Rabbi Allan H. Schwartzman

Rabbi Schwartzman, a native of Maryland, was educated in the Public Schools of Baltimore. He enlisted in the Reserve Corps. while in high school and was proudly called to active duty U.S. 13th Air Force – World War II. He served in Asia-Pacific Theater of operations from New Caledonia across the Pacific to the Philippines, mostly as crew Chief Sergeant in a Troop Carrier Group and an Air Service Group.

After discharge in 1946, he attended the College of William and Mary and then transferred to the University of Cincinnati where he received a B.A. with High Honors in History in 1950.

Rabbi Schwartzman then enrolled in the Hebrew Union College, the oldest Jewish Seminary in the U.S., to study for the Reform Rabbinate. He received a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Hebrew Letters degrees and was ordained as a Rabbi in 1955. He later obtained his Doctor of Divinity degree.

Rabbi Schwartzman served congregations in Newport News, VA and, for 30 years, Vicksburg and Greenville, MS. He retired in 1989, and together with his wife, Elaine, of 66 years, moved to Sarasota. He continued to serve Temple Israel in Sebring, FL on weekends for 7 years and “filled in” for the 3 Reform congregations in the Sarasota area from time to time. He also served as the Jewish Chaplain on various cruise ships on Jewish holidays.

Rabbi Schwartzman is survived by his wife, Elaine of 66 years and his son Emmet of Key Biscayne, FL and his wife, Jill. His grandchildren are Alec of New York and Catie, a student at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

A service will be held at Temple Emanu-El, 151 McIntosh Road in Sarasota, on Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 10am with burial in the Sarasota National Cemetery, 9810 State Rd 72 on Thursday at 1pm.

Expressions of sympathy may be offered to Temple Emanu-El.