Tina Nellie Levitan (December 19, 1922[1] – June 9, 2014) was an American writer, who wrote mainly about topics related to Jewish history.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1944, winning the Jane Fischel Memorial Prize for the Best Essay on the "Philosophy of Traditional Judaism".
She also received a Bachelor of Education degree from the Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Seminary in New York.
Feynman wrote back saying that his inclusion in the book would be inappropriate because at the age of 13, he had converted to non-religious views.
When she wrote a follow-up letter saying that she intended to include not only professing Jews but also those of Jewish origins because “they usually have inherited their valuable heredity elements and talents from their people,” he replied that “it is evil and dangerous to maintain… that there is a true Jewish race or specific Jewish hereditary character… to select for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the door to all kinds of nonsense on racial theory… such theoretical views were used by Hitler.” Feynman was not included in the book.