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American journalist
Isidor Lewi (May 9, 1850
[1]
[2] – 1938
[3] or 1939
[4] ) was a journalist who served on the editorial board of the
New York Tribune .
[4]
He once interviewed
Charles Dickens .
[5]
Lewi was educated in the
Albany Academy .
[1] His wife was Emita May (d. on January 23, 1931), they were noted in their community for charitable work.
[6]
Lewi shook hands with
Abraham Lincoln .
[5]
Lewi also edited and published
The New Era Illustrated Magazine .
[1]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[2]
He is remembered as a witness to history.
[10]
References
^
a
b
c
The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day . Funk & Wagnalls Company. 1904. p. 67.
^
a
b Gurock, Jeffrey S. (1998).
American Jewish History . Taylor & Francis. p. 105.
ISBN
978-0-415-91922-7 .
^ Rechcigl, Miloslav Jr. (2018-06-19).
American Jews with Czechoslovak Roots . AuthorHouse.
ISBN
978-1-5462-3893-5 .
^
a
b Studio, Times (1939-01-03).
"ISIDOR LEWI DEAD; LONG A JOURNALIST; Member of Herald Tribune Staff Was 88 and Had Been News Writer Since 1870 COVERED THE CHICAGO FIRE Also Wrote of Historic River Packet Races--Saw Lincoln on Way to Inaugural" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-10-01 .
^
a
b
"1939 Jan 3 Isidor Lewi obituary" . Hartford Courant . 1939-01-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-10-02 .
^
"MANY AT FUNERAL OF MRS. ISIDOR LEWI; Services Simple, as Former Leader in Charity Work Had Requested" . The New York Times . 1931-01-26.
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-10-02 .
^
"NEW ERA ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE" . JewishEncyclopedia.com . Retrieved 2020-10-01 .
^ Winick, Stephen (2016-10-11).
"The Faith of Far Away Moses: Yom Kippur, 1893 | Folklife Today" . blogs.loc.gov . Retrieved 2020-10-01 .
^ Singer, Isidore; Adler, Cyrus (1905).
The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day . Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 632.
^ Freund, Lawrence S. (2022)."Isidor Lewi: Chronicler of History." The American Jewish Archives Journal 74 (1 & 2): 1-49.