Louis E. Levinthal

Louis Edward Levinthal (April 5, 1892 – May 16, 1976) was a Jewish-American lawyer and judge from Philadelphia.

Formative years and family Levinthal was born on April 5, 1892, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Bernard L. Levinthal and Minna Kleinberg. His father was a prominent Orthodox rabbi from Lithuania, and his brother Israel H. Levinthal was a rabbi in Brooklyn, New York.

Levinthal attended the Central High School from 1906 to 1910. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an A.B. in 1914 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with an LL.B. in 1916 and an LL.M. in 1918. He was editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, a leader of the Inter-Collegiate Zionist Society and Menorah, earned numerous undergraduate honors, and received the Gowen Memorial Fellowship for post-graduate studies at the Law School. The university published his History of Bankruptcy Law and his study on the opinions of Judge Mayer Sulzberger.

In 1916, he married Lenore Chodoff. Their children were Sylvia Betty (wife of Herbert I. Bernstein) and Cyrus. Representative William J. Green III entered tributes to him in the Congressional Record.