Leipziger, Emil William
LEIPZIGER, EMIL WILLIAM
LEIPZIGER, EMIL WILLIAM (1877–1963), U.S. Reform rabbi. Leipziger, who was born in Stockholm, Sweden, went to the United States with his family in 1881. He was ordained by Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, in 1900, and from that year until 1913 served as a rabbi in Terre Haute, Indiana. He went to Temple Sinai, New Orleans, in 1913. Leipziger was active in social welfare movements in New Orleans and played a leading role in establishing the local community chest (1925). From 1939 to 1941 Leipziger was president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
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