Louis Finkelstein, 1895-1991
A collection of personal and family memories
Collected by his grandson
Ernie Davis
Louis Finkelstein, by Philip Davis,
from The Education of a Mathematician
Acknowledgements
This has become something of a group project. The story ``Shabbas
and the Chofetz Chaim'' was edited by Janina Frankel and Anna Rosen,
the editors of The Jewish Journal at Yale when it was first
published. The story ``Louis Finkelstein and Hu Shih'' was written by
Hilde Lewis, and is reprinted here with her generous permisson.
The passage from The Education of a Mathematician was written
by my father, Philip Davis; he and my mother, Hadassah Davis, also contributed
some of the stories here, and the letter, ``The Dreams of Religion''.
I also thank my parents, my uncle Ezra
Finkelstein, my wife Bianca, my sister Abby,
my brother Joey, and my friends Leora Morgenstern and Harold Schuster
for their assistance, comments, suggestions, and encouragement.
External links
Wikipedia
Louis Finkelstein
and the Conservative Movement by Rabbi Michael
Greenbaum (book description)
Eulogy for Martin Luther King, NBC Television,
April 7, 1968.
New York Times obituary
Religion: A Trumpet for all Israel. Time magazine, 10/15/1951, cover story.
Jessica
Feingold (Jewish Women's Archive)