Feibelman, Julian Beck

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FEIBELMAN, JULIAN BECK

FEIBELMAN, JULIAN BECK (1897–1980), U.S. Reform rabbi. Feibelman was born in Jackson, Mississippi. After serving in the army during World War i, he was ordained at Hebrew Union College (1926). Feibelman served as assistant rabbi of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia, and from 1936 he was rabbi of Temple Sinai in New Orleans, Louisiana. Active in New Orleans community life, he was the spokesman for the Jewish community and a central figure in ecumenism in the area. Feibelman was a lecturer at Tulane University. He served as president of the Louisiana Society for Social Hygiene and the New Orleans Family Service Society. His book The Making of a Rabbi appeared in 1980.

add. bibliography:

B. Klein, An Oral History of the Jewish Community in the South: interview with Julian Feidelman (1968).

[Abram Vossen Goodman]

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