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Rabbi Charles Fleischer

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Rabbi Charles Fleischer

Birth
Germany
Death
2 Jul 1942 (aged 70)
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Middle Village, Queens County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Burial from NY Death record "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRR-C3F : 3 June 2020), Charles Fleischer, 1942.


Charles Fleischer was born in Breslau Germany, which is now Wroclaw, Poland. to Nathan Oskar Fleischer and Fredricka Silberstein. He emigrated to America about 1880 and settled in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from City College of NY in 1888 and earned his Doctor in Divinity degree from University of Cincinatti in 1893. He was an assistant Rabbi in Philadelphia, PA before serving as Rabbi of Temple Israel (also known as Adath Israel) in Boston from 1894-1911. He married Mabel Leslie (29 December 1887 Canada - June 10, 1970 NY) in Boston on 9/30/1919. There is no record of any children.


A biography of his life and his beliefs in Reform Judaism can be found here.

https://www.commentary.org/articles/arthur-mann/charles-fleischers-religion-of-democracyan-experiment-in-american-faith/



Burial from NY Death record "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRR-C3F : 3 June 2020), Charles Fleischer, 1942.


Charles Fleischer was born in Breslau Germany, which is now Wroclaw, Poland. to Nathan Oskar Fleischer and Fredricka Silberstein. He emigrated to America about 1880 and settled in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He graduated from City College of NY in 1888 and earned his Doctor in Divinity degree from University of Cincinatti in 1893. He was an assistant Rabbi in Philadelphia, PA before serving as Rabbi of Temple Israel (also known as Adath Israel) in Boston from 1894-1911. He married Mabel Leslie (29 December 1887 Canada - June 10, 1970 NY) in Boston on 9/30/1919. There is no record of any children.


A biography of his life and his beliefs in Reform Judaism can be found here.

https://www.commentary.org/articles/arthur-mann/charles-fleischers-religion-of-democracyan-experiment-in-american-faith/




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  • Created by: Scott Shifres
  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/265360040/charles-fleischer: accessed ), memorial page for Rabbi Charles Fleischer (23 Dec 1871–2 Jul 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 265360040, citing Fresh Pond Crematory and Columbarium, Middle Village, Queens County, New York, USA; Maintained by Scott Shifres (contributor 48320076).