Felix Napoleon Gerson (October 18, 1862 – December 13, 1945) was a Jewish-American author, journalist, and newspaper editor from Philadelphia.
He worked for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company at the Port Richmond Coal Terminal from 1880 to 1890 and was ultimately promoted to Department Chief Clerk.
He also worked as a writer and correspondent for different journals, and in December 1890 he became Managing Editor of the Chicago edition of The American Israelite.
[5] He translated several German books into English, including Ruben Rothgiesser's The Ship of Hope, Raphael Straus' History of the Jews in Regensburg and Augsburg, and Franz Landsberger's Rembrandt, the Jews and the Bible.
[6] His sister-in-law was Rose Goldsmith Stern, a prominent Jewish clubwoman in Philadelphia.