Levin Family

Levin Family of Trenton

Samuel Levin and his wife, Mary Lidsky, brought up four sons...Louis, Josh, Max and Henry.  

Dr. Louis Levin married Marion Anderson and had two sons, Jonas A. Levin and Robert B. Levin.  

Graduating from Jefferson University Medical School 1919 (when Jews were restricted entry) and pursued further studies at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Graduate School

A Leading cardiologist, Louis served an internship at Western PA Hospital (Pittsburgh) He treated at St. Francis Hospital. He also served NJ Trenton State Prison

He was honored as a Fellow of the American Medical Heart Assn.

He authored “Living Along with Heart Disease (1935) and contributed numerous articles in professional journals.

Jonas ("Jo") A. Levin, World War H, and D-Day Omaha Beach veteran, was Trenton-born (December 21,1921) H he graduated Trenton High School ('39) and Lafayette College ('43). He then attended US Naval Reserve Midshipman School at Columbia

In 1843, the Navy commissioned him as an Ensign (later promoted to Lt. (JG) in 1945). He trained as commanding officer of LCT (Landing Craft Tank) at Solomon Island, MD and Little Creek, VA. He served as a commanding officer on a LCT on D-Day, making five land­ings at Omaha Beach.

He also served in the Pacific theater, cruising dozens of island and atolls from the Solomon to Okinawa in prepara­tion for the invasion of Japan as com­mander of a LST (Landing Ship Tank).

the local Coast Guard Auxil­iary re­cruited him as public education officer. During his years with Flotilla 609 he was finance officer, supply offi­cer, electronic officer, recruiting officer, vice commander (5 years) and com­mander (5) years

Following his years of military ser­vice, he was owned and managed Edwards' Apparel, Inc., a family clothing store, in Kendall Park, for 17 years. After closing the store, he went into real estate; 10 years in residential followed by 14 years in commercial with Weidel Commercial in Pennington.). Josh was also manager of Cafe Society in NYC.

Robert Levin (Bob) had two children and one granddaughter. Born in 1925 in Trenton, he was the son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Louis Levin also of Trenton, New Jersey. He married Joyce (Greenberg) in 1954.

He attended Lehigh University before entering the US Seabees in 1943 during World War II. While at Lehigh he was a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. His war service took him for 21 months to the Pacific Theatre from New Hebrides to Okinawa. On Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands he received the Bronze Star. Upon his discharge in 1946 he continued his college education at Upsala College, graduating in 1949 with a BA degree in Business and Psychology.

In 1949, he began work at Henry Clay and Bock, manufacturers of cigars in Trenton, N.J., (long a subsidiary of The American Tobacco Co. The company changed to Cuban Cigar Co., American Cigar and finally American Tobacco. Currently the corporation is now a part of the British Tobacco Co, Brown Williams, Co. He rose to Plata Superintendent and was responsible for its total operation; upon its closing worked out of American Tobacco's headquarters located in New York

Robert Levin Family

Eventually became plant manager. He was responsible for manufacturing plants in   Charleston, South Carolina, Owensboro, Kentucky and Mountaintop, Pennsylvania.

Max Levin, Age 21

Max Levin owned Eton Men’s Wear. Married Katherine Klempner (sister of Lester Klempner). He married into the Klempner family: three brothers: Paul, Lester and Harry. Dr. Paul Klempner, named for a wing of a TB hospital, tragically was murdered along with the wife, Estelle Abramson.

Max Levin, Age 21

Katherine and Max Levin

   

Max’s son, Dan also became active in the theater.

Son Daniel Levin a.k.a. Peter – Actor, Director, Producer. Played in Diary of Anne Frank. Graduating Trenton High in 1950, he interned at the Westport Theater (Bucks County Playhouse); to tells La Jolla, CA.

Dan Levin 1990

Dan Levin

Peter's professional career began as an actor. He was trained at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) and in London on a Fulbright Scholarship. After a stint in the US Army, he made his Broadway debut in 1955 in the original production of "The Diary of Anne Frank". He later appeared in regional theater, summer stock and Shakespearean Repertory in plays by Chekhov, Shaw, Ibsen, Odets, Pinter, O'Neill, Osborne and of course, Shakespeare.

He began directing at Hardware Poets Playhouse, (he partnered ownership), one of the earliest off-off-Broadway loft theaters (1962-1966), producing more than 40 new plays by poets including Bloedow, Susan Sherman, Ruth Kraus, Robert Nichols, Ted Enslin and Joel Oppenheimer. He partnered Audrey Davis Levin (wife, who was an actress and later a writer of TV movies) and Jerry Bloedow, a poet.

He also directed works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Miller, Stoppard, Chekhov, George Kelly, and Dennis Potter.

Levin has directed dozens of episodes of television series including "Lou Grant", "Call to Glory", "Law & Order", "Chicago Hope", "Midnight Caller", and "Judging Amy". He also directed three dozen movies for television including "Homeless to Harvard", "Overkill", "Little Girl Fly Away", "The Marva Collins Story", "Sworn to Silence", "And Never Let Her Go", "Popeye Doyle", "Houston: The Legend of Texas" and "In the Name of The People".

As Broadway actor, Dan appeared in Broadway actor. Appeared in Diary of Anne Frank and played the part of Peter in Peter Pan, East of Eden (2012)

He taught seminars at NYU, USC, Carnegie Mellon, Smith College and AFI. He taught acting and directing for a semester at The Guildhall School in London. (http://danmurano.com/poetry/peter-dan-levin#1)

Henry Levin

Henry Levin - Hollywood Director

Scout's Honor (1980 TV movie)

The Treasure Seekers (1979)

Run for the Roses (1977)

That Man Bolt (1973)

The Desperados (1969)

The Ambushers (1967)

Murderers' Row (1966)

Se Tutte le Donne del Mondo (1966)

Genghis Khan (1965)

Honeymoon Hotel (1964)

Come Fly with Me (1963)

If a Man Answers (1962)

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

Le Meraviglie di Aladino (1961)

Where the Boys Are (1960)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)

April Love (1957)

The Lonely Man (1957)

Bernardine (1957)

Let's Be Happy (1957)

The Dark Avenger (1955)

The Gambler from Natchez (1954)

Three Young Texans (1954)

Mister Scoutmaster (1953)

The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953)

The President's Lady (1953)

Belles on Their Toes (1952)

The Family Secret (1951)

Two of a Kind (1951)

The Flying Missile (1950)

Convicted (1950)

The Petty Girl (1950)

And Baby Makes Three (1949)

Jolson Sings Again (1949)

Mr. Soft Touch (1949)

The Gallant Blade (1948)

The Man from Colorado (1948)

The Mating of Millie (1948)

The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)

The Return of Monte Cristo (1946)

The Unknown (1946)

The Devil's Mask (1946)

Night Editor (1946)

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)

The Fighting Guardsman (1946)

Dancing in Manhattan (1945)

I Love a Mystery (1945)

The Negro Sailor (1945)

Sergeant Mike (1944)

Cry of the

Josh Levin had three children and one granddaughter.  

Malcolm Casway

Malcolm Casway

Boynton Beach, Florida

Malcolm Casway's parents owned William J. Ferschke, Inc., a beauty and barber supply business. Located at 155 South Board Street, he lived atop the Frascella family, Aunt Jean and Uncle Jimmy, manager of Rheingold Beer (remember this brand?).  Aunt Jean raised me, while both my parents were working.

They introduced to music. I started on the trumpet, to the consternation of my neighbors but eventually made al living on Steel Pier with Govi brothers. (The Govi brothers appeared on Paul Whiteman Show).

On the Chief Halftime Show (do you remember this from out of the past), I won a $100 savings bond and an English bike.

Malcolm went to Garfield School; then Junior 5; then THS.
He played basketball under John Gaugh; baseball under Mr. Bozzo. I also played in the P.A.L. league under the tutelage of Puggy Malone. ( I later coached a team in the P.A.L. League.) [I played against him. He was very good.]

After  9th grade he moved near the end of Stuyvesant Avenue as far as the Trenton boundary. The house hosted more than its fair share of parties. I graduated THS in 1955.

At Trenton High, my teachers worked with me after school, to catch up with the academics.  Tom Murphy sticks out as a great teacher and character.

I worshipped Kelly Palumbo (First row, far left) the Dean of baseball coaches in Trenton.

My parents also were founders of Adath Israel. Rabbi S. Joshua Kohn was a family friend. I even sang in the choir at Kol Nidre.

In 2005, I attended our 50th reunion at Washington Crossing where I reacquainted with many friends.

Identify These Pix

Photo #1

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Photo #4

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Trentonians in Savannah

FRONT ROW..LYNNE DIAMOND, PAULA ALBERT, AUNT FAYE,  EISENSTADT.
SECOND ROW JOANNE HOCHMAN, DICK HOCHMAN, RITA ALBERT, NANCY RING, SUSAN RING, SARA EISENSTADT,

COMMENTS - NOVEMBER 2016

COMMENTS

Ronald Warren has left a new comment on your post "South Broad Street Stores":

Directly across from the Court House on S. Warren Street was the Dinette Center owned by my uncle George Warren and his wife Josephine. It was a popular meeting place for many years. Next to the RKO Capitol was Larry's Men’s Shop run by Babe Lipman. My father (Dave) worked there part time as a second job. I remember going up on the second floor where through an opening in the wall you could watch whatever movie was playing.


Len Miller

Nov 2 (5 days ago)

Your listing of Broad Street businesses was very interesting. Your listing of "St. George" is not correct. The name was George's. It was owned by Nathan Lavinson and named for his first son. It was eventually run by George and his brothers, Herman and Harold. 

Nov 3 (4 days ago)

Hi Arthur,

You asked to identify some people, and I think I know two. In the first picture, the group picture, I think the man with the hands on his shoulders on the right side of the picture is either Rabbi Haberman or Cantor Glatzer. The older man in the middle on the same row, I think worked with my mother at the Red Cross on West State St, but I can't remember his name off the top of my head. I'm sure I have his name on a picture somewhere. Hope it helped. When I find the picture I will let you know if it is him.

Miriam Bebitch

Scout Troop 160 - 1956 Who can identify these Scouts

Many Thanks to 

Dr. Ron Warren. Bruce Zagnit , Mark Nath and Dave Wendroff

Row 1 (L-R): Ted Milback, Lew Bloom, Mitch Ginsburg, Ed Knopf, Hank Cohen(later Cargan), Harry Ginsburg, Lew Fishberg, ?, Alan Nath.

Row 2: Frank Pinchinetti, Marvin Jacobson, Ron Warren, Marvin Myers, Barry Schulman, ?, Bill Newman.

Row 3: Ronnie Weinstein, Sy Hennenberg, Richard Hirsch, Bruce Zagnit, Stanley Goldberg, Steven Daner, Donald Shulman,David Perlberg, Marvin Brooks, Bill Zarling

Row 4: Stuart Gertman, Steven Lenoble, ?, ?, Mark Nath, Phillip Paley, Joe Schmukler, Larry Schear, ?, ?, ?, Marty Schwartz, ?.

Row 5: Steven Nochumson, ?, ?, ?,  Bob Moskowitz, Al Brothers, Dave Phillips, Bary Nath, ?, Bruce Putchat.

Need someone a few years younger than I to identify some of the others. Troop 160 met every Tuesday evening at Adath Israel on Bellevue Ave.

Stern-Tankel Family

Stern-Tankel Family

On of my best friends in the Trenton School System was Chuck Stern. In fact, when we attended Junior #3, his Dad, who taught at the THS Night School, took us to see the THS Basketball games. (yeh, Wally Collender)

Phyllis’ father was Maxwell Stern, who taught for 35 years in the Trenton Public Schools.  He married Lillian Tankle. Her grandfather was Morris Stern, one of the 8-Kosher Butchers at 54 Union Street. 

Figure 1 Stern's Meat Market

Figure 2 Stern's Meat Market w/ Morris Stern

Phyllis and I, together with Al Downing helper to cheer up Chuck during his illness.

                      Figure 3 Lillian Stern             Young Lillian and Maxwell Stern

Rose and Samuel Tankel, owner of a tavern and liquor store on Pennington Ave., had three children:   Lillian, Beatrice. And Robert.
Celia and Morris stern, a kosher butcher on Union St., sired eight children:   Harry, Ben, Herb, Jack, Lillian, Maxwell, William and Clara.

After graduating from Trenton High, Lillian Tankel

met and fell in love with Maxwell Stern; married, December 25, 1938 at the Hotel Jersey, officiated by Rabbi Issachar Levin.

Among other things, Lillian was president of the Ahavath Israel Sisterhood and always worked shul's bingo.

Maxwell was a well-loved teacher at Junior #4 and Junior #3 (he was my beloved science teacher in eighth grade). He worked in the Trenton School System for 35- years. 

  

Maxwell, besides taught mathematics and science, He also directed Operettas at Junior #4, and productions at Junior Three and a featured performer in Trenton education association productions.   Max was president of the Men's Club at Ahavath Israel and also work their bingo.

Lillian and Maxwell begat: Charles and Phyllis.    Charles was a systems analyst.   Phyllis is a retired mathematics teacher and volunteers as ‘the math lady’ at the Burlington County Library. (She lives in Edgewater Park.)

Figure 4 Charles Stern   Phyllis Stern

Maxwell Stern died on August 16,1981.
Lillian stern died on December 18,1994.
Charles stern died on April 5,  2007.
May they rest eternally in dignity and peace.