Abraham Levy

Jewish Chronicle November 1907

I am sorry to learn that Mr. Abraham Levy, the able and veteran Headmaster of the Old Castle Street .County Council School, is laid aside, for the moment, by illness, which his many friends and admirers will join me in hoping is but of a temporary character. It is difficult to think of Old Castle Street-without Mr. Levy, or of Mr. Levy without Old Castle Street. Mr. Levy is: a son of the late Rev. ; Solomon Levy, Reader of the Borough Synagogue:

He is a brother of Dr. Levy, of San Francisco, and of Dr. Joseph Leonard Levy, of Pittsburg, one of the most prominent of the advanced school of "Rabbis in the tjnited States. Mr. Levy is an old Free School boy, and left the great institution in Bell Lane to become Headmaster of the Shaare Tikvah School of the Portuguese congregation in Heneage Lane. Shortly after the institution of the old London School Board, a large school, the largest for a long time, was opened by the Board the proportion of Christian pupils being about two per 1,000. The School Board looked around very caretuily for a headmaster, and the choice fell upon Mr. Levy, who soon became one of its most honoured and trusted, as well as one of its most successful teachers. Not only have his educa- tional results been successful, but he has gained a most noticeable personal influence. He is idolised by teachers and children alike, and no boy or girl leaves the school without taking out into their life's task and efforts the continual fatherly influence and guidance of this most fatherly of headmasters. In his leisure, Mr. Levy has found time to render admirable services as Warden of the East London Synagogue (a position in which he has been followed by his able school-lieutenant, Mr. David Moses), as a member of the Council of the United Synagogue, where his influence has always made for generosity and justice and as a member of the Religious Education Board, where he is looked up to for his expert knowledge.