David de Sola Pool

"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."

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