Arthur Löwenstamm

Arthur Löwenstamm (also spelt Loewenstamm) (20 December 1882– 22 April 1965) was a Jewish theologian, writer and rabbi in Berlin and in London, where he came in 1939 as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

[1] Arthur Löwenstamm was born on 20 December 1882 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia,[2] German Empire, which is now Racibórz in southern Poland.

After passing his rabbinical examinations in 1910,[3] Löwenstamm served as rabbi (from 1911 to 1917) with the Jewish community in Pless (now Pszczyna) in Upper Silesia.

[10] After the Second World War, Löwenstamm gave private lessons to several students, including Jakob Josef Petuchowski[11] and Hugo Gryn.

He died at Morris Feinmann House, Didsbury, Manchester[1] on 22 April 1965 and was buried at Hoop Lane Jewish Cemetery in Golders Green, London.

Memorial plaque in front of Löwenstamm's former home at Feldstraße 11 in Spandau; Geographic coordinates: '52°32′41″N 13°12′6″E
Plaque commemorating the synagogue at Spandau. The plaque, on the site of the former synagogue in Spandau's Old Town , was sculpted by Volkmar Haase [ de ]
Löwenstammstraße, a street in Spandau that is named after him