Moses Levine was born in Ludza, Latvia on June 23, 1886. He attended schools in Moscow, Russia, Woodbine, New Jersey and East Lansing, Michigan before coming to the University of Minnesota. Moses Levine earned his B.S. degree in 1915, M.S. degree in 1916 and his Ph.D. in 1924 in Plant Pathology, all from the University of Minnesota. He began his career working with the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (1914-1915) and spent two years as an assistant in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota. The bulk of his career was spent with the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Agricultural Research Service on the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus (1916-1955). He retired in 1955. Moses Levine died in Atlanta, Georgia in February 1962.
Although he was not Jewish, he was interested in the agricultural research being done by Jewish settlers and worked on cereal rust problems in Palestine. He also assisted various humanitarian efforts for Palestine and the Jewish refugee rescue efforts during World War II.
From the guide to the Moses Napthalison Levine papers, 1932-1953, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Archives [uarc])
