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About David Lefkowitz
- David Lefkowitz (April 11, 1875 – June 5, 1955), a rabbi, led Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas from 1920 to 1949, after having worked at Temple Israel in Dayton, Ohio.
- He opposed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, which had been revived in 1915; it was strongly opposed to immigrants who were Jews and Catholics from eastern and southern Europe.
- He was a Founding Executive Committee Member of the Dayton Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He and his wife Sadie Braham (July 21, 1879 – February 21, 1955) bequeathed their collection to the Perkins School of Theology, which houses the "Sadie and David Lefkowitz Collection of Judaica".
- Sadie Lefkowitz was also active in the National Association of Temple Sisterhoods.
- A Mason, Rabbi Lefkowitz continued to attend meetings knowing that Klansmen were present.
- He discussed incidents of violence to convince other members that the Klan was inhibiting progress of their booming city.
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