Rabbi Gerson B. Levi (1878-1939), born in Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland was a Reform movement rabbi in the United States. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving his doctorate there in 1910. Although ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Levi became a proponent of Reform Judaism and was mentored by Emil G. Hirsch. Spending the bulk of his career in Chicago after a short stint in Helena, Arkansas, Levi was active in many Reform organizations and was the editor of The Reform Advocate. Among other works, he was the author of Gnomic Literature in Bible and Apocrypha (1917) and was involved in Chicago communal affairs.
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Gerson B. Levi
On 19 June, the fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention in 1916, the invocation was offered by Rabbi Gerson B. Levi of Temple Israel (Chicago) at the Chicago Coliseum in Chicago, Illinois, as recorded in The Official Report of the Proceedings of the Republican National Convention 1916, page 101.