He wrote many articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia,[1] and in Joseph Leftwich's biography of writer Israel Zangwill is mentioned as inspiration for the character of Rabbi Joseph Strelitski in Zangwill's novel Children of the Ghetto.[2]
Biography
Lipkind was born on 27 June 1878 in Whitechapel, London. His parents were John and Rebecca Lipkind.
On 13 June 1911 the Milwaukee Journal reported that United Hebrew Congregation, "the largest Hebrew congregation in the United States", in St Louis, had elected Lipkind, who was then at the Sinai congregation in Milwaukee, to succeed Henry J. Messing as its new Rabbi.[3] Lipkind served at UHC from 1912 to 1914.
On 15 October 1915 the New York Times reported his marriage to Charlotte G Harris in Eighty-Sixth Street Temple where he was Rabbi.
^Leftwich, Joseph (1957). Israel Zangwill. New York, T. Yoseloff. p. 65. I have been told that Rabbi Goodman Lipkind, who wrote the note on Zimmer in the Jewish Encyclopedia, served Zangwill for some of the characteristics of Joseph Strelitski, the Rabbi who emigrated to America. But he also drew on Harry Lewis, a Toynbee resident who became a Liberal Rabbi.
^American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger: Volume 118, Issue 20 1926 "Dr. Goodman Lipkind, rabbi of Temple Gates of Heaven, of Schenectady, has resigned his spiritual leadership, much to the regret of his congregation"
