David de Sola Pool
Discography
Biography
 David
de Sola Pool was born in London in 1885. He received his rabbinic
ordination from the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary. In 1907 he was
invited to become minister of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish
and Portuguese Synagogue, in New York, the oldest Jewish congregation in
the United States. Pool served there for 63 years.
Pool translated and edited the Sephardic prayer book for the Union of
Sephardic Congregations and the Ashkenazic prayer book for the
Rabbinical Council of America. He also authored a well regarded work on
the origins of the Kaddish prayer. In addition, he wrote the book Why
I am a Jew
He was a president of the American Jewish Historical Society, and
wrote several works about colonial Jewish history (Portraits Etched In
Stone and together with his wife, Tamar de Sola Pool, An Old Faith in a
New World.)
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_de_Sola_Pool. (Accessed
11/18/2008.) Based on Rabbi David de Sola Pool: Selections from Six Decades of Sermons,
Addresses and Writings. Ed. Marc D. Angel, Union Of Sephardic
Congregations, New York, 1980. Photo source, above left:
http://ruadajudiaria.com/?m=200509
Photos
Photo source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_de_Sola_Pool.
Accessed 2008 |
