Goodman Lipkind


Goodman Lipkind was a London rabbi who later emigrated to New York City. He wrote several articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia in 1906. He is today mainly remembered for having been the factual base for the picture of Joseph Strelitski, the rabbi who emigrated to America in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto.

Biography

Lipkind was born on 27 June 1878 in Whitechapel, London. His parents were John and Rebecca Lipkind.
On 13 June 1911 the Milwaukee Journal reported that "the largest Hebrew congregation in the United States", at St Louis, had elected Lipkind, who was then at the Sinai congregation in Milwaukee, to succeed Henry Messing as it new Rabbi.
On 15 October 1915 the New York Times reported his marriage to Charlotte G Harris in Eighty-Sixth Street Temple where he was Rabbi.
He was rabbi of the Gates of Heaven temple in Schenectady, New York until 1926.
He died on 1 May 1973 at Long Beach, Nassau County, New York.