Solomon Lowenstein (March 3, 1877 – January 20, 1942) was an American rabbi, social worker, and philanthropist.
[1] Lowenstein moved to Ohio with his parents when he was a child, attending public school in Cleveland.
He resigned from there in 1905 to become superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, working there for the next fifteen years.
During his time with the Federation, he coordinated and systematized its operations to handle the ongoing Great Depression.
He spent the next several years frequently asking the American government to give sanctuary to a proposed quota of 20,000 European children.
Over 1,500 people attended the funeral, including Bailey Barton Burritt, Joseph M. Proskauer, Stanley M. Isaacs, Homer Folks, George Z. Medalie, Samuel D. Leidesdorf, Victor F. Ridder, Mitchell May, Edward Lazansky, Max Warburg, Adele Lewisohn Lehman, Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, Samuel Rosenman, Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, Charles Culp Burlingham, John M. Schiff, Rabbi Louis Israel Newman, Rabbi Louis Finkelstein, and Rabbi David de Sola Pool.