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Pach,VV~ter;b.~C,ca1883;d.~C,
Nov 1958.
CCNY, NY School of Art, Paris. • Artist, art
critic, art historian, NYC; faculty NYU,
CCNY; author in field.· See: NYTimes, Nov
281958,30:3.
Pacheco, Benjamin Mendez; b. Nov 11
1711; d. 1749.
Merchant, freeman, NYC; benefactor Shearith
Israel, Trinity Church; later returned to
London. • See: BDEA].
Pacht, Isaac; b. Millie, Austria, May 28
1890.
To US 1900. • LLB Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer,
superior & district court of appeals judge,
communalldr, Los Angeles; mem state prison
bd; pres Jewish Inst of Religion, Commn for
Personal Service, United Jewish Welfare Fund.
• See: UJE; EJ; WWIAJ, 1928,1938; BEOAJ.
Pack, Carl; b. VVorcester,Jan 25 1899; d.
Brooklyn, Aug 7 1945.
LLB, LLM Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer,
legislator, NYC; dir Am Jewish Cong, Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; active Nat! League of
Am Citzenship, synagog; supported relief of
mortgage defaulters, slum clearance. • See:
AJYB, 48:496; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Aug 9
1945,23:3.
Packard, Maurice; b. Syracuse, June 18
1876.
PhB Syracuse U, MD Columbia, post-grad
Vienna, Berlin. • Physician, NYC; faculty NY
Polyclinic Hospital; author Shylock Not a Jew. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Packman, James Joseph; b. Biala, Poland,
May 101907; d. San Francisco, Feb 12
1969.
To US 1910. • Banker, journalist, publicist,
San Francisco; with Examiner, Newark StarLedger. • See: WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Feb 13
1969,45:2.
Padover, Saul K; b. Rozwadow, Austria,
1905; d. ~C, Feb 1981.
To US 1920. • Wayne, Yale, PhD U Chicago.
• Historian, New Deal public official; faculty
WVA Tchrs ColI, U CA; asst to Harold Ickes;
consult Office of Facts & Figures; author!
biographer in field. • See: UJE; NYTimes, Feb
241981.
Padway, Israel B; b. Leeds, Mar 27 1894.
To US 1906. • Marquette Law. • Lawyer,
Milwaukee; pres Bd ofJewish Education;
representative State Fedn of Labor, County
Bldg & Trade Unions; active politics. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Padway, Joseph Arthur; b. Leeds, July 24/
25 1890/1891; d. San Francisco, Oct 8
1947.
To US 1905. • LLB Marquette. • Lawyer,
legislator, civil court judge, civic worker,
Milwaukee; faculty Columbus U (Washington
DC); counsel Am Fedn of Labor; helped draft
WWI labor legislation. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
50:520; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA,
2; NYTimes, Oct 91947,1:4.
Paeff, Bashka; b. Minsk, Aug 12 1893; d.
Jan 241979.
To Boston 1894. • Normal Art Schooi, Boston
Museum School of Fine Arts, Paris. •
Sculptor, Cambridge, MA; specialty: portrait
busts.· See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 7.
Paiewonsky, Isaac; b. Lithuania, ca 1885; d.
St Thomas, Virgin Islands, July 1963.
To St Thomas, Virgin Islands ca 1898. •
Prominent merchant, Virgin Islands; honored
by legislation; known as "Papa Paie." • See:
JTA-DNB, July 15 1963; NYTimes, July 14
1963,61:3.
Paiewonsky, Ralph M; b. Virgin Islands, ca
1908.
NYU. • Governor, businessman, Virgin
Islands; active Democratic politics. • See:
NYTimes stories, Mar 11 1961, Jan 20 1965.
Pakulski, H Murray; b. ~C, Jan 30 1880.
Charles J Innis Law School. • Lawyer, asst
corp counsel, Boston; active Democratic
politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Palacios, Joseph de; b.*
Pioneer landowner in LA (1765); merchant,
Mobile; in Charlestown by 1780. • See:
BDEAJ.
Palefski, Israel 0; b. ca 1885; d. ~C,
1968.
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Gatroenterologist,
NYC. • See: NYTimes, Mar 2 1968,47:4.
P~ew,
Philip; b. Brooklyn, Apr 291898; d.
Feb 1969.
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Orthopedic surgeon,
NYC; faculty NYU; author in field; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Feb 28
1969,39:2.
Paley, Grace (born Goodside); b. Bronx,
1922.
Short story writer, peace activist; faculty
Columbia, Syracuse U, Sarah Lawrence. • See:
EJ:1982-1985.
P~ey, Herman; b. ca 1870; d. May 101933.
Yiddish publisher, NYC; fdr Die Warheit; copublisher The Day. • See: AJYB, 35:127.
P~ey,Jacob;
b. Kiev, May 11885.
Cigar mfr, Philadelphia; active Fedn ofJewish
Charities, Eagleville Sanitarium. • See:
WWIAJ,1928:
Paley, John (Yonahl]ohann) (pseud=Ben
Amitai); b. MinsklVilna, Feb 6 1871; d.
NYC, Dec 23 1907.
To US 1888. • Yiddish writer, editor, scholar,
novelist, NYC; a fdr Folksvechter, Tageblatt;
with Folksadvokat, Yiddishe Presse (Philadelphia).
• See: UJE; AJYB, 6(1904-1905): 162-63,
10(1908-1909):128; Eisenstadt, 76-77; DAB.
P~ey, Joseph Murray;
b. ~C, Sep 17
1892; d.Jan 1962.
LLB Fordham.· Lawyer, NYC; secyto B N
Cardozo; faculty StJohns, Brooklyn Law, NY
Law; active synagog; author in field. • See:
UJE; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Jan 11
1962,33:1.
Paley, Lesser; b. Minsk, Nov 11883.
To Rochester; NY 1898. • Merchant,
Rochester, NY; orgr Paley Concerts, Eastman
Theater Concerts; pres Zionist Org of Am;
active Jewish Welfare Bd.· See: WWIAJ,
1938.
P~ey,
Samuel M; b.*; d. Brookline, MA,
Nov71938.
Talmudist, communal worker, Brookline, MA.
·See:AJYB,41:429.
Paley, Samuel; b. Kiev, Dec 15 1875/1877;
d. Miami Beach, Mar 311963.
To US 1888. • Cigar mfr, philanthropist,
Chicago, Philadelphia; officer Allied Jewish
Appeal, Albert Einstein Med Center, Fedn of
Jewish Charities; dir CBS. • See:AJYB,
65:436; WWIAJ, 1928,1938; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, Apr 1 1963,27:3.
P~ey,Wtlliam Samuel;
b. Chicago, Sep 28
1901.
U Chicago, BS U PA. • Broadcast exec, NYC;
started as cigar mfr; innovator of non-profit
news; led CBS into TV; active cultural insts;
benefactor Weizmann Inst, William S Paley
Found; collector of French impressionist art. •
See: UJE; EJ; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Palitz, Bernard; b. Novo-Alexondrow, Kiev,
1865; d. Mar 1/2 1922.
To US ca 1891. • Communalldr & exec,
NYC; general agent Baron de Hirsch Fund;
worker for immigrants; interested inJewish
history. • See: AJYB, 24:102; PAJHS, 29:18183.
Pa,litz, Clarence Y~e; b. New
Alexandrovsk, Latvia, Aug 291887; d.
~C, Apr 9 1958.
To US 1900. • LLB NYU. • Lawyer,
financier, alderman, NYC; helped draft NYC
Code of Ordinances, est milk stations; an orgr
Jewish Ladies Day Nursery; trustee Jewish
Social Service Assn, Palestine Endowment
Fund. • See: UJE; AJYB, 60:356; WWIAJ,
1928,1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Apr 10 1958,
29:1.
Palkin, Joseph Ralph; b. Port Chester, NY,
Oct 161893.
DDS George Washington, post-grad
Northwestern, Naval Dental.Schooi. • Dental
surgeon, Washington DC; faculty George
Washington, U Denver; officer professional
assn; WWI service.· See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938.
P~, Samuel; b. Kovno, Feb 22 1890.
To US 1892. • PhB Yale, PhD George
Washington. • Research chemist, Washington
Palley, Samuel
DC; with Food & Drug Adm, Dept of
Agriculture; author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1928,1938; BEOAJ.
P;illey, Samuel; b. Minsk, Sep 1863; d.
Brooklyn, Nov 16 1934.
Banker, communal worker, Brooklyn; oflicer
Jewish Center, Home & Hospital for Aged,
YMHA, Fedn ofJewish Charities.· See:AJYB,
37:260; WWIAJ, 1926.
Palmer, Archibald; b. NYC, ca 1885; d.
NYC, June 1969.
NY Law. • Lawyer, NYC; represented Judith
Coplon in spy trials. • See: NITimes, June 20
1969,41:1.
480
Vienna, Pedogogical Inst (Vienna), Ed D
Columbia. • Educator, author, editor, NYC;
faculty CUNY, New School; dir Childrens
Home & School for Refugee Children
(France); social worker with Childrens Aid
Bureau. • See: WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Aug 8
1973,40:4.
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Papish, Jacob; b. Pinsk,Aug41887; d.June
1972.
BS Valparaiso U, MA IN U, PhD Cornell. •
Chemist, spectroscopist, Ithaca; faculty
Cornell.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 8; NYTimes, June 15 1972,44:2.
Papkin, H (Zvi Hayyim); b. Vilna province,
1875.
Palyi, Melchior; b. Hungary, ca 1892; d.
Chicago, July 1970.
To US 1900. • Rabbi, New Bedford, MA,
Utica. • See: Gottlieb, 301.
To US 1933. • Economist, author, columnist,
Chicago; lecturer U Chicago. • See: NITimes,
July 31 1970, 29:4.
Pappenheim, Samuel Moritz; b. Breslau,
1811; d. Berlin, 1882.
Pam, Hugo; b. Chicago, Jan 251870; d.
NYC, May 291930.
In US 1849, to Breslau 1859. • Physician,
author, US, Havana, Breslau, Paris, Berlin. •
See: UJE.
PhB U MI. • Lawyer, state supreme court
judge, Zionist, civic & communal worker,
Chicago; pres Am Inst of Criminal Law &
Criminology; defended Louis Lipsky; active
Am Jewish Cong, Maxwell St Settlement, Heb
Immigrant Aid Soc. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
24:188,32:154; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; NYTimes,
May 30 1930, 19:3.
Pam, Max; b. near Carlsbad, Bohemia, July
161865; d. NYC, Sep 14 1925.
To US 1868. • Lawyer, civic & communalldr,
philanthropist; counsel US Steel, Internatl
Harvester; fdr School ofJournalism (Notre
Dame); benefactor Catholic U, Heb U. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 24:188, 28:151; WWWIA, 1;
NYTimes, Sep 15 1925,25:5.
Panken,Jacob;b.](oloni~,Ukraine,Jan
Pappenheimer, Alwin M (Max); b. NYC,
Dec 41878; d. Feb 211955.
AB Harvard, MD Columbia, post-grad Vienna,
Leipzig, Freiburg. • Pathologist, NYC; faculty
Columbia; author in field; WWI service. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 24:188; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Feb 22 1955,
21:3.
Pappenheimer; Ralph; b. Cincinnati, Oct
111891.
ME Cornell. • Business exec, Cincinnati;
officer Foreign Trade Club. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Paradise, Victor George; b. St Louis, July
271895.
Investment broker, NYC; with Kuhn, Loeb. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
13 1879; d. Bronx, Feb 41968.
To US ca 1890. • NYU Law. • Lawyer,
muncipal judge, labor orgr, Socialist Party ldr,
NYC; oflicer aRT, Peoples Relief Com;
author in field. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 24:188,
70:523; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, '1938; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Feb 5 1968,35:2.
Pareira, David A; b. ca 1850; d. Chicago,
Nov 2 1914.
Legislator, StLouis.· See:AJYB, 17(1915-
Panofsky, Erwin; b. Hannover, Mar 30
1892; d. Mar 141968.
To US 1934. • U Berlin, U Munich, PhD U
To US 1936.· Yeshiva U, FerkaufGrad
School. • Orthodox Falasha rabbi, Bronx; ldr
of black Jews. • See: EJ:1973-J 982.
1916):221.
Paris, Hailu; b. Ethiopia, 1933.
Freiburg; honorary degrees. • Noted art
historian, Princeton; faculty U Hamburg,
NYU, Inst for Advanced Study (Princeton);
author in field. • See: UJE; BEOAJ; DAB, 8;
NYTimes, Mar 16 1968, 32:3.
Parker, Albert; b. NYC, Sep 6 1897; d. Nov
20 1983.
Pap, Arthur; b. Zurich, 1921; d. Sep 1959.
Columbia, LLB NY Law; honorary degrees. •
Lawyer, NYC; nat! exec com United Jewish
Appeal; active Albert Einstein ColI ofMed,
Bar-llan. • See: WWWIA, 8.
To NYC 1941. • Philosopher, logical
positivist; faculty U Chicago, Yale; author in
field.· See: EJ; NITimes, Sep 81959,35:4.
Parker, Benjamin Myron; b. Pittsburgh,
Sep 71899.
Pape, L G; b. ca 1837; d. Philadelphia, May
101917.
Communal worker, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB,
19(1917-1918):267.
Papenek, Ernst; b. Vienna, Aug 20 1900; d.
Aug 51973.
To US 1940. • U Vienna Music School, U
Writer noted for short stories, irony & wit,
NYC; drama critic Vanity Fair; mem
Algonquin Hotel Round Table. • See: UJE;
EJ; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 4; NAWmodern; DAB,
8; NYTimes, June 8 1967, 1:2.
Parkes, Albert L; b. ca 1827; d. NYC, Feb
161912.
Theatrical mgr & writer, NYC. • See: AJYB,
14(1912-1913):126.
Parlaghy, Vilma; b. Hajdudorog, Hungary,
1864; d. NYC, 1923.
Artist, painted portrait of Wilhelm II; convert
to Christianity. • See: UJE.
Pannet, Charles; b. Brooklyn, Aug 261916;
d. NYC, Mar 4 1980.
Communal admr; exec dir Hillcrest Jewish
Community (Flushing, LI); officer Natl Assn
of Synagogue Admrs, Conf ofJewish
Communal Service; contributor Jewish
periodicals. • See:AJYB, 82:371.
Parnes, Nathan; b. Poland, ca 1895; d.
NYC, Oct 1964.
To US ca 1899. • Yiddish theatre owner, mgr
& producer, NYC. • See: NYTimes, Oct 16
1964,39:1.
Parnes, Samuel Randolph; b. NYC, July 20
1895.
Textile mfr, exec, NYC; trustee Brooklyn Heb
Orphan Asylum; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Parodneck, Meyer; b. Poland, May 30 1904.
CCNY, NYU, LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, NYC;
officer Milk Consumers Protective Com,
Sunnyside Consumers Cooperative; dir
Cooperative Distributors. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Parshelsky, Isaac; b. ca 1877; d. Brooklyn,
Mar 18 1935.
Bldr, communal worker, philanthropist,
Brooklyn. • See: AJYB, 37:260.
Parsonnet, Aaron Ephim; b. Balta, Russia,
Oct 14 1889; d. Aug 1950.
To US 1903/to Newark 1904. • AB Loyola,
MD, CM U Chicago. • Physician, cardiologist,
bookbinder, Newark; med dir Daughters of
Israel Home for Aged; author in field; military
service. • See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,
Aug 211950,19:5.
Parsonnet, Victor; b. Balta, Russia, 1871; d.
Newark, 1920.
Physician, Newark; fdr Beth Israel Hospital. •
See: UJE (sub Parsonnet, Aaron).
Parsons, Louella Oettinger; b. Freeport,
IL, Aug 6 1881; d. Santa Monica, CA,
Dec91972.
BS Cooper Inst, New School, LLB Harvard,
MHL, ordained Jewish Inst of Religion, Tchrs
ColI, Union Theological, Berlin Lehranstalt,
U Berlin. • Machinist, lawyer, rabbi, NYC;
orgr Sabbath schools for Free Synagogue;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Journalist, Hollywood columnist, screenwriter;
with American (Hearst), Universal News
Service; ofJewish descent. • See:
NAW:modern; NYTimes, Dec 101972,85:1.
Parker, Dorothy Rothschild; b. West End,
NJ, Aug 22 1893; d. NYC, June 7 1967.
To US 1907. • AB U MI, MA Columbia,
ordainedJTS. • Rabbi, Conservative ldr,
Parzen, Herbert; b. Ozorkow, Poland, Dec
23 1897; d. Apr 1985.
481
author, Westwood, NJ; state dir United
Synagogue of Am; chaplain NYC Dept of
Correction. • See: WWIAj, 1938; Detroit
jewish News, Apr 12 1985.
Parzen, Moses; b.*; d. NYC, Dec 8 1941.
Rabbi, NYC.· See: AjYB, 44:342.
Pascal, Ernest; b. London, 1896.
Author, screenwriter; film: "Hound of the
Baskervilles." • See: UJE.
Pascal, Joseph Irving; b. Shakee, Kovno,
Mar 281890; d. Apr 1955.
To NYC 1901. • BS, MS Columbia, Rochester
School of Optometry, Columbia Physicians &
Surgeons, MD U Vienna. • Ophthalmologist,
NYC; inventor of equipment; fdr Am Inst of
Optometry; author in field. • See: UJE;
WWIAj, 1938; NITimes, Apr 23 1955,19:3.
Pascin, Jules (born Pincus); b. Viddin,
Bulgaria, 1885; d. Paris, 1930.
To US during WWI. • Painter, acclaimed for
draughtmanship; contributor Simplicissimus. •
See:Ej.
Paskowitz, Max; b. Minsk,July 15 1869.
To US 1891. • PhD College of Divine
Metaphysics (St Louis). • Merchant,
communal worker, Galveston; officer Zionist
Org of Am, YMHA; orgr synagog (Wharton,
TX). • See: WWIAj, 1926, 1928.
Passon, Philip; b. Russia, Dec 301868; d.
before 1938.
Communal worker, Brooklyn; dir Machzike
Talmud Torah~ active Fedn ofJewish
Charities, Zionist Org of Am, Heb Immigrant
Aid Soc. • See: WWIAj, 1928.
Passow, Aaron Henry; b. Liberty, NY,
1920.
NY State ColI for Tchrs (Albany, NY),
Columbia. • Educator; faculty NY State ColI
for Tchrs, Columbia; dir Talented Youth
Project (Columbia); author in field. • See: Ej.
Pasternack, Joseph (Josef) Alexander; b.
Czenstochowa, Poland, July 1 1881; d.
Chicago, Apr 291940.
To US 1895/1896. • Warsaw Conservatory. •
Musical dir, violist, conductor, composer; with
Metropolitan Opera. • See: UJE; AjYB,
24:188,42:482; WWIAj, 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOAj; NITimes, Apr 301940,21:1.
Pasternak, Joseph; b. Szilagy-Somlyo,
Hungary, 1901.
To US 1921. • Motion picture producer,
"Destry Rides Again." • See: UJE.
Pastor, Harry Bernard; b. Berdichev,
Russia, Oct 5 1910.
To US 1914. • AB U Cincinnati, Heb Union
ColI. • Rabbi, Peoria, Milwaukee; dir Salvation
Army, Family Welfare Assn. • See: WWIAj,
1938.
Pastor, Rose Harriet; see Stokes, Rose
Harriet.
Pat, Jacob; b. Bialystok, July 191890; d.
NYC, Apr 25 1966.
Pearlman, Martin Mandel
To US ca 1940. • Labor ldr, Yiddishist, tchr,
journalist, author; active Zionist-Socialist
Workers Party, United Jewish Socialist
Workers Party, Bund, Jewish Community
Council (Warsaw); co-editor Zukunft. • See:
Ej; AjYB, 68:531; NITimes, Apr 27 1966,47:2.
Pavloska, Irene; b. StJohns, Quebec, Feb
171892; d. Feb 1962.
To US 1910. • Dunham Ladies ColI
(Montreal). • Singer, Santa Monica, CA; with
Chicago Opera Co. • See: WWIAj, 1928,
1938;NITimes, Feb 141962,33:2.
Patai, Raphael; b. Budapest, 1910.
To Palestine, to US 1947.• Heb U, ordained
Budapest. • Anthropologist, biblical scholar,
editor; faculty Heb U, Haifa Technion,
Dropsie, Fairleigh Dickinson then dir Herzl
Inst (NYC); fdr Palestine Inst of Folklore &
Ethnology; prolific author in fields of research.
• See: Ej.
Pawley, Morris Aaron; b. Cohoes, NY, June
22 1892.
Business & communal fundraising exec,
Denver; orgr Aleph Zadek Aleph; officer
Zionist Club, United Jewish Com, local,
regional B'nai B'rith. • See: WWIAj, 1926,
1928, 1938.
Patek,ArthurJackson;b.Milwaukee,~ov
111868.
AB Johns Hopkins, MD UPA. • Physician,
Milwaukee; officer professional orgs; author in
field; WWI service. • See: WWIAj, 1928,
1938.
Patek, George W; b. ca 1869; d.
Milwaukee, May 17 1933.
Communal worker, Milwaukee. • See: AjYB,
35:128.
Patek, Robert; b.*; d. San Francisco, Aug 25
1921.
Physician, medical corps captain, San
Francisco. • See: AjYB, 24:102.
Patinkin, Don; b. Chicago, 1922.
To Israel 1949. • Economist; faculty U
Chicago, U IL, Heb U;research dir Falk Inst
for Economic Research (Israel). • See: Ej.
Pauker, Morris; b. Yablonitz, Austria, Dec
7 1889; d.June 1954.
To NYC 1901. • Mfr, NYC; officer East Side
Boys, Zionist Org of Am, Jewish Council; dir
Jewish Community House; delegate Am Jewish
Congo • See: WWIAj, 1938; NITimes, June 7
1954,23:4.
Paul, Eugene Hugo; b.Jersey City, Dec 16
1870; d.Jan 291938.
Banker, printer, clothier, communal worker,
NYC, Brooklyn; with Kuhn, Loeb; officer
YMHA, Young Folks League for Aid to Heb
Infants, synagog. • See: AjYB, 40:389;
WWIAj, 1928, 1938; NITimes, Jan 30 1938, II
8:3.
Paulive, Samuel E (Berkson); b. Kalvaria,
Lithuania, May 211885.
To US 1897. • ~ortheastern Law, Boston U. •
Real estate & insurance broker, civic &
communal worker, Chelsea, MA; officer
Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts, Zionist
District, Jewish Welfare Bd, YMHA; active Am
Jewish Cong, Republican politics. • See:
WWIAj, 1926, 1938.
Paulson, Moses; b. Baltimore, May 2 1897.
BS, MD U MD.· Physician, researcher into
digestive diseases, Baltimore; author in field;
WWI service.· See: WWIAj, 1938.
Pauly, Rose; b. Eperjes, Hungary, 1895.
Dramatic soprano, known for role as Elektra. •
See: UJE.
Pearcy, Frank; b. Kelso, WA, Aug 24 1895;
d.July 23 1974.
MD, PhD Rush Med ColI. • Physician,
analyst, Dallas; faculty U WVA, NYU, U TX;
assoc Alfred Adler. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Pearl, Bertha; b. Russia.
Novelist, NYc.. See: AjYB, 24:189.
Pearl, Jack; b. NYC, Oct 29 1895.
Stage & screen actor, NYC; with Ziegfeld
Follies, NBC, MGM; memJewish Theatrical
Guild. • See: WWIAj, 192 8, 1938; BEOAj.
Pearl, Joseph; b. Podhajce, Poland, Dec 16
1885; d. Dec 81974.
To US 1902.· AB CCNY, PhD NYU,
Columbia. • Classics scholar, NYC; faculty
CCNY, Brooklyn ColI; author in field. • See:
WWIAj, 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 6;
NITimes, Dec 10 1974,48:4.
Pearl,Joseph ~orton; b. Odessa,Jan 15
1887.
To US 1904. • Hat mfr, Chicago; officer
Midwestern Millinery Assn. • See: WWIAj,
1938.
Pearl, Samuel Maurice; b. Zaslav, Russia,
Aug 12 1885.
To Boston 1901. • MD Tufts. • Physician,
Boston; with Milk and Baby Hygiene Assn,
public schools; trustee B'nai B'rith. • See:
WWIAj,1938.
Pearlman, David William; b. Mezeritch,
Poland,Jan 11900; d. 1983.
To US 1904. • BS ]\TYU, MA Columbia, Heb
U, MHL, ordained Jewish Inst of Religion, Am
School of Archaelogy. • Rabbi, Berkeley;
faculty JTS; officer Jewish Tchrs Assn, ColI of
Jewish Studies (Chicago); dir YM-YWHA
(Baltimore). • See: WWIAj, 1938; CCARYB.
Pearlman, Henry; b. Kovno, Dec 311886.
To US 1893.· BS, LLB NYU.• Lawyer, corp
counsel, NYC; dir Jewish Community House.
• See: WWIAj, 1938.
Pearlman, Louis; b. Philadelphia, Aug 15
1905.
UPA, B Mus Philadelphia Music Academy. •
Violinist, Philadelphia; dir Pearlman School of
Music; faculty Doylestown Conservatory,
Philadelphia Music Academy; conductor
Doylestown Symphony.· See: WWIAj, 1938.
Pearlman, Martin Mandel; b. Vilna, Aug 5
1879.
Pearlman, Nellie Berman
To US 1897. • Business exec, inventor, zinc
mfr, Philadelphia. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;
BEDAJ.
Pearlman, Nellie Bennan; b. Parkersburg,
WVA, Apr 11903.
Cincinnati Kindergarten Training School, BS
U Cincinnati, MA OH State. • Educator,
Cincinnati, Tempe, AZ; specialty:
kindergarten; faculty AZ State Tchrs ColI. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Pearlman, Philip; b. ca 1884; d. Apr 20
1935.
Merchant, philanthropist, Pelham, NY, NYc.
• See:AJYB, 37:260.
Pearlman, Reuben Carel; b. Richmond,
KY, June 15 1895.
Eastern KY State Tchrs ColI, U Cincinnati, BS
U KY, MD Johns Hopkins, post-grad abroad.
• Surgeon, Louisville. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Pearlman, Samue1]ames; b. Ft Wayne, IN,
Apr 81893.
BS, MS U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI. •
Otorhinolarynogologist, Chicago; WWI
service.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Pearlove, Edward Joseph; b. Berdichev,
Russia, Dec 12 1894.
To Minneapolis 1896. • LLB George
Washington. • State Comptroller, St Paul;
with IRS; WWIservice. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Pearlstien, Jacob Samuel; b. Odessa, Aug
12 1894.
AB, MA U MI, Harvard. • Social work exec,
Chicago; dir Fedn ofJewish Charities (Boston),
Jewish Community Center & Welfare Fedn
(Omaha); WWIJewish Legion service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Pearlstien, Maurice Barrett; b. Gennany,
July 8 1876; d. before 1938.
Physician, Brooklyn; faculty NY Eclectic Med
School. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Pearlstone, Hyman;b. Buff.do, TX, Apr 24
1878; d. May 2 1966;
Business colI (Waco, TX). • Wholesale
merchant, Palestine, TI, Dallas; active
Chamber of Commerce. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
WWWIA,4.
Pearlstone, Julius Hart; b. Buffalo, TX, Apr
241888.
Merchant, business exec, Palestine, TX, Dallas;
officer Jewish Fedn for Social Service, synagog.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEDAJ.
Pearson, Harry A; b. Sosnowiec, Poland,
Aug 81910; d. Aug 12 1973.
To US 1920. • Cooper Union, NYU, postgrad Brooklyn Polytech. • Electro-acoustical
engineer; active White Plains Council of
Community Services. • See: WWWIA, 6;
NYTimes, Aug 141973, 36:1.
Peavy, GustavusJ; b.*; d. Boston, Apr 17
1917.
Communal worker, Boston. • See: AJYB,
19(1917-1918):267.
482
Pechter, Harry; b. NYC, ca 1895; d. Belle
Island, FL, Apr 1968.
Bread baking exec, Brooklyn; fdr Flatbush
Talmud Torah, NY Bialystoker Home for
Aged~ dir BrooklynJewish Home. • See:
NYTimes, Apr 23 1968,44:1.
Peck, Alfred L; b. ca 1870; d. Munich, Sep
161911.
Piano mfr, NYC.· See:AJYB, 14(19121913):124; NY'Times, Sep 19 1911, 13:2.
Peck, CelineMoritz (Mrs Leonard P Peck);
b. Paris, Apr 7 1872.
Business colI. • Communal worker, San
Antonio; officer Natl Council ofJewish
Women, Jewish Social Services. • See:
WWIAJ,1928.
Peck, Samuel Milton; b. NYC, Oct 15 1900.
BS, MD Columbia. • Dermatologist, NYC;
developed Peck Test & other methods; faculty
NYU; author in field.· See: UJE; WWIA},
1938.
Peck, Seymour; b. NYC, Aug 23 1917; d.
Jan 11985.
CCNY. • Journalist, editor, NYC; with PM,
The Daily Compass, NYTimes Book Review. •
See: WWWIA, 8.
Pecker, Nathan; b. Smolowitz, Minsk, June
13 1868.
Rabbi, NYC; WWI with Joint Distribution
Com. • See: WWIAj, 1928 (addenda).
Peckinpah, David Samuel (Sam); b. Fresno,
Feb 211925; d. Dec 28 1984.
Fresno State ColI, U CA. • Motion picture &
TV dir, San Angel, Mexico; dir "The Wild
Bunch"; WWI service. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Pedott, Joseph; b.*; d. Chicago, May 25
1922.
Political economist, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
24:102.
Peerce, Jan (born Perelmuth, Jacob
Pincus); b. NYC,June 3 1904; d. NYC,
Dec 15 1984.
Honorary degrees. • Noted operatic tenor,
cantor, NYC; with Radio City Music Hall,
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan
Opera. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 86:442; WWIAJ,
1938; WWWIA, 8; NYTimes, Dec 17 1984.
Peffer, Henry Ira;b. NYC, Aug 5 1879; d.
Palm Beach, Apr 1952.
Alcohol mfr, business exec. • See: WWWIA, 3;
NYTimes, Apr 2 1952,33:3.
Peffer, Nathaniel; b. NYC, June 30 1890; d.
Apr 12 1964.
U Chicago. • Internatl relations scholar, Essex,
CT; faculty Columbia; author in field. • See:
AJYB, 24:189; WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Apr 14
1964,37:3.
Peierls, Ronald Frank; b. Manchester,
1935.
Physicist; with lust for Advanced Study
(Princeton), Cornell, Brookhaven Natl
Laboratory. • See: EJ (sub Peierls, Sir Rudolf).
Peikes, MJ; b.*
Rabbi, NYc. • See:AJYB, 7(1905-1906):123.
Peiper, Samuel; b. Philadelphia, May 11
1884.
AB U PA, ordainedJTS, NYU, Gratz.· Rabbi,
Brooklyn;. active Civic Council; trustee Kings
Highway Bd ofTrade. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938.
Peirez, Lawrence; b. NYC, 1915; d. Long
Beach, NY, Oct 15 1976.
Lawyer, communalldr, public official; fdr
Ileitis Research Found; dir US Census Bureau
(Queens); active Anti-Defamation League. •
See: AJYB, 78:545; NYTimes, Oct 17 1976,
26:2.
Peiser, Amelia Buchman; b. Cleveland, Apr
13 1874.
Social work exec, Cleveland; matron Jewish
Orphan Home; officer Nat! Council ofJewish
Women; bd Bureau ofJewish Education. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Peiser, Ernest; b. Breslau, Dec 12 1896.
Case, Western Reserve. • Banker, business
exec, Kansas City. • See: BEDAJ.
Peiser, Kurt; b. Breslau, Feb 31895/1897;
d. Miami Beach, Mar 201967.
To US 1907. • AB, MA U MI. • Social work &
educational admr, Philadelphia; with U PA,
Jewish Orphan Home (Cleveland), Abraham
Lincoln House, Fedn ofJewish Charities,
Jewish Welfare Fedn (Milwaukee,
Philadelphia, Detroit). • See: AJYB, 69:611;
WWIAJ, 1938.
Peiser, Walter Gilbert; b. Brooklyn, July 2
1899.
AB U Cincinnati, BHL, ordained Heb Union
ColI, LA State, Columbia, U Southern CA. •
Rabbi, Cleveland, Austin, TI, Baton Rouge;
faculty LA State; dir LA Tuberculosis & Public
Health Assn. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938.
Peirez, Louis A; b. NYC, ca 1906; d. Great
Neck, Sep 1968.
CCNY, Engr degree Pratt. • Electronics &
scientific equipment mfr, communalldr; nat!
bd Anti-Defamation League. • See: NYTimes,
Sep 111968, 51:3.
Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin; b. NYC, Nov
13 1834; d. NYC, Sep 18 1890.
Lawyer, diplomat, communalldr, Cleveland;
editor Plain Dealer; a fdr Jewish Orphanage,
Union of Am Heb Congregations, Menorah
Monthly; consul Rumania, Lyon (France);
denounced Rumanian anti-Semitism. • See: JE
(sub Peixotto); UJEj EJ (sub Peixotto); PAJHS,
24:2; DAB.
Peixotto, Daniel Levy Maduro; b.
Amsterdam, July 18 1800; d. NYC, May
141843.
To NY 1807. • MD, MA Columbia.·
Physician, NYC; a fdr Academy ofMedicine,
Soc for Assisting the Widows & Orphans of
Med Men; faculty Willoughby Med ColI
(OH). • See: JE (sub Peixotto); UJE; EJ (sub
Peixotto); PAJHS, 26:219-30.
Pepper, Harry
483
Peixotto, Daniel Levy Maduro; b. NYC,
Mar 17 1854; d. Guantanamo, Cuba, Oct
241898.
Soldier, military governor, provost marshal,
Guantanamo, Cuba. • See: JE (sub Peixotto).
Peixotto, Moses Levy Maduro; b. NYC,
1830;d.NYC, 1890.
Pharmacist, NYC; trustee ColI of Pharmacy of
the City of NY; Civil War service. • See:JE
(sub Peixotto).
Peixotto, Edgar D; b. NYC, 1867; d. 1925.
Lawyer, San Francisco. • See: JE (sub
Peixotto).
Peixotto, Raphael;b. NYC, 1837; d. San
Francisco, May 22 1905.
Merchant, communal worker, San Francisco. •
See:JE (sub Peixotto);AJYB, 7(19051906):218.
Peixotto, Ernest Clifford; b. San Francisco/
NY, Oct 15 1869; d. NYC, Dec 61940.
Julien Academie.· Painter, muralist,
illustrator, author, NYC; mem Municipal Art
Commn; faculty Beaux Arts; WWI official
artist, expeditionary forces. • See: JE (sub
~eixotto); UJE;AJYB, 24:189; WWIAJ,1938;
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Dec 7 1940, 17:3.
Peixotto, Eustace M; b. San Francisco, July
291887.
U CA. • Army officer, brigadier general,
Washington DC; in adjutant general office;
earlier athletic dir San Francisco Public
Schools Athletic League; WWI service,
decorated.· See: WWWIA, 8.
Peixotto, George Da Maduro; b. Cleveland,
1859; d. White Plains, Oct 12 1937.
Dresden Art Academy, Paris. • Artist,
portraitist, muralist, NYC; US vice-consul
Lyon (France). • See: JE (sub Peixotto); UJE;
EJ (sub Peixotto);AJYB, 6(1904-1905):163,
24:189,40:390; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Oct
131937,23:2.
Peixotto, Irma (R) Maduro; b. NYC, July
101881.
Writer, illustrator; with Good Housekeeping. •
See: JE (sub Peixotto); AJYB, 6(19041905):163,24:189.
Peixotto, Jessica Blanche; b. NYC, Oct 9
1864; d. Berkeley, Oct 19 1941.
PhB, PhD U CA, Sorbonne; honorary degrees.
• Social economist, sociologist, author,
Berkeley; specialty: cost of living; mem CA Bd
of Charities & Corrections, Council of Nat!
Defense, Nat! Recovery Adm; a fdr Heller
Com for Research in Social Economics; faculty
U CA; officer professional socs. • See: JE (sub
Peixotto); UJE; AJYB, 24:189,44:342;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, I;NAW;
NYTimes, Oct211941, 23:5.
Peixotto, Judith Salzedo (Mrs David Hays);
b.*; d. NYC, 1881.
School tchr, principal, NYc. • See: PAJHS,
26:249-50.
Peixotto, (M) Percy; b. Cleveland, Oct 4
1862; d. Paris,July 1938.
Business school (Lyon, France). • Insurance
exec, Paris; with Equitable Life; ldr Am colony
in Paris. • See: JE (sub Peixotto); NYTimes,
July 6 1938,23:2.
Peixotto, Moses Levy Maduro; b. C\1ra~ao/
Amsterdam, 1767; d. NYC, 1828.
To US 1807.· Merchant, Mason, NYC; rabbi
Shearith Israel. • See:JE (sub Peixotto); UJE;
EJ (sub Peixotto).
Peixotto, Sidney Salzado; b. NYC, May 9/
28 1866; d. Aug 9 1925.
Social worker, travel tour, communal & civic
ldr, San Francisco; mem Playground Commn;
a fdr Columbia Park Boys Club, Public Schools
Athletic League. • See:JE (sub Peixotto);
AJYB, 24:189; WWWlA, 1; NAW(sub
Peixotto, Jessica).
Peixotto, Victoria Maud (Mrs Maud
Brunner) (stage name=Victoria Addison);
b. Lyon, France.
Actress, toured US; retired to Louisville. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):164, 24:189.
Peizer, George MQrris; b. Pinsk, Oct 11
1897.
LLB Syracuse U. • Social work exec; with
YMHA (Hartford), Jewish Center
(Milwaukee), Jewish Peoples Inst (Chicago); bd
Nat! Conf ofJewish Center Execs. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Peizer, Israel; b. ca 1856; d. Boston, Sep 30
1914.
Scholar, writer, Boston. • See: AJYB, 17(19151916):221.
Pekarsky, Hennan Meyer; b. Jedwabno,
Poland,Jan 201907; d. Maplewood, NJ,
Sep 161963.
To US 1921. • Social work exec, publisher,
author, Newark; editor Jewish News; exec dir
Jewish Community Council; active Jewish
Telegraphic Agency. • See: AJYB, 65:436;
NYTimes, Sep 18 1963,39:3.
Pekarsky, Louis; b; Rochester, NY, Sep 22
1902.
Reporter, editor, Los Angeles; with Rochester
Herald, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate; editorB'nai B'rith
Messenger. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Pekarsky, Maurice B; b. Jedwabno, Poland,
July 101905; d. Chicago, July 111962.
To US 1921. • U MI, MAJewish Inst of
Religion; honorary degree. • Rabbi,
educational consult, Chicago; Hillel dir (U
Chicago, Heb U). • See:AJYB, 65:436;JTADNB, July 12 1962; NYTimes, July 12 1962,
29:3.
Pekelis, Alexander Haim; b. Odessa, 1902;
d. Dec 28 1946.
To US 1940/1941. • U Leipzig, U Vienna,
PhD U Florence. • Legal sociologist, jurist,
Labor Zionist Idr,NYC; faculty U Rome, New
School, Columbia; editor Columbia Law Review;
advisor World Jewish Cong, Am Jewish Congo
• See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 49:616.
Pekeris, Chaim Leib; b. Alytus, Lithuania,
1908.
To US as teenager, to Israel 1948. •
Mathematician; with MIT, Columbia, Inst of
Advanced Study (Princeton); established math
dept at Weizmann Inst. • See: EJ.
Pelchovitz, Ephraim; b. Lomza, 1885.
To US 1914.· Rabbi, Canton, OH; officer
Mizrachi, Union of Orthodox Rabbis of US &
Canada. • See: WWIAJ, 1926.
Pels, Alfred; b.*; d. Cincinnati, Nov 22
1912.
Civil War veteran, Cincinnati. • See: AJYB,
15(1913-1914):273.
Pels, Isaac Rosenbaum; b.Baltimore, Oct 8
1881; d. Baltimore, Feb 4 1947.
AB, MD Johns Hopkins, post-grad Berlin,
Vienna, Paris. • Dermatologist, Baltimore;
faculty Johns Hopkins; military service. • See:
AJYB, 49:616; WWIAJ, 1938.
Peltin, Lawrence J; b. NYC, Mar 18 1896;
d. Bronx, Feb 1969.
Lawyer, civil court judge, NYC; dir Heb
Home for Aged; active Democratic politics;
military service. • See: NYTimes, Feb 24 1969,
37:2.
Pember, Phoebe Yates Levy; b. Charleston,
SC, Aug 18 1823; d. Pittsburgh, Mar 4/
19 1913.
Confederate hospital admr, Savannah,
Marietta, GA; matron ChimbQrazo army
hospital; remininscences. • See: NAW.
Penn, Ascher (Asher); b. Gaisin, Ukraine,
Dec 18 1908; d. NYC, Dec 241979.
To Cuba 1924, to US 1935.· UHavana,
Drexel. • Editor, author; fdr Havaner Lebn;
Staff The Day-Jewish Journal, Forward; active
Jewish Labor Com, Farband Labor Zionist
Org; military service.· See:AJYB, 81:372-73;
NYTimes, Dec 26 1979.
Pensak, Julius; b. Gorlitz, Poland, Sep 9
1879.
To US 1883.· DDS NYU.• Dentist, oral
surgeon, Brooklyn; fdr King County Dental
Soc. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Penzias, Arno Allan; b. Munich, 1933.
To US 1939. • PhD Columbia. • Physicist,
Nobel laureate; specialty: radiation in space;
with Bell Labs; mem Nat! Academy of
Sciences. • See: EJ:1973-1982.
Pepinsky, Abe; b. Cincinnati, Dec 1/4 1888.
Cincinnati ColI of Music, Royal Academy
(Berlin), AB, MA U MN. • Violist,
Minneapolis; faculty U MN; mem Bluthner
Orchestra (Berlin), St Paul Symphony
Orchestra; military service. • See: WWIAJ,
1926,1928,1938.
Pepper, Harry; b. Austria, July 27 1888.
To US 1896. • Realtor, bldr, Daytona Beach,
FL; pres Heb Charity Soc, Heb Assn; dir
Chamber of Commerce; active racing &
boxing commns, B'nai B'rith. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
484
Pepper,LL
Pepper, L L; b. ca 1834; d. Hallettsville,
TX, Oct 1920.
Civil War veteran, Hallettsville, TX. • See:
A]YB, 23:133.
scholar, Wolcott, NY; faculty Syracuse U;
lecturer Newman Bible Inst Gerusalem, Syria);
author in field; convert to Christianity. • See:
UJE; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3.
Pepperberg, LeonJ; b. Plattsmouth, NE,
Jan 201883.
AB, AM U NE. • Geologist, engineer, consult,
Dallas; specialty: discovery ofnatural gas & oil
pools; mem NE & US Geological Survey;
officer professional orgs. • See: BEOA].
Perl, Ben Zion; b. ca 1888; d. NYC, June
241930.
Rabbi, NYC. • See:A]YB, 32:154.
Perahia, Henry J; b. Salonica, Sep 15 1892;
d. Bronx, July 81971.
To US 1910.· Business exec, Sephardic ldr,
philanthropist, Bronx; a fdr, pres Sephardic
Jewish Brotherhood of Am, Central Sephardic
Jewish Community of Am; natl council Joint
Distribution Com. • See:A]YB, 73:634.
Pereira, Benjamin; b. *
Tallow merchant, NYC (1715); hazzan, shohet
Shearith Israel (1748-1757); moved to Jamaica.
• See: BDEA].
Pereles, James Madison; b. ca 1852; d.
Milwaukee, Dec 301910.
Judge, Milwaukee; regent U WI. • See: A]YB,
13(1911-1912):137.
Perelman, Sidney Joseph (S J); b. Brooklyn,
1904;d. Oct 171979.
To London 1970. • Humorist, screenwriter,
NYC, London; contributor New Yorker;
scriptwriter for Marx brothers. • See: E];
WWWIA, 7;NITimes, Oct 181979.
Peres, Hardwig; b. Philadelphia, Jan 6
1859.
Honorary degree. • Broker, Memphis; officer
Bd of Education, synagog. • See: WWIA],
1926,1928,1938.
Peres, Israel Hyman (Heyman); b.
Memphis, Aug 271867; d. Aug 11925.
BA, MA, LLB Yale. • Lawyer, school bd mem,
Memphis; officer Natl Assn of School Bds,
YMHA, Natl Education Assn. • See: A]YB,
7(1905-1906):93,28:151; WWWIA, 4.
Peretz, Haym; b.Jerusalem, Dec 15 1894;
d. Dec 1956.
To US ca 1916. • AB Johns Hopkins, postgrad Johns Hopkins, NY School for Social
Work. • Social work exec; withJewish Fedn
(Youngstown), Jewish Agricultural Experiment
Station Gerusalem), YM-YWHA (NYC,
Pleasantville, NY, Trenton), Jewish Education
Soc (Baltimore, Indianapolis), -Fedn ofJewish
Charities (Brooklyn). • See: WWIA], 1938;
NITimes, Dec 61956,37:1.
Perilman, Nathan Alexander; b. Marietta,
OH, June 2 1905.
AB U Pittsburgh, ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, Temple Emanu-EI, NYC; officer
Synagogue Council of Am. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Peritz, Ismar John; b. Breslau, Jan 8 1863;
d. July 16 1950.
To NY 1883.· Drew Theological Seminary,
MA, PhD Harvard; honorary degrees. • Bible
Perla, David; b. NYC, July 13 1900; d.
NYC,June 141940.
BS, MD Columbia, post-grad Berlin, Freiberg.
• Pathologist, NYC; mem Internatl Cong of
Physiology; author in field. • See: A]YB,
42:482; WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA];
NITimes, June 15 1940, 15:3.
Perlea, lonel Oonel); b. Orgada, Rumania,
Dec 13 1900; d. NYC, July 1970.
To US after WWII. • Musician, conductor,
NYC; fdr Bucharest Radio Orchestra; faculty
Manhattan School ofMusic; concentration
camp survivor; military service. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NITimes, July 31 1970, 30:6.
Perlman, Alfred Edward; b. St Paul, 1902;
d. San Francisco, 1983.
Railroad exec; advisor to Korean & Israeli
railroads. • See: E]; Jewish Post & Opinion, May
4 1983; NITimes story, Sep 23 1969.
Perlman, David; b. NYC, Nov 12 1909; d.
Apr 21972.
BS CCNY, MA, PhD Columbia. • Chemist,
patent holder, Mt Vernon, NY; faculty CCNY;
author in field.· See: WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Apr 6 1972,46:1.
Perlman, David; b. Madison, Feb 6 1920; d.
Jan 291980.
PhD U WI. • Biochemist, Madison; with
Squibb; faculty, dean U WI. • See: WWWIA,
7.
Perlman, Florence S (Perlman, Florence
Bierman); b. NYC, July 28 1896; d. NYC,
Sep 241975.
Civic & communalldr, NYC; natl officer
Hadassah, NatlJewish Womens Orgs; active
NY State Training School for Girls, Commn
for Human Rights, Prison Commn. • See:
A]YB, 77:597;NITimes, Sep251975,46:3.
Perlman, Frank; b. ca 1887; d. Memphis,
Mar 201936.
Communal & civic worker, Memphis. • See:
A]YB, 38:432.
Perlman, Helen Harris;b. St Paul, 1905.
Social worker; faculty U Chicago; with family
& child guidance agencies (Chicago, NYC);
author in field. • See: E].
Perlman, Jacob; b. Bialystok, May 101898;
d. Israel, Apr 1968.
To US 1912.· BA, MA, PhD UWI. •
Economist, statistician; faculty U ND, U WI,
Northwestern; head Office of Economics &
Manpower Studies (Natl Science Found); with
Bureau of Labor Statistics, NY State Dept of
Labor, Social Security Adm; technical expert
UN.· See: UJE; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Apr 10 1968,43:4.
Perlman, Jess; b. NYC, Dec 241891.
AB CCNY, LLB Fordham. • Communal social
work exec; with Camp Madison Grove School
(Madison, CT); earlier with Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies (Montreal), Jewish Bd of
Guardians (NYC).· See: WWIA], 1938.
Perlman, Louis Henry; b. ca 1862; d.
Flushing, NY, Oct 101932.
Inventor, mfr, Flushing, NY. • See: A]YB,
35:128.
Perlman, Max; b. Pittsburgh, Aug 15 1885.
Banker, real estate exec, Pittsburgh. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Perlman, Max; b. Eishishok, Vilna, July 27
1884; d. Bronx, Mar 1956.
LLB NYU.• Lawyer, Astoria, NY; bdJewish
Home for Convalescents; active Republican
politics, synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NITimes, Mar 6 1956, 31 :4.
Perlman, Nathan David; b. Poland, Aug 2
1887; d. NYC,June 291952.
To US as child. • CCNY, LLB NYU. •
Congessman, lawyer, legislator, court of special
sessions judge, NYC; interested in child labor,
immigration; officer B'rith Abraham, Heb Natl
Orphan Home, Am Jewish Cong, Mayors Com
on Unity. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:189, 54:540;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, June 301952,19:1.
Perlman, Philip Benjamin; b. Baltimore,
Mar 5 1890; d. Washington DC,July 31
1960.
Baltimore City ColI, Johns Hopkins, LLB,
LLD U MD, Morgan State.· US Solicitor
General, MD Secy of State, lawyer, newspaper
editor, Baltimore; chr Pres Commn on
Immigration & Naturalization; with Baltimore
Evening Sun; active Democratic politics,
AssocdJewish Charities. • See: A]YB, 24:189,
63:561; WWIA], 1926,1928; WWWIA, 4;
DAB, 6; NITimes, Aug 1 1960,23:2.
Perlman, Ray; b. ca 1884; d. NYC, Oct 15
1919.
Social service worker, NYc. • See: A]YB,
22:167.
Perlman, Samuel; b. NYC, Oct 18 1905; d.
1975.
BS CCNY, MHL, ordained Jewish Inst of
Religion, post-grad Columbia. • Rabbi,
Bayonne, Quincy, MA; chaplain Saranac Lake
Relief Soc; dir Heb Home for Orphans & Aged
of Hudson County. • See: WWIA], 1938;
CCARYB.
Perlman, Selig; b. Bialystok, Dec 9 1888; d.
Philadelphia, Aug 14 1959.
To US 1908. • U Naples, AB, PhD U WI. •
Noted labor economist, public servant,
Madison; faculty U WI; active human rights &
communal orgs; author in field. • See: UJE;
E];A]YB, 62:451; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; DAB, 6; NYTimes, Aug
15 1959, 17:1.
Perlmann, Gertrude Erika; b. Reichenberg,
Czechoslovakia, Aug 201912; d. Sep 9
1974.
485
To US 1939. • Biochemist, NYC; research asst
Harvard, Rockefeller.· See: "WWWIA, 6;
NYTimes, Sep 10 1974,44:2.
Perlmann, Moshe; b. Odessa, 1905.
To US 1940. • Semitic scholar, translator;
faculty New School, Dropsie, Harvard, UCLA.
• See:E].
Perlmutter, Irving K; b. Newark, 1915; d.
Feb 91972.
Jefferson Med CoIl. • Physician, gynecologist,
NYC, Newark; WWII service. • See:
"WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Feb 11 1972, 40:3.
Perlmutter, Milton; b. Newark, June 20
1927/1928; d. Short Hills, N], Mar 15
1978.
Wharton. • Supermarket exec; officer Jewish
Community Fedn (Essex County, NJ); bd St
Josephs CoIl (Philadephia), Natl Conf of
Christians and Jews; active Israel Bonds;
WWII service.· See:AJYB, 80:371; "WWWIA,
7; NYTimes, Mar 161978, IV 15:3.
Perlmutter, SholomJoseph; b.
Podwolotchisk, Galicia, Mar 191884; d.
Brooklyn, Oct 191954.
Yiddish playwright, journalist, NYC; orgr Heb
Actors Union; historian of]ewish theatre. •
See:A]YB, 57:607-08;NYTimes, Oct20 1954,
29:1.
Perlmutter, Victor; b. Russia, 1907; d.
Miami Beach, Mar 11 1975.
To US 1920. • Communalldr, Washington
DC; exec com Jewish Community Council
Israel Bond Org; bd Heb Academy, Zionist
district. • See:A]YB, 77:597.
Perlov, Yitzhok; b. Biala, Poland, Feb 1
1911; d. NYC, Nov 171980.
To US 1961. • Editor, Yiddish & Heb author,
drama critic, lyricist, NYC; with Forward. •
See:A]YB, 82:371-72.
Perls, IIugo;b. Berlin, ca 1886;d.NYC,
Aug 1977.
Art patron & dealer, Germany, NYC; lawyer,
judge, Germany; author on Plato;
autobiography. • See: NYTimes, Aug 16 1977,
38:3.
Perlstein, Izer; b. ca 1853; d. Rockland,
ME,June 15 1912.
Rabbi, Rockland, ME. • See: A]YB, 14(19121913):128.
Perlstein, Meyer Aaron; b. Chicago, Apr 6
1902; d. Oct 291969.
BS, MD U Chicago. • Pediatrician, Chicago,
SanJose; faculty Northwestern, Cook County
Hospital; fdr Am Academy for Cerebral Palsy;
active med socs; author in field. • See: E];
"WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Oct 311969, 45:1.
Perlzweig, Maurice Louis; b. London,
1895; d. 1985.
To US 1941.· ULondon, Cambridge U.·
Rabbi, liberalldr, Zionist; a ldr World Union
of Progressive Judaism; officer Zionist World
Exec; tchr Eton CoIl; active World Jewish
Cong; co-editor Zionist Review. • See: UJE; E];
E]:1986-1987 (necrology).
Petegorsky, David W
Perlzweig, William Alexander; b. Ostrog,
Russia, Apr 23 1891; d. Durham, NC,
Dec 10 1949.
To US 1906. • BS, MA, PhD Columbia, postgrad abroad. • Research biochemist, Durham,
NC; faculty J ohn Hopkins, Duke; author in
field; WWIservice.· See: UJE;A]YB, 24:189,
52:503; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
"WWWIA,2;NYTimes, Dec 121949,33:4.
Perper, George W; b. Poland, Dec 18 1896.
BCS NYU, CPA NY State, LLB NY Law. •
CPA, lawyer, NYC; officer Home of Sons &
Daughters of Israel; active Jewish Fedn; author
in field. • See: BEOA].
Perper, Leo; b. Odessa, Sep 18 1894; d.
Dec 1977.
To US 1908. • NYU. • Merchant, NYC; with
Macys, Roger Kent, Inc. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Dec 23 1977, II 2:9.
Perskie, Jacob II; b. Minsk, July 1866; d.
Baltimore, July 28 1941.
To US 1878. • Portrait painter, photographer,
Atlantic City; a fdr Old Age & Sheltering
Home; officer B'nai B'rith; took famous
photograph ofFDR.· See:A]YB, 44:342;
WWIA],1938;NYTimes,July291941,15:5.
Perskie,JosephBruce;b.Alliance,NY,July
101886; d. May 291957.
LLB U PA. • Lawyer, state supreme court
judge, Atlantic City; officer Fedn ofJewish
Charities, Joint Distribution Com, B'nai B'rith.
• See: UJE; WWIA], 1926,1938; BEOA];
"WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, May 30 1957, 19:2.
Persky, Daniel; b. Minsk, Aug 18 1890/
1892/1893; d. NYC, Mar 15 1962.
To NYC 1903/1906/1907. • Heb writer,
journalist, Hebraist; pioneer reviver ofHeb;
editor childrens magazines; an orgr Histadruth
Ivrith of Am. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 64:495;
WWIA], 1928, 1938; Congress Bi-Weekly, Apr
161962;]TA-DNB,Apr31962;Newsofthe
Yiddish Inst, 82;NYTimes, Mar 161962, 31:3.
Persky, Elias; b. Minsk, Dec 18 1894; d.
Brooklyn, Feb 111969.
Educator, author, accountant, Brooklyn; tchr
Machzike Talmud Torah. • See:A]YB, 71:607.
Persky, Nathan; b. Wolozin, Poland, 1891.
CE Brooklyn Polytech. • Communal educator,
merchant, Broooklyn then Savannah; officer
Soc for Spreading ofHeb Literature. • See:
WWIA], 1926.
Persky, Robert A; b. Louisville.
LLBJefferson School of Law. • Lawyer,
legislator, Louisville; active Republican
politics. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Persky, Samuel Alexander; b. Russia, Sep
12 1887.
To New Haven 1890. • LLB U MI. • Lawyer,
journalist, New Haven; mem CT Bar
Examining Com; officer bar assn; dirChamber
of Commerce. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Peshkin, Morris Murray; b. NYC, May 23
1892; d. Aug 17 1980.
MD Fordham.•. Physician, allergist, NYC;
faculty Columbia, Albert Einstein CoIl ofMed,
Mt Sinai, CUNY; officer Am Jewish Cong.·
See: "WWWIA, 7.
Pesin, Samuel; b. Aug 4 1898; d. Jersey
City, May 1949.
LLB NYU.• Lawyer, legislator, Jersey City;
faculty John Marshall; pres YMHA, Talmud
Torah Assn; officerJewish Community Center;
WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
May 6 1949,25:2.
Peskin, Nathan; b. NYC, Oct 7 1916; d.
Long Beach, NY, June 23 1982.
Communal worker; with Workmen's Circle;
active Jewish Labor Com, aRT, Labor aRT.
• See:A]YB, 84:338.
Peskin, Samuel; b. ca 1874; d. NYC, May
221939.
Physician, NYC; columnist Forward. • See:
A]YB, 41:429;NYTimes, May61939, 25:2.
Peskind, IIennan; b. ca 1833; d. Cleveland,
Sep 81920.
Communal worker, Cleveland. • See: A]YB,
23:133.
Pesotta, Rose; b. Derazhnya, Ukraine, Nov
201896; d. Miami, Dec 71965.
To NYC 1913.· Bryn Mawr, Brookwood
Labor CoIl. • Labor orgr & ldr, anarchist; only
female mem on General Exec Bd, ILGWU;
autobiographies. • See: NAW:modern;
NYTimes, Dec 8 1965,43:3.
Pessels, Constance; b. NYC, Sep 91864.
BL, MA U TX, PhD Johns Hopkins. • English
tchr, San Antonio; faculty U TX; author in
field, Jewish subjects. • See: A]YB, 6(19041905):164.
Pessim, Solomon; b. ca 1876; d. Springfield,
MA,June 7 1919.
Rabbi, Springfield, MA. • See:A]YB, 22:167.
Pessin, Louis Jerome; b. Kremenchug, May
191893.
To US 1907. • BS U GA, PhD Johns Hopkins.
• Botanist, forester, New Orleans; faculty .MS
State, TX A & M; with US Forest Service;
officer professional orgs; WWI service. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Petchers, Solomon N; b.Jerusalem, May 23
1900; d. NYC, Jan 271966.
To US 1921. • Real estate exec, philanthropist,
NYC; a fdr Albert Einstein CoIl of Med,
Central Library for the Blind erusalem);
officer Am Jewish Cong; bd Fedn of]ewish
Philanthropies, Am Assn for Jewish Education.
• See:A]YB, 68:531;NYTimes,Jan291966,
27:1.
a
Petegorsky, David W; b. Ottawa, May 31
1915; d. NYC, July 15 1956.
To US 1945.· Lisgar CoIl (Ottawa), PhD,
ordained Yeshiva ColI, London School of
Economics. • Political scientist, natl communal
official; natl exec dir Am Jewish Cong; a fdr
Judaism; active World Jewish Cong; author in
field; dir Canadian Wartime Information Bd. •
See:A]YB, 59:476; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, July
161956,21:5.
Petersberger, Richard Emanuel
Petersberger, Richard Emanuel; b.
Davenport, Aug 241901.
BS IA State. • Advertising & insurance agent,
Davenport. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Petluck, Alice S (Mrs Joseph Petluck); b.
Bar, Russia, July 23 1873; d. NYC, Dec 4
1953.
Pioneer female lawyer, civic ldr, NYC; fdr,
officer Bronx Wornens Bar Assn; active
Womens Am ORT, Mizrachi. • See: A]YB,
56:571; NYTimes, Dec 111953,31:2.
Petschek, Walter J; b. NYC, Nov 17 1899;
d. Aug 301979.
Columbia, LLB Fordham.· Lawyer, NYc..
See: WWWIA., 7.
Pett, Chaim; b. Wolpe, Russia, May 1902;
d.NYC,June 111959.
Yiddish author, journalist, editor, NYC. • See:
A]YB,61:419.
Petuchowski, Jakob Josef; b. Berlin, 1925.
To England before WWII, to US 1948.·
Ordained Heb Union ColI. • Rabbinic scholar,
theologian, influential Reform rabbi,
Cincinnati; faculty Heb Union ColI; author in
field. • See: EJ.
Pewsner, Bella; b. ca 1878; d. NYC,
reported Aug 21 1941.
Zionist, NYC; active Jewish Nat! Fund,
Hadassah. • See: A]YB, 44:342.
Peyser,Jefferson Edwin; b. Oakland, CA,
Nov 141899.
AB, JD U CA • Lawyer, legislator, San
Francisco; active Jewish Nat! Fund.· See:
WWIA],1938.
Peyser, Julius I; b. Washington DC, July 6
1875; d. June 7 1953.
LLB, LLM, DCL Georgetown U School of
Jurisprudence & Diplomacy. • Lawyer, banker,
author, Washington DC; mem Bd of
Education, Provisional Com for Zionist
Affairs; faculty George Washington; officer
Am Legion, Joint Distribution Com; WWI
service. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; WWWIA, 3.
Peyser, Mark W; b. Washington DC, July 8
1870; d. before 1938.
MD U VA. • Physician, Richmond; faculty
Med ColI ofVA; officer med assns; textbook
author.· See: WWIA], 1928.
Peyser, Nathan; b. NYC, 'Feb 4 1888; d.
NYC, Feb 1936.
BS CCNY, MA, PhD NYU. • Educator, crime
expert, university lecturer, Brooklyn, NYC;
mem State Commn on Crime & Delinquency;
tchr, principal public schools; dir Educational
Alliance. • See: A]YB, 38:432; WWIA], 1928;
NYTimes, Feb 10 1936, 17:1.
Peyser, Theodore A: b. Charleston, WVA;
Feb 18 1873; d. NYC, Aug 8 1937.
Congressman, communal worker, traveling
salesman, insurance agent, Cincinnati, NYC;
active Democratic politics, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies; WWI with War Risk Bureau. •
486
See: UJE; A]YB, 40:390; WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 91937, 19:1.
Peyser, Theodore Dux; b. Washington DC,
Nov261894.
LLB U VA, Cambridge U. • Lawyer, .
Washington DC; lecturer Nat! U; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pforzheimer, Carl Howard; b. NYC, Jan 29
1879; d. Apr 4 1957.
Investment banker, broker, rare book collector,
communal & civic worker, NYC; pres Carl
Lily PforzheimerFound; officer Nat!
Municipal League; benefactor NY Public
Library.· See: UJE;A]YB, 24:189; WWIA],
1928,1938; WWWIA, 3.
Pfaelzer, David M; b. ca 1852; d. Chicago,
Nov 1915'.
Mem, Bd of Assessors, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
18(1916-1917):109.
Philadelphia, Jacob; b. Philadelphia, Aug 14
1720/1735; d. after 1783.
18th century physicist, mechanic, kabbalist. •
See: UJE; E]; PA]HS, 16:73-94.
Pfaelzer, Elsie Levy (Mrs Frank A
Pfaelzer); b. Baltimore, Mar 1 1889.
Goucher. • Communal & civic worker,
Philadelphia; officer Juvenile Aid Soc, Mothers
Assistance Fund; dir Jewish Welfare Soc,
Childrens County Work Assn. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Philip, Maximilian; b. Hungary, 1878; d.
NYC, Jan 1949.
BS CCNY, MA, PhD NYU. • Mathematician,
NYC; faculty CCNY. • See:A]YB, 24:189;
NYTimes, Jan 181949,23:4.
Pfaelzer, Morris; b. ca 1848; d.
Philadelphia, Mar 201913.
Merchant, communal worker, Philadelphia. •
See: A]YB, 15(1913-1914):273.
Pfaelzer, Morris; b. Philadelphia, Apr 12
1913; d. Nov 161980.
Harvard, U PA. • Lawyer, Los Angeles; pres
Bar Found; lecturer U Southern CA; WWII
service. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Pfeferstein, Jacob; b. Austria, Nov 61901;
d. Elizabeth, Oct 1959.
U IL,LLB NJ Law. • Lawyer, Elizabeth; pres
Jewish Council; dir Gomel-Chesed Cemetery
Assn; active Am Jewish Cong, Democratic
club, synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEGA];
NYTimes, Oct 8 1959, 39:2.
Pfeffer, Alter Saul;b. ca 1874; d. NYC, Apr
101936.
Rabbi, scholar, NYC; head Union of Orthodox
Congregations.· See:A]YB, 38:433.
Pfeffer, Jacob; b. ca 1839; d. NYC, Aug 1
1922.
Yiddish journalist, NYc. • See:A]YB, 25:140.
Pfeffer, Jacob; b. Galicia, Mar 23 1874.
To US 1902. • Litterateur, maskil, Yiddish
journalist; with]ewish Daily News. • See:
Eisenstadt, 73.
Pfeffer, Leo; b. Hungary, 1910.
To US 1912. • NYU. • Constitutional lawyer;
with Am Jewish Cong; special counsel US
Cong; faculty LI U; co-fdr Lawyers
Constitutional Defense Com; author in field. •
See:E].
Pfeiffer, Alexander; b. NYC, May 17 1882.
CCNY, NYU. ··Lawyer, NYC; specialty: real
estate law; officer United Home for Aged
Hebrews (New Rochelle), United Krakauer
Charity & Aid Soc. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Pflaum, Abraham J; b. Chicago, Apr 18
1874.
LLB Lake Forest. • Lawyer, communal worker,
Chicago; officer United Heb Charities,Jewish
Aid Soc, Bureau ofPersonal Service. • See:
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):93; WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Philipp, Isidore (Edmond); b. Pest, Sep 2
1863; d. Paris, Feb 1958.
In US 1942. • Paris Conservatory. • Pianist,
composer, tchr; patron, performer of modern
French chamber music; faculty Paris
Conservatory. • See: ]E; UJE; NYTimes, Feb
21 1958, 24:2.
Philipp, Leopold; b. Hannover, Sep 15
1885; d. NYC, Nov 7 1965.
Heb Technical Inst. • Consulting engineer,
NYC; consult Catskill Aqueduct, State Dept of
Correction; orgr Mayors Com of Fraternal
Orgs; active civic affairs, Red Cross, Nat!
Recovery Adm; Nat! Guard service. • See:
A]YB, 67:540; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
NYTimes, Nov 8 1965,35:3.
Philips, Henry F; b. Brush Creek, TN.
Physician, major, Washington DC. • See:
A]YB,24:189.
Philipson, Albert; b. Ossining, NY, Feb 23
1910.
AB, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, Ossining, NY;
with Nat! Recovery Adm compliance bd, Farm
Credit Adm; active Democratic club, synagog.
• See: WWIA], 1938.
Phiiipson, David; b. Wabash, IN, Aug 9
1862; d.Boston,June 291949.
AB U Cincinnati, DD, BHL Heb Union ColI,
Jewish Inst of Religion, Johns Hopkins;
honorary degrees. • Rabbi, Reform Jewish ldr,
author, Cincinnati; faculty Heb Union ColI;
fdr Central Conf of Am Rabbis; editorial bd
English translation ofHeb Bible Gewish
Publication Soc); active Anti-Zionist, opponent
World Jewish Congo • See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB,
5(1903-1904):86,24:189,51:523; WWIA],
1926,1928,1938; BEGA]; PA]HS, 39:461-68;
WWWIA, 2; DAB, 4; NYTimes, June 30 1949,
23:1.
Philipson, Jacob; b.*; d. 1858.
In St Louis 1808. • Dry goods merchant,
English, German & French tchr, Philadelphia,
St Louis. • See: UJE (sub Philipson).
Philipson, Joseph; b.*; d. 1840.
In St Louis 1810. • Brewer, banker, piano tchr,
St Louis. • See: UJE (sub Philipson).
Philipson, Simon; b.*; d. 1841.
487
To St Louis'1822. • Communal & culturalldr,
St Louis; an observant]ew. - See: UJE.
Phillips, AaronJ; b. Philadelphia,]uly 3
1778/1779/1792;d.~C, 1846/1847.
Actor, theatre mgr, playwright; with Arch St
Theatre (Philadelphia); appeared with]ohn
Wilkes Booth. • See:JE (sub Phillips); UJEj
BDEAJ.
Phillips, Abraham; b. ~C, Mar 24 1788; d.
Apr 15 1813.
Naval service, War of 1812. • Se"e: PAJHS,
32:125-27.
Phillips, Adaline; b. ca 1834; d.
Philadelphia, Apr 5 1918.
Communal worker, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB,
21:206.
Phillips, Barnet (Barnett); b. Philadelphia,
Nov 7/91827/1828; d. Brooklyn, Apr 8
1905.
U PA, U Paris, U Giessen. • Chemist, mfr,
journalist, author, Brooklyn; did toxicology
studies with Dr. S Weir Mitchell; supported
Confederacy during Civil War; literary staff
NYTimes. • See: JEj UJEj AJYB, 6(1904:1905):164,7(1905-1906):218; PAJHS, 16:19597; WWWIA, l;NYTimes, Apr91905, 9:5.
Phillips, Bernard; b. Minneapolis, Apr 28
1915; d. Mar 3 1974.
U MN, PhD Yale. • Professor of philosophy &
religion; faculty U DE, New School, Temple
U. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Phillips, Philip
collector, Philadelphia; pres Academy of
Music, Fairmount Park Commn; State Grand
Master, Masons; treasurer Jefferson Med ColI.
• See:JEj UJEjA]YB, 2(1900-1901):521;
PAJHS, 22:139-46; NYTimes, Aug 291984,
5:3.
Phillips, Hyman; b. Russia, Feb 20 1875.
YMCA evening law school. • Communal
worker, Boston; officer Home for Jewish
Children (Dorchester); bdFedn ofJewish
Charities. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Phillips, Irna; b. Chicago, July 11901; d.
Chicago, Dec 22 1973.
Radio & TV writer; "Queen of the Soap
Operas."· See: NAW: modern; NYTimes, Dec
30 1973, 31: 1.
Phillips, Isaac; b. ~C, June 16 1812; d.
~C, 1889.
Lawyer, public official, NYC; appraiser Port of
NY; prominent Mason; active Chamber of
Commerce, Shearith Israel. • See: JE (sub
Phillips); UJE.
Phillips, Isidor; b. ca 1856; d. Brookline,
MA, Mar 181919.
Communal worker, Brookline, MA. • See:
AJYB, 21:206.
Phillips, Isidore; b. ca 1861; d. ~C, July
29 1933.
A fdr, Socialist Party, NYC. • See: AJYB,
36:285.
Public official, acting mayor, NYC; pres Bd of
Councilmen; chief volunteer fire dept; active
Shearith Israel. • See: JE (sub Phillips); UJE.
Phillips, Louis; b. near Neustadt, Poland,
Mar 311893; d. Aug 291959.
To US 1901.· LLB NYU. • Lawyer, NYC;
counsel, exec Paramount Pictures. • See:
WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Aug 301959,82:6.
Phillips, Louis H; b. Minneapolis, Aug 4
1887.
A CColl (Fargo), Spokane Law.· Lawyer,
judge pro tem, ID, Los Angeles; natl
commander United Veterans of the Republic;
officer Citizens & Taxpayers Protective
League; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Phillips, Manuel; b.*; d. VeraCruz, 1826.
U PA. • Physician; War of 1812 service. • See:
JE (sub Phillips); EJ (sub Phillips).
Phillips, Morris; b. London, May 9 1834; d.
~C, Aug 1904.
Lawyer, journalist, traveler; owner NY Home
Journal (later Town & Country). • See: JE; UJE;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):165, 7(1905-1906):216;
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 31 1904, 7:6.
Phillips, Moses S; b. Philadelphia, 1798; d.
~C, 1854.
Actor, theatrical mgr. • See: UJE (sub Phillips,
Aaron]).
Phillips,]acob L; b. ca 1855; d. ~C, May
23 1910.
Author, tchr, NYc.. See:AJYB, 12(19101911):111; NYTimes, May 241910,9:5.
Phillips, Murray; b. ~C, Feb 221889; d.
~C, 1942.
Cornell, Am Academy of Dramatic Arts. •
Editor, producer, casting agent, NYC. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928,1938; NYTimes, May 2 1942,
13:6.
Phillips, Gustave; b.*; d. Boston, Apr 1916.
Mfr, Boston. • See: AJYB 18(1916-1917):J09.
Phillips,J Oay) Campbell; b. ~C, Feb 27
1873; d. Sep 241948.
Metropolitan Museum Art School, Art
Students League. • Portrait painter, author,
NYc. • See:AJYB, 6(1904-1905):164,24:189;
WWIAJ, 1938; BEGAJj WWWIA, 2; NYTimes,
Sep 25 1948, 17:3.
Phillips, Naphtali; b. NYClPhiladelphia,
Oct 191773; d. ~C, Nov 11870.
] ournalist, prominent politician,]ewish
historian; owner NatlAdvocate; mem Tammany
Soc; active Mikveh Israel, Shearith Israel. •
See: JE (sub Phillips); UJE; EJ (sub Phillips);
BDEAJ.
Phillips, Harold Meyer; b." Kalvaria,
Lithuania, Dec 15 1874; d. ~C, Jan
1967.
To US 1887.· BS CCNY, Columbia Law.·
Lawyer, chessmaster, NYC; counsel NY
Taxpayers Assn; dir Yeshiva ColI; pres chess
orgs; active B'nai B'rith, professional orgs. •
See: UJEj WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,]an 81967,
89:2.
Phillips, Jonas; b. BusecklFrankfurt, 1736;
d. Philadelphia,]an 29 1803.
To Charlestown 1756. • Merchant,
Revolutionary patriot, shohet, NYC; signer
Nonimportation Agreement; fdr, pres Mikveh
Israel (Philadelphia); active Mason, for Jewish
civil rights. • See: JE (sub Phillips); UJEj EJ
(sub Phillips); PAJHS, 2:107-10,177-80;
BDEAJ.
Phillips, Henry; b. Philadelphia, Sep 6
1838; d. June 6 1895.
U PA. • Archaeologist, numismatist, author,
translator, Philadelphia; officer Numismatic &
Antiquarian Soc, Am Philosophical Soc. • See:
JE (sub Phillips); UJEj DAB.
Phillips, Jonas Altamount; b. Philadelphia,
1806; d. Philadelphia, 1862.
U PA. • Lawyer, civic & communalldr,
Philadelphia; solicitor Bd of Health; candidate
for mayor; declined US judgeship; active
Mikveh Israel. • See: JE (sub Phillips); UJE.
Phillips, Napthali Taylor (N Taylor); b.
~C, Dec 5 1868; d. ~C, Apr 30 1955.
LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, legislator, public
official, communal & civic activist,]ewish
historian, NYC; seey Sinking Fund Commn;
officer Union of Orthodox]ewish
Congregations of Am, Home for Heb Infants;
WWI service. • See: JE (sub Phillips); UJE;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):165,24:190; WWIAJ,
1926, 1928, 1938; PAJHS, 45:64-66; NYTimes,
May 11955,88:8.
Phillips, Henry B; b. Charleston, 1819.
Actor, noted for role as Isaac of York, Ivanhoe.
• See:UJE (sub Phillips,]onas B).
Phillips, Jonas H; b. Philadelphia, Oct 28
1805; d. NYC, May 1867.
Girard ColI. • Playwright, lawyer, asst county
district atty, NYc. • See: JE (sub Phillips);
UJEj NYTimes, May 16 1867,2:6.
Phillips, Ellen Samuels; b. Philadelphia; d.
Philadelphia, 1891.
Social worker, philanthropist, Philadelphia;
assoc with Rebecca Gratz in Heb Sunday
School; benefactor ]TS, Female Heb
Benevolent Soc, Heb Educational Soc; donated
brothers art collection to Fairmount Park
(Philadelphia). • See: UJE.
Phillips, Henry Myer (Mayer); b.
Philadelphia, June 30 1811; d.
Philadelphia, Aug 28 1884.
Congressman, lawyer, railroad dir, art
Phillips, Jonas N; b. ~C, 1817; d. NYC,
1874.
Phillips, Nathaniel; b. Kalwaria, Poland,
Dec 251884; d. Sep 61976.
To US 1885.· AB CCNY, LLB, LLMNYU.
• Lawyer, civic & communal worker, NYC;
mem Mayors Com on Americanization; fdr
Natl League for Am Citizenship. • See: UJE;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; WWWIA, 7;
NYTimes, Sep 10 1976, IV 16: 1.
Phillips, Philip; b. Charleston, SC, Dec 17
1807; d. Washington DC, Jan 14 1884.
Norwich Military Academy. • Congressman,
488
Phillips, Phillip Lee
lawyer, jurist, public official, Charleston, SC,
Mobile, Washington DC; mem Nullification
Convention; pres AL State Convention; secy
Reformed Soc ofIsraelites. • See: UJE; E];
A]YB, 2(1900-1901):522; NITimes, Jan 15
1884,5:4.
Phillips, Phillip Lee; b. Washington DC.
Cartographer, librarian, Washington DC; with
Library of Congo • See: A]YB, 24: 190;
WWWL4., 1.
Phillips, Rosalie S (Mrs N Taylor Phillips);
b. Washington DC, ca 1867; d. NYC,
Feb 51946.
Political & social activist; officer Democratic
N atl Conventions; charter mem Hadassah;
active Daughters of the Am Revolution. • See:
UJE (sub Phillips, Naphthali Taylor); A]YB,
48:496; WWIA], 1928; NITimes, Feb 7 1946,
23:3.
Phillips, Rose; b. Detroit.
Detroit Tchrs ColI, Detroit City ColI, U
Detroit, Wayne. • Educator, Detroit; with Bd
of Education; faculty Wayne; developed
progressive platoon system; lecturer/author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Phillips, Samuel T; b. Popelani, Kovno,
Nov 10 1897; d. Cleveland, Oct 1949.
To US 1913. • JTS, Columbia, BA U
Cincinnati, Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi, relief
worker, Wichita Falls; with Heb Immigrant
Aid Soc in Japan & Siberia; orgr Jewish Fedn
for Social Service. • See: WWIA], 1926;
NITimes, Oct 18 1949,27:4.
Phillips, Wolfe; b. ca 1846; d.Jan 281916.
Publisher, NYc. • See: A]YB, 18(19161917):109; NITimes, Jan 29 1916,9:6.
Phillips, Zalegman; b. Philadelphia, Jun'e 28
1779; d.Philadelphia, Aug 211839.
Lawyer, Jacksonian Democrat, Philadelphia;
pres Mikveh Israel. • See:]E (sub Phillips); E]
(sub Phillips); BDEA].
Phillipson, Irving Joseph; b. Dowagiac, MI,
1882; d. Apr 41955.
US Military Academy, General Staff School,
Army War ColI. • Major-general; with
Command of Presidio (San Francisco); exec dir
Army Emergency Relief; WWI service. • See:
UJE; WWWL4., 3; NITimes, Apr 61955,29:1.
Phillipson, Samuel; b. Kalvaria, RussiaPoland, June 11865.
Business colI. • Merchant, banker, communal
worker, Zionist, Chicago; officer Jewish
Charities, Jewish Peoples Inst. • See: WWIA],
1926,1928;BEOAJ.
Philo, Isador E; b. Cardiff, July 24 1873; d.
1948.
BA CCNY, PhD U IL, ordained San
Francisco. • Rabbi, Akron, Youngstown, OH.
• See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):86-87; CCARYB.
Philo, Solomon; b. ca 1842; d. Brooklyn,
Aug 1923.
Rabbi, Brooklyn.· See:A]YB, 26:157;
NITimes, Aug 20 192 3, 11 :4.
Philo, Solomon S; b. Breslau, Dec 291850.
Rabbi, Ft Worth; earlier Breslau, Hungary, NJ.
• See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):86.
Philo, Viola Regina; b. NYC, Dec 7 1904.
NY ColI ofMusic. • Concert & operatic
soprano, NYC; appeared Metropolitan Opera,
Radio City Music Hall. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Phinizy, Ferdinand; b. Bowling Green, GA,
Jan 201819; d. Athens, GA, Oct 201889.
Planter, railroad bldr & owner, cotton
merchant; fiscal agent Confederacy; trustee U
GA; convert to Methodism. • See: DAB.
Piastro, Mishel; b. Kertz, Crimea, June 19
1891/1892; d. Apr 10 1970.
US debut 1920. • St Petersburg Conservatory.
• Violin soloist, NYC; concertmaster San
Francisco Symphony, NY Philharmonic
Symphony; toured with Richard Strauss. • See:
UJE; BEOA]; WWWL4., 5; NITimes, Apr 12
1970,88:5.
Piatigorsky, Gregor; b. Ekaterinoslav, Aug
171903;d.Aug61976.
To US 1929. • Imperial Conservatory
(Moscow); honorary degrees. • World
renowned cellist, Los Angeles; faculty Curtis;
convert to Judaism; autobiography. • See: UJE;
E]; WWWL4., 7; NITimes, Aug 7 1976, 1: 1.
Picard, Jacob; b. Wangen, Wiirttemburg,
1883; d. 1967.
To NYC 1940. • Lawyer, German poet &
short story author; used Jewish themes. • See:
E].
Pichel, Irving; b. Pittsburgh, 1891; d. July
311954.
AB Harvard. • Stage & screen actor, writer,
dir, producer, La Canada, CA; active Little
Theatre movement; author in field. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938; WWWL4., 3; NITimes,
July 141954, 27:3.
Picheny, Elias; b. Fostov, Ukraine, Apr 5
1905; d. Berkeley, Aug 23 1981.
Social work admr, author, editor; with Jewish
Welfare Bd, Jacob Schiff Center (Bronx); active
Sane Nuclear Policy. • See: A]YB, 83:360.
Pick, Albert; b. Chicago, 1869; d. Miami
Beach, July 91955.
Notre Dame, LLD U Miami. • Chr, Pick
Hotels.· See: WWWL4., 3; NITimes, July 10
1955, 72:4.
Pick, AlbertJr; b. Chicago, July 2 1895; d.
Dec 111977.
U Chicago; honorary degree.· Hotel exec,
Chicago; officer La Rabida Childrens Hospital;
trustee U Chicago, Ravinia Festival, People to
People; WWI army service. • See: WWWL4.,
7.
Pick, Ernest Peter; b. Jaromer, Bohemia,
1872; d. Jan 1960.
To US 1939. • MD U Prague. •
Pharmacologist, author, NYC; dean, faculty U
Vienna, Columbia. • See: UJE; E]; NITimes,
Jan 161960,21:1.
Pick, George; b. Milwaukee, Feb 14 1869.
Insurance agent, investment banker, Chicago;
dir Jewish Charities. • See: WWIA], 1928,
1938.
Pickens, Miss; b. *
Memoirist, Philadelphia; converted to Judaism
upon marriage (1808), reverted when
separated. • See: BDEAJ.
Pickert, Lehman; b. Fiirth, Bavaria, Dec 11
1843; d. Nov 1917.
To Cincinnati 1858. • Commission agent, fish
jobber, communal worker, East Boston, MA;
officer Fish Bureau, Fedn ofHeb Charities,
Union ofHeb Benevolent Assns; trustee Baron
de Hirsch Com. • See: A]YB, 7(1905-1906):94,
20(1918-1919):230.
Picoff, Ronald Chester; b. Brooklyn, July 7
1935; d. Apr 15 1974.
MD Columbia. • Physician, pathologist;
faculty U VT. • See: WWWL4., 6.
Picon, Molly (Mrs Jacob Kalich); b. NYC,
June 11898.
Actress, NYC; active Yiddish theatre,
operettas; autobiography. • See: UJE; E];
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Piesen, Hugo H; b. Prague, Aug 161975;
d. June 1942.
Businessman, philanthropist, Brooklyn; orgr
Childrens Fresh Air Campaign Assn; officer
Fedn ofJewish Charities; trustee Heb Orphan
Asylum, United Jewish Aid Soc, YMHA,
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1928; BEOA];
NYTimes, June 241942,19:1.
Pike, Lipman E (Lip); b. NYC, 1845; d.
1893.
Baseball pioneer, firstJewish professional
baseball player, Philadelphia. • See: E].
Pike, Morris; b. Poland, July 3 1896.
BS CCNY, NYU, Columbia, StJohns.·
Actuary, NYC; with State Insurance Dept;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Pilchik, Ely E; b. Baranovice, Poland, 1913.
To US 1920. • Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi,
author, Newark; pres Jewish Book Council bf
Am, Assn of Reformed Rabbis of NY; US Navy
chaplain. • See: E].
Pilot, Isadore; b. Chicago, Oct 16 1895.
MD U IL, BS U Chicago. • Physician,
Chicago; faculty U IL; officer professional
orgs; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pilpel, Cecile M (Mrs Emanuel Pilpel); b.
Wissembourg, France, Sep 21877; d.
Hartford, Mar 71956.
Parent educator; with Child Study Assn; author
in field. • See:A]YB; 58:478; WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Mar 10 1956,17:6.
Pilzer, Maximilian; b. NYC, Feb 261890; d.
May 1958.
Violinist, conductor, composer, NYC;
concertmaster NY Philharmonic; musical dir
Rialto Theatre. • See:A]YB, 24:190; WWIA],
1926,1928,1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3;
NYTimes,May311958,17:7.
489
Pinanski, Abraham Edward; b. Boston, July
91887; d. Boston, Oct 5 1949.
Superior court judge, lawyer, communal &
civic ldr, Boston; bd Boston Dispensary; officer
Heb Free Loan, Public Library, AssocdJewish
Philanthropies; active Americanization; WWI
service. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 52:503;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEGAJ; WWWIA,
2;NITimes, Oct61949, 31:5.
Pinanski, Nathan; b. Vilna, June 15 1862; d.
Feb 141936.
Philanthropist, communal worker, Boston;
mem MA State Prison Bd; • a fdr, officer Heb
Free Loan Soc; officer AssocdJewish
Philanthropies, Menorah Inst; dir Heb Tchrs
ColI. • See:AJYB, 38:433; BEGAJ.
Pinanski, Samuel; b. Boston, June 71893;
d. Feb 8 1972.
MS Lowell Textile Inst; honorary degree. •
Theatre exec, charity fundraiser, Boston; pres
Am Theatres Corp, Heb Free Loan Soc;
officer professional orgs; bd Boy Scouts. • See:
WWWIA,5.
Pinanski, Viola Rottenberg (Mrs Abraham
E Pinanski); b. Boston, June 24 1898.
AB, MA Wellesley. • Communal & civic
worker, psychologist, Boston; mem Brookline
School Bd; officer Assocd Jewish
Philanthropies; active sisterhood. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Pinansky, Louis; b. ca 1865; d. Portland,
ME, Oct 211933.
Municipal judge, Portland, ME. • See: AJYB,
36:285.
Pinner, Moritz
Pincus, Gregory Goodwin (Goody); b.
Woodbine, N], Apr 91903; d. Boston,
Aug 221967.
BS Cornell, DSc, MS Harvard, Cambridge,
Kaiser Wilhelm lust. • Biologist; developer
contraceptive pill; faculty Harvard, Clark,
Tufts; co-fdr Worcester Found for
Experimental Biology; fellow Natl Research
Council. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 69:611;
WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA,4;DAB, 8; NYTimes,
Aug 23 1967,45:1.
Pincus, Isaac; b.*; d. Tacoma, Jan 141920.
Indian war veteran, Tacoma. • See: AJYB,
22:167.
Pincus, Joseph W; b. Russia, Aug 3 1876; d.
Boston, Jan 141951.
Agricultural expert, Woodbine, NJ; settled
Jewish immigrants on farms; dir Jewish
Agricultural Soc; editor The Jewish Farmer. •
See:AJYB,,53:526;NYTimes,Jan 151951,
17:5.
Pincus, Samuel; b. ca 1840; d. Alexandria,
LA,July 261912.
Civil War veteran, Alexandria, LA. • See:
AJYB, 15(1913-1914):273.
Pincus, Simon; b. ca 1844; d. Brooklyn, Dec
41934.
Civil War veteran, Brooklyn. • See: AJYB,
37:260.
Pincus, Sol; b. Houston, Dec 71892; d.
NYC, June 1974.
BS, CE Columbia. • Sanitary engineer, deputy
health commr, NYC; with US Public Health
Service; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, June 12 1974,48:3.
Pinansky, Max Louis; b. East Boston, Dec
111887; d. Portland, ME, Apr 111951.
LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, legislator, municipal
judge, Zionist, Portland, ME; mem School Bd;
fdr Juvenile Aid Soc, Inter-Racial Fellowship of
Am; officer Zionist Org of Am; author on
crime, ethics, & politics. • See: UJE; AJYB,
53:526; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;,BEGAJ;
NITimes, Apr 12 1951,33:2.
Pine, Kurt; b. Pleschen, Germany, Mar 25
1906; d. Brooklyn, May 201962.
To US 1940. • U Berlin. • Social work exec,
author; dir Assocd Ys of Greater NY; active
United Jewish Appeal, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: AJYB, 64:495; NYTimes,
May211962,33:4.
Pinck, Louis Aaron; b. Liskovo, Russia,
June 20 1894.
To US '1903. • BS, Chern E NYU, MS George
Washington. • Chemist, Washington DC;
with Dept of Agriculture; officer Zionist Org
of Am; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEGAJ.
Pine, Max; b. Liubavitch, Russia, 1866; d.
Maywood, N], Mar 2 1928.
To US 1890.· Labor ldr & orgr, communal
fundraiser, NYC; a fdr Peoples Relief Com;
officer United Heb Trades; active Socialist
Party. • See: UJE; AJYB, 30:80; Fink, 289;
NYTimes, Mar 3 1928, 17:5.
Pinckowitz, Isidore; b. ca 1885; d.
Brooklyn, Nov 8 1936.
Communal worker, philanthopist, Brooklyn;
"Mayor of East Broadway." • See: AJYB,
39:595.
Pine, Nathan; b. South Russia, Apr 12
1892; d. NYC, Dec 1982.
To US ca 1904. • Noted bookseller, NYc. •
See: NYTimes, Dec 9 1982.
Pincus, Abraham; b. ca 1828; d. Mobile,
Dec 1916.
Communal worker, Mobile. • See: AJYB,
19(1917-1918):267.
Pincus, GilbertJ; b. Paterson, ca 1907; d.
NYC, Feb 1980.
Jazz club doorman, NYC; "Mayor of 52nd
Street." • See: NITimes, Feb 7 1980.
Pines, Robert A; b. Boston, Dec 3 1896; d.
NYC, Aug 1949.
AB, AM, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, publisher,
Brooklyn; publisher, editor See Magazine;
officer Fedn ofJewish Charities; WWI service.
• See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; NITimes,
Aug 10 1949,21:2.
Pines, Samuel S; b. Setauket, LI, Dec 9
1894; d. Peekskill, NY,Jan 1962.
LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, police judge,
Peekskill, 1\i"'Y; officer synagog; active
Democratic politics; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Jan 10 1962,47:4.
Pines, Sidney; b. Plano, IL, Apr 13 1895.
BS, ME Armour Inst. • Engineer, Heb tchr,
Zionist, Kansas City. • See: WWIAJ, 1926,
1938.
Piness, George; b. Odessa, Oct 16/261891;
d. Dec 26 1970.
To US 1891. • MD U MD; honorary degrees.
• Physician, allergist, Los Angeles; pres Fedn
of] ewish Welfare Orgs; bd Reed CoIl,
Immaculate Heart CoIl; editor in field. • See:
WWIAJ,1938; WWWIA, 5.
Pink, Berry; b. Passaic, Aug 18 1900; d.
June 1962.
U PA, Princeton, US Naval Academy. • Naval
officer, glass marble & reflector mfr, author,
inventor, patent holder, Passaic; mem US
Intelligence. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,
June 25 1962,29:3.
Pinkovitz, Hyman A; b. Rumania, 1890.
Painter, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB, 24: 190.
Pinksohn, Richard; b. Wollin, Germany,
Apr 11864.
To Dedham, MA 1867.· Comers Commercial
CoIl (Boston). • Banker, insurance broker,
actuary, Boston; officer Mt Sinai. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Pinkus, Felix; b. Berlin, 1868.
To US 1941. • MD U Freiburg. • Physician,
dermatologist, author; faculty U Berlin; mem
German Health Council. • See: UJE.
Pinner, Felix; b. Birnbaum, Posen, 1880; d.
Queens, May 3 1942.
To US 1937. • LLD U Berlin. • Economist,
editor; editor-in-chief Berliner Tageblatt. • See:
UJE; EJ; AJYB, 44:342.
Pines, Joseph; b. ca 1873; d. Brooklyn, Sep
201930.
Mfr, banker, communal worker, Brooklyn. •
See:AJYB,33:157.
Pinner, Max; b. Berlin, Nov 28 1891; d.
Berkeley, Jan 71948.
To US 1921. • U Berlin, MD U Tiibingen. •
Physician, pathologist, tchr, San Francisco,
Detroit, Tucson; specialty: tuberculosis; author
in field; WWI German army service. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 50:520~21; WWIA], 1938;
BEGAJ; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, Jan 9 1948,
22:2.
Pines, Leon; b. Vilna, July 81890; d. Miami
Beach, Jan 271969.
To US 1908. • Mfr, philanthropist; bd Am
Friends ofHeb U, Am Technion Soc; active
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, United Jewish
Appeal. • See:AJYB, 71:607.
Pinner, Moritz; b. Prussia, 1828; d. NY,
1906.
In MO 1856. • Abolitionist, anti-slavery
editor, realtor, Kansas City, NYC; active
Republican politics; Civil War service. • See:
UJE;E].
Pins, ArnulfM
Pins, ArnulfM; b. Germany, Dec 141926;
d.Jerusalem, Feb 81978.
To US 1939. • Author, social work educator &
consult; faculty U IL; with Council on Social
Work,]oint Distribution Com, Memorial
Found for]ewish Culture, ] ewish Material
Claims Against Germany. • See: A]YB,
80:371.
Pinsker, William; b. Novgorod Seversk,
Chemigov, Sep 12 1896.
To US 1906. • Social work admr, civic &
communal worker, Boston; dir Jewish
Educational Alliance (Savannah), YM-YWHA
(Brockton, MA); exec coni Brockton Assn for
Social Work, Natl Assn ofJewish Center
Execs. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOAj.
Pinski, David; b. Mohilev on Dneiper, Apr
5 1872; d. Haifa, Aug 1959.
To US 1899. • U Berlin, Columbia. • Yiddish
& English author, playwright, Zionist; assoc
with rise of literary Yiddish; editor Ovend Blatt;
pres]ewish Culture-$oc,]ewish Natl Workers
Alliance. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 24: 190;
WWIA], 1926,1928,1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
5; NITimes, Aug 13 1959,27:6.
Pinson, Koppel Shub; b. Postavy,
Lithuania, Feb 11 1904; d. Brooklyn, Feb
5 1961.
To Philadelphia 1907. • Gratz, AB U PA, PhD
Columbia. • Historian of modern Europe,
writer, educator, editor, NYC; with UNRRA;
faculty CCNY, Queens ColI, New School; a
fdr Conf of]ewish Social Studies; bd Menorah
School for Adult]ewish Education. • See: UJE;
E];A]YB, 63:561; WWIA], 1938; News ofthe
Yiddish Inst, Apr 1961; NITimes, Feb 6 1961,
23:1.
Pinthus, Kurt; b. Erfurt, Germany, 1886.
To US 1937. • PhD U Leipzig. • Critic,
writer, literary & dramatic advisor; a fdr, ldr
expressionist movement; staff Columbia U, Am
U.· See: UJE.
Pinto, Abraham; b. New Haven.
Yale. • Revolutionary War soldier; a fdr Soc of
Cincinnati. • See:]E (sub Pinto); BDEA].
Pinto, Isaac (De Pinto, Isaac); b. ca June 12
1720/1721; d. NYC,Jan 17 1791.
In US ca 1748. • Heb scholar, translator of 1st
Am published]ewish prayer book, wine
merchant, Spanish tcltr, NorWalk, CT,
Charlestown, SC, NYC; signer NonImportation Agreement. • See: ]E; UJE; E];
BDEA]; PA]HS, 13:113-26; DAB.
Pinto, Jacob; b.Jan 261727; d. ca 1806.
Colonial settler & patriot, New Haven. • See:
]E (sub Pinto); BDEA].
490
Pinto, Solomon; b. New Haven, Dec 29
1758; d. Mar 281824.
Yale. • Patriot, Revolutionary soldier; mem
Soc of Cincinnati. • See:]E (sub Pinto); UJE;
BDEA].
Pipes, Richard Edgar; b. Cieszyn, Poland,
1923.
Russian historian; faculty Harvard; author in
field. • See: E].
Piroshnikoff, Isaac; b. ca 1859; d. NYC,
June 141933.
Musician, music publisher, NYc. • See:A]YB,
35:128.
Piser, Alfred Lionel; b. Chicago, Nov 27
1909; d. Apr 81974.
MD U IL. • Ophthalmologist, Palm Springs,
CA; WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Piser, Sam S; b.*; d. Chicago, Nov 8 1933.
Funeral dir, communal worker, Chicago. • See:
A]YB,36:285.
Pisk,PauIAmadeus;b. "ienna, 1893.
To US 1937. • PhD UVienna.· Musicologist,
composer, editor; faculty U Redlands; WWI
Austrian army service; baptised Lutheran. •
See: UJE.
Pisko, Seraphine Eppstein (Mrs Edward
Pisko); b. StJoseph, Jan 1 1861; d.
Denver,July 271942.
Philanthropic & communal worker, Denver; a
fdr Natl]ewish Hospital for Consumptives;
officer Natl Council ofJewish Women, Natl
Council of]ewish Social Services, Natl Fedn of
Temple Sisterho<;>ds; volunteer work]uvenile
Court.· See: UJE;A]YB, 7(1905-1906):94,
45:391; WWJA], 1928, 1938; NITimes,]uly 31
1942, 15:4.
Pitkow, Jerome D; b. Philadelphia, Oct 7
1917; d. Great Neck, July 71968.
Business exec, NYC; active United]ewish
Appeal, Anti-Defamation League, Fedn of
] ewish Philanthropies; pres council Brandeis. •
See:A]YB, 70:524;NITimes,]uly91968, 35:3.
Pitluck, Louis; b. StJoseph, Dec 261902.
Crane]r ColI. • Merchant, Albuquerque; local
bd Natl Recovery Adm; officer B'nai B'rith,
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Piza, David Moses; b. ca 1829; d. NYC, Feb
23 1910.
Communal worker, NYc. • See: A]YB,
12(1910-1911):110.
Piza, Mrs Joshua; b. ca 1852; d. NYC, Sep
12 1935.
Communalldr, NYC; editor Ist]ewish prayer
book in Braille. • See: A]YB, 38:433.
Pinto, Joseph J eshurun; b. Amsterdam,
1729;d.1766?
In Am 1759-1766. • Rabbi, hazzan, scholar,
NYC; assocd with Shearith Israel. • See:]E
(sub Pinto); UJE; BDEAJ.
Pizer, Morris; b, Russian Poland, Feb 12
1904.
To US 1921. • Labor ldr, editor; with CIO,
AFL-CIO. • See: Fink, 289-90.
Pinto, Rachel; b. NYC, Apr 3 1722; d.
NYC, Oct 30 1815.
Benefactor, Polonies Talmud Torah, Shearith
Israel, NYC. • See: BDEA].
Pizitz, Louis; b. Poland, Apr 3 1868; d.
June 1959.
Dept store merchant, philanthropist,
Birmingham, AL; fdr Ensley Negro Hospital,
Temple Beth-EI, YMHA; fundraiser Tuskegee;
active Assocd Charities Drive, United]ewish
Fund. • See: WWWIA, 3; NITimes, June 23
1959,33:4.
Placzek, Siegfried; b. Schwersenz,
Germany, ca 1867; d. NYC, Mar 81946.
To US 1939. • Neurologist, NYC; authority
on hypnotism, occult; studied psychological
effects of air travel; author in field. • See:
A]YB, 48:496; NITimes, Mar 91946,14:2.
Plager, Clem; b. NYC, July 6 1889.
CE Princeton. • Civil engineer, furniture
merchant, Hackensack; pres YMHA. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Plastrick, Stanley; b. NYC, ca 1915; d.
NYC, Apr 1981.
PhD Sorbonne. • Historian, editor; co-fdr
Dissent; faculty Staten Island College; military
service. • See: NITimes, Apr 12 1981.
Platt, Caspar; b. Danville, IL, June 6 1892;
d. Sep 16 1965.
U IL,]D U Chicago. • Lawyer, state circuit &
US district court judge, Danville, IL; WWI
service.· See: WWWIA, 4.
Platt, Edward George (Grover); b. St
Louis, July 29 1886.
Investment banker, St Louis; officer YMHA,
] ewish Shelter Home, ] ewish Loan Assn,
Jewish Fedn. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Platt, Samuel; b. Carson City, NV, Nov 17
1874.
Stanford, Columbian Law. • Lawyer, US
district atty, legislator, Speaker of the House,
author, Reno; pres Evening Gazette, B'nai
B'rith, bar assn; active Republican politics. •
See: UJE; WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Platzek, Marx (MlMax) Warley; b. NC, Aug
271854; d. NYC, July 211932.
LLB NYU; honorary degrees. • NY supreme
court judge, communalldr, essayist, NYC;
mem NY Constitutional Convention; pres
YMHA; trustee CCNY; benefactor Am] ewish
Historical Soc. • See: UJE; A]YB, 6(19041905):164,24:190,35:128; WWWIA, 1;
NITimes, July 22 1932, 15:1.
Platzker, Joseph; b. NYC, ca 1901; d.
Bronx, Aug 1968.
Commr of Housing, NYC; active synagog,
NYU Alumni Assn. • See: NITimes, Aug 19
1968,89:1.
Plaut, Albert; b. ca 1856; d. NYC,June 18
1915.
Chemist, financier, NYC. • See: A]YB,
18(1916-1917):110; NITimes, June 19 1915,
9:6.
Plaut, Alfred; b. Frankfurt, July 191888; d.
Washington DC, Sep 1962.
To US 1922. • MD U Freiburg. • Pathologist,
NYC; lecturer NYU; WWI German army
service. • See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Oct 1
1962, 31:1.
Plaut, Edward; b. NYC, Nov 9 1891; d.
Carefree, AZ, 1972.
491
Polack, Samuel
AB Princeton, MA, PhD Columbia. • Chemist,
merchant, NYC; bd Columbia ColI of
Pharmacy; active Madison Square Boys Club;
Presbyterian. • See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes,
Mar 2 1972,42:1.
Commn, Pasteur Inst; WWI service, WWII
faculty Army Med School. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:190,49:616; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938;
DAB, 4; NYTimes, Jan 7 1947, 27:3.
Plaut, Leopold; h. ca 1861; d. NYC, Mar 31
1933.
Communal worker, philanthropist, NYc. •
See:A]YB, 35:128.
Plough, Ahe; h. Tupelo, MS, Dec 271891;
d. Sep 141984.
Pharmaceutical mfr, philanthropist, Memphis;
pres William R Moore School of Technology.
• See: WWWIA, 8; NITimes, Sep 15 1984.
Plaut, W Gunther; h. Miinster,·Germany,
1912.
To US 1935. • Ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, lawyer, author, Chicago, St Paul,
Toronto; pres Central Conf of Am Rabbis;
officer Zionist Emergency Council, Governors
Commn on Ethics in Government; chaplain
US army.· See: E]; E]:1973-1982.
Plaut, Walter H; h. near Berlin, Aug 28
1919; d. Great Neck, Jan 3 1964.
To US 1937. • Ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, "Freedom Rider," Great Neck; mem
County Commn on Human Rights; chr Jewish
Community Council. • See: E]; A]YB, 66:580;
NITimes, Jan 41964,23:3.
Plonsky, Henry; h. ca 1830; d. Denver, Feh
271920.
Merchant, communal worker, Denver.· See:
A]YB, 22:168.
Ploscowe, Morris; h. Lihachin, Russia, Jan
25 1904; d. NYC, Sep 211975.
To US 1907. • AB, LLB Harvard. • Public
servant, criminologist, municipal judge, author,
tchr, NYC; mem NYC Commn on Human
Rights; active Am Jewish Com, bar assns.· ..
See:A]YB, 77:597-98; BEOAJ; NITimes, Sep
22 1975, 36:5.
Plotkin, A Louis; h. ca 1863; d. Brooklyn,
June 10 1942.
To US 1891. • R_abbi, talmudist, Brooklyn;
authority on Heb grammar. • See: AJYB,
44:342; NYTimes, June 11 1942, 23:4.
P~otkin,Benjamdn;h.NYC,
1898;d.NYC,
May 91981.
Rabbi, Jersey City, NYC; fdr Am Jewish
Alliance, Zionist Org of Am, synagog. • See:
AJYB, 83:360.
Plotkin, Samuel B; h. Borisov, Russia, Aug
41891.
LLB U MD.· Lawyer, public servant,
Bridgeport, CT; mem Bd of Education; bd
Jewish Community Council, Community
Chest; trustee synagogs. • See: BEOAJ.
Plotnikoff, Eugene; h. Odessa, 1877; d. Sep
1951.
To US 1926. • Moscow Conservatory.·
Conductor, Ballet of the Imperial Theatre
(Moscow), Moscow Opera, Federal Music
Project. • See: UJE; NYTimes, Sep 29 1951,
17:4.
Plotz, Harry; b. Paterson, Aug 171890; d.
Washington DC, Jan 6 1947.
MD Columbia. • Bacteriologist, physician;
internatl authority on typhus fever; with Joint
Distribution Com, Red Cross Sanitary
Plutzik, Hyam; h. Brooklyn, July 13 1911;
d. Rochester, NY,Jan 81962.
Poet, educator; faculty U Rochester. • See:
AJYB, 64:495; NITimes, Jan 10 1962,47:5.
Plutzik, Samuel; h. Lopetz, Minsk, Jan 15
1887; d.July 1956.
Yeshiva (Kovno). • Heb & Russian tchr, NYC,
Bristol, CT; advisor Boys Scouts; contributor
newspapers. • See: WWIAJ, 1928; NITimes,
July 29 1956,65:2.
Podell, David Louis; h. Russia, Nov 21
1884; d. NYC, Feh 11947.
To US 1891. • AB, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer,
government atty, anti-trust specialist, NYC;
helped draft Natl Industrial Recovery Act;
faculty CCNY, Columbia; dir Good Will
Union; trustee Fedn ofJewish Charities,
Educational Alliance. • See: UJE; AJYB,
49:616; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, Feb 21947,57:3.
Podell, Max; h. Russia.
To US 1904. • Cooper Union, CCNY, CE
Brooklyn Polytech. • Engineer, NYC;
associated with subway construction; officer
synagog; WWI Brooklyn Naval Yard
draftsman. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Podhoretz, Norman;h. Brooklyn, 1930.
Columbia, JTS, Cambridge U. • Editor,
Commentary, NYC; literary critic;
autobiography. • See: EJ.
Podlasky, Harry Bernard; h. ca 1863; d.
Milwaukee, Nov 3 1935.
Physician, roentgenologist, communal worker,
professor, Milwaukee; military service. • See:
AJYB,38:433.
Podoloff, Maurice; h. Elizahethgrad, Aug 8
1890; d. West Haven, CT, Nov 241985.
To US 1896. • Yale, Yale Law. • Sports exec;
pres Am Hockey League; 1st commr Natl
BasketballAssn.· See:A]YB, 87:442;JTADNB, Nov 27 1985; NITimes, Nov 261985.
Podolsky, David; h. Vilna, Apr 141872; d.
NYC, Dec 22 1945.
To US 1896. • Realtor, Zionist ldr, NYC; pres
United Vilna Benevolent Soc; officer Hovei
Zion, Herzl Zionist Org of Am, Keren
Hayesod. • See: AJYB, 48:496; WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Dec 23 1945, 18:2.
Podolsky, Edward; h. NYC, May 291902.
Columbia, MD Boston U. • Physician,
Brooklyn; dir Diabetes Research Clinic; faculty
NY Med ColI; author/editor in field & popular
medical works. • See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ.
Pofcher, Elias Harry; h. Odessa, May 1
1882; d. Aug 281934.
MD Tufts, LLB Boston U. • Lawyer,
physician, councilman, communal worker,
Worcester; officer Zionist District. • See:
AJYB, 37:260; WWIAJ, 1926.
Pohotsky (Post), Wtlliam; h. Tomsk,
Siheria, May 23 1881; d. Brooklyn, Aug 1
1945.
To US 1905.· Journalist, labor ldr, Brooklyn;
orgr Jewish Workers Union; labor editor
Jewish Morning Journal; author in field, short
stories. • See:AJYB, 48:496-97; WWIAJ,
1928; NITimes, Aug 2 1945, 19:6 (sub Post).
Pokrass, Samuel; h. ca 1894; d. Lake
Mohegan, NY,June 15 1939.
Composer of popular film songs, NYC. • See:
AJYB, 41:429; NITimes, June 16 1939,23:4.
Pokroisky, Louis; h. ca 1864; d. Roxhury,
MA, Nov 22 1939.
Orthodox community ldr, Roxbury, MA. • See:
A]YB, 42:482; NITimes, Nov 23 1939,27:5.
Poksheva, Ahraham; h.*; d. Union City, Nj,
Oct 161947.
Rabbi, Union City, NJ. • See:AJYB, 50:521.
Polacco, Giorgio; h. Venice, Apr 12 1875;
d.May 1960.
To US 1911? • Conductor, impresario,
London, Argentina, Rome, US; with
Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Light Opera. •
See: UJE; AJYB, 24:190; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, May 2 1960,29:1.
Polacheck, Victor Henry; h. Chicago, Aug
24 1876; d. Great Neck, June 111940.
Journalist, editor, publisher, exec, NYC; with
Hearst newspapers, NY Sun, Evening Sun. •
See: UJE; AJYB, 24:190,42:482; WWIAJ,
1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes,
June 12 1940,25:3.
Polachek, Solomon; h. Senitchenitz,
Grodno, 1877;d.NYC, 1928.
To US 1922. • Rabbi, talmudic scholar,
mathematician, child prodigy, NYC; studied
Russian, German & English literature; faculty
RIETS. • See: UJE; EJ.
Polack, Isaac; h. Rochester, England, June
241861; d. NYC,June 1952.
.
To NYC 1883.· Importer, NYC; pres
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, June
12 1952,33:3.
Polack, Joel Samuel; h. London, 1807; d.
San Francisco, 1882.
To New Zealand 1831, to San Francisco late
1840s? • Adventurer, trader, author,.
landowner, New Zealand. • See: UJE; EJ.
Polack, Rohert Henry;h. St Louis, Oct 28
1874.
Business exec, New Orleans; officer Jewish
Welfare Fund, Pure Milk Soc; dir Child
Welfare & Community Health Assn. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Polack, Samuel; h. ca 1835; d. San
Francisco, Nov 1916.
Polakavetz, Jacob
Communal worker, San Francisco. • See:
A]YB,19(1917-1918):267.
Polakavetz, Jacob; b. Kamenetz-Litovsk,
Nov 151878.
To US 1909. • Merchant, magistrate, Troy. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Polakoff, Charles; b. ca 1866; d. Buffalo,
Mar 111940.
Communalldr, Buffalo. • See: A]YB, 42:482.
Polakoff, David; b.*
Concertmaster, Davenport. • See: A]YB,
24:190.
Polakoff, Sol; b. ca 1875; d. NYC, Aug 4
1935.
Labor ldr, NYc.. See:A]YB, 38:433.
Polakov, Walter N; b.*
Statistician, writer, NYc. • See: A]YB, 24: 190.
Poland, Joseph; b. Russian Poland, Jan 7
1886.
MD Jefferson Med ColI. • Physician, Atlantic
City; med examiner public schools, insurance
co; dir Fedn of]ewish Charities. • See:
WWIA], 1928 (addenda).
Polanyi, Karl; b. Vienna, 1886; d. Apr 1964.
To US 1940. • Economist, anthropologist;
foreign editor Der Oesterreichische VolkS'Wirt;
faculty Bennington ColI; author in field. • See:
E]; NITimes, Apr 25 1964,29:1.
Poleshuck, William; b. ca 1876; d. Newark,
Mar 221940.
Rabbi, Newark. • See:A]YB, 42:482.
Polevski, Jacob C; b. ca 1887; d. Baltimore,
July 27 1936.
Physician, heart specialist, Newark; faculty U
PA; author in field. • See:A]YB, 39:595.
Poleyeff, Moses Aaron; b. Timkowitz,
Minsk, May 201888; d.Jersey City, Nov
141966.
To US 1920. • Honorary degree. • Rabbi,
talmudist, NYC; faculty Yeshiva ColI;
contributor Jewish periodicals. • See: UJE;
A]YB, 68:531; WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
NITimes, Nov 161966,47:2.
Polgar, Alfred; b. Vienna, 1875; d. Zurich,
Apr 1955.
To US 1940. • Drama critic, essayist, noted
prose stylist, playwright. • See: UJE; E];
NITimes, Apr 25 1955; 23:2.
Poliakoff-Litovtzeff, S; b. Russia, ca 1875;
d.NYC,Nov21945.
To US 1941. • Journalist, playwright, novelist,
NYC; staff The Day. • See: A]YB, 48:496;
NITimes, Nov 3 1945,15:4.
Polier, Justine Wise Tulin (Mrs Shad
Polier, Mrs Leon Arthur Tulin); b.
Portland, OR, Apr 121903.
Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, AB Barnard, LLB Yale.
• Lawyer, domestic relations court judge,
author, NYC; referee State Dept of Labor;
officer Womens Trade League; active Internatl
Judicial Assn, NY Conf on Unemployment
492
Insurance, Child Adoption Bd, Free
Synagogue. • See: UJE; WWIA.], 1938;
BEOA].
Polier, Shad; b. Aiken, SC, Mar 18 1906; d.
NYC, June 30 1976.
USC, LLB, LLM Harvard. • Lawyer,
communal worker, NYC; counsel Northside
Center for Child Development, Citizens
Commn for Children of NY; active Am Jewish
Cong, World Jewish Cong, NAACP,
Memorial Found for Jewish Culture. • See:
A]YB, 78:545; WWWIA, 7; NITimes, July 1
1976,32:4.
Polikoff, Benet; b. Langley, SC, May 19
1898; d. Dec 1970.
AB, LLB USC. • Lawyer, Winston-Salem;
pres NC Assn of]ewish Men; officer NCAm
Legion, B'nai B'rith, bar assn; chr United
Palestine Appeal. • See: WWIA.], 1938;
NITimes, Dec 18 1970,42:4.
Polinger, Elliot H; b. ca 1899; d. NYC,
1970.
CCNY, MA NYU, PhD Columbia. • Concert
pianist, romance language tchr, scriptwriter,
author; faculty CCNY; involved in CCNY
controversy over anti-Semitism. • See:
NITimes, Mar 41970, 47:1.
Polish, David; b. Cleveland, 1910.
Heb Union ColI. • Reform rabbi, Zionist ldr,
Evanston, IL, Cedar Rapids; a fdr Chicago Bd
of Rabbis; officer Central Conf of Am Rabbis.
• See: E].
Polivnick, Isidore; b. Bialystok, July 15
1882; d. Mar 1957.
To US ca 1903. • Real estate operator & bldr,
communalldr, NYC; officer East NY
Dispensary, Stone Ave Talmud Torah. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; NITimes, Mar 16
1957, 19:5.
Pollack, Abou David; b. NYC, Feb 261908;
d. Aug 11971.
Cornell, MD U Rochester. • Pathologist,
Baltimore; with US Army Biological Labs;
faculty Johns Hopkins; author in field; WWII
service. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Pollack, Ervin Harold; b. St Louis, Apr 19
1939; d.June 91972.
St Louis U, JD Washington U (St Louis), postgrad Columbia. • Law librarian, Columbus,
OH; faculty OH State; consult Library of
Cong, State Dept; active professional assns;
author in field. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Pollack, Flora; b. ca 1866; d. Baltimore,
May 271938.
Physician, communal worker, Baltimore. • See:
A]YB, 40:390.
Pollack, Lillian Klein (Mrs Milton Pollack);
b. Pittsburgh, Dec 31 1906; d. NYC, July
271967.
Communal worker, Brooklyn; active Jewish
Child Care Assn, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, Hadassah. • See:A]YB, 69:611;
NITimes, July 28 1967,31:1.
Pollack, Louis (Lew); b. NYC, June 16
1895; d. Los Ange1es, Jan 1.946.
Songwriter, Los Angeles; with 20th Century
Fox; composer "Yiddisher Momme."· See:
WWIA], 1928, 1938; NITimes, Jan 191946,
13:3.
Pollack, Louis; b. NYC, May 21 1921; d.
Aug 181970.
Art dealer, historian, NYC; fdr Peredot
Gallery. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Pollack, Sheldon; b. Newark, ca 1926; d.
NYC,}uly 1981.
Montclair State, MA U Chicago. •
Environmentalist; with Regional Planning
Assn. • See: NITimes, Aug 1 1981.
Pollack, Zena Maisel (Mrs Sidney E
Pollack); b. Omaha, Feb 22 1907; d.
NYC, Mar 181969.
Orgn exec, NYC; dir Jewish Guild for the
Blind; officer Greater NY Council ofAgencies
for the Blind. • See: A]YB, 71:607; NITimes,
Mar 191969,47:3.
Pollak, Alfred Wtlliam; b. Waterbury, CT,
Oct 25 1881.
MD Columbia. • Physician, NYC; author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pollak, Berthold Steinbach; b. Vienna, June
26 1873; d.June 1948.
To US 1888. • Pierce Business ColI,
Philadelphia ColI of Pharmacy, MD
Dartmouth, U PA. • Physician, Zionist ldr,
Jersey City; specialty: tuberculosis; natl officer
Zionist Org of Am; council NJ Public Health
& Sanitary Assn. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes, June 28 1948,
19:1.
Pollak, Celia Heilprin (Mrs Gustav Pollak);
b. ca 1850; d. Mar 10 1911.
Daughter of Michael Heilprin. • See: A]YB,
13(1911-1912):137.
Pollak, Edward; b. Weisskirchen, Austria,
July 71861; d. Vienna, Oct 1937.
To US 1891. • UVienna. • Journalist; with
Staatzeitung, German Herold (Ellis Island);
active aiding immigrants; contributor ]E. •
See: WWIA.], 1928; NITimes, Oct 22 1937,
23:1.
Pollak, Emil; b. Vienna, Dec 17 1846.
To Cincinnati 1865. • Business exec, civic &
communal worker, Cincinnati; mem Bd of
Education; bd Heb Union ColI, United Jewish
Charities. • See: A]YB, 7(1905-1906):94,
24:190.
Pollak, Francis Deak; b. NYC, Mar 5 1876;
d. Oct 51916.
Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Columbia Law. •
Communal worker, NYC; active city reform,
bar assns; trustee Jewish Agricultural &
Indusrial Aid Soc. • See: A]YB, 19(19171918):267; PA]HS, 26:287-88; NITimes, Oct 6
1916, 11:4.
Pollak, Gustav (Gustave); b. Vienna, May 4
1849; d. Cambridge, MA, Nov 11919.
To US ca 1866. • Journalist, author, editor,
NYC; staff Evening Post; a fdr German-Am
Reform League; active Democratic politics. •
493
See: UJE;A]YB, 6(1904-1905):165-66,22:168;
WWWIA, 1; DAB.
Pollak, Harry Hamilton; b. Passaic, Mar 12
1921; d. Sep 271980.
Rutgers, U Chicago. • Labor exec, foreign
service officer, diplomat, Tokyo, Europe; with
AFL-CIO; editor Am Labor Review; WWII
service. • See: WWWIA, 7; NITimes, Oct 1
1980.
Pollak, Jacob B; b. ca 1890; d. Brooklyn,
Aug 201934.
Rabbi, educator, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
37:260.
Pollak, Julian Albert; b. Cincinnati, Dec 27
1884; d. 1961.
ABCornell. • Mfr, civic ldr, Cincinnati; mem
City Council; officer Better Housing League;
exec com Community Chest, Council of Social
Age~cies.· See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
NITimes, Apr 2 1961, 77: 1.
Pollak, Leo Lawrence; b. NYC, May 17
1882; d. 1972.
BS CCNY, EE Columbia. • Engineer, mfr,
public servant, Kearny, NJ. • See: "WWIA],
1938; NITimes, July 2 1972, 33:2.
Pollak, Louise G (Mrs Berthold S Pollak);
b. Baltimore, ca 1895; d. Secaucus, May
281937.
Civic & communal worker, Secuacus. • See:
A]YB, 39:595; NITimes, May 29 1937, 17:3.
Pollak, Maurice E; b. Cincinnati, Nov 6
1876.
U Cincinnati. • Iron co exec, Cincinnati; dir
Community Chest. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pollak, Nelson W; b. Cleveland, Aug 9
1896.
Clothing mfr, Ft Wayne; officer Jewish Fedn,
Jewish Welfare Fund. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pollak, Robert; b. Cleveland, June 241903;
d. May 41971.
PhB U Chicago. • Stock & commodity broker,
music & drama critic, Chicago; pres
Immigrants Service League. • See: WWWlA,
5.
Pollak, Robert M; b. Cleveland, Jan 13
1884; d.June 1952.
Clothing mfr, Ft Wayne; dir Community
Chest, Cleveland Orphan Home; trustee
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, June
13 1952,23:3.
Pollak, Simon; b. Prussia, 1816; d. 1903.
To US 1838.· Physician, StLouis; orgreye &
ear clinic; fdr MO Inst for the Blind; hospital
inspector, US Sanitary Commn, Civil War. •
See: UJE.
Pollak, Theresa; b. Richmond, Aug 13
1899.
BS Westhampton ColI (U Richmond),
Harvard, Art Students League. • Artist,
Richmond~ with advertising agency; faculty
Westhampton ColI, William & Mary; Baptist.
• See: "WWIA], 1938.
Polsky, Bert Alfred
Pollak, Virginia Morris (Mrs Leo Pollak);
b. Norfolk, Oct 16 1898; d.Jan 311967.
Yale, Art Students League. • Sculptor,
educator; dir Arthur Morris Collection;
advisory com Kennedy Center; pioneered use
of sculpture among the blind. • See: WWWIA.,
4; NYTimes, Feb 1 1967,40:1.
Pollak, Walter Heilprin; b. Summit, NJ,
June 41887; d. NYC, Oct 21940.
Columbia, AB, LLB Harvard.· Lawyer, public
servant, NYC; chr US Railroad Investigation
Commn; counsel State Housing Commn, State
Park Commn; officer Foreign Policy Assn,
Nat! Consumers League; fought NY sedition
law.· See: UJE; E];A]YB, 43:362; WWlA],
1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 1; DAB, 2; NYTimes,
Oct 3 1940,25:1.
MD U IL, U Prague, U Heidelberg. •
Otolaryngologist, Chicago; chief of staff Am
Hospital; officer professional orgs; author in
field.· See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Pollock, Israel; b. Russia, ca 1885; d.
Boston, July 23 1945.
To US 1910. • Heb scholar, Boston; fdr,
faculty Heb Tchrs ColI; textbook author. •
See: A]YB, 48:496; NITimes, July 25 1945,
23:6.
Pollock, Lee Krasner; see Krasner, Lee.
Pollock, Lewis John; b. Russia, 1886.
Neurologist, professor, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
24:190.
Pollock, Saul; b. Newark, Aug 30 1904.
Pollatchek, Pauline (Mrs); b. ca 1863; d.
NYC, Nov 20 1933.
Social worker, NYc. • See:A]YB, 36:285.
Pollikoff, Max; b. Newark, Apr 301904; d.
NYC, May 1984.
Violinist, composer, Newark; specialty:
contemporary music. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1928; NYTimes, May 14 1984.
Pollitzer, Anita Lily (Mrs Elie C Edson); b.
Charleston, SC, Oct 31 1894; d. Queens,
July 3 1975.
BS, MA Columbia. • Suffragist, feminist,
womens movement ldr, equal rights advocate,
lobbyist, speaker, artist, watercolorist, author;
officer Nat! Womans Party; advisory com Heb
U.· See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 6; NAW:modern; NYTimes, July 5
1975,20:3.
Pollitzer, Sigmund; b. Richmond County,
NY,June 12 1859; d. NYC, Nov 11937.
AB, MA, PhD U CA. • Mathematician, Los
Angeles; faculty CO Agricultural ColI, IN
State Tchrs; consult Hall of Science, Century
of Progress Exposition (Chicago), Scientific
Development Co. • See: "WWIA], 1938.
Pollock, Simon Oscar; b. Minsk, Mar 28
1868; d. Nov 11934.
To US 1890. • U Moscow Law, U Dorpat. •
Lawyer, socialist, author, NYC; counsel
Political Refugees Defense League; author on
Russian subjects. • See:A]YB, 24:190,37:260;
WWWIA,4.
Pollyea, Mandie Mordecai; b. ca 1873; d.
Los Angeles, Apr 23 1941.
Rabbi, Los Angeles. • See:A]YB, 43:362.
Polock, Cushman; b.*; d. 1798.
Patriot, soldier, financier, merchant,
Philadelphia, Savannah; a fdr Mikveh Israel
(Philadelphia). • See: BDEA].
Polock, Isaac; b. ca 1765; d. Washington
DC, ca 1813-1817.
AB, MA CCNY, MD Columbia, post-grad
Europe. • Dermatologist, bacteriologist, NYC;
faculty Post-Grad Hospital; pres Student Aid
Assn of CCNY; officer professional assns;
author in field; Serbo-Bulgarian War, WWI
service. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:190,40:390;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
1; NYTimes, Nov 2 1937,25:1.
Polock, Moses; b. Philadelphia, May 14
1817; d. Philadelphia, Aug 161903.
Pollock, Channing; b. Washington DC,
Mar 4 1880; d. Shoreham, LI, Aug 17
1946.
Publisher, rare book dealer, bibliophile,
Philadelphia; some of his collection is now in
Philadelphia Free Library. • See: UJE; DAB;
NYTimes, Aug 17 1903, 7:5.
Polytechnique (Prague). • Author, playwright,
NYC; drama critic Washington Post, Smart Set;
fdr The Show; officer professional orgs. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938; DAB, 4; NYTimes, Aug 18
1946,47:3.
Pollock, David; b. Lida, Russia, Dec 31
1869.
Communal worker, Chicago; supt Zion Heb
Sabbath Schools; editor Zion Messenger; officer
Knights of Zion. • See:A]YB, 7(19051906):94.
Washington DC pioneer, earliestJewish
resident, real estate developer, businessman;
also in Savannah. • See: PA]HS, 48:1-17.
Polonies, Myer; b. ca 1735; d. NYC, 1801.
Principal benefactor, Polonies Talmud Torah,
Shearith Israel, NYc. • See: BDEA].
Polowetski, Charles Ezekiel; b. Bielsk,
Russia, Sep 11884.
To US 1891. • Beaux Arts (Paris). • Painter,
NYC; painted US government posters, WWI.
• See:A]YB, 24:190; WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Polozker, Isaac L; b. ca 1874; d. Detroit,
Aug 211935.
Pollock, Gregory L; b. NYC, July 10 1896.
Psychiatrist, clinical professor, Detroit. • See:
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Plastic surgeon, NYC;
police commr, Long Beach, NY; author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
A]YB,38:433.
Pollock, Harry Lewis; b. Clinton, MO, Sep
281874.
Buchtel ColI; honorary degree. • Business exec,
Polsky, Bert Alfred; b. Orwell, OH, Nov 1
1881.
494
Polsky, Morris
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
Akron; trustee County United Fund, U Akron.
• See: WWWIA, 6.
Am, Heb Tchrs ColI Gerusalem); WWI Food
Polsky, Morris; b. Kiev, Jan 18 1865; d.
Mar 111936.
Conservation staff. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
24:191,72:543; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; PA]HS, 52:3-7; WfIVWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Dec 2 1970,50:3.
Realtor, communal worker, Zionist,
philanthropist, NYC, Bronx; dir Keren
Hayesod, orphan asylum (Palestine); with Am
Palestine shipping line. • See:A]YB, 38:433;
WWIA],1928.
Polstein, Joseph H; b. Vilna, 1868; d.
Cedarhurst, LI, Feb 18 1938.
Real estate owner, bldr, phil~nthropist,NYC;
officer Yeshivah ColI of Am, Universal
YeshivahofJerusalem. • See:A]YB, 40:390;
WWIA], 1928;NYTimes, Feb 191938, 15:4.
Polyacheck, Solomon; b. ca 1877; d. NYC,
July 81928.
Rabbi, talmudic scholar, NYC; faculty RIETS.
• See: A]YB, 31 :93; NYTimes, July 10 1928,
23:3.
Pomerance, Josephine Wertheim; b. ca
1911; d. Cos Cob, CT,July 1980.
Smith. • Peace movement ldr; co-fdr Com for
World Development & World Disarmament;
active Democratic Party. • See: NYTimes, July
17 1980.
Pomerantz, Abraham Louis; b. Brooklyn,
Mar 221903; d. Nov20 1982.
LLB Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer, NYC;
instructor Brooklyn Law; deputy chief counsel
Nuremburg Trials. • See: WWWL4, 8.
Pomerantz,AlexanderJoshua;b.(;rodno,
May 11901; d. NYC, Jan· 9 1965.
To US 1921. • Yiddish writer, journalist,
translator, author, NYC; with Morning Freiheit,
Der Hammer.· See:A]YB, 67:540; NYTimes,
Jan 11 1965,45:2.
Pomerantz, I Chaim; b. (;ermany?, 1904; d.
Chicago, 1962.
To NYC early 1940s. • Businessman,
communalldr, NYC, Chicago; bd Yiddish Inst;
helped reclaim Jewish treasures in Germany. •
See: Yiddish InstNews, 85:8.
Pomeranz, Max; b. Sokolow, Austria, Mar
211890.
To US 1900. • DDS NYU. • Dentist,
Brooklyn; officer professional orgs. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Pomrenze, Herman Morris; b. Brousilow,
Kiev, Apr 15 1893.
To Chicago 1913. • MD Loyola, post-grad U
Chicago. • Surgeon, Chicago; faculty
Northwestern; active Am Jewish Cong,Jewish
Nat! Fund. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pool, David De Sola; b. London, May 16
1885; d. NYC, Dec 11970.
To US 1907. • Jews ColI (London), Rabbiner
Seminar (Berlin), AB London U, U Berlin,
PhD U Heidelberg. • Sephardic rabbi, public
servant, author, NYC; mem Zionist Commn to
Palestine; officer Jewish Welfare Bureau,
Union of Sephardic Congregations, Young
Judea of Am; exec bd Jewish Education Assn,
Pool, Judith (;raham (Mrs Ithiel De Sola
Pool); b. Queens, June 11919; d. Palo
Alto, July 13 1975.
PhD U Chicago. • Research physiologist;
authority on blood coagulation; with Stanford
Med School; editor in field. • See: WWWIA, 6;
NAW: modern; NYTimes, July 15 1975,36:2.
Mem, Grand Army of the Republic,
Philadelphia.· See:A]YB, 19(1917-1918):267.
Popper, William; b. St Louis, Oct 291874;
d. June 3 1963.
CCNY, AB, MA, AM, PhD Columbia, postgrad Strasbourg, Berlin, Paris. • Semiticist,
biblical scholar, author, Berkeley; faculty
Columbia, U CA; an editor]E. • See: ]E; UJE;
E]; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):166,24:191; WWIA],
1926, 1928, 1938; WfIVWIA,4.
Popper, William C; b. ca 1857; d. NYC, Jan
51924.
Lithographer, communal worker, NYc. • See:
Pool, Tamar De Sola (Mrs David De Sola
Pool); b. Jerusalem, Aug 4 1893; d. NYC,
June 11981.
A]YB,26:157.
To US 1904. • AB Hunter, Paris, Columbia. •
Tchr, Zionist ldr, author, editor, NYC; nat!
pres Hadassah; faculty Hunter; active World
Zionist Org, Am Jewish Com, Youth Aliyah. •
See: UJE; E] (sub Pool, David De Sola); A]YB,
83:360-61; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 7;]TADNB, June 3 1981; NYTimes, June 3 1981.
To US 1922.· Rabbinical ColI ofJerusalem·
Rabbi, Cleveland; represented Ashkenazim
Community before Turkish government; exec
com Union of Orthodox Congregations, Fedn
of Palestinian Jews. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Popick, Jack S; b. Kishinev, Aug 151902; d.
Miami, Nov 281975.
To US 1927. • Rabbi; chr Rumanian Jewish
Community Gerusalem); orgr World Mizrachi
(Europe); active Agudat Ha-rabbanim. • See:
A]YB, 70:524; NYTimes, Sep 10 1968,44:6.
To US 1904. • Business exec, communal &
Zionist ldr; co-fdr Grad School of Education
(Yeshiva U); bd Israel Investments, Jewish
Family & Childrens Services, Heb Academy;
active Brandeis. • See: A]YB, 77:598.
Porath, Israel; b. Jerusalem, July 3 1887.
Porille, Chaim; b. Uscieczko, Poland, 1899;
d. NYC, Sep 9 1968.
Port, Moses A; b.*; d.Jan 201920.
Rabbi, New Rochelle, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
7(1905-1906):123, 22: 168.
Popkin, Jacob Mordecai; b. ca 1835; d.
NYC, Jan 1917.
Heb scholar, NYc. • See: A]YB, 19(19171918):267; NYTimes, Jan 181917, 11:2.
Porter, Lawrence Charles (family name:
Perlmutter); b. Atlantic City, May 7
1932; d. Sep 11978.
Popkin, Louis; b. Yonkers, Aug 15 1894; d.
NYC,]an 111943.
U Miami, JD U Miami. • Lawyer, municipal
judge, asst atty general, Miami, NYC; faculty
NY Law; fdr Porter Found.· See: WWWIA, 7.
CCNY. • Journalist, public relations exec,
NYC; editor Am Heb; fdr Planned Publicity
Bureau; active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies,
J ewish Welfare Bd, Joint Distribution Com,
Union of Am Heb Congregations, Community
House, Fair Play Radio League. • See: UJE;
A]YB, 45:391; WWIA], 1928, 1938; NYTimes,
Jan 12 1943,23:4.
Popkin, Martin E; b. Havre, France, Nov22
1897; d. Jan 1940.
UTurin. • Consult engineer, NYC; exec dir
Industrial Recovery Assn of Clothing Mfrs;
technical examiner Dept of Labor; author in
field. • See: BEOA]; NYTimes, Jan 30 1940,
19:4.
Portis, Milton Moses; b. Riceville, Canada,
Mar 251877.
To US 1880.· BS U Chicago, MD RushMed
ColI, post-grad Europe. • Physician, Chicago;
author in field; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1926,1928,1938.
Portis, Sidney Alexander; b. Chicago, May
261894.
BS U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI, post-grad
U Vienna. • Gastroenterologist, Chicago;
faculty Rush Med ColI, Loyola, U IL; fdr
Bernard Portis Fellowship Found; author/
editor in field. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Popkin, William Edward; b. NYC, Oct 20
1893; d. Jan 1959.
Portney, Jan Kuszel (pseud=Josef); b.
Poland?, ca 1872; d. NYC, Sep 271941.
CCNY, BCS Cornell. • Fur dye chemist, exec,
Brooklyn; officer professional assns; author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Jan 7
1959,33:4.
To US 1940. • Jewish Socialist, labor ldr,
editor, Poland; head Am representation of
Bund. • See: A]YB, 44:343; NYTimes, Sep 30
1941,23:6.
Popkin, Zelda F; b. Brooklyn, July 5 1898;
d. Silver Spring, MD, May 25 1983.
Portnoff, Alexander; b. Tomashpol, Russia,
Jan 11887; d. Philadelphia, Dec 201949.
Journalist, novelist; public relations exec; active
Red Cross, Hadassah, Jewish Welfare Bureau.
• See: UJE (sub Popkin, Louis); A]YB, 85:419.
To US 1907/1908. • AB Architecture
(Odessa), PA Academy of Fine Arts, Odessa
School of Fine Arts, studied throughout
Europe. • Sculptor, artist, Philadelphia, Long
Beach Island, NJ. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:191,
52:503~04; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, Dec 21,1949,29:2.
Poppenheimer, Bernhardt; b. ca 1838; d.
Philadelphia, June 6 1916.
495
Portnoff, Mischa; b. Berlin, 1901.
To US 1924. • Composer, piano tchr. • See:
UJE.
Portnoy, Jekuthiel (Noah,Yuzet); b.
Kovno?, 1872; d. 1941.
To US ca 1939. • Bund pioneer, journalist;
editor Arbeter Shtime; exiled to Siberia, escaped
to US. • See: EJ.
Portugal, Eliezer Zisya; b. Rumania, 1896;
d.Brooklyn, Aug 18 1982.
To US 1960. • Rabbi, aided refugees reach
Israel; active immigrant aid. • See: A]YB,
84:338.
Portugeiz, Semion (S Ivanovitch); b.
Kishinev, ca 1881; d. NYC, Feb 28 1944.
To US 1941. • Author, journalist, socialist,
NYC; contributor Forward. • See: A]YB,
46:343.
Posen, Alvah; b. NYC, ca 1895; d. NYC,
June 1960.
Cartoonist, NYC; creator "Sweeny & Son";
active entertaining servicemen; military service.
• See: NYTimes, June 12 1960,86:5.
Poses, Israel; b.*;d. Minneapolis, Feb 1919.
Rabbi, Minneapolis. • See: A]YB, 21:206.
Poses, Jack I; b. Russia, Dec 281899; d.
Apr 11982.
To US 1911. • NYU; honorary degrees. •
Perfume co exec, philanthropist, NYC; officer
Bd of Higher Education; a fdr Albert Einstein
ColI of Med, Poses Inst of Fine Arts;
benefactor CUNY, Harvard, Yale; trustee
Brandeis. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Powdermaker, Hortense
Welfare; officer Combined Jewish Appeal. •
See: WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Aug 7 1962, 29:2.
Posner, Herbert; b. NYC, Aug 14 1896; d.
NYC, Mar 1975.
Columbia. • Business exec, NYC; officer Fedn
ofJewish Charities, YM-YWHA; military
service. • See: WWIA], 1928; NYTimes, Mar
271975,34:5.
Posner, Julius D; b.*; d. New Brunswick,
Nj, May 11 1914.
City comptroller, New Bruriswick, NJ. • See:
A]YB,16(1914-i915):165.
Posner, Louis Samuel; b. London, Aug 31
1878.
To US 1882/1884. • CCNY, St Francis
Xavier.· Lawyer, civic & communalldr, NYC;
mem Bd of Education, T chrs Retirement Bd; a
fdr Zeta Beta Tau; dir Heb Sheltering
Guardian Orphan Asylum; delegate World
Zionist Cong. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA,5.
Posner, Nathan E; b. Petrograd, ca 1882; d.
Beverly Hills, 1962.
To NYC ca 1889. • Violin collector, dealer,
violinist, conductor, NYC, Beverly Hills. • See:
NYTimes, June 2 1962, 19:4.
Posner, Stanley Irving; b. Leominster, MA,
July 15 1909;d. Mar 291965.
AB Amherst ColI, AM U Chicago, LLB
Harvard. • Lawyer, public servant, economist,
author, editor; with VS Dept of Labor; faculty
Am V; scholarship donor. • See: BEOA];
WWWIA.,4.
Poskanzer, Robert C; b. Albany, NY, Aug
141888.
Union Classical Inst, LLB Albany Law. •
Lawyer, Albany, NY; officer bar assns; active
Am Jewish Com, Jewish Social Service; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Posner, William; b. Brooklyn, Apr 23 1913;
d. Detroit, Apr 16 1961. .
Social work exec; dir Jewish Community
Services (LI); with NY School of Psychiatry,
NY State Dept ofMental Hygiene; officer Nat!
Conf ofJewish Community Service. • See:
A]YB, 63:561; NYTimes, Apr 181961,37:3.
Posnack, Emanuel Robert; b. Brooklyn,
Oct 241896.
ME Brooklyn Polytech, Nicholson Inst of Cost
Accounting, LLB Brooklyn Law. • Inventor,
patent atty, consulting engineer, NYc. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938; BEOA].
Poss, Benjamin; b. Milwaukee, Aug 10
1877.
V WI; honorary degree. • Lawyer, Milwaukee;
mem Bd of Park Commrs, State Bd of Law
Examiners; officer professional orgs, Citizens
Bureau.· See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Posner, Abraham; b. ca 1865; d. Broo~yn,
May 81935.
Mfr, communal worker, Brooklyn. • See:
A]YB, 37:260.
Post, William; see Pohotsky, William.
Posner, Adolph; b. Mosciska, Poland, Mar
191906.
To NYC 1920. • BS CCNY, MD NYU. •
Ophthalmologist, NYC; author in field. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Posner, Edwin; b. Baltimore, Nov 22 1890;
d. Oct 41969.
Securities broker, NYC; bd Am Stock
Exchange. • See: WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Oct 6
1969,37:1.
Posner, Harry; b. Mohilev, Russia, Oct 18
1889; d. Aug 61962.
Tufts. • Paper mfr, Medford, MA; bd Public
Postal, Bernard (pseud=BertramJones); b.
NYC, Nov 1 1905; d. Freeport, NY, Mar
5 1981.
CCNY, V WI, NYU. • Journalist, editor,
public relations dir, author, NYC; editor UJE,
B'nai B'rith News, ]TA-DNB; writer NY World.
• See: UJE;A]YB, 83:361; WWIA], 1928,
1938' (sub Postal, Stanley Bernard); BEOA].
Postel, Robert Ira; b. Bronx, June 9 1939.
Dartmouth, Harvard Law. • NYC councilman;
active Democratic politics. • See: NYTimes
story, Oct 20 1971.
Potamkin, Harry Alan; b. ca 1898; d. NYC,
July 19 1933.
Writer, poet, motion picture critic, NYc. •
See:A]YB, 36:285.
Potofsky, Jacob Samuel; b. Radomysl,
Russia, Nov 16 1894; d. NYC, Aug 5
1979.
To US 1905. • Labor ldr, NYC; nat! officer
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, AFL-CIO;
active Am]ewish Com, Anti-Defamation
League, Liberal Party, USO; dir Nat! Conf of
Christians &]ews. • See: UJE; E}; A]YB,
81:373; WWWIA, 1938; BEOA]; Fink, 291-92;
WWWIA, 7;]TA-DNB, Aug 71979; NYTimes
story, May 3 1972, obituary, Aug 6 1979.
Potok, Chaim; b. NYC, Feb 17 1929.
BA Yeshiva U, ordainedJTS. • Writer, editor;
faculty U Judaism (Los Angeles); The Chosen. •
See: E]; E]:1973-1982.
Potruch, Aaron; b. Petrograd, May 20
1875.
To US 1883. • BIdr, Bethlehem, PA; fdr
Jewish Community Center; dir Vnity League.
• See: WWIA], 1928.
Potsdamer, Joseph Berthold; b.
Philadelphia, May 261858; d. Feb 1947.
MD Jefferson Med School. • Physician,
Philadelphia; with]ewish Hospital. • See:
WWIA], 1938;NYTimes, Feb 171947, 19:3.
Potsdamer, Louis Samter; b. Philadelphia,
Oct 16 1891.
BS, Chern E UPA. • Consulting chemical
engineer, Philadelphia; author in field. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Potter, Charles; b. Providence, Nov 13
1908; d. Dec 10 1970.
MD Columbia. • Obstetrician, gynecologist;
faculty Harvard, Tufts, Boston V; advisor
Planned Parenthood; active Jewish Family &
Childrens Services. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Poupko, Abraham; b. Vielez, Russia, 1913?;
d. Philadelphia, Sep 4 1964.
To US 1932.· Rabbi, Philadelphia; pres
Mizrachi; officer Rabbinical Bd of
Philadelphia. • See: A]YB, 66:580; NYTimes,
Sep 5 1964,19:5.
Poupko, Bernard; b. Russia, 1918.
RIETS. • Orthodox rabbi, author, Pittsburgh;
fdr Hillel Academy; pres Mizrachi. • See: E}.
Poupko, Eliezer; b. Radin, Lithuania, Mar
18 1886; d. Philadelphia, Sep 23 1961.
To US 1931. • Rabbi, Philadelphia; active
Union of Orthodox Rabbis. • See: A]YB,
64:495; NYTimes, Sep 241961,86:3.
Pouzzner, Bessie London (Mrs Benjamin
Pouzzner); b. Boston.
AB, MA Radcliffe. • Newspaper publisher,
book reviewer, Brookline, MA. • See: WWIA],
1928,1938.
Powdennaker, Hortense; b. Philadelphia,
Dec 24 1896/1900; d. Berkeley, June 15
1970.
Goucher, London School of Economics, PhD
U London; honorary degree. • Anthropologist;
faculty Yale, Queens ColI; tchr Army
Specialized Training Program; author in field.
• See: WWWIA, 5; NAW:modern; DAB, 8;
NYTimes,June 17 J 970,47:3.
496
Powell, Henry Montefiore
Powell, Henry Montefiore; b. NYC, Apr 16
1867;d. NYC, May 1953.
AB Columbia. • Lawyer, tax specialist, NYC;
counsel State Tax Revision Commn; mem
Mayors Com on Taxation; author in field. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, May 11 1953,
27:3.
Pozen, Morris A; b. Elizabethgrad, Feb 4
1887; d. Brooklyn, Sep 1942.
To US 1891.· BS, PhD George Washington.
• Consult chemist & bacteriologist, NYC;
authority on food; faculty George Washington;
with Washington DC Health Dept, US Dept
of Agriculture. • See: WWI4], 1928, 1938;
NYTimes, Sep 301942,23:5.
Poznanski, Gustavus; b. Storchnest,
Poland, Apr 1805; d. NYC, Jan 7 1879.
To US 1831. • Reformist rabbi, Charleston,
SCi views changed from Orthodox to
reformist. • See: UJE; DAB.
Poznanski, Joseph; b. ca 1840; d. NYC, Aug
311916.
Composer, communal worker, NYC. • See:
A]YB, 19(1917-1918):267.
Prag, Mary (Mrs); b. ca 1846; d. San
Francisco, Mar 18 1935.
Educator, San Francisco; mem Bd of
Education. • See: A]YB, 37:260.
Prager, Benjamin; b. Pittsburgh, Feb 28
1878.
Soldier, author, Philippines, Pittsburgh; officer
Army & Navy Legion ofValor; Spanish-Am
War, Mexican campaign, WWI service. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938.
Prager, Clem; b. ca 1894; d. Hackensack,
Apr 101939.
Merchant, communal worker; Hackensack. •
See:A]YB, 41:429; NYTimes, Apr 11 1939,
23:4.
Prager, Ernestine Spitz (Mrs Isaac KE
Prager); b. Boston, Jan 15 1878.
Communalldr, Boston; officer Nat! Council of
Jewish Women, Fedn ofJewish Charities,
Jewish Maternity Clinic Assn. • See: WWIA],
1926.
Prager, MarkJr; b.*
Dined with George Washington during
Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia
(1787). • See: BDEA].
Prager, Martin (Mark); b.*
To Philadelphia ca 1784. • May be Mark
Prager J r; may be a convert to Christianity. •
See: BDEA].
Prager, Michael; b. County Cork, Ireland,
1740; d. Philadelphia, 1793.
Fdr, Insurance Co of North Am. • See:
BDEA].
To US ca 1938. • Astronomer; with Berlin
Academy of Sciences, Berlin U Observatory;
WWII with US Navy. • See: E]; NYTimes, July
221945,38:2.
Prager, Stanley; b. ca 1918; d. Los Angeles,
Jan 1972.
Johns Hopkins. • Stage & television dir,
Broadway actor, NYc. • See: NYTimes, Jan 19
1972,40:3.
Prager, William; b. ca 1859; d. Jan 8 1938.
Realtor, communal worker, philanthropist,
NYc. • See: A]YB, 40:390; NYTimes, Jan 9
1938,42:3.
Prager, William Louis; b. NYC, Jan 8 1882;
d. Mar 1966.
BS CCNY, MS NYU, PhD Clark. • Chemist,
NYC; faculty CCNY. • See:A]YB, 24:191;
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Mar 141966, 31:2.
Predmesky,Eliezer;b. 1880;d.NYC, I>ec
61968.
Rabbi, NYC; officer Union of Orthodox
Rabbis; mem Rabbinical Bd of NY, Religious
Zionists ofAm. • See: A]YB, 70:524; NYTimes,
Dec 9 1968,47:2.
Predmesky, Louis; b. Yanoive, Poland, Feb
18 1886.
To NYC 1922. • Rabbi, Lithuania, Bronx;
mem Duma of Kremenchuk, Jewish
Communal Council; officer Rabbinical Bd,
Union of Orthodox Rabbis of Am, Fedn of
Jewish Congregations; active refugee work. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Pregel, Boris; b. Odessa,Jan 241893/1897;
d. NYC, I>ec 71976.
To US 1939. • U Liege, U Petrograd;
honorary degree. • Scientist, mining exec;
faculty Ecole Libres des Hautes Etudes (NYC);
officer World Academy of Arts & Sciences, NY
Academy of Sciences; bd Am Red Magen
David for Israel; author in field. • See: A]YB,
78:545; WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Dec 9 1976,
50:5.
Pregel, Sophie; b. Odessa, 1900.
To US 1940. • Editor, poet; exec Jewish Home
for Aged (Paris); in US editor Novoselye (New
Home). • See: UJE.
Preil, Elozor M (Eleazer M); b. Birz,
Kovno; d. Oct 3 1933.
To US 1910. • Orthodox rabbi, Elizabeth;
faculty RIETS; officer Union of Orthodox
Rabbis, Jewish Central Relief, Yeshivah of
New Haven. • See:A]YB, 36:285; WWIA],
1926, 1928.
Preil, GabrielJoshua; b. I>orpat, Estonia,
1911.
To US 1922. • Heb poet, Yiddish & English
essayist, translator. • See: E]; E]:1973-1982.
Prager, Michael Jr; b.*
Probably from Holland to Philadelphia ca
1784. • See: BDEA].
Preiss, Solomon; b. ca 1828; d. Baltimore,
Apr 141913.
Merchant, Baltimore. • See: A]YB, 15(19131914):273.
Prager, Richard;b. Hannover, 1883;d.July
1945.
Prenn, Joseph; b. Vilna, Jan 8 1883.
To US 1900.· MAAgricultural ColI, MD
Tufts, post-grad Harvard, Berlin. • Surgeon,
Boston; inventor of hearing devices, inhaler;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Prenowitz, Joseph Solomon; b. Aleksot,
Kovno, Mar 6 1871; d. NYC, 1938.
To US 1888. • Journalist, writer, poet, NYC;
exec com Peoples Relief Com. • See: UJE;
WWIA],1938.
Prensky, Joseph; b. ca 1861; d. Brooklyn,
Apr 301934.
Mfr, communal worker, Brooklyn. • See:
A]YB, 36:284.
Prensky, Mrs Joseph; b. ca 1868; d.
Brooklyn, I>ec 9 1935.
Communal worker, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
38:433.
Prentis, Meyer Leon; b. Kovno, July 15
1886; d. I>etroit, July 15 1970.
To US 1890. • Jones Community ColI. •
General Motors exec, philanthropist,
communalldr, Detroit; a fdr Albert Einstein
ColI of Med, United Fedn; officer Joint
Distribution Com, Allied Jewish Campaign. •
See: A]YB, 72:543; WWIA], 1928, 1938;
NYTimes, July 161970,33:3.
Present, Philip; b. ca 1857; d. Rochester,
NY, May 311932.
Communal worker, Rochester, NY. • See:
A]YB, 34:112.
Present, Richard I>avis; b. NYC, Feb 5
1913; d.July 2 1983.
CCNY, PhD Harvard. • Physicist, Knoxville;
faculty NYU, Purdue, U TN; with Manhattan
Project. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Press, Frank; b. Brooklyn, 1924.
Geophysicist, seismologist; mem Presidents
Scientific Advisory Com; faculty Columbia,
Cal Tech, MIT; consult Dept of Defense. •
See: Ej.
Press, Michael; b. Vilna; d. Lansing, I>ec
1938.
To US 1922. • Moscow Imperial
Conservatory. • Violinist, conductor, East
Lansing; faculty Moscow Imperial
Conservatory, Curtis, MI State. • See:
WWL4.], 1926, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Dec 24
1938,15:3.
Presser, Josef Goseph); b. Lublin, Apr 18
1907; d. Paris, Apr 1967.
To US 1913. • School of Fine Arts (Boston). •
Artist, Philadelphia; tchr NYU, Cooper Union;
with Federal Art Project, PAMuseum of Art. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Apr 22 1967,
31:3.
Pressman, I>avid; b. I>etroit, Nov 24 1916;
d. June 16 1980.
PhD Cal Tech, UCLA.· Immunochemist;
with Sloan-Kettering; faculty Niagara U;
advisor US Public Health Service; author in
field. • See: WWWL4, 7.
Pressman, JoelJ; b. Philadelphia, Feb 11
1901; d. Los Angeles, Feb 1968.
U VA, MD Harvard. • Physician, Los Angeles;
497
Prinzmetal, Isadore Harry
specialty: larynx; faculty VCLA; military
service. • See: NYTimes, Feb 27 1968,43:1.
WWWIA, 2; DAB, 3; NYTimes, July 31 1942,
15:3.
Pressman, Lee; b. NYC, July 1 1906; d.
Nov 191969.
NYU, AB Cornell, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
NYC; counsel New Deal agencies, labor ldrs,
CIO; supported Henry Wallace for pres. • See:
UJE; EJ; WWIAJ, 1938; DAB, 8; NYTimes,
Nov211969,47:1.
Price, Herman; b. Ziddiken, Lithuania,
1886.
JTS. • Rabbi, Sunbury, P A. • See: WWIAJ,
1926.
Preston, Harry; b. Russia, 1899; d. NYC,
Mar 81971.
Business exec, philanthropist; a fdr Albert
Einstein ColI ofMed, NY Com for Israel
Bonds; benefactor Yeshiva V, VnitedJewish
Appeal.· See:AJYB, 73:634; NYTimes, Mar 9
1971,40:1.
Pretzfelder, Henry; b. ca 1838; d.
Baltimore, Mar 91914.
Communal worker, Baltimore. • See: AJYB,
16(1914-1915):165.
Pretzfelder, Leon; b. Alexandria, VA, Dec
19 1886.
LLB George Washington. • Lawyer,
Washington DC; chr Nat! Fedn of Temple
Brotherhoods convention; dir Heb Home for
Aged.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Previn, Andre; b. Berlin, 1929.
To VS ca 1939. • Paris Conservatory. •
Conductor, composer, pianist; with MGM,
London Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra. • See: EJ:1973-1982.
Pribram, Ernst (Ernest) August; b. Prague,
Feb 2 1879; d. Chicago, Sep 14 1940.
To VS 1925. • V Prague, post-grad V
Strasbourg. • Serologist, bacteriologist,
supporter of preventive medicine, Chicago;
faculty V Vienna, V Chicago, Loyola; author
in field; Austrian military service. • See: UJE;
WWW1A, 1.
Pribram, Karl; b. Prague, 1877; d. July
1973.
To VS 1934. • Economist; faculty V Vienna,
V Frankfurt, Brookings Inst; with Social
Security Adm, VS Tariff Commn, Austrian
Civil Service; author in field. • See: EJ;
NYTimes, July 20 1973, 34:5.
Price, Abraham; b. ca 1867; d. Brooklyn,
Dec 271936.
Merchant, communal worker, Brooklyn. • See:
AJYB, 39:595.
Price, George E (Georgie); b. NYC, Jan 5
1900/1901; d. NYC, May 1964.
Radio, vaudeville & stage comedian,
songwriter, sketchwriter, producer,
impersonator, NYc. • See: BEOAJ; NYTimes,
May 111964,31:1.
Price, George Moses; b. Poltava, May 21
1864; d. NYC, July 30 1942.
To NYC 1882. • MD NYU. • Physician,
sanitary inspector, NYC; fdr Vnion Health
Center; didoint Bd of Sanitary Control, State
Factory Commn; author in field. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):166,24:191,45:391-92;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1938;BEOA};Fink,295-96;
Price, Isaac; b. NYC, July 22 1882.
BS CCNY, MA NYU. • Educator, NYC;
compiler Gregg & Pitman dictionaries. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Price, Israel; b. Russia, Dec 2 1869.
To VS 1890. • Rabbi, Zionist propaganda
writer, litterateur; contributor Yiddish press. •
See: Eisenstadt, 82.
Price, Joseph M; b. Washington DC, 1870;
d. NYC, May 1949.
Mfr, NYC; orgr Citizens Com for Municipal
Campaign; exec com Nat! Bd of Review of
Motion Pictures. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, May 141949,13:3.
Price, Julius Joseph; b. Worcester, June 14
1887; d. Sep 1972.
AB V PA, MA, PhD Columbia, post-grad
Johns Hopkins, Oxford, ordainedJTS. •
Rabbi, Jewish historian, author, Bronx,
Plainfield, Nj, Toronto; officer Boy Scouts;
chaplain NYC prisons. • See: WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938;NYTimes, Sep 16 1972,32:2.
Price, Miriam Sutro (Mrs Joseph M Price);
b. NYC, Nov 23 1871; d. NYC, 1957.
Civic worker, educator, NYC; exec com Nat!
Bd of Review of Motion Pictures, Public
Education Assn. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Mar 4 1957,27:3.
Price, Paul Edgar; b. Chicago, Oct 71895.
LLB Northwestern. • Lawyer, Chicago.· See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Price, Robert; b. Bronx, ca 1933.
NYU. • Deputymayor, NYC; military service.
• See: Jewish Digest, June 1966.
Price, Samuel; b. Kraza, Lithuania, Nov 21
1886.
To VS 1907. • AB V Konigsberg, V Berlin,
Berlin Rabbiner Seminar. • Rabbi, communal
worker, Springfield, MA; officer Jewish
Welfare Bd; dir Baron de Hirsch Agricultural
School.· See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938.
Price, Victor; b. Czechoslovakia, 1877?; d.
Hampton Bay, LI, May 1965.
To VS 1898. • Merchant, philanthropic
worker, NYC; co-fdr Jewish Memorial
Hospital. • See: WWIAJ, 1926; NITimes, May
22 1965,31:5.
Prichep, Jack Stanley; b. Brooklyn, Mar 24
1905.
CCNY, DDS NYU. • Dentist, Woodhaven,
NY; active Zionist Org of Am, synagog. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Priest, Pearl Raphael (Mrs Louis Priest); b.
Detroit, Aug 13 1872; d. Providence, Oct
141944.
Raxdales ColI (Wetherford, TX). • Exec,
communal orgn fdr, philanthropist,
Providence; dir Jewish Orphanage ofRI,
Jewish Community Center, Heb Free Loan
Soc.· See:AJYB, 47:529; WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, Dec 141944,23:4.
Prince, Abraham D; b. ca 1851; d.
Washington DC, May 15 1915.
Jeweler, Washington DC; dir Chamber of
Commerce. • See:AJYB, 17(1915-1916):221.
Prince, Harry Milton; b. NYC, Jan 22 1889;
d.July 1972.
Cooper Vnion, Carnegie Inst ofTechnology. •
Architect, city official, NYC; commr
Tenement House Dept; author in field; WWI
service.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
NITimes, July 6 1972,40:3.
Prince,Jane Gottfried (Mrs William
Prince); b. NYC, Jan 291896; d. NYC,
Jan 71969.
Zionist ldr; fdr Heb V, Womens League for
Israel; dir Fedn ofjewish Womens Orgs, Israel
Bonds. • See: AJYB, 71:607; NITimes, Jan 8
1969,47:1.
Prince, Joseph Leonard; b. Pottstown, PA,
Sep 301894.
Wharton, LLB Dickinson Law. • Lawyer,
Pottstown; officer synagog. • See: WWIAJ,
1928,1938.
Prince, Leopold; b. Konitz, Prussia, June 2
1880; d. Hanover, NH, Aug 171951.
CCNY, LLB NYU. • Legislator, municipal
judge, NYC; fdr, conductor City Amateur
Symphony Orchestra. • See: UJE; AJYB,
54:540; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;NITimes, Aug 18
1951,11:3.
Printz, Bella Ney (Mrs Bert H Printz); b.
Lawrence, KS, Oct 18 1875.
Communal & civic ldr, Youngstown, OH;
mem State Bd of Industry for Women, State
Bd of Health for Women; state, local officer
Nat! Council ofJewish Women; nat! dir Big
Bros & Big Sisters Fedn. • See: WWIAJ, 1926,
1938.
Printz, Bert H; b. Hungary?, Nov 291859;
d. Youngstown, OH,Jan 251945.
To VS 1860. • Merchant, communal & civic
ldr, Youngstown, OH; officer Community
Chest, Childrens Service Bureau; dir Nat!
Jewish Hospital. • See:AJYB, 47:529; WWIAJ,
1926, 1938.
Prinz, Joachim; b. Burchartsdorf, Germany,
1902.
To VS 1937.· JTS (Breslau).· Rabbi, Zionist,
civil libertarian, communal worker, author,
Berlin, Newark; exec World Jewish Cong;
officer Am Jewish Cong; dir Conf ofJewish
Material Claims Against Germany. • See: EJ.
Prinzmetal, Isadore Harry; b. Buffalo, Jan
211906; d. Mar 191970.
BA, JD VCLA. • Lawyer, painter, communal
ldr; faculty V CA (Berkeley); a fdr Center for
Study of Democratic Instns; officer Jewish
Fedn Council, Am Jewish Cong, AntiDefamation League, bar assns. • See:
WWWIA,5.
Pritikin, Nathan
Pritikin, Nathan; b. Chicago, Aug 291915;
d. Albany, Feb 211985.
U Chicago; honorary degree. • Inventor,
nutritionist, Chicago, Santa Barbara; fdr
longevity centers. • See: WW'WIA, 8;
NYTimes, Feb 23 1985.
Pritzker, Donald Nicholas; b. Chicago, Oct
311932; d. May 61972.
AB Harvard, JD U Chicago. • Hotel co exec;
bdJewish Welfare Fedn (San Francisco);
military service.•. See: WW'WIA, 5; NYTimes,
May 91972,44:2.
Pritzker, Jack Nicholas; b. Chicago, Jan 6
1904; d. Oct 301979.
U MI, JD Northwestern. • Lawyer, hotel co
exec, Chicago; honorary dir Jewish Childrens
Bureau; WWII service. • See: "WWfiVIA, 7, 8.
Pritzker, Louis Jacob; b. Kiev, Dec 29
1867; d. Nov 5 1937.
To US 1882. • MD Northwestern; post-grad
Europe. • Gynecologist, obstetrician, Chicago;
faculty Northwestern, Jenner Med School,
Chicago Med School; author in field; WWI
service.· See:A]YB, 40:390; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938;NYTimes,Nov61937, 17:5.
Pritzker, Nicholas Jacob; b. Kiev, July 19
1871.
To Chicago 1881. • PhG Northwestern, LLB
DePaul. • Pharmacist, lawyer, Chicago; dir
Old Peoples Home, Marks NathanJewish
Orphan Home. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Probst, Nathan; b. NYC, June 211897; d.
Dec 301966.
AB, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, NYC; faculty St
Johns; military service. • See: WW'WIA, 5;
NYTimes, Jan 2 1967, 19:3.
Probstein, Jacob George; b. Chicago, Feb 8
1894.
MD Loyola. • Surgeon, St Louis; faculty
Washington U; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Prokesch, Solomon Z; b. Cracow, Jan 22
1875.
To US 1892. ·PhB NYU, MA Columbia,
DHL, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi, social work
admr, business exec, NYC; supt Home for
Jewish Children (Boston);' chaplain Jewish
Protectory & Aid Soc (Hawthorne, NY);
author Heb primer. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOAJ.
Promisle, Nathan; b. ca 1885; d. Hartford,
Nov 11937.
Civic & communal worker, alderman,
Hartford. • See: A]YB, 40:390.
Propp, Max; b. Russia, Dec 23 1859.
Communal worker, Michigan City, IN; officer
Zionist Org ofMichigan City, synagog; dir
Heb Immigrant Aid Soc. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Propper, Milton Morris; b. Philadelphia,
Aug 81906.
BS, LLB U PA. • Author, Philadelphia;
reviewer Philadelphia Public Ledger. • See:
WWIA],1938.
498
Proskauer, Adolph; b. Breslau, 1826; d. St
Louis, 1911.
In US before 1856. • Confederate army officer;
.secy Mobile Bd ofTrade; pres B'nai B'rith,
congregations (Mobile, St Louis). • See: UJE.
Psaty, Max; b. Austria, ca 1877; d. NYC,
Sep 19 1944.
Bldg contractor, NYC; bldr Hunter ColI,
Camp Campbell (KY). • See: A]YB, 47:529;
NYTimes, Sep 201944,23:5.
Proskauer, Alice (Mrs Joseph M
Proskauer); b: NYC, Apr 191881; d.
NYC, Mar 181959.
Communal & civic ldr, NYC; active Joint
Defense Appeal, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, Am Assn for UN, Housing
Council. • See: A]YB, 61 :419; NYTimes, Mar
191959,33:5.
Puchkoff, Pincus; b. Tulni, Russia, 1870?;
d. Miami, Feb 25 1951.
Paper mfr, Heb scholar, author;
autobiography. • See: A]YB, 53 :526; NYTimes,
Mar 1 1951,27:2.
Proskauer, Edith Harris; b. 1890; d. NYC,
Sep181975.
Philanthropist, communalldr, NYC; a fdr,
officer NY Womens Campaign, Am Jewish
Com; officer Lexington School for the Deaf,
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Sunshine Day
Nursery.• See:A]YB, 77:598;NYTimes, Sep
191975,40:2.
Proskauer, Joseph; b. Richmond, 1856; d.
NYC, Oct 291936.
Printer, philanthropist, communal worker,
NYC; internatl authority on printing;
benefactor Lakeview Home for Girls. • See:
UJE; A]YB, 39:595; NYTimes, Oct 30 1936,
23:3.
Proskauer, Joseph Meyer; b. Mobile, Aug 6
1877; d. NYC, Sep 10 1971.
AB, LLB, LLD Columbia; honorary degrees. •
Lawyer, state supreme court judge, civic &
communalldr, NYC; mem Charter Revision
Com; pres Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Natl
Refugee Service; exec com Am Jewish Com;
consult Am UN delegation; managed AI Smith
campaign; autobiography. • See: UJE; E];
A]YB, 24:191, 73:618-28; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA];A]HQ, 68:103-16; WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Sep 11 1971,30:1.
Proskauer, Julian Q"ulien) Joseph; b. NYC,
June 14 1893; d. Dec 1958.
Printing exec, writer, journalist, NYC;
authority on magic; officer Joint Distribution
Com, Soc of Am Magicians. • See: UJE;
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Dec 20
1958,2:5.
Proskauer, Richman; b. Uniontown, AL,
July 27 1890; d. NYC, Nov 61967.
Financier, civic & communal worker, NYC;
advisor Dept of Welfare; active Am Jewish
Com, Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies. • See:
A]YB, 69:611; NYTimes, Nov 7 1967,43:3.
Pulitzer, Albert; b. Mako, Hungary, July 10
1951; d. Oct 41909.
To US 1867. • Publisher, editor, author,
Chicago, NYC; fdr NY Morning Journal. • See:
UJE (sub Pulitzer, Joseph); A]YB, 12(19101911):109; WWWIA, 1.
Pulitzer, Herbert; b. ca 1897; d. Paris, Sep
1957.
Harvard. • Co-publisher, NY World;
sportsman. • See: UJE (sub Pulitzer, Joseph);
NYTimes, Sep 5 1957,29:1.
Pulitzer, Joseph; b. Mako, Hungary, Apr 10
1847; d. Charleston Harbor, SC, Oct
1911.
Congressman, publisher, philanthropist,
political activist, MO legislator, NYC;
publisher NY World; est Columbia School of
Journalism, Pulitzer Prize; Civil War service. •
See:]E; UJE; E]; A]YB, 14(1912-1913):125;
WWWIA, 1;DAB;NYTimes,Nov21911, 11:5.
Pulitzer, Joseph (Younger); b. NYC, Mar
211885; d. St Louis, Mar 301955.
Harvard. • Owner, St Louis Post-Dispatch;
WWI service. • See: UJE (sub Pulitzer,
Joseph); DAB, 5; NYTimes, Apr 11955, 27:1.
Pulitzer, Ralph; b. St Louis, June 11 1879;
d. NYC,June 141939.
AB Harvard. • Publisher, author, poet; exec
NY World. • See: UJE (sub Pulitzer, Joseph);
WWWIA, 1; DAB, 2; NYTimes, June 151939,
23:1.
Pulitzer, Walter; b. NYC, Apr 4 1878; d.
Sep 51926.
Publisher, author, chess promoter, editor; exec
Pulitzer Publishing Co. • See: WWWIA, 1.
Pully, Bernard Shaw; b. Newark, May 14
1910; d.Jan 61972.
Motion picture, stage & television actor, Los
Angeles; fundraiser Bonds for Israel. • See: .
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Jan 8 1972, 32 :4.
Pulve~macher,
Prosterman, Samuel; b. Squara, Russia, Apr
291883.
To Chicago 1906. • Clothing mfr, Chicago;
trustee B'nai B'rith. • See: WWIA], 1938.
PriIever, Julius; b. Vienna, ca 1874; d.
NYC,July 81943.
To US 1939. 0 Pianist, conductor, Breslau
Opera, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; faculty
Berlin State Academy of Music, NY ColI of
Music. • See: A]YB, 46:343; NYTimes, July 9
1943, 17:2.
Joseph; b. Brooklyn, Apr 4
1886; d. NYC, Mar 9 1962.
NYU. • Banker, NYC; dir Heb Immigrant Aid
Soc, Jewish Conciliation Bd, FeOO ofJewish
Philanthropies; active Union of Am Heb
Congregations, NY Bd of Trade. • See: A]YB,
64:495-96; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, Mar 10 1962,21:4.
Pumpian-Mindlin, Eugene; b. NYC, July 18
1908.
U VA, MD U Zurich. • Physician, psychiatrist,
Los Angeles; faculty U Southern CA, UCLA;
author in field. • See: WWWIA, 7.
499
Puro, Joseph; b. NYC, May 27'1919; d.
NYC, Sep 22 1970.
Business exec; a fdr Albert Einstein Call of
Med. • See:A]YB, 72:543; NITimes, Sep 24
1970,50:1.
Purvin, Jennie Franklin (Mrs Moses L
Purvin); b. Chicago, Aug 23 1873.
U Chicago. • Civic & communal clubwoman,
Chicago; pres Womans Aid, Nat! Council of
Jewish Women; officer IL Fedn ofWomens
Putze1, Lewis
Clubs, Civic Music Assn; orgr J ewish Welfare
Bd. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Pushkin, Benjamin; b. Vitebsk, Apr 11886.
To US 1908. • MD U MD, post-grad London.
• Physician, Baltimore; faculty U MD. • See:
WWIA], 1928,1938.
Puttennan, David Josef; b. NYC, Aug 27
1900; d. NYC, Oct 10 1979.
Pace & Pace Inst, RIETS.•. Cantor, composer,
educator, NYC; a fdr JTS Cantors Inst; nat!
exec com Zionist Org of Am, Jewish
Educational Assn. • See: E]; A]YB, 81:373;
WWIA], 1926, 1928; NITimes, Oct 12 1979.
Putzel, Lewis; b. Baltimore, Dec 16 1966;
d. Baltimore, May 301914.
Baltimore City ColI, LLB U MD. • Lawyer,
legislator, communal worker, Baltimore; active
Republican politics. • See: A]YB, 6(19041905):166,16(1914-1915):165.