 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1915
6
Death of Mother Minnie Fleishman(1871–1933)
9 Nov 1933 • Toronto, 1654339, Ontario, Canada
1933
25
Death of Father Paul Arthur Pessach Aryeh Levi(1871–1943)
Aug 27, 1943 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1943
35
Death of Brother Shlomo (David) Levi(1904–1976)
Oct 24, 1976 • Detroit Michigan
1976
68
Death of Half-Brother Shlomo (David) Levi(1904–1976)
Oct 24, 1976 • Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
1976
68
Death of Brother Leiser Osher (Eliezer) Levi(1906–1978)
Apr 19, 1978 • Miami, Florida, USA
1978
69
Death of Half-Brother Leiser Osher (Eliezer) Levi(1906–1978)
Apr 19, 1978 • Miami, Florida, USA
1978
69
Death of Brother Donald Moses Moe Levi(1912–1981)
Apr 23, 1981 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1981
72
Death of Half-Brother Donald Moses Moe Levi(1912–1981)
Apr 23, 1981 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1981
72
Death of Sister Rivka Rebecca Levi(1900–1988)
Jan 4, 1988 • Dade, Florida, United States
1988
79
Death of Half-Sister Rivka Rebecca Levi(1900–1988)
Jan 4, 1988 • Dade, Florida, United States
1988
79
Death of Sister Mattie (Margaret) Levi(1897–1989)
Nov 8, 1989 • Ontario, Canada
1989
81
Death of Half-Sister Mattie (Margaret) Levi(1897–1989)
Nov 8, 1989 • Ontario, Canada
1989
81
Death of Half-Brother Samuel Gershon Mookie Levi(1908–1990)
Apr 4, 1990 • (U.S. Consulate) Jerusalem, Israel
1990
81
Death
Apr 4, 1990 • (U.S. Consulate) Jerusalem, Israel
1990
81 |
Occupation | Former president of the Rabbinical Assembly and a former editor of the quarterly publication Conservative Judaism (1965-1969).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Judaism_(journal)
In World War II, Rabbi S. Gershon Levi was the first full-time Jewish chaplain in the Canadian military. Posted overseas in 1942, Captain Levi was also the first Jewish chaplain with a Canadian overseas force in Europe, rising to the rank of major. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
http://www.ontariojewisharchives.org/exhibits/jcmm/religiousidentity.html
From 1946 to 1974, he was rabbi of the Jamaica Jewish Center in Queens. He was a former president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the parent body of Conservative rabbis.
Translator of Yiddish and Hebrew classics, among them ''Gates of Bronze'' by Haim Hazaz (The Jewish Publication Society, 1975). He also translated and edited a two-volume work by Gedaliah Alon, ''The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age'' (Magnes Press of the Hebrew University, 1980 and 1984).
http://www.tobypress.com/books/hazaz_gatesbronze.htm
Education:
University of Toronto, 1929.
Columbia University, 1932. Master's degree in Semitic languages from .
Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan, 1933. Rabbinical Studies.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/06/obituaries/s-gershon-levi-81-a-former-president-of-a-rabbis-group.html |
Death | New York Times - Obituary
S. Gershon Levi, 81, A Former President Of a Rabbis' Group
Published: April 06, 1990
Rabbi S. Gershon Levi, a former president of the Rabbinical Assembly and a former editor of the quarterly publication Conservative Judaism, died of heart failure yesterday at his home in Jerusalem. He was 81 years old. Rabbi Levi, an ardent Zionist who retired to Israel in the mid-1970's, was a translator of Yiddish and Hebrew classics, among them ''Gates of Bronze'' by Haim Hazaz (The Jewish Publication Society, 1975). He also translated and edited a two-volume work by Gedaliah Alon, ''The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age'' (Magnes Press of the Hebrew University, 1980 and 1984).
From 1946 to 1974, he was rabbi of the Jamaica Jewish Center in Queens. He was a former president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the parent body of Conservative rabbis.
In World War II he was the senior Jewish chaplain of the Canadian armed forces in Europe, rising to the rank of major. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
He was born in Toronto and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1929. In 1932, he received a master's degree in Semitic languages from Columbia University. He was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan in 1933.
He is survived by his wife, the former Shoshana Biegelson; a daughter, Dr. Vicki Levi of Beersheba, Israel; a son, Don, of Eugene, Ore., and five grandchildren.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/06/obituaries/s-gershon-levi-81-a-former-president-of-a-rabbis-group.html |
Note | Levi, Rabbi S. Gershon. Breaking New Ground: The Struggle
for a Jewish Chaplaincy in Canada. Edited by David Golinkin.
Montreal: National Archives Canadian Jewish Congress,
1994. 101pp.
This special issue of Canadian Jewish Archives deals with an
important chapter in the history of the war effort of the
Canadian Jewish community during the cataclysmic world conflict against Nazi Germany’s Festung Europa. This is the story of how the author, who was the first Jewish chaplain to the Canadian forces in World War II, organized and developed his far-flung ministry to Jewish servicemen.
The book begins however with an account of the bureaucratic problems and intra-communal conflict which hindered the appointment of the first Jewish chaplain. Rabbi Levi’s story reaches a climax with several moving episodes of the role of Canadian Jewish chaplains during the liberation of Europe, particularly the first Passover Seders conducted in freedom. Some Seders took place right at the front-line during the continuing conflict. These episodes are found in the appendices.
Before undertaking this review I was not unfamiliar with the name of S. Gershon Levi and of his service as a war-time
chaplain. But it was only on reading the introduction, by David
Golinkin, that I learned the extent of Rabbi Levi’s rabbinic/scholarly and literary career. It was a revelation to discover that he had translated several important works by noted Jewish writers such as Chaim Grade, Haim Hazzaz and
Gedaliah Alon.
Prof. Golinkin is to be commended for bringing to posthumous fruition Rabbi Levi’s last work, the memoir of his five years in the Canadian military chaplaincy; also for enlarging on Rabbi Levi’s memoir with the appendices. It is particularly gratifying that he was able to translate from the Yiddish the interviews of I. Medres with Rabbi Samuel Cass, originally published in the Kanader Adler.
The book includes merited tributes to Rabbi Levi by Rabbi Dr. Isaac B. Rose of Jerusalem and by Lady Elsie Janner of London (England). In particular Rabbi Rose stresses the role of the Jewish chaplaincy, created by Rabbi Levi, in helping the
She’erit ha-Peletah, the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust.
Janice Rosen, the Congress archivist in Montreal, is quite correct in her preface in saying that the chaplaincy story is a Canadian Jewish Congress story as well as another chapter in the war years record of Canadian Jewry. The book explains
the significant role of the Congress in gaining approval for the
appointment of Jewish military chaplains.
I also agree that Gershon Levi is a worthy guest author
for the Canadian Jewish Archives. It is to be hoped that this will
be a precedent for publication of other worthy contributions to
Canadian Jewish history. The Canadian Jewish Archives should
be continued as a tribute to its founders: Saul Hayes, long-time
executive director of Congress; Louis Rosenberg, its first editor;
and David Rome, in appreciation of his prodigious output since
1974.
While Rabbi S. Gershon Levi was Canada’s first Jewish
military chaplain, the practice of appointing Jews as civilian
chaplains dates back to the 1890s. The first Jewish civilian
chaplain was Rabbi Hartog Veld of Montreal’s Temple
Emmanuel, appointed by the federal government to tend to the spiritual and social needs of Jews who found themselves in
penal institutions. Rabbi Veld was one of the rabbinic advisers
to the Baron de Hirsch Institute. The Institute began to extend service to Jews in prison and in other Institutions soon after its establishment, in 1891, in cooperation with the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society.
Abraham Arnold
Winnipeg
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