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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

RABBI LOUIS BRAV.
    Louis Brav, a rabbi of the Jewish church, now presiding over Temple Israel
at Pine Bluff, was born in Czecho Slovakia in 1884, his parents being Isaac and
Hannah (Rocker) Brav. The father was also a rabbi and died in his native country
in 1919, while the mother died there at a comparatively early age. In their
family were eight children, one of whom, Victor, is now a wholesale shoe
merchant of Philadelphia, while Herman and Aaron are both successfully engaged
in the practice of medicine in the same city.

    The other member of the family residing in the new world is Louis Brav of
this review, who largely acquired his education in the public schools of
Philadelphia and in the Central high school of that city before entering
Columbia College of New York, in which he won his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Liberal educational opportunities thus qualified him for the important service
which he determined to make his life work. Desiring to benefit those of his own
race and faith in advancing the moral standards, he determined to enter the
church and to this end attended the Jewish Theological Seminary, becoming a
rabbi in 1910. He accepted his first charge at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. in
1911 and there labored until 1915, when he went to Raleigh, North Carolina,
where he earnestly labored until called to the chair of French and Spanish in
Lawrence College at Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1920. While engaged in educational
work there he was petitioned by Temple Israel of Pine Bluff to come to this
city, and accepted in 1922. Already he has made for himself a most desirable
place in the community. His scholarly attainments, his broad vision, his high
ideals and his practical service have won for him the respect and honor of his
fellow townsmen and Pine Bluff has thus welcomed him to her ranks.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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