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Gilbert Levine, the American conductor who directed the Krakow Philharmonic in Poland for several years and is now conductor laureate, will be named a papal knight Dec. 19 at investiture ceremonies in Paris conducted by Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger. "This is the first time a Jewish person in the United States has ever received a papal knighthood, and I will be one of only four Jews in the history of the papacy to be knighted," he said when notified of the honor last weekend. Levine was on Pope John Paul II's honors list for organizing several concerts for the Polish-born pope, including one at the Vatican in April that memorialized victims of the Holocaust.