Steinbach, Alexander Alan

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STEINBACH, ALEXANDER ALAN

STEINBACH, ALEXANDER ALAN (1894–1978), U.S. rabbi and author. Steinbach, born in Baltimore, Maryland, was ordained a rabbi by Hebrew Union College. From 1921 to 1934 he filled several pulpits before becoming rabbi of Temple Ahavath Sholom in Brooklyn, New York. Rabbi Steinbach served as president of the New York Board of Rabbis, the Brooklyn Board of Rabbis, and the Jewish Book Council of America, and was active on the boards of charitable, cultural, and civic agencies both in the Jewish and the general community.

As an author, Rabbi Steinbach wrote volumes ranging from notes to the tractate Bava Meẓia (1927), sermons, and textbooks to volumes of original essays Musings and Meditations (1941), Faith and Love (1959), and prize-winning poetry, When Dreamers Build (1939). He was editor of the Jewish Book Annual from 1954 and of In Jewish Bookland (Nat'l jwb) from 1960.

[Gladys Rosen]

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