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David Lefkowitz (April 11, 1875 – June 5, 1955), a rabbi, led Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas from 1920 to 1949, after having worked at Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio.〔(Kerry M. Olitzky, Marc Lee Raphael, ''The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook'' ), Greenwood Publishing, 1996, pp. 340-341 〕 He opposed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan,〔 which had been revived in 1915; it was strongly opposed to immigrants who were Jews and Catholics from eastern and southern Europe. He and his wife Sadie bequeathed their collection to the Perkins School of Theology, which houses the "Sadie and David Lefkowitz Collection of Judaica".〔 Sadie Lefkowitz was also active in the National Association of Temple Sisterhoods.〔(Shuly Schwartz, ''The Rabbi's Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life'' ), New York University Press, 2006, p.〕 A Mason, Rabbi Lefkowitz continued to attend meetings knowing that Klansmen were present. He discussed incidents of violence to convince other members that the Klan was inhibiting progress of their booming city.〔(Patricia Evridge Hill, ''Dallas: The Making of a Modern City'' ), University of Texas Press, 1996, p. 102〕 ==Early life and education== David Lefkowitz was born in 1875 in Eperies, Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Together with his widowed mother and two brothers, he immigrated as a child about 1881 to New York City in the United States. Because his mother was struggling financially, she placed David and one of his brothers in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum for care. There they learned English, started school and grew up.〔("David Lefkowitz, Sr. Papers" ), American Jewish Archives, 2000, accessed 2 November 2012〕 Lefkowitz graduated from City College of New York in 1894. He completed graduate studies at University of Cincinnati in 1899, and was ordained at Hebrew Union College in the same city in 1900.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Lefkowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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