Edgar F. Magnin: Leader and Personality.
Berkeley, California: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, 1975. Hardbound. Quarto, blue cloth with gold lettering, frontispiece photo (original photo tipped in), xiii, 320 pp., original b/w photos tipped-in, reproductions of a few newspaper clippings, program for a dinner in honor of Magnin at the Wilshire Avenue Synagogue bound in, abbreivated biography of Rabbi Magnin, a couple of reprints of LA Times articles bound in, reproductions of Magnin's correspondence related to General George S. Brown, index. Very Good. Item #84935
An Interview conducted by Malca Chall. With an introduction by Rabbi Samson H. Levey. Copy No. 5. The product of a San Francisco childhood and an education at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Magnin assumed pulpits in Stockton and in Los Angeles at Temple B'nai B'rith before assuming the primary taks of his life, the pulpit at Temple Wilshire Boulevard. He was a central figure in Jewish Los Angeles for over forty years.
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