Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Levy, Edward S. February 6 1851 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   RABBI EDWARD S. LEVY was born in Philadelphia, Penn., February 6, 1851. He
attended the public schools of that city and afterward graduated from the high
school. He then attended the Hebrew Educational school at Philadelphia, where he
completed his classical education and pursued a course of theology. He became a
teacher in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York city, the most important
institution of the kind in the United States, holding this position four years.
In the meantime he continued his study of theology in preparation for the
pulpit. At the close of his four years spent in the Hebrew asylum he was called
to the pulpit of the Augusta, Ga., congregation, the second most important
Hebrew congregation in the south. This was in September, 1877, and he remained
there until August, 1887, when he was called to Selma, Ala., to the Mishkan
Israel temple, and he is now the popular and learned rabbi of that congregation.
While at Augusta, Dr. Levy married Miss Frances Goldsmith, daughter of Moses
Goldsmith, who is of a distinguished Hebrew family of Charleston, which has for
three generations been indentified with the growth and developement of that
city. Dr. Levy is one of the most learned men of the south in the classics and
sciences, and is a ready, pleasant and fluent speaker, logical, profound and
interesting. He is a conservative and fair-minded thinker, and he is one of the
most popular citizens of Selma. He has given considerable attention to
literature, and his work extends beyond his pulpit, in that he occasionally
furnishes able articles to different periodicals.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 884
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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