Rabbi Yom Tov Lippman Levine
יום טוב ליפמאן ב"ר אליהו ליב
Rav, Bais Hamedrash Agudath Achim, Brooklyn, New YorkDate of Death:
Sun. February 12, 1967 -
Adar I 2 5727
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Directions to Kever: Mount Judah Cemetery (office side) in Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Section: 2, Block: 2, Gate: 12, Path: L09, Society: CHAIM BERLIN. Corner of Emanuel and Washington Avenue, a few rows behind the kever of Rav Pam.
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: LEVINE, LIPPMAN
Biographical Notes:
Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America
Photo Caption: Agudath Achim (43 Malta Street in Brooklyn) as it stood c. 1940, Credit: NYC
Note: Sadly, the building still standing but awaiting return to its glory.
Photo Caption: The 1935 Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, faculty list includes Rav Levin, Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC
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I wonder if his FIL is related to Reb Shmuel Brudna from Mir Brooklyn.
I think all the Brudnos ended up either in Brazil, or South Africa. But if you find out anything else, please let me know. I’m his great-granddaughter.
February 15, 1967
Rabbi Lipman Levine Dies at 86; Talmudic Scholar, Leader in Brooklyn
Rabbi Lipman Levine, a Talmudic scholar who was spiritual leader of Agudath Achim Anshe New Lots in the East New York section of Brooklyn for 42 years, died yesterday at the Maimonides Medical Center after a long illness. He was 86.
Born in Moledechno, Russia, Rabbi Levine studied at the famed Yeshiva in Volozhin. He came to the United States in 1923. He had been a vice-president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, and a member of Mizrachi, the religious Zionist organization.
http://archive.jta.org/article/1967/02/15/2747788/rabbi-lipman-levine-dies-at-86-talmudic-scholar-leader-in-brooklyn
letter written by Rabbi Levine 1959 to RYE Henkin:
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His son Jack Levine moved to LA in California where he died in 2009:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=jack-levine&pid=134140408
How can I contact
the comments from GGD. – I believe I am his /her cousin — please let me know Thanx
Mordechai, please contact me at: nenstreams@gmail.com
we are related. Thank you.