LEVIN, JUDAH LEIB

LEVIN, JUDAH LEIB
LEVIN, JUDAH LEIB (1863–1926), rabbi. Born in Lithuania, he was educated at Volozhin, and then at Kovno where he was ordained by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spektor. He then became rabbi in Liskava. In 1892 he immigrated to the United States, arriving first in Rochester, and then he returned to Europe to become the rabbi in Kreva. But within a year he returned to the United Sates to become the rabbi at Congregation Bikur Cholim in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1897 he went to Detroit as the rabbi of three congregations, Beth Jacob, B'nai Israel, and Shaarey Zedek, where he spent the remainder of his life. He arranged the three congregations into a formal federation known as the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. He established a yeshivah in Detroit that was later named in his memory: Beth Yehuda. He was a founder of Agudat Harabbonim and a strong supporter of Mizrachi. He organized a parade in support of Zionism in 1931 in Detroit. An inventor, he received patents for calculators, one of which was exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of Ha-Aderet ve-ha Emunah. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M.D. Sherman, Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook (1996). (Michael Berenbaum (2nd ed.)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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