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Maas, Ernest; b. Dogeshim, Germany, Nov
61880.
To US 1895. • Dept store exec, Tampa; officer
YMHA, Community Chest; exec com Atlanta
Heb Orphanage. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Maas, Simon; b. Grosbockenheim, Bavaria,
1842; d. Sehna,AUL, 1907.
To US ca 1855. • "Wholesale merchant, mayor,
Selma, AL. • See: UJE.
Maass, Herbert Halsey; b. San Francisco,
Mar 2 1876/1878; d. Apr 1957.
CCNY, LLB, LLM NYU. • Lawyer, NYC;
trustee Inst for Advanced Study (Princeton);
active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Am
Jewish Com. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 3;NITimes, Apr 131957,19:2.
Machado, David Mendez; b. Lisbon; d.
NYC, ca 1753.
To Savannah 1733.· Hazzan, ShearithIsrael,
NYC; fled Spanish Inquisition. • See:]E (sub
Machado); E] (sub Machado); BDEA]; PA]HS,
2:45-61.
Machado, Rebecca (Mrs Jonas Phillips); b.
NYClReading, Nov 11/261746; d.
Philadelphia, June 21/25 1831.
A pioneer Jew. • See: BDEA].
Machat, Bertram Benjamin; b. Lithuania,
June 17 1879.
DDS ColI Dental & Oral Surgery. • Oral
surgeon, Brooklyn; med consult Jewish instns;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Machlup, Fritz; b. Wiener Neustadt,
Austria, 1902; d.Jan 301983.
To US 1933. • Economist; faculty U Buffalo,
Johns Hopkins; consult US Treasury; pres
Intematl Economics Assn; author in field. •
See: E]; WWWIA, 8.
Machol, M; b. Kohnar-in-Posen, Nov 13
1845; d. Denver, Aug 26 1912.
PhD U Breslau, JTS (Breslau). • Rabbi,
Cleveland. • See: A]YB, 5(1903-1904):77,
15(1913-1914):272.
Macht, David Israel; b. Moscow, Feb 14
1882; d. Oct 1961~
To US ca 1890. • Baltimore City ColI, AB,
MD Johns Hopkins, LLB Hamilton ColI of
Law; honorary degrees. • Physician,
pharmacologist, coroner, med innovator,
Baltimore; facultyJohns Hopkins, Yeshiva
ColI; pres synagog. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
24:177; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;BEOA];
NITimes, Oct 161961,29:1.
Macht, Ephraim; b. Kovno, Nov 151866; d.
Baltimore, Dec 19 1944.
To Baltimore 1887. • Realtor, bldr, communal
worker, philanthropist, Baltimore; a fdr Jewish
Home for Consumptives; dir Assocd Jewish
Charities, Baltimore Heb ColI, Heb Free
Schools.· See:A]YB, 47:528; WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938.
Mack, Marc H; b. ca 1846; d. NYC, Dec 21
1933.
Mfr, philanthropist, NYC. • See: A]YB,
36:284.
Macht, 1M; b.*
Physician, professor, Baltimore. • See: A]YB,
24:177.
Mack, Marion Reckford (Mrs Walter S
MackJr) b. Elberon, NJ, June 16 1899.
AB Wellesley, MA Columbia. • Educational
ldr, NYC; mem Bd of Higher Education;
trustee Hunter; active Heb Technical School
for Girls, Educational Alliance, Goddard
Neighborhood Center. • See: WWIA], 1938;
Macht, Wolfe; b. Liverpool, Sep 51890; d.
1952.
BA U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, Zionist, Waco; officer County Health
Assn, B'nai B'rith. • See: WWIA], 1928;
CCARYB.
Machta, Lester; b. NYC, 1919.
Meteorologist; faculty U IL; research assoc
MIT; with US Weather Bureau,
Environmental Services Adm. • See: E].
Mack, Adolph; b. Germany, Dec 231835;
d. Dec 25 1909.
To US 1851. • U Hamburg. • Hardware
importer, woolen mills owner, Cincinnati,
NYC, Raritan, N]; active Republican Party. •
See: PA]HS, 22:227-28.
Mack, Alfred; b. Cincinnati, Jan 10 1862; d.
Cincinnati, Apr 23 1950.
LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, common pleas judge,
Cincinnati; officer synagog; bd Heb Union
ColI, U Cincinnati. • See: UJE; A]YB, 52:503;
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Mack, Edwin S; b. Cincinnati, Dec 271869;
d. Apr 91942.
AB, MA, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, Milwaukee;
faculty U WI; trustee Layton Art Gallery. •
See: WWIA], 1926,1928,1938; WWWIA, 2.
Mack, Harry Wolf; b. Cincinnati, Mar 13
1861; d. Apr 23 1938.
AB CCNY, Columbia, MA, LLB Harvard. •
Lawyer, civic ldr, NYC, Port Chester; special
asst US district atty, Washington DC. • See:
A]YB, 40:388; WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Mack, Howard; b. Haverhill, MA, Dec 19
1907; d. NYC, July 61967.
Tufts. • Industrialist, Hackensack; officer
Community Chest, United Jewish Appeal;
active communal instns. • See: A]YB, 69:609;
WWWIA, 4; NITimes, July 8 1967, 25:3.
Mack, Jessie Fox (Mrs); b.*; d. NYC, Nov
301938.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: A]YB,
41:427.
Mack, Julian William; b. San Francisco, July
191866; d. NYC, Sep 51943.
LLB Harvard, post-grad U Berlin, U Leipzig.
• Lawyer, circuit court judge, natl communal
& civic ldr, Zionist, Chicago; natl pres Am
Jewish Cong, Zionist Org of Am, Comite des
DelegationsJuive aParis (Versailles Peace
Conf); faculty Northwestern, U Chicago;
officer AssocdJewish Charities. • See: UJE;
E]; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):147,24:177,46:3546,342; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
PA]HS, 37:476-77; WWWIA, 2; DAB, 3;
NITimes, Sep 6 1943, 17:1.
BEOA].
Mack, Millard W; b. Cincinnati, 1873.
Insurance expert, Cincinnati. • See: A]YB,
24:177.
Mack, Pauline Sachs (Mrs Theodore
Mack); b. Cincinnati, Sep 30 1873.
U Cincinnati, post-grad U CO.· Communal
& civic worker, Ft Worth; a fdr Baby Hospital;
officer Natl Council ofJewish Women, Fedn
of Wornens Clubs.· See: WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Mack, Ralph W; b. Cincinnati, ca 1879; d.
Cincinnati, Jan 22 1945.
Reform ldr, Cincinnati; officer Am Council for
Judaism; bd Heb Union ColI, Union of Am
Heb Congregations. • See: A]YB, 47:528.
Mack, Robert Tandler; b. Cincinnati, Feb
261887.
AB, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, Chicago; dir IL
Soc for Mental Hygiene, Jewish Social Services
Bureau; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Mack, Walter S (Staunton) Jr; b. NYC, Oct
191895.
AB Harvard. • Investment broker, NYC; active
Republican politics; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Mack, William Jacobs; b. Cincinnati, Aug
101885.
AB, LLRHarvard. • Business exec, mediator,
communalldr, Cleveland, Chicago, NYC;
officer Jewish Aid Soc (Chicago), Joint
Distribution Com; dir Big Bros (Chicago);
WWI service. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1926,
1938.
MacKenna, Kenneth (Leo Mielziner Jr.); b.
Canterbury, NH, Aug 19 1899; d. Santa
Monica,Jan 1962.
Columbia. • Broadway & movie actor,
producer, Los Angeles; benefactor UCLA;
WWI service. • See: A]YB, 24:182; WWIA],
1928, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes, Jan 17 1962,
33:4.
Macy, George; b. NYC, May 12 1900; d.
May 20 1956.
Columbia. • Publisher, editor, author, NYC;
fdr The Limited Edition Press; editor Zeta
Beta Tau quarterly. • See: WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, May211956, 25:3.
Maddin, Milton Maurice; b. San Francisco,
Jan 1'0 1902.
Detroit City College, AB, LLB U MI. •
Lawyer, Detroit; specialty: constitutional law;
WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOAJ.
410
Madison, Charles A
Madison, Charles A; b. ca 1896; d. West
Haven, cr, Feb 1985.
Author, college book editor; active Am Civil
Liberties Union.• See:NITimes, Feb 51985.
Madison, Noel (born Moscovitch); b. NYC,
Apr 271897; d.Jan 1975.
Inst Monnier (Lausanne). • Yiddish & English
actor, Beverly Hills. • See: WWlAJ, 1938;
BEOA]; NYTimes, Jan 7 1975, 36: 1.
Madorsky, Samuel Leo; b. Novo-Buikhov,
Russia, Feb 28 1891.
To US 1911.. BS, PhD U Chicago.·
Research chemist, patent holder, Washington
DC; with Dept ofAgriculture; author in field.
• See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Mag, Arthur; b. New Britain, cr, Oct 11
1896; d. Oct 211981.
AB, JD Yale; honorary degree. • Lawyer, nat!
mental health ldr, author, Kansas City; pres
Greater Kansas City Mental Health Found; bd
MenorahMed Center.· See: WWWIA, 8.
Mag, Edward Arnold; b. New Britain, CT,
Sep 16 1899; d. July 5 1980.
LLB Yale. • Legal consult, foreign service
officer, New Deal & Lend-Lease lawyer, NYC;
legal attache US embassies. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Magid, A; b. ca 1873; d. St Louis, Mar 30
1936.
CommUIial worker, St Louis. • See: AJYB,
38:432.
Magid, Maurice Oliver; b. Skalat, Austria,
Oct 24 1882; d. NYC, July 31 1940.
To US 1892. • MD Cornell, NY School of
Philanthropy, post-grad NY Polyclinic, NY
Med ColI for Women. • Obstetrician,
gynecologist, NYC; a fdr Hunts Point
Hospital; faculty NY Polyclinic; officer
professional assns; author in field. • See: AJYB,
43:361; WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Aug
11940,21:1.
Magida, Abram Senior; b. NYC, Jan 25
1895.
BS NYU, post-grad Columbia. • Communal
exec, insurance agent, NYC; supervisor Young
Judea (Harlem); exec dir Jewish Community
Center (Gloversville, NY), YMHA (Scranton,
Kansas City); WWI service. • See: WWlAJ,
1928,1938.
Magidoff, Jacob; b. Odessa, June 22 1869;
d. Brooklyn, Aug 261943.
To NYC 1886. • LLB NYU. • Yiddish
journalist, "dean ofJewish journalism," NYC; a
fdr United Heb Trades; assoc editor Jewish
Morning Journal. • See: UJE; AJYB, 46:342;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Aug
27 1943, 17:4.
Magil, Joseph; b. Russein, Lithuania, 1871;
d. Philadelphia, Feb 10 1945.
To US 1892. • Heb scholar, printer, publisher,
Philadelphia; translated, published Bible,
Haggadah; mgr Jewish Daily News; active
communal & Zionist affairs. • See: AJYB,
47:528; NITimes, Feb 12 1945, 19:3.
Magil, Julius M; b. Mitau, Courland, Dec
291870.
U Zurich, Ft Wayne Med CoIl, PhD Rogers
ColI. • Rabbi, Corsicana, 'IX; editor]ewish
HomeJournal. • See:AJYB, 5(1903-1904):77.
Grand Opera (Philadelphia); faculty Juilliard. •
See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 6;
NITimes, June 191973,42:3.
Magil,ReubenJacob;b.Philadelphia,Jan
111904.
AB Columbia, LLB U PA, ordainedJTS.·
Rabbi, Springfield, MA, Buffalo; bdJewish
Fedn for Social Services (Buffalo). • See:
WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Mahler, Jacob; b. Chicago, Dec 29 1857.
Dance instructor & composer, St Louis. • See:
WWIAJ,1928.
Magner, Joseph; b. Hamburg, Oct 28 1828.
Communal worker, New Orleans; a fdr Touro
Infirmary, Relief for Jewish Widows &
Orphans. • See:AJYB, 7(1905-1906):85-86.
Magnes, Judah Leon; b. San Francisco, July
5 1877; d. NYC, Oct 27 1948.
AB U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI,
post-grad Germany. • Rabbi, cultural Zionist
& nat! communalldr, pacifist; a fdr NY
Kehillah; chancellor Heb U; bd Am Jewish
Com; active Am Civil Liberties Union. • See:
UJE; EJ; AJYB, 6(1904-1905):220, 24:178,
51:512-15,522-23; WWlAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 2; DAB, 4; NITimes, Oct 28
1948,29:1.
Magnin, Edgar Fogel; b. San Francisco, July
1 1890; d.Beverly Hills, July 17 1984.
AB U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI;
honorary degrees. • Rabbi, communal & civic
worker, author, Los Angeles; a fdr Nat!
Council on Alcoholism; officer J ewish Welfare
Bd, Red Cross; advisor Bd of Education; active
interfaith work.· See: UJE; EJ;-WWlAJ, 1928,
1938; BEOAJ; JTA-DNB, July 20 1984.
Magnin, Grover A; b. San Francisco, 1886;
d. San Francisco, Mar 1969.
'Retail chain store exec, I Magnin & Co. • See:
NITimes, Mar 191969,47:1.
Magnus,Julian; b. London, ca 1850; d.
NYC, Sep 1905.
To US as child. • Playwright, theatre mgr,
author, NYC. • See:AJYB, 8(1906-1907):224;
NITimes, Sep 17 1905, 9:6.
Magnus, Levy Adolf (Adolph); b. Berlin,
Sep 91865; d. NYC, Feb 61955.
Physician, med scientist; pioneer work on
diabetes, metabolism; faculty U Berlin;
research assoc Yale; author in field. • See:
AJYB, 57:607; NITimes, Feb 71955,21:2.
Magon, Nathan Jerome; b. Brooklyn, Aug
171900.
Pratt. • Artist, puppeteer, NYC; faculty
Yeshiva ColI, Talmudic Academy, School of
Industrial Art; art dir Young Israel. • See:
WWlAJ,1938.
Magrish, Alfred E; _b. Cincinnati, Aug 13
1912; d. July 91977.
Yale. • Management consult, dept store
merchandising exec; WWII service.· See:
WWWIA, 7.
Mahler, Fritz; b. Vienna, July 1619011
1902; d.June 18 1973.
To US 1935/1936: • U Vienna. • Composer,
conductor; with Dresden Symphony,
Copenhagen Symphony; music dir Civic
Mahler, Herbert; b. Chatham, Ontario,
Nov 61890; d. NYC, Aug 1961.
Labor ldr & orgr; with Industrial Workers of
the World; active radical causes. • See:
NITimes, Aug 181961,21:2.
'
Mahler, Margaret Schoenberger; b.
Sopron, Hungary, 1897.
To US 1938. • Child psychiatrist &
psychoanalyst; NYC; faculty Columbia, Albert
Einstein ColI ofMed; dir Masters Childrens
Center; author infield. • See:EJ.
Mahler, Raphael; b. Nowy Sacz, Poland,
1899.
To US 1937. • PhD UVienna.· Jewish
historian, author, tchr, NYC; with Yiddish
Inst; active Jewish workers movement. • See:
UJE.
Maibaum, Richard Walter; b. NYC, May 26
1909.
AB, MA U lA. • Playwright, scriptwriter,
Culver City, CA; with MGM; "Birthright." •
See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938.
Maidenbaum, Nathan; b. Ostrov, Poland,
July 111913; d. Lawrence, ~,June 19
1979.
To US 1932. • Business exec, communalldr,
author; officer Religious Zionists of Am,
Mizrachi; benefactor Yeshiva. • See: AJYB,
81:370-71.
Maidrnan, Irving; b. NYC, Feb 25 1897; d.
Oct 71979.
NYU. • Real estate investor, appraiser &
broker, tax consult, bldr, NYC; bd Am Israel
Culture Found, Am ColI Gerusalem),
Parkinsons Disease Found,JTS; a fdr Albert
Einstein CoIl ofMed. • See: WWWIA, 7;
NITimes, Oct 8 1979.
Maier,]oseph; b. Leigzig, 1911.
Sociologist; faculty Rutgers; columnistAujbau;
author in field. • See: EJ.
Mailer, Norman; b. Long Branch,
Novelist, essayist. • See: EJ.
NJ, 1923.
Mailhouse, Max; b. New Hav~n, Feb 5
1857; d. Oct 1941.
PhB, MD Yale. • Physician, neurologist, civic
worker, New Haven; specialty: epilepsy; fdr
CT Colony for Epileptics; faculty Yale; mem
state medical examining bd. • See: AJYB,
24:178; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 2; NITimes, Oct 20 1941, 18:2.
Mairnon, Abraham; b. ca 1874; d. Seattle,
Jan 291931.
Rabbi, Seattle. • See:AJYB, 33:127.
Mainzer, Ferdinand; b. Germany, ca 1872;
d. Los Angeles, Jan 3 1943.
Maller, J William
411
To US 1939. • Gynecologist, violinist, author;
faculty U Berlin. • See: AJYB, 45:390.
Maisel, Maurice Moses; b. Austria, Aug 8
1888.
To US 1897. • Merchant, Albuquerque; officer
synagog, :Q'nai B'rith. • See: "WWIAJ, 1938.
Malech, Morris; b. Brooklyn, ca 1913; d.
Hackensack, Oct J 984.
Dana ColI, NJ Law. • Lawyer, superior court
judge, prosecutor; dir legal journal; military
service. • See: NITimes, Oct 20 1984.
Maisel, Max Nathan; b. Riga, Mar 15 1872;
d. Oct 1959.
To US 1892. • Yiddish & English publisher,
translator, bookstore owner, NYC. • See:
AJYB, 24:178; "WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
NITimis, Oct 181959,86:7.
Malev, "William Samson; b. PolesielHomel,
Russia, Aug 4 1898; d. Houston, July
1973.
AB CCNY, MA Columbia, ordainedJTS. •
Rabbi, religious educator, NYC, Houston; fdr
Jewish Tchrs Assn; active United Synagogue of
Am, Zionist Org of Am. • See: "WWIAJ, 1926,
1928; BEOAJ; NITimes, July 151973,47:2.
Maisels, Max (Misha); b. Warsaw, 1901.
To US 1930, tolsrael1959. • Heb writer,
editor, author, translator; staff Hadaor. • See:
E].
Malevinsky, Moses L; b. ca 1873; d.NYC,
Oct 171932.
Lawyer, NYC; specialty: theatrical litigation. •
See:AJYB,35:126.
Maisner, Moses; b. Deva Wanya, Hungary,
Oct 19 1838; d.July 11918.
PhD U Pest, Pressburg. • Rabbi, talmudical
writer, Hungary, NYC. ·See:AJYB, 5(19031904):77,21:206.
Malina, Louis; b. Poland, ca 1886; d. Dec
1963.
Pioneer promotor of rayon, businessman, art
collector, philanthtopist, NYC; fdr Malina
Found; active Am·Cancer Soc, Albert Einstein
ColI ofMed, Brandeis, United Jewish Appeal.
• See: NITimes, Dec 201963,29:1.
Maizlish, Israel (I Paul); b. 1898; d.
Richmond, KY, Sep 41945.
BS, MS MIT, post-grad U IA, PhD U MN. •
Physicist, mathematician; faculty Reed, U MN,
Lehigh, Centenary ColI of Los Angeles,
Eastern KY; fdr professional orgs. • See: AJYB,
48:495; "WWIAJ, 1938;NITimes, Sep 51945,
23:4.
Malina, Max; b. Berlin, June 201897; d.
June 23 1940.
To US 1927. • U Berlin, Berlin Lehranstalt. •
Rabbi, editor, author, NYC; publisher, editor
Jiidisches Familienblatt. • See: AJYB, 42:481;
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Major, Henry; b. Nagyszalonta, Hungary,
1889; d. Provincetown, MA, Sep 1948.
To US 192 3. • Art schools (Budapest, Paris,
Amsterdam). • Painter, caricaturist; with
Hearst dailies, Ne7JJ Yorker. • See: UJE;
NITimes, Sep 191948,76:5.
Maliner, Martin Max; b.' Brooklyn, Sep 22
1896.
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Pediatrician, concert
violinist, Brooklyn; officer synagog; dir
Physicians Art Quartet; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Malachi, Eliezer Raphael; b. Jerusalem,
1895.
To US ca 1912. • Scholar & bibliographer of
Heb literature and authors. • See: EJ.
Maliniak, Fishel; b. Brezine, Poland, Mar 1
1912; d. NYC, May41976.
To US 1939. • Labor Zionist, communal
worker, author; fdr Youth Center (Israel); bd
Jewish Frontier, Yiddischer Kemfer. • See: AJYB,
78:544.
Malamud, Bernard; b. NYC, 1914.
Noted writer, Pulitzer Prize winner. • See: EJ;
EJ: 1973-1982.
Malamud, Louis (Leibel); b. Bessarabia?,
1905; d. Newark, Apr 25 1980.
To US 1920s.· Cantor, NYC; "Mayor of
Broadway." • See: AJYB, 82:369.
Malamud, William Zev; b. Kishinev, Mar 5
1896.
To US 1921.· MD, CMMcGill.·
Psychiatrist, Iowa City; faculty U IA, Boston
U; asst dir IA State Psychopathic Hospital. •
See: UJE; "WWIAJ, 1938.
Malamut, J L; b. Podolia, 1886.
To US 1903. • Pioneer Yiddish provincial
press; a fdr Zunland (literary monthly); editor
Chicago Forward, Der Tog, Yiddish papers in
Detroit & Los Angeles. • See: UJE.
Malashock, Harry; b. Russia, Dec 261889.
To US 1893. • Jeweler, communal worker, St
Joseph, Omaha; exec com J ewish Welfare Bd;
active Jewish philanthropies. • See: "WWIAJ,
1928, 1938.
Maliniak, Jacques W; b. Warsaw, May 26
1889; d. Mar 1976.
To US 1922. • U Naney, MD U Paris, postgrad Berlin, Paris~ Stockholm. • Plastic
surgeon, NYC; officer professional assn;
author in field. • See: "WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes,
Mar 61976,28:5.
Malis, Viola Permisohn (Mrs Sol Malis); b.
Austria, Nov 20 1899.
To US 1903. • Teachers Inst GTS), AB
Hunter, post-grad NY Post-GradMed School.
• Americanization tchr, biochemist, med &
social worker, NYC, Los Angeles; staff
Educational Alliance; exec dir Young Peoples
Heb Assn (Los Angeles). • See: "WWIAJ, 1938.
Malisoff, William Marias; b. Ekaterinoslav,
Mar 14 1895; d.NYC, Nov 15/16 1947.
To NYC 1905. • BS, MA, Chern E Columbia,
PhD NYU. • Biochemist, researcher, consult,
Philadelphia, NYC; specialty: hardening of the
arteries; faculty U PA; author!editor in field. •
See: UJE;AJYB, 50:519; WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 2; NITimes, Nov 17 1947,
21:4.
Malkenson, Arthur Lyon; b. Vilna, Oct 29
1881; d. NYC, Mar 251956.
To US 1896. • AB CCNY, LLB NYU. •
Publisher, NYC; publisher, staff Je7JJish
Morning Journal; charter mem, dir Central
Relief Com; officer Am Com of Palestine
Exploration Soc. • See:AJYB, 58:478;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Mar
261956,29:3.
Malkhi, Moses; b. Ezra.
Mid-18th century emissary to New World
from Safed, Palestine; in NY 1759, then
Newport, RI. • See: EJ.
Malkiel, Leon Andrew; b. Moscow, Aug 1
1866.
To US 1881. • LLB NYU. • Lawyer, NYC;
active Socialist Labor Party, Social Democratic
Party. • See: WWU7IA, 1.
Malkiel, Theresa Serber (Mrs Leon A
Malkiel); b. Bar, Russia, May 1 1874; d.
Nov 1949.
To US 1891. • Labor ldr, sweatshop worker,
socialist; orgr Womans Infant Cloak Makers
Union; mem Womens Natl Committee;
autobiography.· See:AJHQ, 68:189-205;
NITimes, Nov 18 1949,29:3.
Malkiel, Yakov; b. Kiev, 1914.
To US 1940. • Philologist; specialty: Romance
languages; faculty U CA (Berkeley); author!
editor in field. • See: EJ.
Malkin, Jacques; b. Slobodka, Lithuania,
1876.
Violinist, tchr; mem Malkin Trio; active
ancient instruments group (Paris). • See: UJE
(sub Malkin, Manfred).
Malkin, Joseph; b. Odessa, Sep 25 1879; d.
1969.
To Boston 1914. • Paris Conservatory. •
Concert & orchestra cellist, Boston; fdr Malkin
Conservatory;, with Boston Symphony,
Chicago Symphony, Malkin Trio. • See: UJE
(sub Malkin, Manfred); "WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ; NITimes,.Sep 3 1969,44:1.
Malkin, Manfred; b. Odessa, Aug 11 1884;
d.Jan 1966.
To US 1905. • Paris Conservatory. • Concert
pianist, tchr, Boston, NYC; fdr Malkin
Conservatory; mem Malkin Trio. • See: UJE;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NITimes, Jan 101966,
25:6.
Malkind, Samuel Lewis; b. NYC, Nov 10
1896.
NJ School of Industrial Arts, Pratt. • Architect,
Brooklyn; specialty: low cost housing; dir
Crown Hgts Bridge Academy; author on
contract bridge. • See: "WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
MaIler, J William; b. Bucharest, Sep 2S
1888.
DDS NYU, post-grad Columbia, Dewey
School. • Orthodontist, NYC. • See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Maller,]ulius B
Maller, Julius Bi b. Wobolnicki, Lithuania,
Apr 15 1901; d. Bronx, May 81959.
To US 1921.· AB Washington U, AM, PhD
Columbia, DHLJTS.· Psychologist, author,
NYC; with Am Jewish Com; faculty Columbia,
Heb Union ColI, Yeshiva U; advisor Bd of
Education, State Bd of Regents. • See: UJE;
A]YB, 61:418; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, May 9
1959,21:1.
Mallin, Albert Milton; b. Berdichev, Russia,
Aug211897.
To US 1908. • AB CCNY, post-grad
Columbia. • Public school tchr, NYC; then
businessman, Havana.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Mallina, Rudolph; b. Vienna, 1892; d.
Tarrytown, NY, Sep 1970.
Vienna Technical ColI. • Acoustical engineer,
patent holder; with Wurlitzer, RCA, Bell Labs;
known for his unusual marriage by contract. •
See: NYTimes, Sep 16 1970, 47:3.
Mallinson, Herbert; b. Tyler, TX, Apr 24
1894; d. Dallas, Oct 91941.
PAMilitaryColl (Chester, PA).· Business
exec, civic & communalldr, philanthropist,
Dallas; natl dir Joint Distribution Com,
Council ofJewish Fedns & Welfare Funds;
officerJewish Fedn for Social Service; bd Natl
Refugee Service.· See:A]YB, 44:341;
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Oct 11
1941,17:5.
MaImed, Abraham Tutelman; b. Poland,
Apr231888.
To Philadelphia 1891. • Temple U. • Cement
mfr, Philadelphia; advisor Public Works Adm
(PA).· See: WWIA], 1928,1938; BEOA].
Malochowsky, Israel; b. ca 1831; d. NYC,
June 41911.
Hazzan, NYc.. See:A]YB, 13(1911-
412
AB Columbia, Yale. • Playwright, author; used
working class themes; indicted during
McCarthy era, settled in Mexico City. • See:
UJE; E]; WWWIA, 8.
Maltz, Bernard M; b. Lithuania, May 17
1877; d. before 1938.
To US '1890. • Bldr, realtor, communalldr,
NYC; dir Fedn of]ewish Charities, Home for
Aged Hebrews; active Keren Hayesod, Yeshiva
ColI. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928.
25:140.
Malsin, Arthur; b. NYC, ca 1913; d.
Croton-on-Hudson, Nov 1984.
Yale, MA Harvard. • Architect, retail store
exec; military service. • See: NYTimes, Nov 17
1984.
Malsin, Raphael Bryant; b. 1900.
Chain store exec, NYC; with Lane Bryant;
active communal philanthropy. • See: E] (sub
Himmelstein, Lena).
Malter, Henry; b. Zabno, Galicia, Mar 23
1864/1867/1869;d.Philadelphia,April
1925.
To US 1900. • PhD U Heidelberg, U Berlin,
Berlin Lehranstalt. • Arabist, rabbi, JudeoArabic & medieval philosophy scholar; faculty
Heb Union ColI, Dropsie; author in field. •
See:]E; UJE;E];A]YB, 6(1904-1905):147-48,
24:178,28:261-72; WWWIA, 1; DAB;
NYTimes, Apr 61925,19:6.
Maltz, Albert; b. Brooklyn, Oct 28 1908; d.
Apr261985.
Mandel, Arthur Rudolph; b. Boston, 1876;
d. Mar 7 1937.
Pathologist, physician, NYC; faculty NYU. •
See: A]YB, 24:178, 39:594; NYTimes, Mar 8
1937,19:2.
Maltz, Maxwell; b. NYC, Mar 10 1899; d.
Apr 1975.
Mandel, Babette (Mrs Emanuel Mandel); b.
Aufhausen, Wiirttemberg, Oct 25 1848.
BS, MD Columbia. • Plastic surgeon, NYC;
author in field; "WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938; NYTimes, Apr 8 1975, 40:2.
Communal worker, Chicago; fdr Jewish
Training School, Maxwell St Settlement, West
Side Dispensary; dir Lying-In Hospital. • See:
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):86.
Malzberg, Benjamin; b. NYC, Dec 2 1893;
d. Albany, NY, Apr 12 1975.
CCNY, PhD Columbia, post-grad Paris,
London. • Psychiatric statistician,
epidemiologist; worked with Myrdal on studies
on racism; with Dept of Welfare, Dept of
Mental Hygiene (NY); advisor US
government; author in field. • See: E];
WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Apr 141975, 34:5.
Marrdock,HansJ;b.caI875;d.NYC,~ov
111940.
To US 1937. • Pioneer ofmodern dentistry,
Germany; faculty U Berlin. • See: A]YB,
43:361; NYTimes, Nov 12 1940,23:4 (sub
Mamlok).
Man, E Lester; b. Wilkes-Barre, Sep 17
1893.
LLB Georgetown U. • Lawyer, insurance
broker, Scranton; officer Zionist Org of Am,
Community Chest, Visiting Nurses Assn;
active YMHA. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Mana-Zucca; see Zucca, Manna.
Mandel, Edward; b. NYC, May 18 1869; d.
Forest Hills, LI, May 251942.
AB, MA CCNY, LLM, post-grad NYU. •
Lawyer, educator, NYC; tchr, principal, supt
public schools. • See:A]YB, 24:178, 44:341;
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, May 261942,21:1.
Mandel, Edwin Frank; b. Chicago, Dec 5
1875; d.July 1963.
U Chicago. • Merchant, Mandel Bros Dept
Stores, Chicago; dir Michael Reese Hospital. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, July 18 1963,
27:2.
Mandel, Frank; b. San Francisco, May 31
1884; d. Hollywood, CA, Apr 1958.
B Litt U CA, Hastings. • Playwright,\ producer,
NYC; co-author "No, No, Nannette."· See:
UJE; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; NYTimes,
Apr 22 1958,33:3.
Mandel, Jacob; b. Ungvar, Hungary, Dec 27
1857.
MA, PhD NYU. • Rabbi, NYC. • See: A]YB,
5(1903-1904):77-78.
1912):138.
Malsin, Albert; b. ca 1883; d. NYC, Feb 6
1923.
Merchant, inventor, NYC. • See:A]YB,
Research (Detroit), Bureau ofMunicipal
Research (Dayton, OH), New Deal agency;
exec dir Russian War Relief, Community
Chest & Councils of Am. • See: WWIA],
1938;BEOA]; WWWIA, 8.
Manacher, Irving A; b. ~iszviz, Russia,
May 81896; d. NYC,June 81970.
In US 1901. • Business exec, philanthropist,
NYC; bd Heb Union ColI-Jewish Inst of
Religion; active Fedn of] ewish Philanthropies,
United Jewish Appeal; benefactor Am Friends
ofHeb U.· See:A]YB, 72:543; NITimes,June
12 1970, 39:2.
Manasses, Jacob Lippman; b. Montgomery,
AL, May 24 1874; d. Philadelphia, Apr
1940.
AB U AL, MD UPA. • Physician, surgeon,
Philadelphia; fdr boys camp; "WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Apr 7
1940,45:2.
Mandel, Abraham; b. Brooklyn, June 3
1900.
BCS NYU, LLB Fordham.· Lawyer,
accountant, Zionist, NYC; active Fusion Party,
Progressive Com for Reelection ofFDR,
judicial reform, Am Jewish Congo • See:
WWIA],1938;BEOA].
Mandel, Leon; b. ca 1841; d. Chicago, Nov
41911.
Merchant, Chicago. • See:A]YB, 14(19121913):125.
Mandel, Leon; b. Chicago, Feb 16 1902; d.
Feb 22 1974.
AB Cornell. • Dept store merchant, financier,
author, Chicago; dir Young Mens Jewish
Charity; advisor Jules Stein Eye Inst; active
trade assn. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Feb 26 1974, 33:6.
Mandel, Marvin; b. Baltimore, 1920.
Governor ofMD, Baltimore. • See: E]; AI,
Apr 9 1970; World Over, Feb 14 1969; NJ .
Monthly, Mar 1970.
Mandel, Morris; b. Bely, Hungary, Apr 1
1875.
To US 1888.· AB CCNY, ordainedJTS,
post-grad Columbia. • Rabbi, Allentown, PA;
officer Fedn of Am Zionists. • See: A]YB,
5(1903-1904):78, 6(1904-1905):220.,
Mandel, Arch; b. Hungary, July 17 1888.
To US 1891. • AB CCNY, Training School
for Public Servants of the NY Bureau of
Municipal Research. • Social work admr,
public servant; with Bureau of Government
Mandel, Robert; b. Chicago, July 16 1871.
Business colI. • Exec, Mandel Bros Dept Store,
Chicago. • See: WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 5.
413
Mandel, Simon; b. Kerzenheim, Germany,
ca 1837; d. Chicago, Aug 19 1912.
Merchant, Chi~ago; pres Mandel Bros Dept
Store.· See:AJYB, 15(1913-1914):272;
NYTimes, Aug 20 1912, 9:6.
Mandelbaum, Albert Naphtoli; b.
Jerusalem, Jan 3 1898; d. Bronx, Mar 30
1971.
To US 1916. ;, AB U NE, RIETS, MA U
Louisville. • Rabbi, communal & civic ldr,
Albany, NY, Louisville, Chicago; fdr
brotherhood movement in Orthodox synagog;
dir Central Relief Com, Community Chest;
active Am Jewish Cong.· See:AJYB, 73:633;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; NITimes, Mar 31 1971,
48:2.
Mandelbaum, Bernard; b. NYC.
Pres, JTS. • See: Jewish Digest, Sep 1967.
Mandelbaum, David Goodman; b. Chicago,
Aug221911.
AB Northwestern, PhD Yale. •
Anthropologist, NYC; with Am Museum of
Natural History; dir Jewish Community
Center (Ansonia, CT). • See: EJ; WWIAJ,
1938.
Manheimer, Arthur Emanuel
Mandelkem, Israel; b. Dubin, Volhynia,
Dec 101861.
To US 1882. • School of Fine Arts (Odessa). •
Photographer, illustrator, NYC; withJE; mem
ORJewish colony. • See:AJYB, 6(19041905):148.
To US 1920.· AB Northwestern, ordained
Heb Theological CoIl. • Rabbi, author, editor,
Youngstown, OH; officer Zionist Org of Am;
co-editor Youngstown Jewish Times; active Am
Jewish Cong.· See: WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Sep 18 1951,32:3.
Mandell, Herbert M; b. Brooklyn, June 4
1918; d. NYC, Sep 13 1969.
CPA; deputy mayor, Hewlett Harbor, LI;
active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, United
Jewish Appeal. • See: AJYB, 71 :607; NYTimes,
Sep 141969,92:7.
Manes, Alfred; b. Frankfurt, 1877.
German & US insurance expert, author;
specialty: workmans insurance; faculty U
Berlin, IN U, U Chicago; studied conditions in
New Zealand & Australia. • See: UJE.
Mandell, Kaufman; b. Dauendorf, Alsace,
Sep 15 1840; d. Miami, Nov 24 1933.
French CoIl (Pfaffenhoen, Alsace). • Banker,
import-exporter, communal worker, NYC; dir
Russian Immigrant Aid Soc, Talmud Torah;
Civil War service. • See: AJYB, 7(19051906):86,36:284.
Mandell, Max Sol; b. Russia, June 13 1870;
d. before 1938.
MA Columbia. • Chiropodist, Russian
language tchr, translator, New Haven; faculty
Yale; officer Jewish Charity Soc. • See:
WWlAJ, 1926.
Mandelbaum, Fred Samuel; b. Hartford,
1867.
Pathologist, NYc. • See: AJYB, 24:178.
Mandell,~e;b.Alsace,
Mandelbaum, Jacob; b. ca 1834; d.
Cleveland, Dec 161915.
Philanthropist, Cleveland. • See: AJYB,
18(1916-1917):109.
Mandell, Samuel Philip; b. Philadelphia,
Jan 61911; d. May 41978.
Business exec, Philadelphia; trustee S P
Mandell Found, Albert Einstein Med Center,
Downtown Jewish Home for Aged.· See:
WWWIA, 7.
Mandelbaum, Jacob; b. Feb 8 1871.
Wheat & corn farmer, Kansas City. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Mandelbaum, Judith (Mrs Mordechai
Mandelbaum); b. NYC, June 30 1906; d.
Brooklyn, Mar 7 1977.
Tchr, communalldr, Brooklyn; nat! officer Am
Mizrachi Women; editor Mizrachi Women
Journal; pres Sisterhood. • See: AJYB, 79:370;
NYTimes, Mar 81977,34:4.
Mandelbaum, M J; b. Cleveland, May 21
1864.
Banker, Mandelbaum, Wolf & Co, Cleveland.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mandelbaum, Moses-J; b. ca 1863; d.
Cleveland, July 16 1938.
Industrialist, civic & communal worker,
philanthropist, Cleveland.· See:AJYB, 41:427.
Mandelbaum, Samuel; b. Poland, Oct 14
1886; d. NYC, Nov 20 1946.
To US as child. • LLB, LLM NYU. • US
district court judge, legislator, NYC; sought
regulation of Kosher food; fought
fingerprinting of aliens. • See: UJE; AJYB,
49:614; WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, Nov 211946,31:3.
Mandelberg, Joseph; b. Austria, Sep 25
1975.
Cantor, NYC. • See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):78.
1857.
To US 1872.· Merchant, mayor, communal
fdr, Albuquerque. • See: UJE.
Mandl, Emma B (Mrs Bernhard Mandl); b.
Pilsen, Bohemia, Dec 16 1843; d.
Chicago,July 311928.
Communal worker, philanthropist, Chicago;
fdr Baron de Hirsch Womens Club, Home for
Jewish Orphans, Home for Jewish Friendless &
Working Girls, Ruth Club. • See: UJE; AJYB,
7(1905-1906):86,31:93.
Mandl, Ruth Lefkowitz (Mrs Sigmund
Mandl); b. Wtlkes-Barre, Sep 14 1910.
Eastern Chiropractic Inst (NYC). •
Chiropractor, Hackensack, Baltimore; orgr
Young Peoples League (Palisades Park, NJ);
officer United Synagogue of Am; dir
professional soc. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Mandlebaum, Fred S; b. Hartford, Jan 18
1867.
MD Bellevue, post-grad Vienna, Berlin. •
Physician, NYC; author in field. • See: AJYB,
6(1904-1905):148.
Mane, Leib (Mani-Leib, pseud=Mani-Leib
Brahinsky); b. Russia, 1883/1884; d.
1953.
To US 1905.· Yiddish poet; contributor
Forward; mem"Di Yunge" group of poets. •
See: EJ; AJYB,·24:178.
Manello, Carl Louis; b. Wloszczowa,
Poland, Feb 15 1907; d. Wilkes-Barre,
Sep 1951.
Manevitch, Hyman; b. Boston, July 4 1898.
Newspaperman, legislator, Boston; dir Jewish
Childrens Guidance, Heb Helping Hand;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Manger, Itzik; b. Czernowitz, 1901; d. Tel
Aviv, Feb 1969.
To US ca 1939, to London 1951.· Yiddish
poet, dramatist, novelist. • See: EJ; NYTimes,
Feb 261969,47:2.
Manges, Horace S; b. NYC, July 20 1898.
AB, MA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, civic &
charitable worker, author, NYC; dir Nat!
Desertion Bureau; active bar assns. • See:
WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Manges, Morris; b. NYC, May 10 1865; d.
Jan 261944.
AB, MA CCNY, MD Columbia, post-grad
Berlin, Vienna. • Physician, NYC; faculty
NYU; author/editor in field. • See: AJYB,
6(1904-1905):148,24:178; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes,
Jan 28 1944, 18:2.
Mangold, MaxwellJ; b. NYC,July 271909.
CCNY, Columbia, LLB Brooklyn Law. •
Lawyer, public servant, radio lecturer, NYC;
staff NY Secy of State; officer Young Peoples
League; active Am Jewish Congo • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Manheim, Edward; h. Cleveland, Jan 12
1926.
Northwestern. • Advertising exec, Cleveland;
bd Fedn for Community Planning, Bellefaire
Foster Parents Program. • See: WWWIA., 8.
Manheim, Emile Edward; b.*; d. Fresno,
Dec 171919.
Banker, civic worker, Fresno. • See: AJYB,
22:167.
Manheim, George Kahn; b. San Francisco,
Jan 301896.
Investment banker, San Francisco; active
synagog; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Manheim, Henry; b. San Francisco, July 21
1893.
BS U CA. • Investment banker, San Francisco.
• See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Manheimer, Arthur Emanuel; b. Kansas
City, Apr 141888; d. Dec 1957.
U Chicago, AB, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
merchant, communal & civic worker, Chicago;
dir Young Mens Jewish Charities; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Dec 141957,21:3.
414
Manheimer, Edward Adolphus
Manheimer, Edward Adolphus; b.
Maysville, KY, Mar 11 1861.
PhG Philadelphia ColI of Pharmacy. •
Merchant, Chicago; officer Manheimer Watch
Co.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Manheimer, Jac Robert; b. Brooklyn, Dec 8
1893.
BS, BE, EE Cooper Union. • Engineer, NYC;
officer E-J Electric Installation Co. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Manheimer, Jacob S; b. NYC, Nov 2 1898;
d. NYC, Apr 24 1956.
Lawyer, communalldr, lecturer, author; a fdr
Academy for Liberal Judaism. • See: A]YB,
58:478; NITimes, Apr 25 1956,35:2.
Manheimer, Wallace Aaron; b. NYC, Feb
13 1887; d. 1949.
BS CCNY, MA, PhD Columbia. • Sanitation
expert, health educator, author, playwright,
NYC; with NY Dept of Health; supt YMHA,
Heb Natl Orphan Home; dir Am Assn for
Promoting Hygiene and Public Baths. • See:
A]YB, 24:178; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]j NITimes, June 2 1949,27:4.
Manhoff, Ben; b. Milwaukee, May 3 1891.
MD Tulane. • Gynecologist, Jacksonville, FL.
• See: WWIA], 1938.
Manicoff,Jacob; b. Warsaw, Oct 311897.
To NYC 1908. • LLB NYU. • Lawyer, State
Tax Commr, NYC; dir Harlem Heb Inst,
Talmud Torahs; active Am Jewish Cong;
lecturer in field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Manievich, Abraham Anshelovich; b.
Mistislavl, Mogilev, Nov 1882/1883; d.
NYC, June 301942.
To US 1921/1922. • Kiev Art School, Munich
Art Academy. • Landscape painter, NYC;
exhibits in Europe & US; faculty Ukraine
Academy ofArt. • See: UJE;A]YB, 44:341;
WWIA], 1928,1938; BEOA]; NITimes, July 1
1942,25:3.
delegate World Jewish Congo - See: A]YB,
50:519; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
Mankiewicz, Frank; b. Berlin, Nov 30 1872;
d. Beverly Hills,Dec 2 194~.
To NYC 1892. • U Berlin, MA Columbia,
PhD NYU. • Professor of education &
languages, reporter, editor, NYC; faculty
CCNY; assisted refugees. - See: UJE; A]YB,
44:341;WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Dec 3 1941,
25:4.
Mankiewicz, HermanJacob; b. NYC, Nov 7
1897; d. Los Angeles, Mar 5 1953.
BA Columbia, post-grad U Berlin. • Writer,
play & film producer, reporter, drama critic,
Oscar winner, NYC, Hollywood, CA; with
Paramount Pictures. - See: UJE; A]YB,
55:457; WWIA], 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 3;
DAB, 5; NITimes, Mar 61953,23:3.
Mankiewicz, Joseph Leo; b. Wtlkes-Barre,
Feb 111909.
AB Columbia. - Motion picture producer,
writer, Culver City, CA; foreign correspondent
Chicago Tribune.· See: UJE; WWIA], 1938.
Mann, Benjamin H; b. ca 1886; d.
Philadelphia, Nov 1944.
.
Ophthalmologist, Philadelphia; faculty Grad
Hospital. • See:A]YB, 47:528; NITimes, Nov
241944,24:3.
Mann, Clara Lipman (Mrs Louis Mann); b.
Chicago, 1875; d.June 1952.
Actress, playwright. - See: UJE (sub Mann,
Louis); NITimes, June 23 1952, 19:5.
Mann, David; b. ca 1858; d.Louisville, Feb
1933.
KYpioneer, stockman, Louisville. • See:A]YB,
35:126.
Manischewitz, David Behr; b. *; d.
Cincinnati, Mar 81914.
Communal worker, Cincinnati. • See: A]YB,
16(1914-1915):164.
Mann, Donald Nathaniel; b. Chicago, Dec
15 1920; d.Jan 13 1985.
Northwestern, Columbia, JD John Marshall
Law. • Broadcast & radio exec, author,
Chicago; pres Am ColI of Radio Arts, Crafts &
Sciences; officer Combined Jewish Appeal;
trustee John Marshall Law School, synagog. •
.
See: WWWIA, 8.
Manischewitz, Hirsch; b. Cincinnati, Apr
16/241891; d. NYC, Oct 91943.
Orthodox rabbi, communal worker,
Cincinnati, NYC; fdr matzoh bakery; orgr Free
Loan Soc, Central Relief Com, Orthodox
Jewish Orphans Home, yeshivah (Palestine). •
See: E]j A]YB, 46:342; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA]; NITimes, Oct 10 1943,49:2.
Mann, Frederic Rand; b. Gomel, Russia,
Sep 13 1903.
To US ca 1905. - Yale, BS Wharton. - Mfr,
businessman, ambassador to Barbados,
Philadelphia; fdr Israel Philharmonic
Orchestra; officer Am Com for the Weizmann
Inst; active Fedn of]ewish Charities, Jewish
Welfare Soc. - See: E]; BEOA].
Manischewitz, Jacob Uriah; b. Memel, July
61885; d. Ocean Port,N], Mar 261942.
To US 1885.· Matzoh baker, banker, owner
machine tool mfr, inventor, philanthropist,
Cincinnati, then Jersey City. • See: A ]YB,
44:341; WWIA], 1938 (addenda); NITimes,
Mar 271942,23:5.
Mann, Gerson; h. Austria, ca 1874; d.
Newark, Jan 261943.
Rabbi, Newark.- See:A]YB, 45:390; NITimes,
Jan 28 1943, 19:2.
Manischewitz, Max; b. Cincinnati, Feb 6
1889; d. Los Angeles, Aug 291947.
Industrialist, businessman, philanthropist,
Zionist, NYC; pres Manischewitz Found;
Mann, Gertrude Cohen (Mrs William
Mann); b. Boston, Oct 16 1883.
Boston U.· Communal worker, Roxbury, MA;
regional officer Hadassah, Natl Council of
J ewish Women, Jewish Childrens Aid Soc. •
See: WWIA], 1926.
Mann, Jacob; b. Przemysl, Galicia, Aug 26
1888; d. Cincinnati, Oct 23 1940.
To US 1920.· Jews ColI (London), BA, MA,
D Litt U London, ordained London. •
Scholar, editor, Cincinnati; specialty: Talmud,
Genizah period; faculty Heb Union COlli
author in field. - See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 24:178,
43:407-14,361; WWIA], J926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA].
Mann, Jacob; b. Brooklyn, ca 1892; d.
Dover, N], Aug 1968.
Columbia. - Latin & classics tchr, NYC;
military service. • See: NITimes, Aug 13 1968,
39:1.
Mann, Louis; b. NYC, Apr 20 1865; d.
NYC, Feb 15 1931.
U CA (Berkeley). • Actor, playwright, NYC;
specialty: dialect roles; fought Actors Equity
Strike. • See: ]E; UJE; A]YB, 6(19041905):149,24:177,33:127; WWIA],1926,
1928; WWWIA, 1; DAB; NITimes, Feb 16
1931, 19:1.
Mann, Louis Leopold; b. Louisville, Jan 25
1890; d. Chicago, Feb 11966.
Johns Hopkins, AB, MA U Cincinnati, BHL,
ordained Heb Union ColI, PhD Yale. • Rabbi,
civic & communal worker, Chicago; a fdr Natl
Conf of Christians and Jews, Hillel Found;
officer Big Bros, Jewish Chautauqua, Eugenics
Commn, Central Conf of Am Rabbis. • See:
UJE; A]YB, 68:530; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938;BEOA];AI, Feb 10 1966;NITimes, Feb
2 1966,35:4.
Mann, Sigmund; b. ca 1824; d. Cleveland,
June 81911.
Communal worker, Cleveland. • See: A]YB,
13(1911-1912):138.
Mann, Stanley Jay; b. Chattanooga, July 15
1929; d. May 3 1984.
Hobart,JD Harvard.· Lawyer, Woodbridge,
N], Lake Success, NY, Miami; chr (FL) BUD
Equal Opportunity Com; military service. •
See: WWWIA, 8.
Mann, Theodore R; b. Czechoslovakia,
1928.
To US 1929. - PA State, Temple Law. •
Lawyer, communalldr, Philadelphia; officer
Conf of Presidents ofMajor Am Jewish Orgs.·
See:E]:1973-1982.
Manne, SolomonJ; b. ca 1867; d. NYC, Oct
271932.
Mfr, .communal worker, NYC. - See: A]YB,
35:126.
Manner, Jane (born Jennie Mannheimer);
b. NYC, Jan 91872; d.May 261943.
BH Heb Union ColI, BL U Cincinnati. •
Dramatic reader, tchr, editor, Cincinnati; with
Cincinnati Conservatory ofMusic; dir Jane
Manner Drama Studio (NYC). - See: UJE (sub
Mannheimer, Sigmund); A]YB, 6(19041905):149,24:178 (sub Manners), 45:390;
WWlA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
2; NITimes, May 281943,21:4.
Mannes, Clara Damrosch (Mrs David
Mannes); b. Breslau, Dec 12 1869; d.
415
NYC, Mar 16 1948.
To NYC 1871/1873. • Concert pianist,
accompanist, tchr, NYC; co-fdr David Mannes
School ofMusic; family Lutheran. • See:
AJYB, 50:519-20; NAW; DAB, 4; NYTimes,
Mar 181948,27:1.
Mannes, David; b. NYC, Feb 16 1866; d.
NYC,Apr 1959.
Violinist, dir, conductor, educator;
concertmaster NY Symphony Orchestra; cofdr David Mannes Music School, Settlement
Symphony; inaugurated Metropolitan Museum
free concerts. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:178;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA,
3; DAB, 6; NYTimes, Apr 25 1959,21:4.
Mannes, Leopold Damrosch; b. NYC, Dec
26 1899; d. Marthas Vineyard, MA, Aug
111964.
Mannes, Juilliard, AB Harvard. • Pianist,
Pulitzer Prize winner; co-inventor
Kodachrome color process; co-dir Mannes
ColI ofMusic; tchr Juilliard. • See: EJ;
WWIAJ, 1938; DAB, 7; NYTimes, Aug 12
1964,35:1.
Mannheimer, Eugene; b. Rochester, NY,
Nov 3 1880; d. 1952.
post-grad U Chicago, Columbia. • Rabbi,
communal worker, Sioux City; orgr Jewish
Community Center, United Jewish
Philanthropies; officer Central Conf of Am
Rabbis. • See: UJE (sub Mannheimer,
Sigmund);AJYB, 5(1903-1904):78; WWIAJ,
1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ; CCARYB.
Marcovitch, Simon
Manshel, Charles; b. Skala, Austria, Dec 18
1880; d. Miami Beach, Mar 1960.
Exec, Newark.· See: WWIAJ, 1928; NYTimes,
Mar 6 1960, 86:5.
Marblestone, Manuel; b. ca 1833; d.
Cincinnati, Feb 16 1911.
Merchant, Cincinnati. • See: AJYB, 13(19111912):137.
Manson, Harold P; b. NYC, Oct 23 1918; d.
NYC, Dec 16 1984.
Yeshiva U. • Publicist, communal worker,
NYC; exec staff Zionist Org ofAm; dir of
public relations Am Friends ofHeb U; WWII
spokesman Am Zionist Emergency CounciL •
See: AJYB, 86:441.
Marburg, Otto; b. Roemerstadt, Austria,
May 251874; d. NYC,June 13 1948.
To US 1938.· MD UVienna.· Neurologist,
NYC; facultyU Vienna, Columbia; author in
field.· See:AJYB, 51:523; WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, June 141948,23:4.
Manson, Phillip; b. NYC, 1877; d.
Rochester, NY, Oct 61941.
Shipping expert, presidential advisor,
diplomatic negotiator, Rochester, NY. • See:
AJYB, 44:342; NYTimes, Oct 7 1941,23:5.
Mantel, Hugo; b. Vienna, Mar 31908.
To US 1924.· AB, ordained Yeshiva ColI,
post-grad U IA. • Rabbi, Braddock, PA;
contributor Am-Jewish press. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Mantel, Jacob Robert; b. Newark, Dec 2
1894.
LLB NYU.• Lawyer, financial exec, Summit,
N]; officer Jewish Community Center; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mantell, Herman P; b. NYC, July 17 1904;
d. NYC, Apr 15 1971.
Lawyer, educator, NYC; admr Philathea ColI
(London, Ontario); pres Jewish Tchrs Assn of
NY; officer Council ofJewish Orgs in Civil
Service, Citizens Forum, Tchrs Council. • See:
AJYB, 73:633-34; NYTimes, Apr 161971,40:5.
Mannheimer, Jennie; see Manner, Jane.
Mannheimer, Leo; b.*
Rabbi, Chattanooga. • See: AJYB, 6(19041905):220.
Mannheimer, Louis Herschman; b. Prague,
Sep 3 1840/1845; d. NYC, Dec 171920.
To US 1866. • U Cincinnati. • Tchr, author,
poet, communal worker, Cincinnati; pres
German Womens Club (Rochester, NY); fdr
Boys Industrial School. • See: JE; UJE (sub
Mannheimer, Sigmund); AJYB, 6(19041905):149-50,23:132.
Mannheimer, Michael; b. Bavaria, 1844; d.
Chicago, 1891.
To-Chicago 1865.· UMunich, UErlangen, U
Vienna, U Heidelberg, U LA. • Physician,
health inspector, Chicago. • See: UJE.
Mantinband, Charles; b. NYC, Apr 2 1895;
d.1974.
BS CCNY, MA Columbia. • Rabbi, civil rights
activist, prison chaplain, Shreveport,
Williamsport, PA; exec secy Fedn ofJewish
Charities; officer Social Workers Round
Table; editor Jewish Civic League News. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; CCARYB.
Manuel, Hersh Nathan; b. Letnia
Drohobycz, Poland, Apr 4 1890.
To US 1921.· UZurich, Columbia,JTS.·
Rabbi, religious educator, author, Germany,
Austria, Brooklyn, Bronx; officer Fedn of
Orthodox Rabbis ofAm; WWI Austrian army
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mapow, Abraham B; b. Philadelphia, Sep 21
1907; d. May 41969.
MD Temple U. • Physician, Philadelphia;
facultyJefferson Med School. • See: WWWIA,
6.
Mannheimer, Sigmund; b. Kemel,
Germany, May 16 1835; d. Cincinnati,
Dec 181909.
To US 1865.· BL UParis.· Jewish scholar,
Heb grammarian, translator, Cincinnati;
faculty Heb Union ColI; contributor JE. • See:
JE; UJE;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):150,12(19101911):110.
Marache, Solomon; b. NYC.
18th century merchant, Revolutionary patriot
& abolitionist, Philadelphia; ldr Mikveh Israel,
withdrew in 1782 when he married a Gentile. •
See: EJ; BDFAJ.
Manning, Abraham; b. ca 1822; d. Utica,
Dec41922.
Soldier, longtime Russian army service, Utica.
• See:AJYB, 25:140; NYTimes, Dec 5 1922,
19:3.
Maragowsky, Jacob Samuel (Zeidel
Rowner); b. Radomishel, Kiev, 1856.
To US 1914. • Noted cantor, recitalist, prolific
composer, tchr, NYC, Russia, London; many
noted pupils. • See: UJE.
March, Abraham W (born Marcovich); b.
East Chicago, Dec 11 1909; d. June 13
1969.
U Chicago. • Radiologist, Dayton, OH; author
in field. • See: WWWIA, 5.
March, Benjamin Dayton; b.*; d. Memphis,
Aug241912.
Active in combatting yellow fever epidemic,
Memphis. • See:AJYB, 15(1913-1914):272.
March, Hal (born Harold Mendelson); b.
San Francisco, Apr 22 1920; d.Jan 1970.
Actor, entertainer, writer, announcer, Emmy
winner, Scarsdale; military service. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Jan 201970; 40:3.
Marcin, Max; b. Posen province, May 5/6
1879; d. Tucson, Mar 1948.
To US as child.· CCNY.· Playwright,
producer, mystery & screenwriter, NYC, Los
Angeles. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:178; WWIAJ,
1926 (addenda), 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Apr 11948,26:2.
Marck, Siegfiied; b. Bredau, 1889; d. Feb
1957.
To Chicago 1940. • German philosopher,
Chicago; faculty U Breslau; author in field. •
See: EJ; NYTimes, Feb 22 1957,21:3.
Marcosson, Isaac Frederick; b. Sep 13
1876/1877; d. Mar 141961.
Editor, author, journalist, NYC; interviewed
world ldrs; with Saturday Evening Post, Munseys
Magazine. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:179; WWIAJ,
1926,1928,1938; WWWIA, 4; DAB, 7;
NYTimes, Mar 15 1961,39:3.
Marcosson, Louis; b. ca 1840; d. Cleveland,
Sep 81920.
Civil War veteran, Cleveland. • See: AJYB,
23:132.
Marcosson, Sol; b. Louisville, June 10 1869;
d.Jan 10/17 1940.
Royal Hochschule ofMusic (Berlin). • Concert
violinist, tchr, Cleveland; concertmaster
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra; dir
MarcossonMusic School.· See:AJYB, 24:179,
42:481; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 1.
Marcovitch, Simon; b. Groduo, Dec 12
1890.
To US 1905. • Syracuse U, BS Cornell, MS,
PhD U MN. • Entomologist, Knoxville; staff
U MN, Natl Farm School, U TN; author in
field. • See: AJYB, 24:179; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928,1938; BEOAJ.
Marcus, Abraham
Marcus, Abraham; b. Baltimore, 1897?; d.
Baltimore, Sep 17 1949.
Clothing mfr, Baltimore; active communal
affairs. • See: AJYB, 52:503; NYTimes, Sep 19
1949,23:6.
Marcus, Adolph; b. Bottusanie, Rumania,
Sep 111875; d. before 1938.
Woods Business ColI. • Communal worker,
Scranton; with YMHA; natl dir Ex-Patients
Tubercular Home; bdJewish Home for
Friendless, synagog. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Marcus, Alexander; b. Minsk, Oct 1 1888;
d. Evanston, IL, 1977.
To US 1897.· BS CCNY, PhD Columbia,
Johns Hopkins. • Physicist, NYC; staff Bureau
of Standards; faculty CCNY; author in field. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, June 2
1977, II 12:1.
Marcus, Alfred A; b. Africa; d. Boston, July
3 1903.
Communal worker, Boston; "the African." •
See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):216; NITimes, July 4
1903,7:6.
Marcus, Babette (Mrs User Marcus); b.*; d.
Brooklyn, Aug 4 1937.
Communal worker, Brooklyn; a fdr Babette
Marcus Aid Soc. • See: AJYB, 40:388;
NYTimes, Aug 81937, II 7:3.
Marcus, Benjamin M; b. Olean, NY, Nov
281884.
Columbia. • Oil co exec, Olean, NY; officer
Red Cross, Am Legion. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Marcus, Bernard Kent; b. NYC, 1890?; d.
Hunter, NY, July 16 1954.
BA Columbia. • Banker; pres Bank of US. •
See: DAB, 5; NITimes, July 18 1954, 57:1.
Marcus, David Daniel (Mickey Stone); b.
NYC, Feb 22 1902; d. Abu Ghosh, June
10/111948.
US Military Academy, LLB, JD Brooklyn Law.
• Soldier, lawyer, government official; with US
Atty General, NYC Dept of Correction; head
War Crimes Branch (Washington DC);
advisor Israeli army. • See:AJYB, 51:523;
WWIAJ, 1938;AJHQ, 69:301-24; WWWIA, 2.
Marcus, Edwin; b. Dutch Kills, LI, Mar 16
1885; d. Bronx, Nov 1961.
Art Students League, Cooper Union. •
Lithographer, cartoonist, NYC; with NY
Herald.· See:AJYB, 6(1904-1905):150,
24:179;NYTimes, Nov 141961, 39:1.
Marcus, Fannie (Mrs); b. ca 1851; d.
Worcester, July 25 1933.
Communal worker; Worcester.· See:AJYB,
36:284.
Marcus, Harris Wolf; b. Warsaw, Mar 10
1857.
To US 1865.· Merchant, Olean, NY; state
officer Joint Distribution Com. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Marcus, Harry; b. Vicksburg.
Publisher, newspaperman, Portland, OR;
ShoppingNews.• See: WWIAJ, 1938.
416
Marcus, Herbert Sri b. Louisville, Sep 6
1878; d. Dallas, Dec 111950.
Merchant, retail exec, Dallas; pres NeimanMarcus; dir Jewish Fedn for Social Services,
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Art Soc;
trustee synagog.· See:A]YB, 53:525; WWIAJ,
1928, 1938; BEOAJ; AJHQ, 66:123-36;
NITimes, Dec 141950, 35:2.
Marcus, Irvin; b. Louisville, Jan 23 1895.
LLB U Louisville. • Lawyer, Louisville; officer
Louisville Found; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Marcus, Isaiah; b. Stavisk, Poland, Apr 15
1873; d.June 81933.
Rabbi, Chicago, Richmond, Roxbury, MA. •
See:A]YB, 35:126; WWIA], 1926.
Marcus, Jacob; b.*
Rabbi, Elmira, NY. • See: AJYB, 5(19031904):78.
Marcus, Jacob Rader; b. New Haven!
Connellsville, PA, Mar 5 1896.
Lane Theology Seminary, AB U Cincinnati, U
Chicago, Heb Union ColI, PhD U Berlin. •
Pioneer historian ofAm-Jewish experience,
Reform Jewish ldr, Cincinnati; creator Am
Jewish Archives; faculty Heb Union ColI;
prolific author in field. • See: UJE; EJ;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEGAJ.
Marcus, Joseph; b. ca 1875; d. Belmont,
NY, July 28 1932.
Rabbi, Baltimore. • See:AJYB, 35:126.
Marcus, Joseph; b. ca 1883; d. Pittsburgh,
Oct 251930.
Legislator, Pittsburgh. • See: AJYB, 33:127.
Marcus,Joseph;b.Derevno, Vilna
.province, 1897.
To US 1910, to Israel 1963. • OrdainedJTS. •
Rabbi, Heb editor & scholar, Boston; with Heb
Tchrs ColI, Boston Library. • See: EJ.
Marcus, Joseph Anthony; b. Brest-Litovsk,
Oct 27 1894; d. NYC, Nov 22 1960.
To US 1910. • George Washington, Catholic
U, NYU. • Government official, author; with
immigration, relief, New Deal, foreign trade '
services & Federal Housing Authority; dir
reconstruction (Poland, Lithuania, Latvia). •
See:A]YB, 63:561 Anthony Marcus);
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Nov 24 1960, 29:4.
a
Marcus, Louis; b. ca 1876; d. Mar 51934.
Contractor, subway bldr, communal worker,
Brooklyn. • See: AJYB, 36:284.
Marcus, Louis; b. Brooklyn, Jan 9 1880; d.
July 27/Aug 5 1936.
Motion picture theatre owner, realtor, author,
mayor, Salt Lake City; officer synagog, B'nai
B'rith. • See: AJYB, 39:594; BEGAJ; WWWIA,
1.
Marcus, Louis William; b. Buffalo, May 18
1863; d. Buffalo, Aug 18 1923.
LLB Cornell. • Lawyer, superior court judge,
Buffalo.· See: UJE;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):150,
24:179;26:156; WWWIA, l;NYTimes, Aug 19
1923,26:5.
Marcus, Mendel; b.*; d. Indianapolis, June
1915.
Rabbi, Indianapolis. • See: A]YB, 18(19161917):109.
Marcus, Moses T; b. ca 1861; d. Santa
Monica, July 221936.
Talmudist, NYC; honorary instructorJewish
InstofReligion.· See:A]YB, 39:594.
Marcus,Nathan;b.caI864;d.NYC,June
12 1935.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: AJYB,
37:259.
Marcus, Philip Victor; b. Providence, Mar 9
1883.
PhB, MA Brown, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
Providence; officer Zionist Org ofAm,
synagog. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Marcus, Ralph; b. San Francisco, Aug 17
1900; d. Dec 251956.
BA, MA, PhD Columbia, Harvard Divinity
School. • Semitic philologist, scholar of
Hellenistic Judaism, Chicago; faculty
Columbia, Jewish Inst of Religion, U Chicago;
author/editor in field. • See: UJE; EJ; WWIAJ,
1938; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Dec 27 1956,
25:5.
Marcus, Robert S; b. Jersey City, Dec 26
1909; d. NYC,Jan 18 1951.
Ordained RIETS, BSS CCNY, NYU. • Rabbi,
Zionist, lecturer, author, Newburgh, NY; exec
com AssocdJewish Charities; orgr Social
Station for Needy Transients; active Am
Jewish Cong, World Jewish Cong.· See:
A]YB, 53:526; BEGA]; NITimes, Jan 201951,
15:1.
Marcus, Samuel; b. NYC, Mar 161875; d.
NYC, May 19 1944.
CCNY, LLB NYU. • Lawyer, NYC; officer
Soc for the Prevention of Crime; conducted
many special investigations into gambling
rackets.· See:AJYB, 46:342; WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, May 20 1944, 15:3.
Marcus, Samuel M; b. Chicago, Dec 20
1894.
U IL, MD Loyola U. • Neuropsychiatrist,
psychoanalyst, Los Angeles; fdr US League for
the Protection of Foreign Students; active in
helping refugee scientists; military service. •
See:BEGAJ.
Marcus, Sol; b. ca 1881; d. Boston, Mar 1
1934.
Merchant, Spanish-Am War veteran, Boston. •
See: AJYB, 36:284.
Marcus, Sumner; b. New Brunswick, NJ,
Sep 23 1912; d.July 281979.
Harvard,JD Harvard, PhD UWA.· Lawyer,
government worker; with Navy Price
Adjustment Bd; faculty U MT; dean U WA;
author in field; WWII service. • See:
WWWIA, 7.
Marcuse, Emily M (Mrs); b.*; d. Oakland,
CA,Jan 3 1918.
Lawyer, Oakland, CA. • See:AJYB, 20(19181919):229.
417
Marcuse, Herbert; b. Berlin, July 191893;
d. July 291979.
.
To US 1934. • Philosopher and social theorist;
fellow Columbia, Harvard, Brandeis, U CA
(San Diego); author in field; WWII State Dept
service. • See: EJ; WWWIA., 7; Detroit Jewish
News, Aug 3 1979.
Marcuse, Ludwig; b. Berlin, 1894.
To US 1939.· PhD UBerlin.· German
essayist, writer, biographer; autobiography. •
See: UJE; EJ.
Marcuse, Max; b.*; d. Oakland, CA., Nov 23
1912.
Communal worker, Oakland, CA. • See:AJYB,
15(1913-1914):272.
Marcuse, Milton E; b. Richmond, Aug 27
1869; d.July 261946.
Paper co exec, Richmond. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; WWWIA., 2.
Marcuse, Moses M; b. Yuba City, CA, Aug
25 1874; d.June 1960.
Exec, Richmond, NYC. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, June 22 1960, 35:3.
Marcuse, Paul; b. Berlin, 188l.
To US 1936.· UBerlin, UFreiburg, LLD U
Rostock. • Lawyer, tax expert, Berlin, NYC;
author in field, textbooks. • See: UJE.
Marcuse, Sidney; b. NYC, Sep 17.1895; d.
Fairfield, CT, Sep 1943.
Columbia, NYU.• Newspaper editor,
Fairfield, CT; mem Bd of Education; with MT
Vernon Freeman, New Rochelle Star,
Bridgeport, CT, Post Teleg;ram; WWII service.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938;NYTimes, Sep231943,
21:2.
Marcuson, Isaac Edward; b. Cincinnati,
Dec 18 1872; d. Macon, GA, Sep 2 1952.
Rabbi, Macon, GA; secy Central Conf of Am
Rabbis; bd Heb Union ColI.· See:AJYB,
55:457; WWIAJ, 1926,1928, 1938;NYTimes,
Sep 3 1952,29:3.
Marcuson, Jacob Maurice; b.
Schmallelingken, Gennany, Aug 27
1881; d. Sep 1942.
To US 1884. • LLB NYU. • Lawyer, NYC;
dir Allied Civic Assn, Union of Orthodox
Congregations ofAm; active Democratic &
Fusion politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Sep 281942,17:5.
Marcuson, Sadie Ruth Samilson (Mrs Jacob
M Marcuson); b. NYC, Mar 24 1890.
AB Hunter. • Communal & civic worker, Far
Rockaway; officer Am Jewish Cong, Womens
League of the United Synagogue of Am,
Hadassah; WWI mem NYC com Nad League
for Womens Service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Marden, Ben; b. 1896; d. NYC, Apr 71973.
Night club owner, real estate exec, NJ, Havana;
financier Playhouse Theatre; benefactor AntiDefamation League.· See:AJYB, 75:656;
NYTimes, Apr 8 1973, 80:5.
Marden, Morris; b. Boston, Feb 12 1905.
AB, MA, PhD Harvard. • Mathematician,
Margolin, Arnold D
Milwaukee; faculty U WI. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Maretzek, Max; b. Briinn, Moravia, June 28
1821; d. Pleasant Plains, Staten Island,
May 141897.
To NYC 1848. • Opera impresario, conductor,
NYC; introduced many Italian operas;
autobiographies. • See: JE; UJE; DAB;
NYTimes, May 15 1897,7:4.
Margalioth, Mordecai; b. Warsaw, 1910; d.
Jerusalem, Mar 24 1968.
In US 1958. • PhD Heb U. • Talmudic
scholar; faculty JTS, Heb U, Jewish Inst of
Religion; author in field. • See: AJYB, 70:523;
Margalith, Aaron Morris; b. Jerusalem,
June 2 1902; d. NYC, Oct 21196l.
To NYC 1921/1922. • AB, PhD Johns
Hopkins. • Political scientist, NYC; faculty
Yeshiva ColI; author in field. • See:AJYB,
64:495; WWIAJ, 1938;NYTimes, Oct221961,
86:5.
Margalith, Haim; b. Safed, Dec 281892.
Heb Tchrs Seminary Gerusalem), LLB U MN.
• Educator, history tchr, Minneapolis; a fdr
boys schools (Tel Aviv, Cairo); active Legal
Aid. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Margareten, Frederick; b. NYC, Nov 17
1891; d. NYC, Nov 8 1980.
CCNY. • Kosher foods mfr, business exec,
NYC; nad officer Mizrachi; dir Jewish
Training School for Girls. • See: AJYB,
82:370; WWIAJ, 1938; BEGAJ.
Margareten, Jacob; b. NYC, Jan 18 1887.
Matzoh mfr, NYC; officer Tomche Tovah
Soc, Central Jewish Inst; active philanthropic
& social welfare orgs. • See: BEGAJ.
Margareten, Regina (Mrs Ignatz
Margareten); b. Barbona, Hungary, Dec
25 1863; d. LI City, Jan 1959.
To US 1884. • Kosher food mfr, NYC; active
philanthropic & Zionist affairs. • See: AJYB,
61:418; NYTimes, Jan 151959,33:2.
Margaretten, Morris; b. NYC, Jan 3 1899.
LLB NJ Law School. • Lawyer, Perth Amboy;
officer Council of Social Agencies, NJ Fedn of
YM-YWHAs, Jewish Community Center, Boy
Scouts. • See: WWJAJ, 1938.
Marget, Arthur William; b. Chelsea, MA,
Oct 171899; d. Sep 51962.
AB, MA, PhD Harvard; post-grad U London,
Cambridge U, U Berlin. • Economist,
government advisor, Minneapolis; mem Bd of
Governors Federal Reserve; faculty U MN;
author in field; WWI & WWII service. • See:
UJE; EJ; WWIAJ,' 1938; BEGAJ; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, Sep 8 1962, 19:2.
Margold, Charles William; b.July 121892.
BA, MA Columbia, PhD U MI, post-grad U
Southern CA, London School of Economics,
British Museum.•, Sociologist, Ypsilanti, MI;
faculty MI State Normal School; author in
field. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Margold, Nathan Rose; b. Rumania, July 21
1899; d. Washington DC, Dec 16 1947.
To US 1901. • AB CCNY, LLB Harvard. •
Solicitor General, Dept of Interior,
Washington DC; lawyer, municipal judge, asst
US Atty; counsel, consult NAACP, Indian
affairs. • See: AJYB, 50:520; WWIAJ, 1928,
1938; BEGAJ; WWWIA., 2; NYTimes, Dec 17
1947,29:5.
Margolies, Edward; b. ca 1872; d. Mar 13
1938.
Theatre bldr, realtor, communal worker,
philanthropist, NYC, Beverly Hills. • See:
AJYB, 40:388; NYTimes, Mar 141938,16:1.
Margolies, Ida Fischel (Mrs Moses S
Margolies);b.lCovno, 1862?;d.NYC,
Sep 281950.
Zionist, communal education promoter, NYC;
active Mizrachi, Womens Org of Yeshiva U. •
See:AJYB, 53:526; NYTimes, Sep 291950,
27:5.
Margolies, Joseph Aaron; b. Brest-Litovsk,
Dec 251889.
Bookseller, NYC; with Brentanos; active
professional assn; dir Council of Books in
Wartime. • See: WWWIA., 8.
Margolies, Joseph H; b. Rumania.
BA NYU, DHL, ordained JTS. • Rabbi,
Chicago. • See: WWIAJ, 1926.
Margolies, Joseph Mayer; b. Jerusalem,
May 18 189l.
To NYC 1928. • Rabbi, author, London,
Montreal, NYC; mem Union of Orthodox
Rabbis of US & Canada. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Margolies, Morris (Moses) Sebulon
(Zebulon) Ramaz; b. l(roz, Russia, Apr
1851; d. Belmar, NJ, Aug 25 1936.
Rabbi, communalldr, Zionist, Russia, Boston,
NYC, Cleveland; "dean of Am rabbis"; fdr
Orthodox Rabbis ofAm, Central Relief Com.
• See:EJ;AJYB, 5(1903-1904):78-79, 6(19041905):220,24:179,39:594; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928; Eisenstadt, 73; Gotdieb, 305; NYTimes,
Aug 261936,21:1.
Margolies, Samuel; b. ca 1880; d.
Cleveland, June 7.1917.
Rabbi, Cleveland.· See:AJYB, 20(19181919):229.
Margolies, Samuel L; b. NYC, Mar 10
1897.
Cooper Union, Nad Academy of Design,
Beaux Arts. • Painter, etcher, NYC; editor in
field; WWI service. • See: UJE; WWIAJ,
1938.
Margolin, Akiba; b. Vileika, Russia, July 15
1883; d. Brooklyn, Mar 271966.
To US 1904. • Real estate broker; fdr
Akkerman Benevolent Soc.· See: AJYB,
68:530; NYTimes, Mar 28 1966,33:5.
Margolin, Arnold D; b. l(iev, Nov 4/17
1877; d. Washington DC, Oct 30 1956.
To US 1922. • U Kiev Law. • Lawyer,
politician, legislator (Russia), Kiev,
Washington DC; Yiddish, Russian & English
Margolin, JJ
author; defended Jewish interests in court; Idr
Jewish Territorial Org (Russia); presJewish
Emigration Soc; consult Am Jewish Com. •
See: UJE; EJ;AJYB, 59:475; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938;NYTimes, Oct 311956, 68:3.
Margolin,] J; b. Russia, ca 1879; d.
Brooklyn, Feb 131943.
Rabbi, Poland, Germany, England, Canada;
officer Assembly ofHeb Orthodox Rabbis;
editor Heb magazines. • See:AJYB, 45:390;
NITimes, Feb 141943,48:4.
Margolin, Leo; b. Brooklyn,. ca 1911; d.
1971.
LI U, LLB Brooklyn Law. • Reporter, public
relations advisor, NYC; with NY Herald
Tribune, PM, UNRRA; faculty Manhattan
Community ColI. • See: NITimes, Aug 3 1971,
33:1.
Margolis, Abraham; b. ca 1887; d.
Brooklyn, Apr 291935.
Rabbi, educator, Brooklyn. • See: AJYB,
37:259.
Margolis, Elias; b. Meretz, Vilna, July 15
1879/1880; d. Mt Vernon, NY, Nov 26
1946.
To US 1885. • BA U Cincinnati, ordained
Heb Union ColI, PhD Columbia. • Rabbi,
communalldr, Zionist, tchr, Mt Vernon, NY;
pres Rabbinical Assn of Am, Synagogue
Council of Am; mgr Baron De Hirsch Fund. •
See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):79, 7(19051906):123,49:614-15; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938;NITimes, Nov271946, 25:3.
Margolis, Esther M (Mrs Elias Margolis);
b. ca 1883; d. Dec 91937.
Communal worker, Mt Vernon, NY. • See:
AJYB, 40:389; NITimes, Dec 10 1937,25:1.
Margolis, Evelyn Kate Aronson (Mrs Max
L Margolis); b. San Francisco,]an 19
1878; d. Philadelphia, Sep 1959.
AB U CA, post-grad U Berlin, U PA. • Civic
& communal worker, Philadelphia; nat! bd
Nat! Council of]ewish Women; officer
Womens City Club, Heb Sunday School Soc;
active Dept of Public Welfare, Hadassah. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Sep 24 1959,
37:1.
Margolis, Gabriel Wolf; b. Vilna, 1848; d.
NYC, Sep 8 1935.
Rabbi, pioneer Zionist, scholar, Orthodox Idr,
author, Boston, NYC; pres Assembly of
Orthodox Rabbis of Am & Canada. • See:
AJYB, 38:432; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; NITimes,
Sep 9 1935, 19:3.
418
Harvard Dental School. • Orthodontist,
Boston; lecturer Harvard, Dewey School of
Orthodontia. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Margolis, I A; b. ca 1888; d. Milwaukee,
Oct 241943.
Educator, org exec, editor; asst dir Jewish
Peoples Inst (Chicago); editor WI Jewish
Chronicle. • See: AJYB, 46:342.
Margolis, Isidor; b. NYC, Aug 4 1904; d.
NYC,June 10 1969.
AB, MA, PhD NYU. • Educator, lawyer,.
author, NYC; faculty Yeshiva U; exec dir
World Council onJewish Education; fdr Heb
Tchrs Assn; editor Yeshiva Education. • See:
AJYB, 71:607; NITimes, June 141969,33:5.
Margolis, Louis; b. ca 1880; d. NYC, May
13 1939.
Mfr, communal worker, NYC. • See: AJYB,
41:427; NITimes, May 141939, III 7:3.
Margolis, Max Leopold; b. Merech, Vilna,
Oct 15 1866; d. Apr 2 1932.
To US 1889.· MA, PhD Columbia. • Semitic
philologist, Septuagint scholar; faculty Heb
Union ColI, U CA (Berkeley), Dropsie; author
in field.· See:JE; UJE; EJ;AJYB, 6(19041905):150-51,24:179,34:112, 35:139-44;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; DAB; WWWIA, 1.
Margolis, Menashe; b. Grodno, 1868?;d.
Brooklyn, June 2 1954.
Orthodox rabbi, author; pres Assembly of
Orthodox Rabbis in Am. • See: AJYB, 56:57071; NITimes, June 3 1954,27:5.
Margolis, S; b.*
Rabbi, Dallas.· See:AlYB, 7(1905-1906):123.
• *See entry below.
Margolis, Samuel; b.*; d. Nov 8 1923.
Rabbi, San Bernardino, CA. • See: AJYB,
26:156. • *See entry above.
Margolis, Samuel; b. Riga, Apr 21 1886.
To US 1891. • Concert pianist, voice tchr &
coach, NYC; general mgr Commonwealth
Opera Co.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Margolis, William; b. Passaic, Apr 271910.
AB NYU, ordained Yeshiva ColI. • Rabbi,
NYC; nat! exec com Mizrachi; officer Union of
Orthodox Congregations, Council of Orgs for
Palestine; exec com Manhattan Community
Council, Am Jewish Cong; contributor Jewish
newspapers. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Margolius, Sidney Senier; b. Perth Amboy/
Red Bank, NJ, May 3 1911; d. Jan 31
1980.
Rutgers. • Journalist, syndicated columnist,
editor, author,. NYC; with Retail Executive, PM;
bd Consumers Union.· See: WWWIA, 7;
NITimes, Feb 1 1980.
To US 1898. • Journalist, communal charity
worker, NYC; staff The Day, Jewish Morning
Journal; active Kehillah. • See: UJE; AJYB,
57:607; WWIAJ, 1926,1928, 1938;NITimes,
Apr 111955,23:6.
Margoshes, Samuel; b. ]ozefow, Galicia,
Oct 211887; d. NYC, Aug 23 1968.
To US 1905.· AM, PhD Columbia, DHL,
ordainedJTS. • Editor, rabbi, Zionist, NYC;
editor-in-chief The Day; officer Fedn of
GalicianJews of Am; exec dir Zionist Org of
Canada; dir Jewish Bureau of Education; bd
Am Jewish Congo • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
70:523; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
Margoulis, Vladimir de; b. Odessa, Sep 17
1897; d. Feb 6 1962.
ToUS 1941.· Imperial U (Odessa).· Art
dealer, gallery owner, NYC; specialty: modern
& impressionist art. • See: WWWIA, 4.
Margulies, Adele; b. Vienna, 1863; d.]une
1949.
To US 1938. • Vienna Conservatory.·
Concert pianist, NYC, Houston; faculty Nat!
Conservatory ofMusic. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:179; WWIAJ, 1928; NITimes, June 7 1949,
32:4.
Margulies, Joseph; b. Lemberg, July 7
1896.
To US 1899. • Nat! Academy of Design,
Beaux Arts· (Paris). • Artist, etcher, portraitist,
lecturer, NYC. • See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1928
(addenda), 1938.
Margulies, Morris; b. Chorostkow, Galicia,
Feb 15 1888; d. NYC, Aug 171967.
To NYC 1898. • Zionist & communal exec,
NYC; secy Am Jewish Cong, nat! Zionist Org
of Am, Keren Hayesod; dir Zionist
publications. • See: AlYB, 69:609; WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Aug 18 1967,33:1.
Margulis, Aaron Edwin; b. NYC, Sep 7
1905.
Colgate, AB, MD Columbia, U Gottingen. •
Pathologist, Tucson, Mt Morris, NY; with NY
State Bd of Health. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Margulis, Abraham; b. Lutzk, Dec 26 1886;
d.1958.
To NYC 1913. • U Bern, Polytech (Cothen,
Germany), DDS NYU. • Dentist, Zionist,
Brooklyn, NYC; officer Jewish Nat! Workers
Alliance; active Labor Zionist movement,
Jewish Nat! Fund. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, Dec 4 1958, 39:2.
Margulis, Abraham; b. Charkov, Russia, Jan
241890.
U PA.· Engineer, communal worker,
Pottstown, PA.· See: WWIAJ, 1926.
Margolis, Harry Sterling; b. Dayton, OH,
Aug 71897; d. St Paul, July 211946.
AB U Cincinnati, BHL, ordained Heb Union
ColI, post-grad U Chicago, Yale..• Rabbi,
communal & civic Idr, St Paul; mem School
Bd, Unemployment Commn; officer Central
Conf of Am Rabbis; dir Jewish Educational
Center; contributorJewish newspapers. • See:
AJYB, 49:615; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Margon, Lester;h. NYC,Jan 261892.
Mechanics Inst, Cooper Union, Columbia,
NYU. • Furniture designer, NYC; author in
Mariash, Irving; b. NYC, Feb 26 1902.
BS CCNY, LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, NYC;
faculty NY Law; nat! panel Am Arbitration
Assn; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAl
Margolis, Herbert Israel; b. Russia, Oct 19
1900.
.
Margoshes, Joseph; b. Lemberg, Nov 16
1866; d. Brooklyn, Apr 10 1955.
Marick, Simon Wtlliam; b. Seniy, Poland,
Nov 2. 1886.
419
Markowitz, William
To US 1892. • MD U Pittsburgh, post-grad U
Vienna. • Pediatrician, Pittsburgh; active
Zionist.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
OH; specialty: tuberculosis; officer med soc;
active civic orgs. • See: WWIAJ, 1926; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Feb 26 1954, 20:4.
Marienthal, George Edward; b. Chicago,
Sep 111909; d. Oct 261972.
Northwestern. • Restaurateur, Chicago; active
Crusade ofMercy; military service. • See:
WWWIA,5.
Mark, Moe; b. ca 1872; d. Nov 21932.
Pioneer motion picture exhibitor, White
Plains. • See: AJYB, 35:126; NYTimes, Nov 3
1932,21:3.
Marine, David; b. Whiteleysburg, MD, Sep
20 1880; d. Nov 26 1976.
AB, MA Western MD ColI, MD Johns
Hopkins; honorary degree. • Pathologist,
laboratory dir, NYC; specialty: goiter; faculty
Western Reserve, Columbia; WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 7; NITimes,
Nov 28 1976,44:2.
Marinoff, Fania (Mrs Carl Van Vechten); b.
Odessa; d. Nov 1971.
Vaudeville & film actress, NYC; mem
Greenwich Village Players. • See: AJYB,
24:179; WWIAJ, 1926,1928, 1938;BEOAJ;
NITimes, Nov 17 1971,51:1.
Marinoff, Jacob; b. Sernik, Pinsk, Jan 26
1869/1871; d. NYC, Oct 271964.
To US 1892/1893. • Yiddish journalist,
publisher, poet, humorist, communalldr,
NYC; fdr Der Groiser Kundes (weekly humor
magazine); a fdr, natl dir Jewish Soc for the Aid
of Consumptives. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
24:179,66:578; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938
(addenda); NITimes, Oct 28 1964, 45: 1.
Marix, Adolph; b. Dresden, Apr 24 1848; d.
Gloucester, MA, July 111919.
To US as child. • US Naval Academy. • Naval
commander, IstJewish rear admiral;
investigated sinking of the Maine; active
communal affairs, Falashas. • See: JE; EJ (sub
Military Service); AJYB, 22:167; PAJHS,
28:290-92; WWWIA, 1; NITimes, July 12
1919,9:7.
Mark, Bessie; b. Kovno, Dec 101847.
Communal worker, Jewish pioneer, St Paul; fdr
communal orgs; pres Bickur Cholim. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926.
Mark, Jacob; b. Poland, 1886?; d. Scarsdale,
Apr 1958.
Engineer, communal worker, NYC; a fdr Am
Technion Soc; active United Jewish Appeal,
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies. • See: AJYB,
60:356; NITimes, Apr 25 1958,27:3.
Mark, Julius; b. Cincinnati, Dec 25 1898; d.
NYC, Sep 7 1977.
BHL, ordained Heb Union ColI, AB U
Cincinnati; honorary degree. • Rabbi, Reform
ldr, author, Nashville; exec com US Commn
for UNESCO; natl bd Natl Conf of Christians
& Jews; officer TN Inter-Racial Assn; bd
World Union for Progressive Judaism, Am
Jewish Com, Heb Union ColI; WWII
chaplain.· See:AJYB, 79:370-71; WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Sep 8 1977, IV 19: 1.
Mark, Louis; b. Duluth, Dec 11/12 1890/
1892; d. Columbus, OH, Feb 1954:
MD Marquette, post-grad U WI. • Physician,
author, sportsman, bridge expe~ Columbus,
Mark, Yudel; b. Palanga, Lithuania, 1897;
d. Aug 1975.
To US 1936. • Jewish educator, philologist,
author, translator; officer Jewish Natl Council
(Lithuania); fdr Yiddish Real-Gimnazye
(Vilkomir); active Jewish politics. • See: EJ;
NYTimes, Aug 5 1975,34:2.
Markbreit, Leopold; b. Vienna, 1842; d.
Cincinnati, July 271909.
To Cincinnati 1848. • Mayor, lawyer,
diplomat, US Minister to Bolivia, Cincinnati;
pres Volksblatt Co; Civil War Union service. •
See:AJYB, 12(1910-1911):108; WWWIA, 1;
NYTimes, July 28 1909, 9:4.
Markel, Jacob L; b. "Wirballen, Russia, Apr
2 1859; d. Dec 25 1939.
To US 1881. • Banker, communal worker,
NYC; orgr Merchants Bank; dir YMHA,
United Charity Inst ofJerusalem; active Jewish
Education Assn, Soc for the Advancement of
Judaism.· See:AJYB, 42:481; WWIAJ,1938;
BEOAJ; NYTimes, Dec 261939,19:3.
Markel, Lester; b. NYC, Jan 91894; d. Oct
1977.
CCNY, Litt B Columbia, NYU Law; honorary
degree. • Editor, author, Pulitzer Prize winner;
with NYTimes; helped change nature· of Sunday
paper; introduced Week in Review. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;WWWIA,
7;NYTimes, Oct241977, 1:2.
Markel, Nisson; b. Grajewo, Poland, Feb
16 1877; d. Buffalo, Jan 25 1947.
To US 1921. • Rabbi, businessman,Buffalo;
author talmudic commentaries. • See: AJYB,
49:615; WWIAJ, 1926.
Markels, Lazar; b. Vilna, Jan 291895; d.
NYC, Mar 241962.
To US 1942. • Rabbi, talmudist, NYC; faculty
Yeshiva U.· See:AJYB, 64:495; NYTimes, Mar
261962,31:6.
Markens, Isaac; b. NYC, Oct 9 1846; d.
Newark, AugJ3/14 1928.
Businessman, journalist, pioneer historian of
AmJewry, Lincoln biographer, Newark; with
NY newspapers, railroads. • See: JE; UJE;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):151,24:179,31:93;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; BEOAJ; PAJHS, 32:129;
WWWIA, 1.
Marker, Abrahamfb. NYC, Mar 211887; d.
Brooklyn, ·1943.
ClerkLI magistrate court, communal worker,
Brooklyn; dir Jewish Center (Coney Island);
active Democratic politics. • See: BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Oct 2 1943, 13:6.
Markewich, Samuel; b. Lornza province,
May 2 1881; d. Los Angeles, Jan 301975.
To US 1893.· CCNY, NYU Law. • Labor
lawyer, asst county district atty, pioneer
Zionist, communalldr, NYC; an orgr Youths
of Zion, Am Jewish Cong; exec com Zionist
Org ofAm; counsel to unions, WWI draft bd.
• See:AJYB, 77:597; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; NYTimes, Jan 31 1975,36:1.
Markheim, Harry; b. Chicago, Aug 31
1891.
PhB, JD U Chicago. ~ Lawyer, Chicago. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Markin, Morris; b. Russia, ca 1893; d.
Kalamazoo, July 1970.
To US 1913. • Pres, Checker Motor Corp,
Kalamazoo. • See: WWWIA, 5; Jewish Post,
July 24 1970; NYTimes, July 9 1970, 37:3.
Markle, Samuel H; b. Minsk, Mar 17 1898;
d.NYC,May281957.
To US 1902. • Lawyer, communalldr; active
B'nai B'rith, Anti-Defama.tion League. • See:
AJYB, 59:475-76; NITimes, May 291957,
27:3.
Markmann, Rose Friedhoff (Mrs Maurice
Markmann); b. NYC, Oct 5 1894.
Secretary, con:ununalldr, Philadelphia; officer
United Order of True Sisters, Cong ofJewish
Womens Orgs.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Markowitz, Augusta; b. Hungary, July 28
1884.
To NYC 1889.· Columbia. • Librarian, NY
Public Library, NYC; est Hungarian Book
Service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Markowitz, Jacob; b. Bucharest, 1901.
MD; PhD U Toronto, MS U MN. •
Physician, physiologist, author; faculty
Georgetown U, U Toronto. • See: UJE.
Markowitz, Leo David; b. Hungary, Sep 4
1887.
To Cleveland 1902. • Jeweler, mfr, Cleveland;
officer synagog. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Markowitz, M A; b. *
Rabbi, San Francisco. • See: AJYB; 6(19041905):221. • *See entry below.
Markowitz, Moses Aaron; b. ca 1845; d.
Oct 1920.
Rabbi, Pittsburgh.· See:AJYB, 23:132.· *See
entry above.
Markowitz, Samuel Harrison; b. Pottstown,
PA, Feb 111892; d. 1975.
AB Bucknell, MA, PhD U Chicago. • Rabbi,
Santa Fe; exec bd Central Conf ofAm Rabbis.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; CCARYB.
Markowitz, Sophia (Mrs); b. ca 1884; d. Oct
101938.
Communal worker, Rockville Center, LI. •
See:AJYB, 41:427jNYTimes, Oct 111938,
25:1.
Markowitz, William; b. Poland, Feb 81907.
To US 1911. • BS, MS, PhD U Chicago. •
Astronomer, Washington DC; with US Naval
Observatory; author infield. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Marks, Adolph
~arks,Adolph;b.ca1866;d.Chicago,Feb
420
~ks,
Marks, Edwin I; b. NYC, Apr 19 1888; d.
Nov231970.
AB Harvard. • Dept store exec, NYC; officer
RHMacy; WWIservice.· See: WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Nov 241970,44:1.
~arks, Arthur
Marks, Elias (Dr); b. Charleston, SC, Dec 2
1790; d. Washington DC, June 22 1886.
Physician, educator, writer, poet; fdr Columbia
Female School; ldr Barhamville School;
convert to Christianity. • See: BDEA]; Marcus,
United States Jewry, vol 1.
211933.
Legislator, Chicago. • See:A]YB, 35:126.
Anna; b. Sing Sing, NY, ~ar 20
1800; d. NYC, June 30 1888.
Communalldr, Philadelphia; a fdr Heb Sunday
School, Jewish Foster Home & Orphan
Asylum; dir Female Heb Benevolent Soc. •
See:BDEA].
David; b. New Orleans, Aug
22 1876; d. Washington DC, Feb 1947.
Exec, Washington DC; with Washington Post
Co. • See: WWIA], 1928; NYTimes, Feb 25
1947,25:2.
~ks,
Barnett Ellis; b. Wevye, Russia, Apr
191880.
To US 1885. • Ferris Inst, John Marshall Law.
• Lawyer, communal fundraiser & ldr,
Phoenix; mem Bd of Supervisors; pres AZ Soc
for Crippled Children; active Am Jewish Com,
Nat! Farm School, synagog.· See: WWIA],
1926,1928,1938.
~arks, Barney;
~ay 1959.
Marks, Ephraim Louis; b. Omaha, Jan 31
1910.
AB, LLB Creighton. • Lawyer, Omaha; dir
Talmud Torah, Jewish Community Center &
Welfare Fedn, Junior Chamber of Commerce.
• See: WWIA], 1938.
Marks, Frank H; b. Washington DC, Jan 25
1898.
Swarthmore, BS, LLB George Washington. •
Patent lawyer, chemical engineer, Chicago;
examiner US Patent Office; author in field. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
b. Chicago, Sep 16 1888; d.
Merchandise exec, NYC; with Gimbels; officer
Flora Wald Aid Soc; trustee synagog, Heb
Kindergarten & Orphan Home; WWI US
Intelligence service. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, May 19 1959,33:2.
~arks,
Bernhard (Bernard); b. Bromberg,
Germany, Sep 19 1833; d. Sacramento,
Dec 26/28 1914/1915.
To US 1836. • CA pioneer, letter writer,
grammar school principal, land developer &
speculator; introduced muscat grape; agent
Southern Pacific Rail Road. • See: PA]HS,
44:12-57; WWWIA., 1.
~arks,
Carl; b. NYC, Sep 12 1898; d. Jan
13 1961.
Foreign securities dealer, NYC; mem NY Bd
of Trade. • See: WWWIA., 4; NYTimes, Jan 14
1961,23:3.
Marks, Charles; b. NYC, May 16 1894; d.
Miami Beach, Apr 11976.
NY supreme court judge, NYC; mem City
Housing Commn; officer YM-YWHA, Free
Sons ofIsrael; dir Grand St Boys Assn. • See:
A]YB, 78:544; NYTimes, Apr 3 1976, 30:3,
correction Apr 6 1976, 37:7.
Marks, Clarence L; b. Philadelphia, Sep 23
1877; d. Oct 1954.
PhB U PA. • Exec, Philadelphia; pres Media
Drug Co.· See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Oct
28 1954,35:3.
Marks, David; b.*; d. Panama,July 171914.
Mem, Panama Joint Land Commn. • See:
A]YB, 17(1915-1916):221.
Marks, Edward Bennett; b. Troy, Nov 28
1865; d. Dec 17 1945.
CCNY. • Music publisher, lyrics composer,
NYC; "My Mother Was a Lady." • See: UJE;
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA., 2; NYTimes,
Dec 18 1945, 27:1.
Marks, Frederick W; b. ca 1864; d. Feb 3
1937.
Merchant, real estate promoter, NYC; mem Bd
of Education. • See: A]YB, 39:594; NYTimes,
Feb 41937, 21:3.
Marks, Hannah; b.*; d.Jan 31939.
Civic & communal worker, Long Beach, CA. •
See:A]YB, 41:427.
Marks, Harry H; b. ca 1839; d. New
Orleans, Dec 13 1922.
Civil War veteran, New Orleans.· See:A]YB,
25:140.
Marks, Haskell Harold; b. Rochester, NY,
Oct 24 1880; d. Rochester, NY, Aug 14
1947.
Public official, legislator, alderman, city
treasurer, Zionist, Rochester, NY; officer
Young Mens Assn, State Fedn of YMHAs;
WWI mem presidents special com to
investigate discrimination charges. • See:
A]YB, 50:520; WWIA], 1928; NYTimes, Aug
15 1947, 17:4.
Marks, Henry Albert; b. Cincinnati, Dec 23
1893.
Chern E U Cincinnati. • Distiller, Cincinnati;
WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Marks, Henry C; b. NYC, 1879?; d. NYC,
Dec 191949.
Business & civic ldr, philanthropist, NYC; fdr
Howard Clothes; active Jewish affairs. • See:
A]YB, 52:503; NYTimes, Dec 20 1949, 32:2.
Marks, Herbert S; b. Danville, P A, July 20
1907; d. Nov 16 1960.
U PA, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, public servant,
author; private secy to Judge Julian W Mack;
counsel TVA, Atomic Energy Commn. • See:
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Nov 18 1960, 29:1.
Marks, Hugo; b. SA Ujhely, Hungary, Mar
271887.
To US 1902. • Jeweler, Chicago; with Marks
Bros Jewelers; active trade org. • See: WWIA],
1938.
~arks,
Hyman; b. 1772; d. Philadelphia,
1825.
Merchant, early resident Richmond; pres
Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia); active Mason. •
See: UJE;E}.
Marks, I; b.*; d. NYC, Aug 211914.
Merchant, Confederate veteran, Meridian, MS.
• See:A]YB, 17(1915-1916):221.
Marks, Jacob; b. NYC, June 241861; d.
~ar 1965.
Legislator, municipal judge, NYC; mem NY
Constitutional Convention. • See: WWIA],
1926, 1928; NYTimes story, Nov 28 1960,
obituary, Mar 211965,86:3.
Marks, Joel M; b. ca 1867; d. May 71935.
Lawyer, special US prosecutor, NYC. • See:
A]YB,37:259.
Marks, Johnny; b. MtVemon, NY, Nov 10
1909; d. NYC, Sep 1985.
BA Colgate. • Songwriter, NYC; "Rudolph the
Red Nosed Reindeer."· See: NYTimes, Sep 4
1985.
Marks, Joseph; b.*
Mid-18th century socially prominent
merchant, ship owner, Philadelphia. • See:
UJE.
Marks, Joseph; b. ca 1859; d. Oct 12 1935.
Civic worker, Memphis; postmaster,
Covington, KY. • See: A]YB, 38:432.
Marks, Josephine Grauman (~s Joseph E
Marks); b. Louisville, Nov 12 1878.
Georgetown ColI. • Civic & communal
worker, editor, Lexington, KY; with
Georgetown Times; officer KY Fedn of
Womens Clubs, KY-TN Fedn ofTemple
Sisterhoods; WWI draft bd clerk. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Marks, Leonard Harold; b. Pittsburgh, Mar
51916.
Lawyer, communications specialist,
Washington DC; head US Information
Agency; staff Federal Communications
Commn. • See: NYTimes story, July 14 1965.
Marks, Leopold; b. ca 1830; d. Helena,
MT, Dec 1907.
Communal worker, Helena, MT. • See: A]YB,
10(1908:-1909):128.
Marks, Leslie V; b. Cincinnati, 1861?; d.
Cincinnati, May 301951.
Shoe mfr, bank dir, Zionist, Cincinnati; active
Heb Union ColI.· See:A]YB, 53:526;
Marks, Levy;b. 1737;d.Philadelphia,June
13 1781.
Merchant, tailor, Revolutionary patriot,
Philadelphia; active Mikveh Israel; received
legacy from Michael Gratz. • See: UJE;
BDEA]; Marcus, ColoniaIAmerican]ew.
421
Marks, Lewis Hart; b. New Orleans, July
141883.
MD Tulane, post-grad Harvard, Johns
Hopkins. • Physician, chemical & distilling
business exec, Paoli, PA; fdr Nat! Aniline &
Chemical Co; author on science. • See:
WWWIA,7.
Marks, Lionel Simeon; b. Birmingham,
England, Sep 8 1871; d.Jan 6 1955.
To US 1893. • BSc U London, MME Cornell.
• Engineer; faculty Harvard, MIT; mem
government advisory bds. • See: UJE;
WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Jan 71955,21:1.
Marks, Louis Benedict; b. NYC, 1869; d.
NYC, Nov 22 1939.
MA Cornell. • Consulting engineer, inventor,
NYC; invented enclosed arc light; specialty:
lighting. • See: UJE; A]YB, 42:481; NYTimes,
Nov23 1939,27:5.
Marks, Louis D; b. Muncie, July 17 1863.
Heb Union ColI. • Exec, wholesale clothier,
Cincinnati; officer United Jewish Social
Agencies.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Marks, M H; b. ca 1839; d. Cincinnati, Mar
51916.
Merchant, Civil War veteran, Cincinnati. •
See: A]YB, 18(1916-1917):109.
Marks, Marcus M; b. Schenectady, Mar 18
1858; d. NYC, Aug 26 1934.
CCNY. • Clothing mfr, public servant, civic &
communalldr, NYC; "Father of Daylight
Saving Time"; pres Borough ofManhattan;
mem Immigration Commn; an orgr
Educational Alliance; mediator Nat! Civic
Fedn.· See:]E; UJE; E];A]YB, 6(19041905):151,24:179,37:259; WWIA], 1926,
1928; BEOA]; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 27
1934,15:1.
Marks, Mark; b. ca 1821; d. Brooklyn, Dec
5 1912.
Mexican War veteran, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
15(1913-1914):272.
Marks, MartinA; b. Madison, IN, Feb 6
1853; d.Jackson, NH, Aug 311916.
Communal & civic worker, Cleveland; creator
of Community Chest; active Council of
Sociology, LibraryBd, B'nai B'rith, synagog. •
See:A]YB, 7(1905-1906):86-87,19(19171918):266; PAIRS, 26:281-82.
Marks, Michael; b. London, 1761; d.
Philadelphia, 1829.
Early Am merchant. • See: UJE.
Marks, Milton; b. San Francisco, 1893; d.
San Francisco, Apr 81950.
Lawyer, legislator, author, San Francisco;
specialty: municipal & labor law; author CA
Workmens Compensation Law. • See: A]YB,
52:503; NYTimes, Apr 10 1950, 19:5.
Marks,Morris;b.Prusma, 1847;d.~
1912.
In US by 1868. • Parish judge, legislator,
Internal Revenue collector, Republican,
Donaldsonville, LA. • See: UJE.
Maron, Samuel Herbert
Marks, Morris F; b. Hartford, Sep 111863.
Dept store merchant, Hartford; pres Mt Sinai.
• See: WWIA], 1928.
Marks, Reuben;b. Parshenee, SuvaUd, July
15 1862; d. before 1928.
To US 1884. • Communal worker, Des
Moines; an orgr Heb school, United Jewish
Philanthropies; officer Zionist Org of Am, Free
Loan Assn, Community Center; helped settle
immigrants in the Midwest. • See: WWIA],
1926.
Marks,Rudolph;b.caI867;d.NYC,May
1930.
Lawyer, actor, playwright, NYc. • See: A]YB,
32:154.
Marks, Samuel; b. ca 1846; d. San Antonio,
Aug 161934.
Reform rabbi, San Antonio. • See: A]YB,
37:259.
Marks, Sidney; b. Columbus, MS, Aug 27
1879.
Business colI (Birmingham, AL). •
Merchandising exec, Chattanooga; active
synagog, Am Jewish Com; dir Nat! Retail
Credit Assn. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Marks, Sidney Jerome; b. Chicago, Aug 15
1904.
Crane ColI, Kent ColI of Law. • Bldg supply
exec, Chicago. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Zionist Org of Am. • See: A]YB, 43:361;
WWIA], 1926; NYTimes, Jan 19 1941,40:2.
Markson, Harry Phillip; b. Feb 2 1890.
Communal worker, Auburn, NY; a fdr, pres
synagog; dir United Palestine Appeal; trustee
Talmud Torah (Palestine). • See: 'WWIA],
1928.
Markson, Nathan Wesley; b. Syracuse, Dec
41895.
Chain store exec, civic ldr, city comptroller,
Syracuse; mem Bd of Education; dir Jewish
Home for Aged; active Community Chest. •
See:BEOA].
Markson, Samuel; b. Honesdale, PA, ca
1882; d. Utica, Mar 1939.
Communal worker, furniture merchant, Utica;
officerJewish Community Center. • See:
A]YB, 41:428; NYTimes, Mar 111939,17:6.
Markt, Hermann Robert; b. Breslau, Oct
301900.
To US 1934. • MD U Breslau. • Physician,
Astoria, NY. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Marlowe, Sylvia (born Sapira) (Mrs Leonid
Berman); b. NYC; d. Dec 10 1981.
Ecole Normale etMusique (Paris). •
Harpsichordist, NYC; faculty Mannes. • See:
WWWIA,8.
Marks, Solomon; b. Stockbridge, VT, July
27 1827; d. Milwaukee, Sep 29 1914.
MD Rush Med ColI. • Surgeon, Milwaukee;
pres WI Bd of Health; Civil War Union
service.· See:A]YB, 17(1915-1916):221;
Marmer, Harry Aaron; b. Proskurov,
Ukraine, June 211885; d. Nov 1953.
To US 1889. • Woodbine Agricultural School,
BS, MS Rutgers. • Tidal mathematician,
Washington DC; with US Coast & Geodetic
Survey; author/editor in field. • See: WWIA],
1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Nov
7 1953, 17:3.
Marks, Sydney; b. Corsicana, TX, Nov 12
1886.
U TX. • Dept store exec, Corsicana, TX; pres
Chamber of Commerce; bd B'nai B'rith Home
(Memphis); WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Marmer, Milton Jacob; b. NYC, Mar 6
1913; d. May 5 1970.
AB, MD U MN, M Med Sci NY Med. •
Physician, anesthesiologist, Beverly Hills;
faculty UCLA; author in field; military service.
• See: WWWIA, 5.
Marks, Theodore (Ted) David; b. near
New Orleans, Nov 15 1853; d. Feb 10
1912.
Theatrical mgr, impresario, NYC; originator
Sunday concerts. • See: A]YB, 14(19121913):126;NYTimes, Feb 10 1912, 11:5.
Marmor, Jacob David; b. Poliavo,
Kamenetz-Podolsk, May 23 1855.
St Petersburg Imperial Conservatory, Johns
Hopkins. • Cantor, Russia, Baltimore;
contributor Reb, Yiddish & English press. •
See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):78.
Marks, Walter K; b. Prshkau, Poland, ca
1895; d. Englewood, NJ,June 1967.
To Hartford ca 1912. • Millinery mfr, industry
ldr, NYC; pres Eastern Millinery Assn ofMfrs;
active WWII fundraising. • See: NYTimes,
June 13 1967,47:1.
Marmor, Kalmen (Karl, Kalman); b.
Maishegolah, Lithuania, Oct 111876/
1879; d. Los Angeles, July 3 1956.
To US 1906.· U Bern, U Freiburg.· Yiddish
journalist, scholar, critic, Zionist, socialist; a
fdr Poale-Zion; renounced Zionism, became
communist. • See: UJE; A]YB, 59:476.
Markson, Aaron David; b. Lithuania, 1882;
d. Detroit, Dec 191932.
To US 1904. • Hebraist, Heb author,
educator, translator, Detroit. • See: E]; A]YB,
35:126.
Markson, Eldar; b. Poland, Nov 15 1873; d.
Miami,Jan 171941.
To US ca 1885. • Chain store exec, civic &
communal worker, Boston; nat! exec com
Marmorston, Jessie (Mrs David Perla, Mrs
Lawrence Weingarten); b. Kiev, Sep 16
1899; d. Oct 211980.
To US 1906. • MD U Buffalo. • Pathologist,
bacteriologist, Los Angeles; staff Cornell;
faculty U Southern CA; author in field. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 7.
Maron, Samuel Herbert; b. Warsaw, May
28 1908; d.Jan 13 1975.
Marovitz, Abraham Lincoln
To US 1922. • Case, Western"Reserve, PhD
Columbia. • Chemist, Cleveland; faculty Case;
active natl Zionist Org ofAm. • See: WWWIA,
6.
Marovitz, Abraham Lincoln; b. Oshkosh,
Aug 101905.
LLB Kent ColI of Law. • Lawyer, Chicago;
counsel Patrolmens Club, labor unions. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Marowitz, Arthur; b. Omaha, Mar 14 1890.
LLB U MI. • Investment broker, lawyer,
communal worker, Zionist, EI Dorado, AR,
Los Angeles, Omaha; secyJewish War Relief;
officer B'nai B'rith. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1938.
Marowitz, Esther Epstein (Mrs Arthur
Marowitz); b. Beloit, KS, July 4 1892.
Investment exec, Shreveport, EI Dorado, AR;
officer B'nai B'rith, Natl Council ofJewish
Women. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Marques, Isaac Rodriguez; b. *; d. NYC, ca
1706.
To Am from Denmark. • Colonial merchant,
importer, shipowner, NYC; freeman 1697. •
See:BDEA].
Marquis, Reina Melcher (Mrs Don
Marquis); b. Louisville, ca 1883; d.
Forest Hills, LI, Dec 2 1923.
Author, Forest Hills, LI.· See:A]YB, 26:156;
Marrow, AlfredJ; b. NYC, Mar 81905; d.
NYC, Mar 3 1978.
Psychologist, author; faculty New School; fdr
Center for HUman Development (Heb U);
consult State Dept, Am Found for
Management Research, Marshall Fund; active
AmJewish Cong, Free Synagogue.· See:
A]YB, 80:370; NYTimes, Mar 4 1978, 24:3.
Marrow, Isidor Leo; b. Neishtat, Russia,
Dec 16 1876; d. Nov 1947.
To US 1888. • Mens underwear mfr,
communal worker, NYC; officer Machzike
Talmud Torah, Heb Inst of Boro Park.· See:'
WWIA], 1928, 1938;NYTimes, Nov 28 1947,
27:1.
Marschak, Jakob; b. Kiev, 1898; d. July
1977.
To US 1939. • Technical ColI (Kiev), U
Berlin, PhD U Heidelberg. • Economist,
statistician, NYC; faculty U Heidelberg,
Oxford U, New School; mem Institut flir
Weltwirtschaft (Kiel). • See: UJE; NYTimes,
July 28 1977, II 2:5.
Marsden, Lawrence; b. *
Stage dir, NYC. • See: A]YB, 24:179.
Marshak, Martin; b. ca 1886; d. Bayonne,
July 15 1936.
Social & communal worker, Bayonne. • See:
A]YB, 39:594.
Marshak, Robert Eugene; b. Bronx, Oct 11
1916.
CCNY, Columbia, PhD Cornell. • Scientist,
university official, theoretical physicist; pres
422
CCNY; faculty U Rochester at Los Alamos;
chr Fedn of Am Scientists. • See: NYTimes
story, Feb 28 1970.
Marshall, Benjamin; b. ca 1859; d.
Syracuse, Sep 27 1911.
Communal worker, Syracuse.· See:A]YB,
14(1912-1913):124.
Marshall, Florence Lowenstein (Mrs Louis
Marshall); b. ca 1872; d. NYC, May 27
1916.
18(1916-1917):109; NYTimes, May 28 1916,
17:4.
Marshall, Frank Garfield; b. Chicago, Oct
281894.
LLB Northwestern.· Lawyer, Chicago; bd
Jewish Peoples Inst, Bd ofJewish Education;
active Am Jewish Cong, Boy Scouts; WWI
service. • See: WWIA.], 1938.
Marshall, George; b. 1904.
Conservationist; active Natl Recovery Adm,
Sierra Club. • See: E] (sub Marshall, Louis).
Marshall, Jacob; b. ca 1830; d. Philadelphia,
Feb 271914.
Philanthropist, Philadelphia. • See: A]YB,
16(1914-1915):164.
Marshall, James; b. NYC, May 12 1896.
Columbia Journalism, LLB Columbia. •
Lawyer, educational exec, civic & communal
worker, author; mem NY Bd of Education;
officer NAACP; bd NY State Training School
for Boys; active Joint Distribution Com; WWI
service. • See: UJE; E] (sub Marshall, Louis);
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Marshall, Lenore Guinzburg (Mrs James
Marshall); b. NYC, Sep 7 1897; d.
Doylestown, PA, Sep 23 1971.
AB Barnard. • Poet, novelist, book critic,
editor, NYC; a fdr Com for Nuclear
Responsibility; exec com Natl Com for a Sane
Nuclear Policy; mem Soc of Friends. • See:
A]YB, 73:634; WWIA.], 1938; WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Sep 25 1971, 34:1.
Marshall, Louis; b. Syracuse, Dec 141856;
d. Zurich, Sep 111929.
LLB Columbia; honorary degrees. • Lawyer,
natlcivic & communalldr, civil rights
advocate, labor union mediator, NYC; a fdr
J oint Distribution Com, Jewish Agency for
Palestine; pres Am Jewish Com, Am Jewish
Relief Com, Temple Emanu-EI; active
NAACP; attempted to block Protocols of
.Elders of Zion. • See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB,
6(1904-1905):151-52,24:179, 32:21-55;154;
WWIA], 1926, 1928;WWWIA, 1; DAB;
NYTimes, Sep12 1929,1:1.
Marshall, Robert; b. NYC, Jan 2 1901; d.
Nov 111939.
BS Syracuse, M Forestry Harvard, PhD Johns
Hopkins. • Forester, author; with US Office of
Indian Affairs & US Forest Service; mapper &
explorer of northern AK. • See: UJE (sub
Marshall, James); E] (sub Marshall, Louis);
A]YB, 42:481; WWIA.], 1938; NYTimes, Nov
121939,49:1.
Martin, Bernard; b. Seklence,
Czechoslovakia, Mar 13 1928; d.
Cleveland, Jan 141982.
To US 1934.· U Chicago, Heb Union Call,
PhD U IL. • Rabbi, author, Chicago, St Paul;
faculty Case Western; active Central Conf of
Am Rabbis, Natl Conf of Christians & Jews;
editor Journal ofRefOrm Judaism; military
service. • See: A]YB, 84:336; WWWIA, 8.
Martin, Frank; b. ca 1866; d. Stamford, CT,
Dec 111945.
Merchant, civic ldr, Stamford, CT; pres Bd of
Education, Chamber of Commerce. • See:
A]YB, 48:495; NYTimes, Dec 12 1944,27:3.
Martin, H L; b. *
Cantor, NYC.· See:A]YB, 7(1905-1906):123.
Martin, Herman; b. *; d. Los Angeles,
reported May 111939.
Rabbi, NYC.· See:A]YB, 41:428.
Martin, Herbert Spencer; b. NYC, Apr 12
1882; d.Jan 141930.
AB Harvard. • Banker, clothing mfr, hotel
exec, NYC; officer Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: WWIA.], 1926, 1928;
WWWIA, 1.
Martin, IsaacJack; b. Cincinnati, July 18
1908; d. Nov 5 1966.
U PA, LLB U Cincinnati. • Lawyer, US
Customs & Patent Appeals judge; adm asst
Senator Robert Taft; officer Robert A Taft
Found.· See: WWWIA, 4.
Martin, Lester; b. ca 1906; d. Apr 1959.
Textile mfr, philanthropist, communal worker,
NYC; active Democratic politics, United
Jewish Appeal, Yeshiva U, synagog. • See:
Marton, Bernard Dov; b. Veliatin,
Czechoslovakia, July 4 1909.
To US 1935.· U Prague, PhD U Brussels.·
Rabbi, author, Brooklyn; officer Assri of
Czechoslovakian Jews of Am, Union of
Pressburg Students ofAm. • See: "WWIA],
1938.
Martz, Hyman Scher; b. NYC, Oct 28
1909; d.June 51969.
BS, DDS NYU, MA Columbia. • Dentist,
NYC; with Health Dept; military service. •
See: WWWIA, 5.
Maruchess, Boris; b. ca 1888; d. Apr 19
1938.
Labor relations conciliator, federal
investigator, NYC. • See: AJYB, 40:389;
Marvin, Benjamin; b. Brooklyn, Mar 6/7
1889/1891; d. Woodmere, LI, Oct 1968.
Cornell, Fordham Law. • Public servant,
municipal judge, public works commr, NY;
officer United Synagogue ofAm, Fedn of
Jewish Charities, Red Cross, NAACP. • See:
"WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Oct 5 1968, 35:6.
Marvin, Rose Lillian (Mrs Benjamin
Marvin); b. Portland, OR, Nov 1 1890.
AB Barnard, MA Columbia. • Tchr, natl
MaryIes, David
423
communalldr, NYC; natl officer Natl Council
ofJewish Women; natl bd Womens League of
United Synagogue of Am; officer Sisterhood of
JamaicaJews; bd Fedn ofJewish Charities. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Charities, Family Welfare Service; chaplain
Atlanta Federal Prison; exec com Heb Orphans
Home, Childrens Home Finding Soc, Regional
Labor Bd. • See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):79,
24:179; WWIAJ, 1938; CCARYB.
Marwick, Lawrence; b. Sopockinie, Poland,
Sep 16 1909; d. Bethesda, Oct 17 1981.
To US 1929. • Honorary degrees. • Librarian,
Library of Cong, Washington DC; specialty:
Arabic, Islamic, Modem Heb studies; dir Bd of
Jewish Education (St Louis); military service. •
See: EJ; AJYB, 83:359.
Marx, Fanny Menline; b. ca 1872; d. NYC,
Nov281935.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: AJYB,
38:432.
Marwick, Maurice; b. Chicago, Dec 1 1890;
d. Grand Rapids, July 1948.
Lewis Inst, PhB, JD U Chicago, post-grad
Edinburgh. • Lawyer, Chicago; WWI service.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, July 23 1948,
19:3.
Marwil, Nathan; b.*; d. Detroit,June 7
1914.
CommUnal worker, Detroit. • See: AJYB,
16(1914-1915):164.
Marx, Adolph Simi b. Lake Charles, LA,
Aug 121897.
AB Washington & Lee.· Exec, Lake Charles,
LA.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Marx, Alexander; b. Elberfeld, Gennany,
Jan 29 1878; d. NYC, Dec 26 1953.
To US 1903. • PhD U Konigsberg, U Berlin,
Dropsie. • Historian, librarian, author, NYC;
librarian, faculty JTS, invited to come by
Schechter; made JTS library largest collection
ofJudaica in world. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
6(1904-1905):152,24:179,56:571,580-88;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ; PAJHS,
43:241-52; WWWIA, 3;NYTimes, Dec 27
1953,60:7.
Marx, Archibald Arthur; b. New Orleans,
Aug 25 1870.
Merchant, philanthropist, New Orleans; officer
B'nai B'rith, YMHA.• See: AJYB, 7(19051906):87; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Marx, Arthur: (Harpo) (earlier Adolph); b.
NYC, Nov 21/23 1893; d. Hollywood,
CA, Sep 28 1964.
Marx Bros mem, comedian; the silent one. •
See: UJE; EJ (sub Marx Bros); AJYB, 66:57879; WWIAJ, 1938; DAB, 7; NYTimes, Sep 29
1964,1:2.
Marx, Franklin; b.*; d. Newark, Feb 7 1916.
Mem, Excise Bd, Newark. • See: AJYB,
18(1916-1917):109.
Marx, Frieda Kraemer (Mrs Hennan
Marx); b. Griedel, Gennany, Apr 1 1878.
To US 1890. • Educator, public school tchr,
principal, Newark; pres Newark Maternity
Hospital; bd Natl Fedn of Temple Sisterhoods,
Conf ofJewish Charities; dir NJ Normal
School for Jewish Tchrs. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Marx, Hannah (Mrs Alexander Marx); b.
Berlin, 1880; d. NYC, July 251962.
To US 1905.· Communalldr, NYC; a fdr
Womens League of United Synagogue of Am;
assoc editor Outlook.· See:AJYB, 65:435;
NYTimes, July 26 1962,27:4.
Marx, Herbert (Zeppo); b. NYC, Feb 25
1901.
Marx Bros mem, comedian. • See: UJE; EJ
(sub Marx Bros).
Marx,Joseph;b.Hannover, 1772;d.
Richmond, July 12 1840;
Prominent merchant, realtor, civic &
communal worker, Richmond. • See: BDEAJ.
Marx, Julius Henry (Groucho); b. NYC,
Oct 2 1895; d. Aug 1977.
Marx Bros mem, comedian, radio & television
personality. • See: UJE; EJ (sub Marx Bros);
WWIAJ, 1938;NYTimes, Aug 20 1977, 1:1.
Marx, Lawrence; b. NYC, Aug 26 1886; d.
New Rochelle, May 2 1938.
Textile exec, communalldr, NYC; officer Fedn
ofJewish Philanthropies; active Red Cross. •
See:AJYB, 40:389; WWIAJ, 1938.
Marx, Leon; b. ca 1875; d. Aug 41935.
Violinist, Chicago; concertmaster Chicago
Opera Co. • See:AJYB, 38:432.
Marx, Leonard (Chico); b. NYC, Mar 26
Marx, Blanche Strauss (Mrs Oscar Samuel
Marx); b. St Louis, May 24 1884.
Forest Park U, Washington U (St Louis). •
Educator, communal & civic worker, St Louis;
natl officer Natl Council ofJewish Women;
officer Natl Com on Cause & Cure of War. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Marx, BurIe; b. Brazil, 1902.
Pianist, conductor, composer; guest conductor
many US orchestras. • See: UJE.
Marx, David; b. New Orleans, Apr 291872;
d.1962.
Ordained, BHL Heb Union Call, BL U
Cincinnati; honorary degree. • Rabbi, Atlanta,
West Point, GA; orgr Fedn ofJewish
1891; d. Hollywood, CA, Oct 111961.
Marx Bros mem, comedian. • See: UJE; EJ
(sub Marx Bros); WWIAJ, 1938; DAB, 7;
NYTimes, Oct 12 1961, 29:2.
Marx, Milton (Gummo);b. 1894;d.Apr
1977.
Marx Bros mem, comediap.. • See: EJ;
NYTimes, Apr 22 1977, IV 19:1.
Marx, Milton David; b. Detroit, Mar 31
1895.
AB U MI, PhD, MA Cornell, post-grad
Oxford U, British Museum. • English
literature scholar, Ithaca; faculty Cornell, U
Puerto Rico. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Marx, Moses; b. 1885.
To US 1926, to Israel 1963. • Bibliographer,
librarian; specialty: Heb incunabula & 16th
century Heb printing; fdr Soncino
Gesellschaft; head cataloguer Heb Union Call.
• See: EJ (sub Marx, Alexander).
Marx, Otto; b. Montgomery, AL, Oct 31
1869; d. May 301963.
CCNY.· Banker, dept store exec,
Birmingham, AL; officer Assocd Charities. •
See:AJYB, 24:180; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, June 1 1963,21:5.
Marx, Robert S; b. Cincinnati, Jan 281889;
d. Sep 6 1960.
LLB U Cincinnati. • Lawyer, superior court
judge, communal & civic ldr, Cincinnati,
Chicago; 1st natl commander Disabled Am
Veterans; co-fdr Wise Center; faculty U
Cincinnati; active Democratic politics; WWI
service, received DSC. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:180; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Sep 7 1960, 37:5.
Marx, Samuel; b. NYC, 1867;d. Nov 30
1922.
Congressman (died before taking seat),
Internal Revenue collector, anti-socialist,
Tammany ldr, alderman, NYC. • See:AJYB,
25:140,323; NYTimes, Dec 1 1922, 17:4.
Marx, Samuel; b. Richmond, Mar 4 1796; d.
Richmond, Dec 7 1860.
UPA. • Businessman, banker, Richmond; pres
Bank ofVA. • See: BDEAJ.
Marx, Samuel Abraham; b. Natchez, Aug
27 1885; d. Jan 1964.
MIT, Beaux Arts (Paris). • Architect, art
collector; bd Chicago Art Inst; advisor
Museum of Modem Art (NYC). • See:
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Jan 18 1964, 23:4.
Marx, Simon; b. ca 1865; d.NYC,June 16
1914.
MD Columbia, post-grad abroad. •
Gynecologist, obstetrician, NYC; author in
field.· See:AJYB, 16(1914-1915):164;
NYTimes, June 17 1914,11:6.
Marx, Solomon; b. ca 1836; d. New
Orleans, Jan 291921.
Communal worker, New Orleans. • See:
AJYB, 23:132.
Marx, Victor Emanuel; b. Chicago, Dec 18
1893.
BS Armour Inst. • Chemist, technical advisor,
Chicago; specialty: baking; instructor Am Inst
of Baking; officer professional sacs; author in
Marx, William S; b. ca 1860; d. Cincinnati,
Mar 21915.
Mem, Bd of Public Service, Cincinnati. • See:
AJYB, 17(1915-1916):221.
Maryles, David; b.1915; d. NYC, Aug 30
1955.
Cantor; active Agudath Israel Youth
movement. • See:AJYB, 58:478; NYTimes, Aug
311955,25:5.
424
Maryson, Jacob Abraham
Maryson, Jacob Abraham; b. Yevye, Vilna,
May61866.
To US 1887. • MD NYU. • Yiddish author,
translator, physician, Reb tchr, NYC. • See:
AJYB, 24:180; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938.
Masback, Edwin Robert; b. NYC, May 11.
1895.
Merchant, NYC; officer Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Maschke, Maurice; b. Cleveland, Oct 16
1868; d. Cleveland, Nov 19 1936.
Harvard. • Lawyer, public servant, Cleveland;
Collector of Customs. • See: WWIAJ, 1926,
1928; WWWIA, 1.
Mase, Jacob; b. Lebau, Lithuania, Oct 10
1889; d. NYC, Sep 11962.
To US 1941.· Communal worker,
immigration specialist, NYC; with Heb
Immigrant Aid Soc.· See:AJYB, 65:435;
NITimes, Sep 4 1962, 33:4.
Maser, Maurice; b. Bialystok, Mar 15 1893.
JTS.· Social worker, Washington DC; exec
dir Heb Home for Aged; active Zionist Org of
Am, B'nai B'rith, Mizrachi. • See: BEOAJ.
Mashioff, Harold H; b. ca 1906; d. NYC,
Nov 30 1944.
Rabbi, Rockaway Park, NY; active civic &
patriotic orgs. • See: AJYB, 47:528; NITimes,
Dec 11944,23:2.
Masinter, Morris Louis; b. Pocahontas, VA,
Mar 111893.
AB, LLB Washington & Lee. • Lawyer,
Richmond, Roanoke; pres Boy Scouts; trustee
Community Fund, Red Cross; WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Maslansky,ManueIMonash; b.NYC, Nov
81903; d. NYC, Nov 141980.
BS NYU, DDS Columbia. • Dentist, oral
surgeon, playwright, editor, NYC; facility
Columbia; worked to place German refugee
dentists; inventor instruments; officer
professional socs; military service. • See: AJYB,
82:370; WWIAJ, 1938.
Maslansky, Philip; b. Pinsk, Nov 23 1882;
d. NYC, Dec 18 1942.
To US 1896. • JTS. • Merchant,
philanthropic, communal & Zionist worker,
NYC; est trade relations in Orient. • See:
AJYB, 45:390; WWIAJ, 1926, 1938;NITimes,
Dec 201942,45:1.
Masliansky, Zvei Hirsh (Zevi Hirsch); b.
Slutsk, Minsk, June 16 1856; d.
Brooklyn, Jan 111943.
To US 1895. • Noted Zionist orator in
Yiddish & Heb, tchr, farmer; banished from
Russia; fdr, editor Die Yidishe Velt; officer Fedn
of Am Zionists; dir Israel Matz Found,
Machzikei Talmud Torah.· See:JE; UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):152,24:180,45:390;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; Eisenstadt, 70-71;
DAB, 3; NITimes, Jan 121943,24:2.
Maslon, Morris; b. Russia, May 301887.
U MD, MD Baltimore Med ColI. • Physician,
bacteriologist, Glens Falls, NY; mem Bd of
Health; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
NY Militia; active synagog; War of 1812
service. • See: UJE; BDEAJ.
Maslon, Samuel Henry; b. Russia, Apr 15
1901.
BA U MN, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, tchr,
Minneapolis; faculty U MN; staff Harvard Law
Review; law secy for Justice Brandeis. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928.
Mastbaum, Etta Wedell (Mrs Jules E
Mastbaum); b. Philadelphia, Sep 6 1886;
d.1953.
Dept store exec, art collector, Philadelphia;
officer Mastbaum Loan System; donated Rodin
collection to a city museum. • See: EJ (sub
Lit); WWIAJ, 1928; NITimes, Ocd 1953,
17:6.
Maslow, Abraham Harold; b. Brooklyn, Apr
1 1908; d. June 8 1970.
BA, MA, PhD U WI; honorary degree. •
Psychologist, "fdr of humanistic psychology";
faculty Brandeis; officer professional assns;
author in field. • See: EJ; WWWIA, 5; DAB, 8;
NITimes, June 10 1970,47:1.
Maslow, Charles; b. Russia, Apr 271890.
Textile mfr, NYC. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mason, Gabriel Richard; b. Minsk, Oct 6
1884.
AB CCNY, MA, PhD NYU, post-grad
Columbia, Harvard. • Educator, NYC;
lecturer NYU, CCNY; active University
Settlement, League for Am Citizenship, Fedn
ofJewish Charities. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Mason, Samuel; b. Russia, 1878?; d. Miami
Beach,Jan 211950.
Editor, communal admr; editor Yiddish &
Anglo-Jewish periodicals; with Heb Immigrant
Aid Soc; Spanish-Am War service. • See:
AJYB, 52:503; NITimes, Jan 25 1950,27:5.
Massary, Fritzi; b. Vienna, 1882.
To US 1939. • Popular actress & operetta
performer. • See: UJE.
Massel, Jacob; b. Russia, 1879?; d. Chicago,
Sep 141954.
Editor, communalldr, NYC; a fdr, dir Heb
Immigrant Aid Soc; editor Jewish Morning
Journal.· See:AJYB, 57:607; NITimes, Sep 15
1954,33:4.
Massell, BenjaminJoseph; b. Vilkomir, Apr
141886; d. Atlanta, Sep 91962.
To US 1888. • Realtor, bldr, Atlanta; a fdr
Bonds for Israel; officer Jewish Welfare Bd;
active natl United Jewish Appeal. • See: AJYB,
65:436; WWWIA, 7;JTA-DNB, Sep 111962;
NITimes, Sep 11 1962, 33:2.
Massell, Sam J r; b. Atlanta, 1927.
Lawyer, politician, mayor, Atlanta; WWII
service. • See: EJ.
Massell, Samuel Allan; b. Atlanta, Dec 15
1892.
LLB Atlanta Law. • Lawyer, Atlanta; active
municipal politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1938·.
Masserman, Jules Homan; b. Chudnov,
Poland, 1905.
To US 1908. • Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst,
Chicago; faculty U Chicago, Northwestern;
author/editor in field. • See: EJ.
Massias, Abraham A; b. Charleston, SC,
1772; d. Charleston, SC, June 28 1848.
Army officer, paymaster, Charleston, SCi with
Mastbaum, Jules E; b. Philadelphia, July 7
1872; d. Philadelphia, Dec 71926.
Motion picture theatre owner, philanthropist,
communal & civic ldr, Philadelphia; fdr Rodin
museum.· See: UJE;AJYB, 24:180, 29:117;
PAJHS, 31:282-83; NITimes, Dec 81926,
27:3.
Mastbaum, Stanley V; b. Philadelphia,
1875; d. Philadelphia, Mar 1918.
Movie theatre owner. • See: UJE (sub
Mastbaum, Jules); NITimes, Mar 81918, 11:5.
Master, Arthur Matthew; b. NYC, Dec 1
1895; d. Sep 41973.
BS CCNY, MD Cornell, post-grad London. •
Physician, cardiologist, NYC; inventor
diagnostic test; faculty Cornell, Columbia;
author in field; WWI & WWII service. • See:
EJ; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Sep 5
1973,44:1.
Master, Hilda Althschul.(Mrs Arthur M
Master); b. San Francisco, May 21 1892;
d: NYC,Jan 301967.
Philanthropist; benefactor Weizmann Inst,
United Jewish Appeal. • See:AJYB, 69:609-10;
NITimes, Jan 31 1967,31:1.
Masur, Jack; b. Augusta, GA,June 161908;
d. Mar 81969.
BS NYU, MD Cornell. • Med admr,
Washington DC; with Natl Inst of Health, US
Public Health Service; faculty Columbia;
officer med & professional socs. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Mar 10 1969,45:4.
Masurovsky, Benjamin Israel; b. Poltava
province, Apr 9 1892.
To US 1913. • BS Rutgers, MS U NE. • Dairy
chemist, LI City; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Mathes, Isadore; b. Miaskeefka, Russia,
July 211897?
To US 1892? • Shoe merchant, St Louis. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mathieu, Aron Max; b. Cincinnati, Apr 23
1907.
AB OH State. • Editor of trade publications,
Cincinnati; fdr Writers Market. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Matison, A Dave; b. Eastport, ME, Feb 28
1884.
Business coIl (Nashville). • Merchant, Laurel,
MS; officer B'nai B'rith; active Boy Scouts. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928,1938.
Matles, James Joseph; b. Rumania, Feb 24
1909; d. Sep 15 1975.
425
To US 1929. • Labor union exec, author,
NYC; with Internatl Assn ofMachinists, AFL;
orgr United Electric, Radio &,Machine
Workers; WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 7;
NITimes, Sep 17 1975,48:1.
Ala~,lIands;b.caI866;d.Bayonne,Aug
13 1916.
Rabbi, Bayonne. • See: AJYB, 19(19171918):266.
Alatson, Aiax AI; b. Dayton, OII, Nov 30
1900; d. Asbury Park, NJ, Aug 261970.
AB, LLB OH State. • Insurance co exec,
lawyer, Columbus, OH.· See: WWWIA, 5;
NITimes, Aug 28 1970, 31:4.
Alatt, C (CaIman) David; b. Kovno, June 24
1887; d. NovlDec 1951.
BA U PA,JTS, post-grad Dropsie, U MN. •
Rabbi, editor, Philadelphia; officer Rabbinical
Assembly of Am, Bd ofJewish Ministers; orgr
Good-Will Club; active Zionist Org of Am;
assoc editor Am Jewish World (Minneapolis). •
See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; NITimes, Dec 4
1951,33:5.
Alattes, Abraham; b. New Orleans, Feb 8
1894.
MD Tulane. • Urologist, New Orleans; faculty
Tulane; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Alattes, L (AI Lunianski); b. ca 1897; d.
Chicago, Nov 21929.
Poet, Chicago. • See:AJYB, 32:154.
Alattuck, Israel Isidor; b. Lithuania, 1883;
d. Apr 1954.
To US as child, to London 1911. • Harvard,
Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi, liberalJewish ldr,
England; an orgr World Union for Progressive
Judaism.· See: UJE; EJ; NITimef, Apr 5 1954,
25:5.
Alatusow, Abraham Perlin; b. Russia, May
141902.
To US 1909. ·MD NY Med ColI & Flower
Hospital, post-grad NYC. •
Otorhinolaryngological surgeon, NYc. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Alatz, Israel; b. Kalvaria, Lithuania, Jan 30/
Feb 81869; d. Brooklyn Feb 91950.
To US 1890. • Philanthropist, merchant,
Brooklyn; fdr Ex-Lax Co; est Israel Matz
Found for promotion ofHeb literature; exec
com Zionist Org of Am; dir Herzliah Heb
Academy. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 52:503;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes,
Feb 111950, 15:1.
Alatz, Julius; b. Kovno, Aug 20 1886.
To US 1905. • BSc MA State, PhD Johns
Hopkins. • Plant pathologist, Washington DC;
with Dept of Agriculture; author in field. • See:
UJE; AJYB, 24:180; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938;BEOAJ.
Alatz, Alyron lIarold; b. Boston, Feb 27
1913; d. Dec 2 1973.
MD U MN, post-grad Boston. • Physician,
dermatologist; faculty Harvard, MIT; WWII
service. • See: WWU1IA, 6.
May, Jean Wise (Mrs Albert] May)
Matz, Philip Benjamin; b. Baltimore, Aug
251885; d.June 251938.
Litt B Mather ColI (Kansas City), MD LI ColI
Hospital. • Pathologist, Washington DC; with
US Public Health Service, Veterans Adm;
author in field; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 1.
Matz, Sidney; b. NYC, Alay 24 1899; d.
near Seattle, July 1946.
BS, MA Harvard. • Business exec, NYC; a fdr
Am Economic Com for Palestine; dir AM
Palestine Music Found. • See: AJYB, 49:615;
WWIAJ,1938.
Matzkin, Aleyer; b. Svenciany, Vilno, Nov
251880.
Artist, sculptor, Boston.· See:AJYB, 24:180;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Maurois, Andre lIerzog; b. Elbeuf, France,
1885.
In US during WWII. • Noted French writer. •
See:·UJE.
Alax, Louis William; b. Baltimore, Nov 28
1901.
AB, PhD Johns Hopkins. • Psychologist,
NYC; faculty NYU; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Maximon, Shalom Baer; b. Squira, Kiev,
Dec 111881; d. Cincinnati,June 20
1933.
To US 1913. • Communal educational admr,
principal, Hebraist, textbook writer, author,
NYC; lecturer JTS, Jewish Inst of Religion,
Herzliah Heb Academy, Heb Union ColI. •
See:AJYB, 24:180, 35:126; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928.
May, A Wtlfred; b. Philadelphia, Apr 5
1900; d. Nov 12 1969.
AB, AM Columbia. • Editor, government
worker, foreign correspondent, author; faculty
New School; with US Treasury; exec editor
Commercial & Financial Chronicle; trustee
Educational Alliance. • See: WWWIA, 5;
NITimes, Nov 13 1969,47:3.
Alay, Aimee Mack (Mrs Max B Alay); b.
A{ilwaukee, Jan 1 1876.
Milwaukee Female ColI.· Communal & civic
worker, Cincinnati; pres Big Sister Org. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
May, AJfred; b. ca 1846; d. Brooklyn, May
141922.
Politician, Brooklyn. • See:A]YB, 24:102.
May, Armand; b. Marseilles, Oct 271882.
To US 1883. • Business exec, Atlanta; officer
Heb Orphans Home, V H Kreigshaber Library
for the Blind, Community Chest, Jewish
Welfare Fund. • See: WWJAJ, 1938.
May, Charles lIenry; b. Baltimore, Aug 7
1861; d. NYC, Dec 1943.
CCNY, MD Columbia. • Physician,
ophthalmologist, NYC; lecturer NY Polyclinic
Med School, Columbia; author in field. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 24:180,46:342; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Dec 9 1943,
27:3.
May, Dan; b. Nashville, Dec 25 1898.
Vanderbilt. • Hosiery mfr, civic official,
Nashville; mem Bd of Education; officer Jewish
Community Council, TN Council on
Economic Education; bd Fisk. • See:
WWWIA,8.
May, David; b. ca 1848; d. Charlevoix, MI,
July 22 1927.
Merchant, philanthropist, St Louis. • See:
AJYB, 30:80.
May, David; b. NYC, July 221865.
LLB NYU. • Divorce lawyer, NYc. • See:
WWWIA,4.
Alay, Edwin Charles; b. Philadelphia, Mar
22 1880.
Merchant, communal & civic ldr, Pittsburgh;
fdr May Drug Co; officer Housing Assn; dir
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
May, Geoffrey; b. Minneapolis, Apr 26
1900; d. Norton, MA, Feb61964.
LLB Harvard, LLD U London. • Lawyer,
public servant, author; faculty Johns Hopkins;
with US Dept of Labor, Federal Security
Agency. • See: WWU1IA, 4; NYTimes, Feb 7
1964,32:1.
May, lIerbert Louis; b. Philadelphia, July
28 1877; d. Feb 1966.
Cornell, Columbia, LLB NYU. • Lawyer,
business exec, author; counsel High Commr
for Refugees from Germany (League of
Nations).· See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Feb 2 1966,35:1.
May, Irma (Mrs Louis Weitzenkom); b.
Lemberg, June 10 1899.
To US 1920. • New School. • Lecturer,
writer, relief worker & investigator, NYC; with
J oint Distribution Com War Orphans Bureau;
surveyed Jewish conditions for United Jewish
Campaign (Poland, Galicia, Rumania). • See:
WWIAJ, 1926,1928.
May, Irving; b. Orange, VA, Oct 3 1891; d.
Sep 221964.
LLB Richmond ColI, post-grad UVa, U
Richmond. • Lawyer, business exec,
Richmond; officer City Planning Commn,
Natl Conf of Christians & Jews, synagog. •
See: WWWIA, 4.
May, Isaac; b. Soultz, Alsace, France, Apr
271862; d. Rome, GA, Sep 1953.
To US 1879. • Business exec, civic ldr, Rome,
GA; mem City Council; dir NatlJewish
Hospital, Heb Orphans Home (Atlanta). • See:
WWIAJ, 1928,1938; NITimes, Sep 241953,
33:5.
May, Jacob Frederick; b. St Louis, Feb 5
1892.
Wharton, U PA. • Merchant, Bartlesville, OK;
officer Welfare Assn; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
May, Jean Wise (Mrs AlbertJ May); b.
Cincinnati, Feb 211881; d. NYC, Feb 18
1972.
AB U Cincinnati. • Communalldr & tchr,
May, Joseph M '
426
NYC; officer Natl Fedn ofTemple
Sisterhoods; bd Natl Council ofJewish
Women, Natl Conf of Christians & Jews, Am
Jewish Com, Heb Womens Aid. • See:A]YB,
74:557; WWIA],1938.
Nashville; natl exec com Zionist Org of Am;
officer Jewish Community Council, Am Fund
for Israeli Instns, Council ofJewish Fedns &
Welfare Funds. • See:A]YB, 76:515;
WWWIA,6.
May,}osephM; b. Brooklyn, Aug 11875; d.
Nov 1948.
Brooklyn Polytech, business colI. • Realtor,
business exec, NYC; officer Fedn ofJewish
Charities; bd Salvation Army. • See: WWIA],
1938; BEOA]; NITimes, Dec 11948, 30:3.
May, Morton Jay; b. Denver, July 13 1881;
d. Clayton, MO, May 171968.
U Colorado. • Dept store exec, philanthropist,
St Louis; pres May Dept Stores; benefactor
Brandeis, Washington U, Fisk. • See: A]YB,
70:523; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 5; DAB, 8;
NITimes, May 181968,33:1.
May, Joseph P; b. Tapolchan, Hungary, Sep
301865.
Communal worker, alderman, Florence, AL;
chr United Palestine Appeal; dir Assocd
Charities. • See: WWIA], 1928.
May, Lewis; b. Wonns, Gennany, Sep 23
1823; d. Dobbs Ferry, NY,July 22 1897.
To US 1840· Merchant, banker, communal
ldr, Shreveport, NYC; fdr OR Masonic lodge;
officer Emanu-EI, YMHA. • See: ]E; U]E.
May, Lewis H; b. Troy, Feb 28 1878; d.
NYC, Mar 301945.
Realtor, business exec, civic ldr, NYC;
developer Far Rockaway. • See:A]YB, 47:528;
WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Mar 311945,19:3.
May, Lillian Siegel (Mrs Mortimer A May);
b. NYC, Mar 13 1892.
Communal & peace worker, Brooklyn; bd Natl
Fedn of Temple Sisterhoods; active Womens
Internatl League for Peace & Freedom. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
May, Maier; b. ca 1848; d. San Francisco,
May 271913.
Rabbi, Portland, OR.· See:A]YB, 15(19131914):272.
May, Max; b. Dannstadt, July 3 1861; d.
before 1938.
To US 1883.· Banker, Chicago, NYC,
abroad; specialty: foreign exchange. • See:
WWIA], 1926; WWWIA, 1.
May, Max Benjamin; b. Cincinnati, July 21
1866; d. Cincinnati, Oct 2 1929.
B Litt U Cincinnati, MA Harvard, Harvard
Law. • Lawyer, common pleas judge,
Cincinnati; bd Heb Union CoIl, United Jewish
Charities; dir U Cincinnati; biographer of 1M
Wise.· See: U]E;A]YB, 7(1905-1906):87,
24:180,32:154; WWIA], 1926, 1928;
WWWIA, 1.
May, Mitchell; b. Brooklyn, July 10 1870/
1871; d.NYC, Mar 1961.
Brooklyn Polytech, LLB Columbia. •
Congressman, NY Secy of State, state supreme
court justice, legislator, public servant, NYC;
mem Bd of Education; pres Fedn of] ewish
Charities, Zionist Org of Am campaigns. • See:
]E; U]E;A]YB, 2(1900-1901):521, 6(19041905):152-53,24:180,63:561; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes, Mar 27 1961,
31:1.
May, Mortimer; b. Laconia, NH, Dec 20
1892; d. Miami Beach, May 81974.
Columbia. • Hosiery mfr, ,Zionist ldr,
May, Pauline W (Mrs); b. ca 1849; d.
Brooklyn, July 2 1932.
Communal worker, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
35:126.
May, Samuel Chester; b. Portland, OR,
Dec 71887; d. Sep 301955.
LLB Yale, MA Columbia. • Lawyer, public
servant; faculty U CA; trustee Berkeley
Library; WWI service. • See: WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, Oct 11955,19:3, correction Oct 2
1955,87:2.
May, Thomas; b. ca 1883; d. Beverly Hills,
Aug 1968.
Merchandising exec, Los Angeles; with May
Dept Stores. • See: WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Aug
281968,44:3.
Maybarduk, Maria; b. Warsaw, Nov 21
1891.
To US 1924. • Warsaw Conservatory, Stern
Conservatory (Berlin). • Coloratura soprano,
voice tchr, NYC. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Maybarduk, Peter (phineas) K; b. Vilna,
Jan 71886; d. Mar 1968.
To US 1924. • MD U Berlin, post-grad Berlin,
NYU. • Neurologist, NYC; faculty NY Med
CoIl; active Workmen's Circle; author in field;
Russian army service. • See: WWIA],1928,
1938; NITimes, Mar 8 1968, 39:4.
Maybaum, Jacob Louis; b. NYC, Feb 26
1884; d. May 1951.
MD Cornell, post-grad U Vienna, U Berlin. •
Physician, otologist,. NYC; author in field. •
See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes,
June 11951,26:2.
Maybaum, Maxwell R; b. 1890; d. NYC,
Sep 81975.
Communal & educational philanthropist; fdr
Maxwell R Maybauni Inst ofMaterial &
Quantum Electronics, Belfer Grad School of
Science; est fellowships, scholarships, chair. •
See:A]YB, 77:597.
Mayer, A Marcus; b. ca 1836; d. Bradford,
PA, Dec 13 1914.
Civil War veteran, municipal worker,
Bradford, PA. -See:A]YB, 17(19151916):221.
Mayer, Abraham; b.*; d. Allenhurst, NJ,
Aug 201915.
Physician, author, Allenhurst, NJ. • See:A]YB,
18(1916-1917):109; NITimes, Aug 211915,7:6.
Mayer, Adeline; b. Cleveland.
Communal worker, Juvenile Court probation
officer, Cincinnati; fdr Friendly Club; officer
Natl Council ofJewish Women.· See:A]YB,
·7(1905-1906):87-88.
Mayer, Adolph; b. Mayence, Gennany, Apr
41843; d. Philadelphia, Jan 271905.
Southern CoIl (Richmond). • Rabbi, D,anville,
PA; earlier Richmond, Baltimore. • See: A]YB,
5(1903-1904):79, 7(1905-1906):218.
Mayer, Adolph A; b. Philadelphia, 1827; d.
Texas, 1869.
Army officer, Civil War. • See: U]E.
Mayer, AlbertJ Jr; b. Cincinnati, May 25
1906; d. June 4 1960.
U MI. • Realtor, business exec, legislator,
Cincinnati; officer Chamber of Commerce,
Real Estate Bd, Jewish Hospital; active
Republican politics. • See: WWWIA, 4;
Mayer, Arthur L; b. Demopolis, AL, May
281886.
Harvard; honorary degree. • Motion picture
exec, author; wwn Red Cross & government
service. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Mayer, Ben R; b. ca 1855; d. Baton Rouge,
May31914.
Merchant, communal worker, Baton Rouge. •
See: A]YB, 16(1914-1915):164.
Mayer, Cecile Seligman Lehman (Mrs
Edgar Mayer); b. Elberon, NJ, July 31
1893; d. Tarrytown, NY, Feb 15 1962.
Conimunal & civic ldr, philanthropist; officer
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies. • See: A]YB,
64:495; NITimes, Feb 16 1962,27:2.
Mayer, Clinton Orth; b. Lafayette, IN, July
221867; d. Mar 1956.
U PA Law. • Lawyer, bank dir, communalldr,
Philadelphia; officer Jewish Foster Home, Heb
Education Soc, Fedn ofJewish Charities. •
See:WWIA], 1926, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes,
Mar 23 1956,27:2.
Mayer, Constant; b. Besan~on, Oct 3 1829/
Oct 41832; d. NYClParis, 190111911.
To US 1857, to France ca 1895. • Beaux Arts
(Paris). • Artist, portraitist, NYC. • See:]E;
U]E; DAB; WWWIA, 1.
Mayer,.D; b.*; d. Charleston, WVA, May
201910.
Physician, Charleston, W VA; consul at
Buenos Ayres. • See: A]YB, 12(19101911):111.
Mayer, Daniel; b. ca 1856; d. Paris, Aug 23
1928.
Concert mgr, impresario, NYC. • See: A]YB,
31 :93; NITimes, Aug 24 1928, 19:5.
Mayer, David; b. ca 1826; d. NYC, Oct 22
1914.
Brewer, Confederate Civil War veteran, NYC.
• See:A]YB, 17(1915-1916):221;NITimes,
Oct241914,13:4.
Mayer, Edgar; b. NYC, Sep 28 1889/1890;
d. May 81975.
427
Physician, Tarrytown, NY; specialty:
pulmonary diseases; faculty Trudeau School of
Tuberculosis, Cornell, NYU; author in field. •
See: UJE; WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 6;
NITimes, May 9 1975, 38:6.
Mayer, Edward Everett; b. Allegheny, PA,
June 18 1875/1876.
AB, MA, MD U Pittsburgh, post-grad Europe.
• Psychiatrist, Pittsburgh; faculty U
Pittsburgh; bd Heb Union Coll,Jewish
Philanthropies; officer med assns. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):153; WWlAJ, 1926,1928,
1938; WWWIA, 5.
Mayer, Edwin; b. ca 1867; d. NYC, July 10
1935.
Textile merchant, communal worker, NYc. •
See:AJYB,38:432.
Mayer, Eli; b. Baltimore, Jan 271880; d.
July 291920.
AB U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union CoIl. •
Rabbi, Helena, AR, Philadelphia, Albany, NY.
• See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):79, 6(19041905):221,23:132; NITimes, July 30 1920,9:6.
Mayer, Elias; b. Chicago, Nov41877; d.
Chicago, May 3 1945.
AB Harvard, LLB Northwestern.· Lawyer,
communalldr, Chicago; dir Jewish Charities of
Chicago; endowed fund for aviation research
Northwestern. • See:AJYB, 47:528; WWlAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 2; NITimes, May 6
1945,37:1.
Mayer, Ellen Moers (Mrs Martin Mayer);
b. NYC, Dec 9 1928; d. NYC, Aug 25
1979.
BA Vassar, MA Harvard, PhD Columbia. •
Literature scholar, author; faculty Barnard,
CUNY, U CT; critic NITimes Book Review. •
See:AJYB, 81:371; NITimes, Aug 27 1979.
Mayer, Emil; b. NYC, May 23 .1854; d.
NYC, Oct 20 1931.
CCNY, Pharm G, MD NYU. • Laryngologist,
NYC; developed methods & devices; officer
med assns;author/editor in field;-WWI Red
Cross service. • See: UJE; AJYB, 6(19041905):153,24:180; WWlAJ; 1926; WWWIA, 1;
DAB.
Mayer,Emil;b.Niederhochstadt,lU1enish
Palatinate, June 24 1874.
LLB MO State. • Lawyer, communal worker,
author, St Louis; officer YMHA. • See: AJYB,
7(1905-1906):88.
Mayer, Emil I; b. Cardington, OH, Sep 8
1884.
Business coIl. • Merchant, Cincinnati; with
Cincinnati Fruit & Extract Works; trustee
Home for Jewish Aged and Infirm.· See:
WWlAJ, 1938.
Mayer, Erhard; b. ca 1882; d. Apr 8 1939.
Mfr, communal worker, New Orleans. • See:
AJYB,41:428.
Mayer, Ernest; b. Niederhochstadt, June 4
1866.
To MOlltgomery, AL 1884.· Merchant,
Montgomery, AL; owner wholesale cigar &
Mayer, Leopold
tobacco business; officer synagog. • See:
WWlAJ,1938.
Mayer, Erwin Emanuel; b. Karlsruhe,
Baden, June 211892.
To Baltimore 1902. • MD Coli of Physicians
& Surgeons (Baltimore). • Physician,
Baltimore; faculty U MD; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Mayer, Florence Blum (Mrs); b. ca 1871; d.
Chicago, June 4 1934.
Music patron, Chicago. • See: AJYB, 36:284.
Mayer, Frederick; b. Seeheim, Germany,
Aug 161890.
To US 1904. • LLB Kent Coll of Law. •
Lawyer, Chicago; WWI service. • See:
WWWIA,8.
Mayer, George Baker; b. Cleveland, Aug 23
1895; d. Cleveland, Apr 1969.
BS U PA. • Architect, Cleveland; specialty:
synagogs; trustee Jewish Welfare Fedn,
Educational Alliance, Camp Wise Assn; WWI
service. • See: WWlAJ, 1938; NITimes, Apr 6
1969,69:1.
Mayer, Goldie Sylvia Kanter (Mrs Nathan
Mayer); b. Pinsk, Nov 281905.
To US 1908. • LLB OH State. • Lawyer,
Columbus, OH; active Zionist Org of Am, bar
assn.· See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Mayer, Gustave; b.*
Newspaper publisher, Philadelphia. • See:
AJYB,24:180.
Mayer, Harriet Wtlbur; b. Philadelphia,
Oct 12 1884; d. 1941.
Armour Inst, Academy ofArts ~ Languages
(Heidelberg). • Public health worker, NYC;
MtVernon; with Red Cross, War Campaign
Community Service Employment Bureau, Am
Soc for Control of Cancer; mem Mt Vernon
Bd of Health; dir Jewish Community Council;
officer professional orgs. • See: WWlAJ, 1926,
1938;NITimes, Oct41941, 15:4.
Mayer, Harry Hubert; b. Allegheny, PA,
Jan 24 1874; d. 1965.
Ordained Heb Union Coll, BA U Cincinnati,
PhD U Berlin, post-grad Strasbourg, Freiburg.
• Rabbi, editor, author, Kansas City; orgr Fedn
ofJewish Charities, Pure Milk Commn; exec
com Central Conf of Am Rabbis; editor Jewish
Chronicle, hymnal.· See:A]YB, 5(19031904):79; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 5; CCARYB.
Mayer, Henry (Hy); b. Worms, Germany,
July 18 1868; d. Sep 27 1954.
To US 1886. • Artist, caricaturist, magazine
illustrator, author, NYC; editor Punch. • See:
JEi UJE; AJYB, 6(1904-1905):153, 24:180;
WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Sep 28 1954,29:4.
Mayer, Henry; b. St Louis, Sep 9 1874.
Commercial coIl. • Businessman, Chicago,
East St Louis. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mayer, Henry; b. NYC, ca 1896; d. NYC,
1983.
NYU Law. • Lawyer, NYC; authority: labor
law in telephone industry. • See: NITimes, Aug
2 1983.
Mayer, Henry Louis; b.-NYC, July 211861;
d. Palo Alto, CA, Aug 16 1938.
CCNY. • Merchant, Lincoln, NE, San
Francisco; pres Community Service Recreation
League, Jewish N ad Welfare Bd; dir N ad
Playground Assn. • See: AJYB, 41 :428;
WWlAJ, 1928, 1938.
Mayer, Irving Albert; b. Peoria, Apr 16
1886.
Commission merchant, Chicago, NYc. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Mayer, Isaac; b. Alsace, 1809; d. NYC,
1898.
To US 1849. • Conservative rabbi, tchr,
Cincinnati, Rochester, NY, Hartford. • See:
UJE.
Mayer, Isaac Henry; b. Chicago, July 6
1864; d. Sep 241967.
AB Yale, Union Coll of Law. • Lawyer,
Chicago.· See: WWlAJ, 1938; BEOA};
WWWIA,4.
Mayer, Joseph; b. San Antonio, Feb 17
1887.
U TX, AB Southwestern, AM Harvard, PhD
Columbia; honorary degree. • Sociologist,
economist, survey & research worker,
Washington DC; faculty Tufts; researcher
Rockefeller Found; consult Library of Congo •
See:BEOAJ.
Mayer, Joseph; b. Muehlheim, Germany, ca
1875; d. Zurich, June 1960.
To US 1901. • Retail exec, author; with Macys.
• See: NITimes, June 291960,33:5.
Mayer, Julius M; b. NYC, Sep 51865; d.
NYC, Nov 301925.
AB CCNY, LLB Columbia; honorary degree.
• NY Atty General, lawyer, special sessions,
US district court & circuit court judge, NYC;
involved in reform of factory laws; pres Jewish
Protectory & Aid Soc. • See: UJE; AJYB,
6(1904-1905):154, 24:180;WWWIA, 1;
NITimes, Dec 2 1925,25:4.
Mayer, Leo; b. Demopolis, AL, July 6 1884;
d. NYC,June 1972.
AB, MA Harvard, MD Columbia, post-grad
Germany, England. • Orthopedist, NYC;
faculty NY Post-Grad Med School; active
United Jewish Appeal; author in field. • See:
WWlAJ, 1926, 1928; NITimes, June 61972,
45:1.
Mayer, Leopold; b. Abendheim, Germany,
1827; d. 1903.
To US 1850. • Reform fdr & ldr, businessman,
Heb & German tutor, Chicago; fdr Heb
Benevolent Soc; Civil War Union fundraiser. •
See: EJ.
Mayer, Leopold; b. ca 1839; d. Chicago,
July 81916.
Captain, Civil War veteran, Chicago. • See:
AJYB, 19(1917-1918):266.
Mayer, Levy
Mayer, Levy; b. Richmond, Oct 23 1858; d.
Chicago, Aug 141922.
Yale, Yale Law.· Lawyer, Chicago; mem IL
Constitutional Convention; librarian Chicago
Law Inst; widow donated $500,000 to
Northwestern in his memory. • See: UJE; E];
A]YB, 25:140; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 15
1922, 11:5.
Mayer, Lewis E; b. ca 1856; d. Demopolis,
AL, Nov 15 1910.
Communal worker, Demopolis, AL. • See:
A]YB, 13(1911-1912):136.
Mayer, Lippmann; b. Baden, Aug 31841; d.
Latrobe, PA, Aug 301904.
To US ca 1868. • PhD, AM Wiirzburg, PhD
U Berlin, MA, PhD Heidelberg. • Pioneer
Reform rabbi, Pittsburgh; a fdr Central Conf
of Am Rabbis, YMHA, school for Russian
immigrants. • See: UJE; A]YB, 5(19031904):79-80,6(1905-1906):216; PA]HS,
13:147-49.
Mayer, Louis Burt; b. Minsk, July 4 1885;
d. Los Angeles, Oct 291957.
To US ca 1903. • Motion picture producer,
philanthropist, Los Angeles; orgr Metro
Pictures (MGM); trustee Jewish Orphans
Home. • See: UJE; E]; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; DAB, 6; NYTimes,
Oct 301957,29:1.
Mayer, Lucius W; b. NYC, Apr 28 1882; d.
June 111947.
Rensselaer Polytech, ME Columbia. • Consult
mining engineer, NYC; author/lecturer in
field. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA,2;NYTimes,June 121947,
25:4.
Mayer, Marcus R; b. New Orleans, 1843; d.
Amityville, LI, May 1918.
Fordham. • Theatrical producer & mgr,
legislator, CA. • See: UJE; NYTimes., May 9
1918,13:2.
Mayer, Max K; b. Ft Worth, July 1 1877.
LLB U'IX. • Lawyer, Ft Worth. • See:
WWIA],1928.
Mayer, Milton Sanford; b. Chicago, Aug 24
1908.
U Chicago. • Newspaperman, reporter,
university admr, Chicago; with U Chicago. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Mayer, Mordecai; b. Chortkov, Poland, Jan
281915; d. NYC,Jan 261981.
To US 1936.· Rabbi, Heb & Yiddish author,
columnist, NYC; ldr First Am Rumanian
synagog.· See:A]YB, 83:359.
Mayer,Moritz;b.Durckheim-on-theHardt, Germany, Dec 161821; d. NYC,
Aug281867.
To US after 1848 revolutions. • Rabbi, tchr,
Charleston, SC, NYC; officer B'nai B'rith;
contributor Jewish press. • See:]E.
Mayer, Mrs Josh W; b. ca 1875; d. NYC,
Feb 13 1933.
Communal worker, NYC; US medal awarded
for liberty loan service. • See:A]YB, 35:126.
428
Mayer, Mrs Max; b. ca 1875; d. Des
Moines, Apr 14 1945.
Communal worker, Zionist, Des Moines. •
See:A]YB, 47:528.
Mayer, Nathan; b. Bavaria, Dec 25 1838; d.
Hartford,July 101912.
To Cincinnati 1849. • OHMed ColI, postgrad Prague, Munich, Paris. • CT Surgeon
General, physician, writer, poet, drama critic,
Hartford; Civil War service. • See: UJE; A]YB,
15(1913-1914):272; PA]HS, 37:425-29.
Mayer, Ralph; b. NYC, Aug 11 1895.
Rensselaer Polytech. • Artist, research chemist,
art restorer & conservationist, NYC; tchr Art
Students League; lecturer in field; consult
museums. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Mayer, Richard; b. Chicago, Dec 81898; d.
Apr 91967.
Yale, JD U Chicago. • Lawyer, Chicago; WWI
& WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 4.
Mayer, Robert B; b. ca 1911; d. Chicago,
Jan 141974.
U Chicago. • Art collector, patron, exec,
Winnetka, IL; trustee Kenyon CoIl; WWII
service. • See: WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Jan 15
1974,40:3.
Mayer, Sophie (Mrs Adolph H Mayer); b.
ca 1858; d. NYC,Jan 27 1935.
Lawyer, NYC. • See:A]YB, 37:259.
Mayer, Theodore; b. ca 1876; d. Aug 15
1938.
R~altor, civic worker, legislator, Cincinnati. •
See:A]YB, 41:428; NITimes, Aug 17 1938,
19:3.
Mayer, Walther; b. Graz, Mar 111887; d.
Princeton, Sep 10 1948.
To US 1933. • Mathematician; specialty:
geometry & topology; with Inst for Advanced
Study (Princeton); collaborator with Albert
Einstein. • See:A]YB, 51:523; NYTimes, Sep
131948,21:3.
Mayerberg, Samuel Spier; b. Goldsboro,
NC, May 6 1892; d. Kansas City, Nov 22.
1964.
AB, MA U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union
CoIL • Rabbi, Detroit, Dayton, OH, Kansas
City; faculty U KS; fdr Chair ofJewish Studies
(U MO); bd Central Conf of Am Rabbis. • See:
A]YB, 66:579; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Nov
23 1964,37:5.
Mayerowitz, Berachya; b. Wegger, Kovno,
Dec 1865.
Kovno Tchrs CoIL • Rabbi, author, Atlanta;
earlier Kansas City, Toledo. • See: A]YB,
5(1903-1904):80.
Mayers, Jacob; b. Russia; d. Bronx, Apr 20
1921.
To US 1908. • Rabbi, NYC, Bronx; chief
justice "Jewish Court of the 70 Elders." • See:
A]YB, 23:132; NITimes, Apr 211921,13:5.
Mayers, Lawrence Seymour; b. NYC, Oct
291890; d. Dec 3 1956.
Wholesale jeweler, NYC; sponsored internatl
essay contest on world peace; dir Felicia
Summer Home for Poor Children; trustee Soc
for Ethical Culture; active civic affairs; WWI
service.· See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Dec 41956,39:3.
Mayers, Lewis; b. NYC, June 20 1890; d.
Dec 311975.
CCNY, U WI, PhD Columbia, LLB George
Washington.· Lawyer, public servant, NYC;
faculty CCNY; counsel NY Commn on
Colored People; author in field. • See:
WWWIA, 6; NITimes,Jan41976, 47:3.
Mayerson, Hymen Samuel; b. Providence,
Sep 10 1900.
AB Brown, PhD Yale. • Physiologist, New
Orleans; faculty Yale, Tulane. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Mayfield, Abraham; b. ca 1830; d. San
Francisco, Sep 251913.
Civil War veteran, San Francisco. • See: A]YB,
16(1914-1915):164.
Mayper, Alexander Abraham; b. Kedaan,
Latvia, Sep 10 1884; d. Nov 1958.
To US 1886.· CCNY, LLB NYU.• Lawyer,
asst district atty, NYC; counsel, officer United
Parents Assn of Greater NY Schools. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Nov 301958,86:6.
Mayzel, Nachman; b. Kiev, 1887.
To US?, to Israel 1964. • Heb & Yiddish
writer, editor, litterateur; fdr Kiev Farlag,
Warsaw Culture League. • See: E].
Mazen, Benjamin; b. Hoboken, ca 1908; d.
NYC, Nov 1969.
CCNY, Columbia Law. • Tchr, union ldr,
author, Scarsdale; ldr United Fedn ofTchrs. •
See: NITimes, Nov 15 1969, 37:2.
Mazer, Abraham; b. Hosht, Ukraine, Apr 1
1876; d. NYC, Mar 271953.
To US ca 1893.· Paper mfr, communal
philanthropist, Hartford; fdr Abraham Mazur
Free Loan Bank ofIsrael, yeshiva (Brooklyn);
dir Am Friends ofHeb U. • See: E] (sub
Mazer);A]YB, 55:457; NYTimes, Mar 281953,
17:1.
Mazer, Ceil; b. ca 1908; d. NYC, Mar 22
1978.
Communal worker; fundraiser Hadassah,
United Jewish Appeal; a fdr Albert Einstein
CoIl of Med. • See: A]YB, 80:370; NITimes,
Mar 241978,25:3.
Mazer, Charles; b. Kiev, Nov 15 1881; d.
Feb 1964.
To Philadelphia 1893. • Medico-Chirurgical
CoIl (Philadelphia). • Physician, Socialist
mayoral candidate, Philadelphia; faculty U PA;
pres Jewish Physicians Org; author in field. •
See: UJE; WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; NITimes,
Feb 19 1964, 39:1.
Mazer, Eva; b. ca 1879; d. NYC, May 14
1957.
Communalldr, NYC; a fdr Albert Einstein
CoIl ofMed; active Hadassah, Rabbonim Aid
Soc. • See: A]YB, 59:476.
429
Meisel, Nachman
Mazer, Jacob; b. NYC, 1898; d. Port
Chester, NY, Apr 11968.
Brooklyn Polytech. • Business exec, NYC; a
fdr Am Friends ofHeb U; bd Am Technion
Soc. • See: A]YB, 70:523; WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Apr 2 19(i8, 47: 1.
Meckler, David L (pseud=Ben Shloima); b.
Vilna,June 15 1891; d. Apr 1976.
To US 1907.· Columbia, NYU. • Editor,
author, NYC; with Warheit, Jewish Morning
Journal. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
Apr291976,42:5.
~azer,
Medalia, David Bernard; b. Moscow, Dec
12 1888.
To Boston 1906. • MD Tufts. • Physician,
Boston; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Joseph M; b. NYC, Oct 29 1899; d.
NYC, Feb 4 1979.
Honorary degrees. • Business exec, communal
educational philanthropist, NYC; bd NY Bd of
Rabbis, Am Friends ofHeb U,Joint
Distribution Com. • See:A]YB, 81:371;]TADNB, Feb 6 1979.
Mazur, Paul Myer; b. Boston, Dec 9 1892;
d.July 301979.
Harvard; honorary degrees. • Banker, author,
NYC; with Lehman Bros; WWI service. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 7.
Mazzanovich, Lawrence; b.*
Painter, Westport, CT. • See:A]YB, 24:180.
McCluskey, Ellen L (born Lehman); h.
NYC; d. Oct 21 1984.
Vassar, Columbia, NY School of Design. •
Interior decorator, NYC; supporter Cooper
Hewitt Museum; officer professional org;
active Just One Break. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Meadow, Aaron; b.*; d. Paterson, Apr 18
1939.
Mfr, Zionist worker, Paterson. • See: A]YB,
41:428.
Mears, Otto; b. Courland, May 3 1840; d.
Pasadena, June 24 1931.
To CA ca 1850. • Western pioneer, railroad
bldr, legislator, newspaper publisher, auto mfr,
mill owner; developed western slope of CO;
Civil War service. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
33:127; DAB; NYTimes, June 261931,21:1.
Mearson, Ida Charlotte; b. Jassy, Oct 1
1882.
Businesswoman, NYC; principal Jewish
Endeavor Soc religious schools; delegate
Alliance Israelite of Am. • See:A]YB, 7(19051906):88.
Mearson, Lyon; b. Montreal, ca 1889; d.
NYC,Jan 1966.
To NYC as child. • NY Law. • Educator,
playwright, novelist, NYC; military service. •
See: NYTimes, Jan 10 1966, 25:4.
Mechlouitz, Hattie Reva Kaminsky (Mrs
Jacob Mechlouitz); b. Indianapolis, Feb
171892.
Marywood ColI (Scranton). • Communal exec,
Scranton; exec dir Jewish Fedn; fought for city
playground; orgr Housing Com. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Mecklenburger, Albert F; b. Okolona, MS,
Apr 2 1888.
BS U MS, JD U Chicago. • Lawyer, Chicago;
specialty: patents & trademarks; pres Fedn of
Temple Brotherhoods; officer Jewish Free
Employment Bureau, B'nai B'rith; bd Union of
Am Heb Congregations. • See: BEOA];
WWWIA,8.
Medalia, Leon Samuel; b. Palestine, Dec 5
1881.
.
To US 1900.· MD Tufts, post-grad MIT. •
Physician, communalldr, Zionist, author,
Boston; a fdr Heb Tchrs ColI; officer Assocd
Jewish Charities, Bureau ofJewish Education;
bd Zionist Org of Am; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA].
Medalie, Carrie Kaplan (Mrs George Z
Medalie); b. NYC, Sep 25 1884.
Barnard, NYU; honorary degree. • Civic
worker, tchr, NYC; mem Bd of Education; dir
Com for Adult Refugee Education. • See: UJE
(sub Medalie, George Z); WWWIA, 7.
Medalie, George Zerdin; b. NYC, Nov 21
1883; d. Albany, NY, Mar 51946.
BA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, US atty, civic &
communalldr, NYC; chr Mayors
Unemployment ReliefCommn; officer Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies, Jewish Bd of Guardians,
professional orgs; active Am Jewish Cong, Am
Jewish Com. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 48:93100,495; WWIA], 1928, 1938;BEOA];
WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, Mar 6 1946,27:1.
Medem,~adimir;b.Lanria, 1879;
d. NYC,
Jan 91923.
To US 1921. • Socialistldr & author; officer
Bund; autobiography; baptized at birth,
returned to Judaism. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
25:140.
Medias, Charles; b. ca 1867; d. Oct 31
1938.
Busin~ssman, civic & communal worker,
Indianapolis. • See:A]YB, 41:428.
Medintz, Barney; b. London, Jan 22 1910;
d. Adanta, Feb 81960.
To US 1911. • Merchant, natl communalldr;
natl officer Council ofJewish Fedns and
Welfare Funds; active United Jewish Appeal,
Am Jewish Com, Jewish Welfare Bd.· See:
A]YB, 62:451.
Medoff, Joseph; b. ca 1877; d. Philadelphia,
Sep 201923.
Principal, Gratz ColI School of Practice,
Philadelphia. • See: AJ-YB, 26: 156.
Mehler, 1rillie;b.NYC, 1896; d. NYC, Nov
3 1979.
Communalldr; fdr Passover Relief Fund;
active Mizrachi, Israel Aid Soc, United Ladies
Aid Soc. • See: A]YB, 81:371.
Mehrhach, Solomon; b.*; d. NYC, Aug 23
1911.
Pres, 2nd Avenue Railroad, NYC. • See: A]YB,
14(1912-1913): 124.
Mehring, Walter; b. Berlin, 1896.
1ro US mid-1930s. • Poet, leftist political
songwriter, playwright, Germany. • See: UJE.
Meier, Julius L; b. Pordand, OR, Dec 31
1874; d. near Corbett, OR, July 141937.
LLB U OR. • Governor of OR, lawyer,
merchant, businessman, communal worker,
Portland, OR; officer B'nai B'rith,Joint
Distribution Com, Fedn ofJewish Socs;
developed Columbia River highway system. •
See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 40:389; BEOA];
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, July 151937,19:3.
Meierhof, Edward Lee; b. ca 1861; d. Oct
25 1937.
Eye, ear, nose & throat specialist, NYC. • See:
A]YB, 40:389; NYTimes, Oct 261937,23:2.
Meinhard, Morton H; b. ca 1873; d. at sea,
Apr 15 1931.
Mfr, communal worker, philanthropist, NYC.
• See:A]YB, 33:127.
Meinrath, Joseph; b. Boston, Feb 22 1957;
d. May 141941.
Harvard. • Brokerage exec, Kansas City; bd
Patriots & Pioneers Memorial Found; active
patriotic, civic & politcal causes. • See:
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, May 161941,23:3.
Meir, Golda Mabovitch; b. Kiev, May 3
1898; d. Dec 91978.
To US 1906, to Israel 1921. • Prime Minister
(Israel), labor ldr, Zionist, socialist; memoirs,
autobiography. • See: E]; E]: 1973-1982;
WWWIA, 7;NYTimes, Dec 10 1978, 18:1.
Meirowitz, Meyer Isaac; b. ca 1869; d.
reported Dec 18 1936.
Rabbi, Brooklyn. • See:A]YB, 39:594.
Meisel, Max; b. Brooklyn, Dec 251892; d.
Aug 1939.
BS CCNY, BLS NY State Library School. •
Business exec, author, Cleveland; earlier with
NY Public Library; WWI service. • See:
A]YB, 42:481; WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Meisel, Max E; b. ca 1877; d. Apr 19 1939.
Legislator, civic & communalldr, Cleveland. •
See:A]YB, 41:428.
Medvidovsky, Israel; b. Russia, 1865.
Rabbi, Portland, OR. • See: A]YB, 5(19031904):80, 6(1904-1905):221.
Meisel, Molly (Mrs); b. ca 1860; d. Apr 20
1939.
Communal charity worker, Milwaukee. • See:
A]YB, 41:428; NYTimes, Apr 281939,25:3.
Mehl, Israel Nathan; b. Ponivies, Kovno,
Apr 1877.
Communal & Zionist worker, Ft Worth; orgr
Heb Relief Soc, Heb school; helped bId
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Meisel, Nachman; b. Kiev, 1887; d. Afula,
Israel, Apr 1966.
To US 1937, to Israel 1964. • Critic, Yiddish
litterateur, journalist, editor, author; officer
Yiddisher Kultur Farband; a fdr Yiddish Inst. •
Meisles, Irving
See: UJE; ]TA-DNB, Apr 29 1966; NYTimes,
May 2 1966, 37:1.
Meisles, Irving; b. Satoraljaujhely,
Hungary, Dec 24 1898.
BSc U Southern CA, OD Los Angeles School
of Ophthalmology. • Optometrist, educator,
Hagat:Stown, MD; principal Talmud Torah
(Baltimore); officer Tifereth Zionist Assn,
Young Judea. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Meiss, Millard; b. Cincinnati, Mar 25 1904;
d.]une 12 1975.
Princeton, Harvard, PhD NYU; honorary
degree. • Ar1; historian, author; faculty NYU,
Columbia, Harvard, Inst for Advanced Study
(Princeton); editor Art Bulktin, Magazine of
Art; chr Am Com for the Restoration of Italian
Monuments. • See: WWU'IA, 6; NYTimes,
June 141975, 30:4.
Meissner, Edna Rice (Mrs Edwin Benjamin
Rice Meissner); b. Milwaukee, Nov 24
1888.
Vassar. • Communal & civic worker, St Louis;
pres regional Natl Council ofJewish Women.
• See: WWIA], 1926.
Meissner, Edwin Benjamin; b. Milwaukee,
Dec 51884; d. Sep 10 1956.
.
Mining exec, communal & civic worker, St
Louis; officer Crime Commn, Central Inst for
the Deat; dir Jewish Fedn; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3;
NYTimes, Sep 11 1956,35:5.
430
To US 1891. • Editor, publisher, early Zionist,
Chicago; mem mayors cabinet; fdr Jewish
Record, Chicago Jewish Chronick; orgr Jewish
Historical Soc ofIL. • See:A]YB, 46:342;
NYTimes, May41944, 19:2.
Mekler, Jachial ijehial) Hyman; b.
Meisagola, Poland, Mar 241899/Apr 5
1900.
To US 1921.· AB UND,MA Wesley ColI,
DD Sioux ColI. • Rabbi, author, Duluth; dir
Zionist Org of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938;
Melamed, Deborah Marcus (Mrs Raphael
H Melamed); b. NYC, July 211892; d.
Nov 1954.
LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, district court judge,
civic & communalldr, Bayonne; mem City
Council, Bd of Education; faculty John
Marshall Law; officer bar assn; chr Relief Com
for German Jews. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1938;
BEOA]j NYTimes, Sep 11 1960,80:3.
AB Hunter. • Language educator, author,
Elizabeth; officer Womens League of United
Synagogue of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Nov41954, 31:4.
Mels, Alfred; see Cohn, Martin.
Melamed, Raphael Hai; b. Hebron,
Palestine, July 3 1884/1885; d. Elizabeth,
May 3 1948.
AB NYU, ordainedJTS, PhD Dropsie.·
Rabbi, communal worker, author, Elizabeth;
faculty Gratz; • active Family Welfare Soc,
United Heb Charities, YMHA, Red Cross. •
See:A]YB, 24:181, 50:520; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; NYTimes, May 41948,25:4.
Meldola, Aaron David; b. Montreal, 1853;
d.1918.
To US 1938. • U Tiibingen,U Munich. •
Physicist; specialty: spectroscopy & atom
physics; faculty U Frankfurt, Worcester
Polytech, Purdue. • See: WWWIA, 3.
First Canadian-born rabbi, Montreal; officer
NYC Orthodox convention, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations; protested
Central Conf of Am Rabbis Sunday Shabbat
discussion. • See: E].
Mellamed, Sarah Beleskie; b. Lipovitz,
Kiev, 1869.
Communal worker, Hartford; orgr Heb Ladies
Old Peoples Home, Heb Womens Home for
Children, United Jewish Charities, Heb
Sheltering Home; pres Free Loan Assn. • See:
WWIA],1928.
Meister, Morris; b. Gonietz, Poland, Oct
201895; d. NYC, Aug 10 1975.
To NYC 1902. • BS CCNY, MA, PhD
Columbia. • Science educator, author, editor,
NYC; fdr, principal Bronx High School of
Science; faculty Columbia; officer Hall of
Science. • See: UJE; A]YB, 77:597; WWIA],
1938; NYTimes, Aug 11 1975, 30:5.
Meitchik, Annie (Mme); b. ca 1875; d. AlJg
71934.
AB CCNY, MS NYU, PhD Fordham. •
Chemist, NYC; faculty CCNY; authority:
aminoalcohols; WWI government service. •
See:A]YB, 45:390; WWIA], 1938; NITimes,
Jan 18 1943, 15:3.
Natl Academy of Design. • Artist, NYC. • See:
BEOA].
Meltz, Samuel Leonard; b. NYC, Nov 3
1903.
AB CCNY, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer,
Jamaica, NY; officer Democratic club. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Meltzer, Doris; b. near Ellenville, NY, Jan
11908; d. Oct 18 1977.
Art Students League. • Artist, exhibit creator,
NYC; fdr Overseas Program (USIS), Natl
Serigraph Soc, Meltzer Gallery. • See:
WWWL4, 7.
Meltzer, Hyman; b. Molodatchna, Vilna,
Sep 11898.
To US 1907. • BS U IL, MA, PhD Columbia.
• Psychologist, author, St Louis; faculty
Washington U; dir Psychological Service
Center, YM-YWHA, Civil Liberties League. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Meltzer, Joseph; b. ca 1859; d. St Louis,
Apr41939.
Businessman, communalldr, Atlanta. • See:
Mellanoff, Isadore Sidney; b. Philadelphia,
July41901.
A]YB, 41:428.
PhG, BSc, MSc Philadelphia School of
Pharmacy. • Research chemist, Philadelphia;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Meltzer, Joseph; b. Vilkomir, June 25 1886.
Meller, Adolf; b. Berlin, Dec 71891; d.
Miami Beach, 1947.
A]YB,37:259.
To US 1909. • Importer of precious stones,
Providence; fdt RI Refugee Center; officer
professional socs. • See: WWIA], 1938;
Meites, Hyman L; b. Odessa; d. Chicago,
May 31944.
Meller, Esther Kandel; b. 1899?; d. NYC,
Mar 51964.
Contralto, Metropolitan Opera, NYc. • See:
Meltsner, Max; b. NYC, Oct 26 1886; d.
NYC,Jan 161943.
Meltsner, Paul Raphael; b. NYC, 1905.
Melamed, Samuel Max; b. Vilkovski,
Lithuania, Dec 15 1885; d. NYC,June 19
1938.
Meissner, Karl Wilhelm; b. Reutlingen,
Germany, Dec 15 1891; d. Apr 13 1959.
To US 1893. • Realtor, bldr, developer,
Zionist, philanthropist, communal worker,
NYC; fdr Heb Natl Orphan Home; dir Heb
Free Loan Soc. • See: A]YB, 39:594; WWIA],
1938.
Lawyer, state supreme court judge, communal
worker; officer Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations; bd Yeshiva U; active
Community Chest, Am Jewish Cong.· See:
A]YB, 84:336-37.
Melniker, Aaron A; b. Odessa, Jan 25 1885;
d. Neptune, NJ, Sep 1960.
AB, LLB U WI. • Lawyer, civic ldr,
Milwaukee; mem School Bd; officer Red Cross,
WI Soc ofMental Hygiene; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Meister, Isaac; b. Teplik, Ukraine, Dec 20
1877; d. Oct 3 1936.
Mellitz, Samuel; b. Bridgeport, CT, May 6
1891; d. New Haven, Dec 26 1982.
BEOA].
To US 1914.· U Paris, U Marburg, PhD U
Bern.· Writer, editor, Zionist ldr, NYC; with
NY Staats Zeitung, Am Jewish Chronicle; fdr
Kehillah & Heb Theological ColI (Chicago);
officer Zionist Org of Am (Chicago). • See:
UJE;A]YB, 24:181,40:389; WWIA], 1928,
1938; BEOA]; NITimes, June 201938,15:2.
Meissner, Harry Victor; b. Milwaukee, Nov
241890.
Insurance broker, communal & civic ldr, NYC;
officer synagog, Peter Cooper Community
Council. • See:A]YB, 66:579.
To US 1898. • BE, CE Cooper Union.·
Construction engineer; NYC; bldr subways,
housing, theatres. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Meltzer, Joshua; b. ca 1863; d. Bridgeport,
CT, Jan 4 1933.
Lawyer, legislator, Bridgeport, CT. • See:
A]YB,35:127.
Meltzer, Maurice; b. Czortkow, Austria,
June 14 1891;d. Oct 1970.
To US 1899.· MD NYU.• Urologist, NYC;
431
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
Oct 17 1970, 32:5.
Meltzer, Samuel]ames; b. Troip, Kovno,
Mar 22 1851; d. NYC, Nov 7 1920.
To US 1883. • MD U Berlin. • Physician; with
Rockefeller Inst; fdr Soc for Experimental
Biology & Medicine; officer med assns; author
in field. • See: UJE; A]YB, 6(1904-1905): 154,
23:133; WWWIA, 1; DAB; NYTimes, Nov 8
1920, 15:6.
Menachem (pseud of Goldberg, Menachem
Boraisha); b. Brest-Litovsk, 1888.
To US 1915. • Noted poet, journalist, NYC;
with Day, Cong Weekly; active Joint
Distribution Com, Am Jewish Cong.· See:
UJE.
Mencher, Ely; b. NYC, Dec 141913; d.
Dec 111978.
CCNY, PhD MIT. • Geologist; faculty
Central U (Caracas), MIT, CCNY. • See:
WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Dec 13 1978,25:4.
Menchofsky, Boruch; b. ca 1845; d. Kansas
City, Oct 9 1921.
Rabbi, Kansas City.· See:A]YB, 24:102.
Mendel, Arthur; b. Boston, June 6 1905; d.
Oct 141979.
Harvard, Paris; honorary degrees. • Musician,
musicologist, NYC; music critic The Nation;
faculty Princeton; conductor Cantata Singers.
• See: WWWIA, 7.
Mendel, Lafayette Benedict; b. Delhi, NY,
Feb 5 1872; d. Dec 9 1935.
AB, PhD Yale; honorary degrees. •
Physiological chemist, nutritionist, New
Haven; pioneer work with vitamins; faculty
Yale; officer professional orgs. • See: UJE;
A]YB, 24:181, 38:432; WWIA], 1926, 1928;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 1; DAB, 1.
Mendel, Warner Humphrey; b. Knoxville,
Oct 2 1906; d. NYC, Oct 22 1967.
BA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, life insurance
exec, NYC; specialty: finance & real property
law; developed new methods of financing. •
See: WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Oct 24 1967,47:2.
Mendelson, Samuel
Sep 271939.
AB, PhD U PA. • Philologist, code expert,
Washington DC; faculty CCNY; contributor
]E; WWI service. • See:]E (sub Mendelsohn,
Samuel);A]YB, 42:481; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Sep 28 1939,
25:1.
Mendelsohn (Mendelson), Samuel; b.
Shillelen, Kovno, Mar 31 1850; d. Sep 30
1922.
Ordained Maimonides CoIl (Philadelphia). •
Rabbi, author, Wilmington, NC; contributor
Jewish press; dir Assocd Charities. • See: ]E;
A]YB, 5(1903-1904):80,24:181,25:140;
WWWIA, 1.
Mendelsohn, David H; b. Mittau, Kurland,
Sep 20 1889; d. Apr 1943.
To US 1893. • MD JeffersonMed Call, post-
Mendelsohn, Samuel; b. Chicago, Mar 3
1895; d. Glen Ridge, NJ, Feb 3 1966.
grad Utica, Vienna. • Surgeon, Paterson. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Apr 9 1943,
21:3.
Inventor, mfr, Bloomfield, N]; developed
flashbulb "Speedgun," microwave components.
• See: DAB, 8;NYTimes, Feb 41966,31:2.
Mendelsohn, Eric (Erich); b. Allerstein,
East Prussia, Mar 211887; d. San
Francisco, Sep 15 1953.
To US 1941. • U Berlin, U Munich. • Noted
Mendelsohn,SamueIFelix;b.Starobin,
Minsk, Nov 27 1889; d. Chicago, Feb 27
1953.
architect, engineer; mem German
Expressionist movement. • See: UJE; E);
A]YB, 56:571; WWWIA, 4; DAB, 5; NITimes,
Sep 161953,36:7.
Mendelsohn, Felix; b. Chicago, Dec 91876;
d. Oct 241938.
Publisher, exposition dir, Chicago; exec
Expositions Co of Am. • See: A]YB, 41 :428;
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes; Oct 25 1938,23:3.
Mendelsohn, G; b. Bausk, Courland, Dec
25 1867.
Rabbi, Homestead, PA, Nashville. • See:
A]YB, 5(1903-1904):80,6(1904-1905):221.
To US 1906. • U Chicago, AB U Cincinnati,
ordained Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi, author,
Chicago; faculty Call ofJewish Studies; pres
Chicago Rabbinical Assn; initiator NatlJewish
Book Week. • See:A]YB, 55:457; WWIA],
1928, 1938; NYTimes, Feb 28 1953, 17:4.
Mendelsohn, Shelomo; b. Warsaw, 1896; d.
1948.
To US 1941.· UWarsaw.· Yiddish critic,
historian, Folk Party ldr; co-editor Dos Folk;
editorial bd Undzer Tsayt. • See: E].
Mendelsohn, Sigmund; b. ca 1841; d. New
Orleans, Oct 301914.
Civil War veteran, New Orleans. • See: A]YB,
17(1915-1916):221.
Mendelsohti, Isaac; b. Kremeiticz, Ukraine,
Oct 311898; d. NYC, May 201965.
To US 1930.· Semitic scholar, historian,
NYC; faculty Columbia; active Friends ofHeb
U; author in field. • See:A]YB, 67:539;
NYTimes, May 22 1965,31:3.
Mendelsohn, Isador Wtlliam; b. NYC, May
12 1894.
BS, CE U WI • Sanitary engineer, NYC; with
US Public Health Service, Public Works Adm;
author in field; reserve military service. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Mendelsohn, Isidor; b. *; d. Dorchester,
MA, May 7 1914.
Mendelsohn, Sigmund; b. Austria, 1858;d.
NYC, Mar 1941.
To US as child. • Columbia Law. • Mfr,
author, NYC; exec Hudson River Woolen
Mills. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928; NYTimes,
Mar 13 1941,21:4.
Mendelsohn, Walter; b. NYC,]an 221897.
AB, LLB Yale.· Lawyer, NYC; mem Welfare
Council of NY; dir Jewish Bd of Guardians. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Mendelson, Aaron; b. ca 1862; d. Detroit,
Sep 23 1933.
Financier, Detroit. • See: A]YB, 36:284.
Communal worker, Dorchester, MA.· See:
Mendell, Samuel; b. ca 1881; d.
Huntington, WVA, Feb 171919.
Rabbi, Huntington, WVA.· See:A]YB,
A]YB, 16(1914-1915):164.
21:206.
Mendelsohn,]acob]ames; b. Kovno,]an 19
1891; d.]uly 1955.
Mendelowitz, Abraham; b. Nikolaev,
Ukraine, Mar 5 1894; d. NYC,- Nov 14
1966.
To Chicago 1892. • MD Loyola. • Physician,
Chicago; faculty Loyola; med dir Consumptive
Aid Soc. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, July
28 1955,23:5.
To US 1915. • Internatllabor ldr, anticommunist; internatl officer Cloth Hat and
Capmakers Union; mem Jewish Heb Trades,
Workmen's Circle. • See: Fink, 241-42;
NYTimes, Nov 15 1966, 41:1.
Mendelsohn, Albert; b. Chicago, Mar 13
1889.
Columbia. • Mining engineer & exec, Sonora,
Mexico. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Mendelsohn, Charles ]astrow;b.
Wtlmington, NC, Dec 8 1880; d. NYC,
Mendelsohn, Louis; b. Gennany, Aug 12
1854; d. Mar 281935.
To US in infancy. • Capitalist, Detroit; exec
Fisher Body Corp. • See: BEOA]; WWWIA,
1.
Mendelson, Arthur; b. NYC, Mar 11 1905.
BS CCNY, LLB Columbia.· Lawyer, special
asst district atty, NYc. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Mendelson, Jacob Ben Zion; b. Kreitzburg,
Latvia, Oct 12 1875; d. Newark, Aug 5
1941.
To US 1915. • Rabbi, author, Newark; head
Orthodox Jewish Community; officer
Orthodox Rabbis of US & Canada. • See:
A]YB, 44:342; WWIA], 1926, 1938; NYTimes,
Aug 61941, 17:2.
Mendelson, Nathan; b. Glasgow, Aug 1
1907.
Mendelsohn, Morris]; b. 1880; d.
Brooklyn, Aug 291966.
To US 1915.· BS CCNY, LLBN]Law,
RIETS. • Rabbi, cantor, Newark. • See:
Zionist, Rough Rider, customs inspector; fdr,
natl commander Jewish War Veterans; officer
United Zionist-Revisionists of Am. • See:
A]YB, 68:530-31; NYTimes, Aug 31 1966,43:1.
WWIA],1938.
Mendelson, Samuel; see Mendelsohn,
Samuel.
432
Mendelssohn, Felix Robert
Mendelssohn, Felix Robert; b. Berlin, 1896;
d.May 1951.
To US 1936. • Stem Conservatory (Berlin). •
Concert cellist, tchr, NYC. • See: UJE;
NITimes, May 16 1951,52:3.
Menderson, Melanie Freidenberg; b.
Detroit, Apr 14 1893.
AB Vassar.· Civic & communal worker,
Cincinnati; nat! officer Nat! Council ofJewish
Women; bd Regional Planning Council. • See:
WWlAJ, 1938.
Mendes, A Piza; b. NYC, Apr 30 1894.
Cornell, BS Columbia. • Chemist, advertising
exec, NYC; officer Shearith Israel; trustee
Lexington School for the Deaf, North Am
Relief Soc; active Republican politics; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938.
Mendes, Abraham Pereira; b. Kingston,
Jamaica, Feb 9 1825; d. NYC, Apr 18
1893.
To US 1883. • Rabbi, author, tchr, Newport. •
See:JE; UJE; PAJHS, 11:207-11.
Mendes, David Pereira; b. 1740; d. Jamaica,
1786.
To Jamaica 1786. • First of his family in Am,
fugitive from Spain. • See: UJE (sub Mendes).
Mendes, Frederick De Sola; b. Montego
Bay, Jamaica, July 8 1850; d. New
Rochelle, Oct 26 1927.
To England ca 1851, to US 1873. • Northwick
CoIl (London), U Breslau, ordained JTS
(Breslau), BA U London, PhD U Jena. •
Rabbi, author, editor, NYC; fdr Am Heb;
denounced Pittsburgh Reform Platform; active
NJ Jewish colonies. • See:JE; UJE; EJ (sub
Mendes); AJYB, 5(1903-1904):80-81,24:181,
30:80; WWlAJ, 1926; WWWIA, 1; DAB;
NITimes, Oct 27 1927,29:1.
Mendes, Haim (Henry) Pereira; b.
Birmingham, England, Apr 13 1852; d.
Mt Vernon, NY, Oct 20 1937.
Northwick ColI (London), U ColI (London),
JTS, MD NYU; honorary degrees. • Rabbi,
nat! communalldr, early Am Zionist,
physician, author, NYC; fdr JTS, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the US &
Canada, Fedn of Am Zionists, Bd ofJewish
Ministersi exec com Kehillah; supporter liberal
immigration policy, nonsectarian public
education; rabbi Shearith Israel. • See: JE;
UJE; EJ (sub Mendes); AJYB, 5(19031904):81,40:41-60,389; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,
1938; BEOAJ; PAJHS, 35:316-319;AJHQ,
55:364-84; WWWIA, 1; DAB, 2; NITimes, Oct
211937,23:1.
Mendes, Herman; b. Russia, Feb 15 1894.
To NYC 1901.· LLB Fordham.· Lawyer,
NYC; officer Fedn ofJewish Charities. • See:
WWlAJ,1938.
Mendes, Isaac P; b. Kingston, Jamaica, Jan
13 1853; d. Savannah, June 27 1904.
Northwick CoIl (London), MA, DD U GA. •
Rabbi, author, London, Richmond, Savannah.
• See: UJE;AJYB, 5(1903-1904):81,6(19041905):374.
Mendes, Rosalie Lopez Piza (Mrs H
Pereira Mendes); b. St Thomas, Dutch
West Indies, June 81869; d. NYC, Feb
181953.
Communalldr, author, NYC; co-fdr YWHA;
active Shearith Israel. • See: A]YB, 55:457;
NITimes, Feb 19 1953,23:2.
Mendleson, Alan Norman; b. Albany, NY,
Feb 181904; d. Aug 141956.
Yale. • Business exec, NYc. • See: WWWIA, 3.
Mendleson, Jerome; b. Albany, NY, Mar 6
1874; d. Aug 1940.
Mfr, business exec, Albany, NY, NYC; fdr
Jewish Community Council; dir Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: WWlAJ, 1938;
NITimes, Aug 17 1940, 15:4.
Mendlowitz, Shraga Feivel; b. Vilag,
Austria-Hungary, 1886.
To US 1913. • Orthodox communalldr &
educator, Scranton, Brooklyn, • Spring Valley,
NY; a fdr communal schools including a high
school with secular studies, Torah Umesorah
(natl soc for Heb day schools). • See: E].
Mendow, Hiram Z; b. Minneapolis, Aug 6
1893.
AB, LLB U MN, MA, LLM Oskaloosa ColI. •
Lawyer, municipal judge, Minneapolis; officer
Council of Americanization Agencies, War
Relief campaigns; active Republican politics. •
See: WWlA], 1928, 1938.
Mendoza, David; b. NYC, Mar 13 1894.
Inst ofMusical Art. • Violinist, conductor,
musical dir, NYC; with cinemas, radio
programs, movies. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938.
Menes, Avrohom (Abraham, Abram); b.
Grodno, Jan 29 1897; d. NYC, Oct 18
1969.
To US 1940. • Yiddish historian, biblical
scholar, NYC; a fdr Yiddish Inst (Europe);
contributor ZukunJt, Forward. • See: UJE; E];
A]YB, 71 :607.
Mengelberg, Josef William; b. Holland,
187l.
Noted orchestra conductor, NYc. • See:
A]YB, 24:181.
Menken, Adah Isaacs; b. Milneburg, LA,
June 15 1835; d. Paris, Aug 10 1868.
Actress, poet; known for portrayal "Mazeppa."
• See:]E; UJE; PAJHS, 34:143-47; NAW;
DAB; NITimes, Aug 12 1868,4:6.
Menken, Alice Davis; b. NYC, Aug 4 1870;
d. NYC, Mar 23 1936.
NY School for Community Work. • Social
service worker, author, NYC; specialty:
juvenile delinquency; bd State Reformatory for
Women; officer Jewish Bd of Guardians, Fedn
ofJewish Philanthropies; active Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations; WWI
Womens Motor Corps service. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 38:432; WWIAJ, 1928; NITimes, Mar
241936,23:1.
Menken, Helen (Mrs George N Richard);
b. NYC, Dec 121901; d. Mar 271966.
Actress; officer Am Shakespeare Festival
Theatre, Inst for Crippled and Disabled. • See:
UJE; WWWIA, 4; NITimes, Mar 28 1966,
33:2.
Menken, Jacob Stanwood; b. Cincinnati,
1838; d. Memphis.
Dept store merchant, philanthropist; orgr
Childrens Christmas Club, free kindergartens
for blacks; Civil War service. • See:JE (sub
Menken); UJE; EJ (sub Menken).
Menken, Jules A; b. CincinnatilNY, 1836;
d. Watch Point, VT, 1890.
Merchant, Cincinnati; Civil War home guard
service. • See: JE (sub Menken); UJE (sub
Menken, Solomon); EJ (sub Menken).
Menken, Nathan Davis; b. Cincinnati,
1837;d.Memphis, 1878.
Merchant, soldier; cared for yellow fever
victims, died from yellow fever as result; Civil
War service. • See: JE (sub Menken); UJE; EJ
(sub Menken).
Menken, Percival S; b. Philadelphia, Aug 10
1865; d. NYC, May 171908.
AB CCNY, MA, PhD, LLB Columbia. •
Lawyer, communal worker, NYC; dean Kent
School of Law; active Sabbath Observation
Assn, YMHA; contributor JE; author in field. •
See: JE (sub Menken); AJYB, 7(1905-1906):88,
10(1908-1909):130; NITimes, May 18 1908,
7:4.
Menken, S Stanwood; b. Memphis, July 29
1870; d. Jan 1954.
CCNY, BS Comell,MA, LLB Columbia. •
Lawyer, NYC; orgr Democratic League, Nat!
Security League of Am; active politics, Hall of
Records fundraising. • See:]E; UJE; EJ (sub
Menken); WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes,
Jan 9 1954, 16:3.
Menken,Solomon;b. Westphalia, 1787;d.
Cincinnati, 1853.
Cincinnati pioneer; fdr wholesale dry goods
store. • See: JE (sub Menken); UJE; EJ (sub
Menken).
Menkes, Jacob Bernard; b. Lemberg, Apr 9
1887; d. 1949.
OrdainedJTS, DD HebUnion ColI, post-grad
Columbia. • Rabbi, historical researcher,
communal orgr, author, FL, PA, OK; natl dir
Heb Immigrant Aid Soc. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, Apr 41949,23:5.
Menkes, Zygmunt; b. Lvov, 1896.
To NY 1935/1936. • Cracow Academy of Fine
Arts. • Expressionist painter; used Jewish
themes. • See: EJ.
Menschel, Benjamin; b. NYC, Sep 13 1904;
d. Far Rockaway, Oct 5 1962.
Lawyer, NYC; active Am Jewish Com.· See:
AJYB, 65:436; NITimes, Oct 8 1962,23:5.
Menuhin, Hepzibah; b. San Francisco,
1920; d. London, 1981.
Concert pianist. • See: UJE (sub Menuhin,
Yehudi); EJ (sub Menuhin, Yehudi); NITimes,
Jan21981.
433
Menuhin, Yalta; b. 1921.
Pianist. • See: E] (sub Menuhin, Yehudi).
Menuhin, Yehudi; b. NYC, Apr 22 1916.
Noted concert violinist, conductor. • See: UJE;
EJ; EJ: 1973-1982; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Mercur, William; b. Galicia, ca 1898; d.
NYC,Aug 1972.
To US 1920. • Yiddish theatre publicist, press
agent, author, actor, NYc. • See: NITimes,
Aug 12 1972, 26:6.
Mereminsky, Joshua M; b. Volozin, Poland,
Mar 10 1888.
To US 1925. • Rabbi, talmudist, yeshivah
principal, author, Portland, ME, Mt Vernon,
NY; orgr Young Israel, Wornens Mizrachi;
settled 250 Polish families in Palestine; exec dir
WWI Minsk district relief; chaplain Russian
army.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Merfeld, Harry Abram; b. Baltimore, Dec 1
1885; d. 1961.
Baltimore City ColI, U MD Law, AB, MA U
SC, Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi, editor, Ft
Worth; editor Jewish Monitor; officer Jewish
Chautauqua, Heb Relief Soc; dir Welfare Assn,
TX Childrens Aid. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928;
BEOAJ; CCARYB.
Mergentheitn, Morton Adolph Sri b. Ft
Wayne, July 11877; d.July 1943.
BA, MA U Chicago, LLB Northwestern.·
Lawyer, Chicago; faculty John Marshall,
Northwestern; dir Heb Immigrant Aid Soc;
active bar assn. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; NITimes, July 15 1943,21:4.
Meripol, Abraham Aaron; b. Kiev, Oct 14
1884.
To US 1900.• Artist, portraitist, Los Angeles.
• See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Merkel, David; b. Plattsburgh, NY, Mar 11
1879; d. at sea, Mar 1955.
Merchant, bank dir, Plattsburgh, NY; officer
B'nai B'rith; dir Chamber of Commerce,
YMCA. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Mar
151955,29:1.
Merkin, Michael Joseph; b. NYC, Aug 25
1892.
Paint mfr, NYC; officer Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Merklin, Harry; b. ca 1873; d. Akron, July 4
1945.
Rabbi, Akron. • See: AJYB, 48:495.
Merlub-Sobel, Menahem; b. Brooklyn, Aug
121900.
AB, MA, CE Columbia, PhD Western
Reserve. • Chemist, metallurgical consult
engineer, patent holder, Cleveland; instructor
synagog, Fenn ColI; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
.
Merman, Ethel (born Zitnmerman); b. NY,
1909; d. 1984.
Musical comedy singer, actress, NYC; "Annie
Get Your Gun." • See: E]:1983-1985 (sub
Theater).
Messing, Morris
Mermey, Fayvelle (Mrs Maurice Mermey);
b.1916; d. Larchmont, NY, Mar 121977.
Journalist; columnist Mamaroneck Daily Times;
fdr Youth Bd, Wornens Interfaith Seminar;
officer Union ofAm Heb Congregations; first
woman synagog pres in NY area. • See: AJYB,
79:371;NITimes, Mar 141977, 32:4.
Mermey, Maurice; b. Hungary, Sep 21
1901; d. Oct 10 1974.
To US 1902. • Syracuse U. • Public relations
counsel, newspaper reporter, exhibition dir,
NYC; exec secy Retail Code Authority; bd
YM-YWHA; active natlJewish Welfare Bd.·
See: WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Oct 12 1974, 34:5.
Merowit, Wtlliam Grant; b. NYC, Feb 6
1885.
ME Cornell. • Sales engineer, Buffalo; secy
Cornell Assn of East Canada. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Merrick, David; b. St Louis, ca 1911.
Broadway producer. • See: Wall Street Journal
story, May 26 1971.
Merritt, Emma Laura Sutro (Mrs George
Washington Merritt); b. San Francisco.
AB, AM Vassar, Womens Med ColI (NY), MD
U CA, post-grad Paris. • Physician, San.
Francisco; mgr Sutro Estate. • See: WWWIA,
5.
Merritt, MaxJ; b.*; d. 1963.
Rabbi, Evansville, IN, Los Angeles. • See:
AJYB, 7(1905-1906):123; CCARYB.
Merskey, Clarence; b. South Africa, July 20
1914; d. Nov 10 1982.
To US 1959.· MD U Capetown.· Physician,
NYC; faculty Albert Einstein ColI of Med;
WWII South Mrican service. • See: WWWIA,
8.
Merton, Robert King; b. Philadelphia,
1910.
Sociologist; faculty Harvard, Tulane,
Columbia; author & theorist in field. • See: EJ.
Merzbach, Felix H; b. ca 1852; d. San
Francisco, Feb 1916.
Lawyer, San Francisco. • See:AJYB, 18(19161917):109.
Merzbach, George; b. ca 1876; d. Nov 2
1936.
Banker, NYC; English military service. • See:
AJYB, 39:594.
Merzbacher, Leo; b. Fiirth, Bavaria, 1810;
d. NYC, 1856.
To US 1841. • Reform rabbi; head of 1st
Reform congregation in NYC; introduced coeducational confirmation; compiler Reform
prayer book. • See: UJE; EJ.
Mesch, Abraham Joseph; b. Przasnysz,
Poland,Jan 12 1909.
To US 1923.· Yeshiva ColI, CCNY, U
Denver, Heb Theological ColI, Lewis Inst,
ordained Jerusalem. • Rabbi, New Orleans,
Birmingham, AL; orgr United Jewish Fund;
natl dir Natl Home for Jewish Children. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Mescheloff, Moses; b. NYC, June 10 1907/
12 1909.
Ordained RIETS, AB CCNY. • Rabbi, North
Adams, MA, Scranton; dir YMHA, Jewish
Fedn, Home for Friendless, Young Israel;
active Mizrachi. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Mesquita, Benjamin Bueno de; b.*; d. NY,
1683.
.Portuguese merchant, Jamaica; 1st Jewish
burial in Chatham Square Cemetery NYC. •
See: UJE; EJ (sub Mesquita).
Mesquita, Joseph Buenao (Bueno) de; b.*;
d. NYC, 1708.
To Am 1682. • Important merchant, NYC,
West Indies; purchased Shearith Israel
cemetery. • See: JE (sub Bueno); UJE; EJ (sub
Mesquita); BDEAJ.
Messing, AaronJ; b. Argenau, near
Bromberg,June 18 1840/1843; d.
Chicago, Sep 241916.
To US 1866/1867.· PhD U Rostock.• Rabbi,
pioneer weste~ religionist, textbook writer,
NYC, Chicago, San Francisco; fdr many
congregations & Sunday schools. • See: JE
(sub Messing); AJYB, 5(1903-1904):81,
19(1917-1918):266.
Messing, Abraham Joseph; b. Chicago, Aug
41873; d. Albuquerque, May 10 1922.
BHL, ordained Heb Union ColI, BA U
Cincinnati, LLB IL Wesleyan. • Rabbi,
Montgomery, AL, Albuquerque; faculty IL
Wesleyan. • See: JE (sub Messing); AJYB,
5(1903-1904):81,24:102; WWWIA, 5.
Messing, Alfred Henry; b. Williamsport,
PA, Nov 9 1875; d. Mar 1943.
Washington U (St Louis). • Advertising exec,
editor, Chicago, NYC; with St Louis Globe
Democrat, Star; dir Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: AJYB, 6(19041905):154,24:181; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,
Mar 30 1943,21:4.
Messing, Helen F; b. 1913; d. South
Orange, NJ, May 281966.
Communalldr, Essex County, NJ; patron
Israeli art; active United Jewish Appeal, Jewish
Community Council, Hadassah. • See: AJYB,
68:531.
Messing, Henry J; b. Gostyn, Posen, Mar
101848; d. St Louis, Sep 12 1913.
Rabbi, St Louis; fdr Heb Free & Industrial
School Soc. • See: JE (sub Messing); AJYB,
5(1903-1904):81-82, 16(1914-1915):164.
Messing, Mayer; b. Genivkowo, Prussia,
Dec 10 1843; d. Indianapolis, Jan 23
1930.
Rabbi, Indianapolis. • See: JE (sub Messing);
AJYB, 5(1903-1904):82, 32:154.
Messing, Morris; b. NYC, Jan 291897; d.
Brooklyn, Feb 201969.
Engineer, business exec, NYC; pres Heb
Educational Soc, synagog; bd United Jewish
Appeal; active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies. •
See:AJYB, 71:607; NYTimes, Feb 211969,
43:4.
434
Messinger, Rose (Mrs)
Messinger, Rose (Mrs); b. ca 1893; d. Jan
261939.
Social and philanthropic worker, author,
Memphis. • See:AJYB, 41:428.
To US 1922/1924. • U Berlin. • Yiddish short
story writer, editor, NYC; tchr Workmen's
Circle Schools; staff Forward; military service.
• See: UJE; AJYB, 86:441.
Messner, Julian; b. NYC, Sep 25 1890; d.
NYC, Feb 8 1948.
Columbia.· Publisher, NYC.· See:AJYB,
'50:520; WWWIA, 2; NITimes, Feb 9 1948,
19:1.
-
Meyer, Aaron Alexander; b. Atlanta, Oct 22
1868.
Lawyer, Atlanta; trustee Carnegie Library. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Messner, Kathryn G (Mrs Julian Messner);
b. Chicago, Nc;)V 25 1902; d. Aug 41964.
Editor, publisher, 'NYc. • See: WWWIA, 4;
NITimes, Aug 5 1964,33:4.
Mestel, Yankev Oacob); b. Zlotshov,
Galicia, Feb 25 1884; d. NYC, Aug 6
1958.
To US 1920. • Yiddish poet & actor,
translator, editor, tchr, NYC; with Yiddish folk
schools, Yiddish Art Theatre; dir Yiddish
division Federal Theatre Project. • See: UJE;
EJ; AJYB, 61:418.
Metchik, Isaac Wolf; b. Brest-Litovsk,
1849; d. NYC,Jan 251953.
To US 1912. • Editor, communal orgr &
admr; fdr Jewish periodicals (London),
Orthodox congregation, Talmud Torah; exec
secy Heb Day Nursery. • See: AJYB, 55:45758; NITimes, Jan 261953,19:5.
Metz, Abraham Louis; b. Chicago, Apr 22
1864; d. Tucson, Feb 10 1939.
PhG NY CoIl of Pharmacy, MD Tulane;
honorary degree. • Chemist, public health ldr,
New Orleans; faculty Tulane; with State Bd of
Health. • See:A]YB, 24:181, 41:428; WWIAJ,
Metzenbaum, James; b. Cleveland, June 12
1883; d. Cleveland, Dec 1960.
LLB Western Reserve. • Lawyer, legislator,
civic ldr, Cleveland; pres County Planning
Commn; mem City Planning Commn, Bd of
Education; pres Cuyahoga Schools Assn. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Jan 11961,48:3.
Metzenbaum, Myron Firth; b. Cleveland,
Apr 11876; d. Cleveland, Jan 251944.
Adelbert CoIl, MD Western Reserve, postgrad U Vienna, U Paris, Berlin, London. •
Otolaryngologist, surgeon, Cleveland; internatl
authority on reconstructive surgery; author in
field. • See: UJE; AJYB, 46:342-43; WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA,2;NITimes,Jan27
1944, 19:5.
,Metzger, Arnold; b. Landau, Germany,
1892.
To US 1930s, to Munich after WWII. •
German scholar, author, metaphysicist. • See:
EJ.
Metzger, David; b. NYC, Dec 24 1869; d.
before 1938.
CCNY. • Importer, merchant, NYC; dir Heb
Technical Inst for Girls. • See: WWIAJ, 1926;
BEOAJ.
Metzker, Yud (Itzchok) Isaac; b. Galicia,
July 271901; d. Bridgeport, CT, Oct 6
1984.
Meyer, Abraham; b. ca 1872; d. Paris, May
61933.
Authority on banking law, Chicago. • See:
AJYB,35:127.
Meyer, Adam; b. ca 1833; d. New Orleans,
Mar 231913.
Civil War veteran, New Orleans. • See: AJYB,
15(1913-1914):272.
Meyer, Adolph; b.Natchez; Oct 191842; d.
New Orleans, Mar 8 1908.
U VA. • Congressman, banker, sugar & cotton
grower, New Orleans; Civil War Confederate
officer, later brigadier general LA Natl Guard.
• See:JE; UJE;AJYB, 2(1900-1901):521,
6(1904-1905):154-55, 10(1908-1909):129;
WWWIA, 1; NITimes, Mar 9 1908, 7:4.
Meyer, Albert;,b. Selma,AL,Jan 15 1864.
Merchant, realtor, Selma, AL; officer AntiTuberculosis Assn, B'nai B'rith, Rotary; dir
Daily Time-Journal; fundraiser WWI. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Aug 8
1955,21:1.
Meyer, B G; b. NYC, 1882; d. Allentown,
PA, Aug 1949.
Pres, General Cigar Co; fdr Cigar Mfrs Assn of
Am. • See: WWWIA, 2; NITimes, Aug 27
1949,13:5.
Meyer, Baron de Hirsch; b. WI, 1900; d.
1974.
Lawyer, banker, philanthropist, Miami; est
federal banks in FL; active communal affairs. •
See:EJ:1973-1982.
Meyer, Ben R; b. San Francisco, 1879; d.
Mar 61957.
Businessman, banker, Los Angeles; trustee Cal
Tech, Y Southern CA.· See: WWIAJ, 1938;
WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Mar 81957,25:1.
Meyer, Charles Harrison; b. NYC, Apr 15
1892; d.July 191962.
AB, MA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, NYC;
officer The Comer House, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies; appeal agent Selective Service;
author in field. • See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 4; NITimes, July 20 1962,
25:4.
Meyer, Daniel; b.,ca 1824; d. San Francisco,
Sep 121911.
Banker, philanthropist, San Francisco. • See:
AJYB, 14(1912-1913):124.
Meyer, Edwin F; b. ca 1866; d. Chicago, Jan
12 1931.
Lawyer, financier, communal worker, Chicago.
• See:AJYB, 33:127.
Meyer, Alfred; b. NYC, June 18 1854; d.
Ogonquit, ME, July 141950.
AB, AM, PhD, MD Columbia, post-grad U
Leipzig, U Vienna. • Physician, author,
communal worker, NYC; specialty:
tuberculosis; faculty NYUlBellevue; officer
Nat! Tuberculosis Assn. • See: UJE; AJYB,
6(1904-1905):155,24:181,53:526; WWIAJ,
1926,1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3.
Meyer, Ely; b. Rochester, NY; Oct 15 1890;
d. Nov 5 1971.
U Rochester, Harvard. • Paper mfg co exec,
Tampa. • See:WWWIA, 5.
Meyer, Alfred C; b.*; d. reported Nov 6
1936.
Communal worker, Chicago. • See: AJYB,
39:594.
Meyer, Emanuel; b. ca 1853; d. Portland,
OR, June 22 1916.
Militiaman, Portland, OR. • See: AJYB,
19(1917-1918):266.
Meyer, Andre B M; b. Paris, Sep 3 1898; d.
Lausanne, Sep 91979.
Banker, presidential advisor, philanthropist,
NYC; with Lazard Freres; benefactor NYU,
Israel Technion. • See:AJYB, 81:371;
WWWIA, 7; NITimes story, Oct 28 1965.
Meyer, EmanueIM;b. Brooklyn, June 16
1893.
CCNY. • Biological & physiological chemist,
Cincinnati; with US Public Health Service,
Dept of Health; author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Meyer, Annie Nathan (Mrs Alfred Meyer);
b. NYC, Feb 19 1867; d. NYC, Sep 23
1951.
Fdr, Barnard CoIl, NYC; author, antisuffragist, anti-Zionist; autobiography. • See:
JE; UJE; EJ; AJYB, 6(1904'-1905):155-56,
24:181,54:540; WWIAJ, 1926,1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; NAW=modern; DAB, 5; NITimes, Sep
241951,27:1.
Meyer, Emily Newstadler (Mrs R H
Meyer); b. ca 1863; d. reported Aug 19
1938.
Philanthropist, Jonesboro, AR. • See: AJYB,
41:428; WWIAJ, 1928.
Meyer, Arthur Simon; b. NYC, May 24
1880; d. Scarsdale, Aug 61955.
Columbia. • Businessman, public servant,
NYC; chr State Bd ofMediation; investigator
labor disputes; officer Conf ofJewish
Relations; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies.,· See:AJYB, 58:478; WWIAJ,
Meyer, Eugene Or); b. Los Angeles, Oct 31
1875; d.July 171959.
U CA, AB Yale; honorary degree. • Publisher,
banker, government servant, communal & civic
ldr; owner Washington Post; first pres World
Bank; governor Federal Reserve Bd; a reorgr
Federal Farm Loan Bd; creator Reconstruction
Finance Corp.· See: UJE; EJ;AJYB, 24:181;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA,
3; DAB, 6; NITimes, July 181959,1:5.
Meyer, Mrs Jacob
435
Meyer, Eugene ill; b. NYC,June 71915; d.
Feb 25 1982.
Yale, MD Johns Hopkins. • Physician,
Baltimore; mem Government Commn on Law
Enforcement; faculty J ohn Hopkins; bd
Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Found, MD
Childrens Center; dir Washington Post; WWII
service. • See: WWMA, 8; NYTimes, Feb 27
1982.
Meyer, Eugenia Goodkin (Mrs Max
Meyer);b. ca 1878; d. Princeton, 1967.
Civic ldr, White Plains, Westchester, NY; a fdr
Welfare League for Colored People (Urban
League); advocate desegregation. • See:
NYTimes,June 3 1967,31:4.
Meyer, Fred S; b. Bibra, Germany, Oct 22
1891; d. Hollywood, CA, Dec 1957.
Motion picture exec, Universal City, CA;
active professional orgs, B'nai B'rith. • See:
BEOAJ;NYTimes, Dec 10 1957, 35:2.
Meyer, Gabe; b. ca 1835; d. Pine Bluff, AR,
Dec 3 1917.
Civic ldr, Pine Bluff, AR; mem City Council,
SchooIBd.· See:AJYB, 20(1918-1919):229.
Meyer, Garson; b. Rochester, NY, Nov 22
1896.
U Rochester, BS Cornell. • Chemist,
Rochester, NY; natl pres Kappa Nu;
Grandmaster Mason; supporter Jewish Young
Mens Assn; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Meyer, George William; b. Boston, Jan 1
1884; d. Aug 28 1959.
Composer of popular songs, "For Me and My
Gal."· See: WWIAJ, 1928; WWMA, 3;
NYTimes, Aug 29 1959, 38:2.
Meyer, Gustave Morris; b. NYC, Dec 16
1875; d. Saranac Lake, May 91945.
BS, CE NYU, ScD U Geneva. • Chemist,
NYC; faculty Rockefeller Inst; author in field.
• See:AJYB, 47:528-29; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; NYTimes, May 10 1945,23:3.
Social welfare worker, Youngstown; officer
OH Fedn of Temple Sisterhoods, Fedn of
Womens Clubs, Visiting Nurses Assn. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928.
Meyer, Leon L; b. ca 1~73; d. reported Aug
12 1937.
Surgeon, Milwaukee; military service. • See:
AJYB, 40:389.
Meyer, Henry; b.*; d. San Francisco, Oct
1916.
Banker, San Francisco. • See:AJYB, 19(19171918):266.
Meyer, Lester L; b.*; d. Los Angeles,]an
1933.
Engineer, dam bldr, Los Angeles. • See: AJYB,
35:127.
Meyer, Henry; b. San Francisco, June 24
1870.
MD Cooper Med ColI. • Genito-urinary
surgeon, San Francisco; developed devices;
author in field. • See: BEOAJ.
Meyer, Martin; b. St Louis, Apr 15 1899; d.
NYC, July 1956.
BS CCNY, AM, PhD Columbia. • Chemist;
faculty Brooklyn Call, Antioch, CCNY; fought
Communists at Brooklyn ColI; author in field;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;
Meyer, Herbert; b. NYC, 1882.
Painter, illustrator, NYC.· See:AJYB, 24:181.
Meyer, Heyman; b. Kuchar, near Plotzk,
July 1863.
Cantor, Peoples Synagogue at Educational
Alliance, NYc. • See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):82.
Meyer, Jacob; b. Chicago, Feb 211894; d.
Chicago, Dec 1955.
BS, MS U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI. •
Physician, Chicago; faculty U IL; dir Jewish
Social Services Bureau, Young Mens Jewish
Charities; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Dec
19 1955,27:2.
Meyer, Jacob I; b. ca 1894; d. Apr 18 1936.
Rabbi, chaplain, US Penitentiary (Hazleton,
PA). • See: AJYB, 38:432.
Meyer, Jerome; b. Selma, Feb 9 1888.
BS U AL, MD Johns Hopkins, post-grad
Germany. • Pediatrician, Birmingham, AL;
mem Am Relief Adm (France); WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928,1938.
Meyer, Jerome Sydney; b. NYC, Jan 14
1895.
Columbia. • Advertising exec,author of
humorous works, puzzles, NYC; editor
Doubleday-Doran; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Meyer, Martin Abraham; b. San Francisco,
Jan 15 1879; d. San Francisco, June 27
1923.
AB U Cincinnati, BD Heb Union Coil, PhD
Columbia. • Rabbi, Semitist, natl communal &
civic worker, San Francisco; officer CA Conf of
Social Work, CA Commn of Charities &
Corrections, Big Bros; natl com Am Jewish
Cong, Zionist Org of Am. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 5(1903-1904):82,24:181,26:156,
27:246-59; PAJHS, 29:179-81; WWWIA, 1;
DAB; NYTimes, June 281923,15:5.
Meyer, Maurice William; b. NYC, Nov 26
1902.
LLB Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer, public official,
Norwich, CT; officer Jewish Welfare Bd,Joint
Distribution Com. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyer,Max;b~VVissembourg,Alsace,Mar
291876; d. White Plains,Jan 311953.
Mfr, labor mediator, NYC; with State
Mediation Bd; officer Fashion Inst of
Technology; chr Urban League (Westchester
County); active N atl Recovery Adm. • See:
AJYB, 55:458;NYTimes, Feb 11953,89:1.
Meyer, Max; b. Kansas City, MO, Apr 4
1893; d. 1981.
BS U CA, NYU Law, MHL, ordained Jewish
Inst of Religion. • Rabbi, educator, Flushing;
with Free Synagogue; dir Red Cross, Family
Adjustment Soc, Henry Street Visiting Nurse
Service; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
CCARYB.
Meyer, HansJ; b. Berlin, Dec 91890; d.
NYC, June 26 1968.
To US 1941. • U Heidelberg. • Investment
banker, NYC; German delegate Versailles
Peace Conf; natl bd Joint Distribution CoIn;
bd Fedn ofJews from Central Europe,
Palestine Economic Corp. • See: AJYB,
70:523; NYTimes, June 28 1968,41:2.
Meyer, John H; b. NYC, Dec 14 1923; d.
Norwich, CT,July 171974.
BS U CT.· Business exec; natlldr United
Jewish Appeal, Am Friends of Israel Museum; a
fdr Latin-Am Rabbinical Seminary (Buenos
Aires); bd synagog,JTS. ·.See:AJYB, 76:51516; NYTimes, July 19 1974,38:2.
Meyer, Harry; b. Butte, Nov 10 1889.
LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, legislator, Butte. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyer, Joseph; b. Modesto, Mar 12 1894.
Songwriter, NYC; "California Here I Come."
• See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Meyer, Helene Strauss (Mrs. Jack Franklin
Meyer); b. Newark, May 15 1872; d.
Newark, June 81941.
Voluntary social welfare worker, Newark;
officer Natl Council ofJewish Women;·bd Red
Cross; tnistee U Newark; dir Conf ofJewish
Charities, Travelers Aid Soc, League of
Women Voters. ·See:AJYB, 43:361; WWIAJ,
1938.
Meyer, Julius Henry; b. Thibodeaux, LA,
July 18 1874.
BA U Cincinilati, BHL, ordained Heb Union
ColI. • Rabbi, Milwaukee, Toledo. • See:
AJYB, 5(1903-1904):82,6(1904-1905):221.
Meyer, Milton;b. San Francisco, Sep 7
1885.
Insurance broker, civic ldr, San Francisco; pres
City Planning Commn; officer Hotel Assn,
professional org, B'nai B'rith; active
Republican politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyer, Leo Bernard; b. NYC, 1874; d.
1943.
AB CCNY, MA, MD Columbia. • Surgeon,
NYC; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938; NYTimes, July 4 1943,21:2.
Meyer, Mrs Jacob; b. ca 1869;d.NYC,May
301934.
Probation officer, communal worker, NYc. •
See: AJYB, 36:284.
Meyer, Helene Strouss (Mrs I Harry
Meyer); b. Youngstown, Aug 281881.
Meyer, Maximilian Courtland; b. Brooklyn,
Dec 251883.
Jewelry mfr, patent holder, Brooklyn; referee
NY Bd of Arbitration; mem Assn of
Professional Baseball Players. • See: WWIAJ,
1928,1938; WWMA, 3.
436
Meyer, Rose D
Meyer, Rose D; b. Chicago.
U Chicago; • Editor, writer, Chicago; with
World Book, Authors Digest; officer IL Womens
Press Assn. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyer, Rudolph Hennan (R H); b.
Heuchelheim. by LandaulReinpfalz, July
61858.
To US 1873. • Business coll (Memphis),
English Stewarts Coll. • Cotton broker,
merchant, philanthropist, Jonesboro, AR;
benefactor Heb Union ColI; active civic affairs.
• See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Meyer, Samuel Jones; b. Centralia, IL, Dec
31896.
BS U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI. •
Ophthalmologist, Chicago; WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyer, Siegmund (Sigmund) T; b. ca 1829;
d. Long Branch, NJ, Oct 11 1915.
Real estate operator, NYc. • See: AJYB,
18(1916-1917):109; NYTimes, Oct 12 1915,
11:5.
Meyer, William; b. Gennany, Apr 4 1883.
To Butte 1885.· LLB NYU. • Lawyer, public
official, legislator, Butte; mem State Bd of
Education; dir Nat! Farm School. • see: UJE;
WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyer, Willy; b. Minden, Westphalia,July
24 1858; d. NYC, Feb 24 1932.
To US 1884. • MD U Bonn. • Surgeon,
surgical techniques pioneer, NYC; faculty
Womens Med ColI, NY Post-Grad School. •
See: UJE;AJYB, 24:182; WWWIA, 1.
Meyerfeld,MorrisJr;b.ca1855;d.San
Francisco, July 20 1935.
Theatrical circuit pres, San Francisco. • See:
AJYB, 37:259.
Meyerhardt, Max; b. Gennany, Oct 24
1855; d. Mar 1923.
To US ca 1856. • Lawyer, county judge,
author, poet, communal worker, Rome, GA;
officer Bd ofTrustees of Public Schools,
Masons, synagog; active Democratic politics. •
See:AJYB, 7(1905-1906):88-89,25:140.
faculty UCLA; author in field; WWII US
government service. • See: EJ.
City treasurer, Helena, AR. • See: AJYB,
16(1914-1915):164.
Meyerhoff, Joseph; b. Poltava, Apr 8 1899;
d. Baltimore, Feb 2 1985.
To US 1906. • LLB U MD; honorary degrees.
• Businessman, communal worker,
philanthropist, Baltimore; mem State Planning
Commn, State Bd of Welfare; natl chr United
Jewish Appeal; bd Heb U, Tel Aviv U, Jewish
Welfare Fund. • See: EJ; AJYB, 87:441;
WWWIA, 8; NYTimes story, Feb 61961,
obituary, Feb 5 1985.
Meyers, Beatrice De Lima (Mrs Walter S
Meyers); b. NYC, ca 1887; d. Rochester,
NY, Oct 19 1945.
Educator, civic worker, Rochester, NY;
authority on childrens books; fdr Childrens
Book Shop; pres Womens City Club. • See:
AJYB, 48:495;NYTimes, Oct 20 1945, 11:5.
Meyerovitz, Benjamin; b.*; d. Houston,
Mar41934.
Rabbi, Houston. • See: AJYB, 36:284.
Meyerovitz, Louise; b. Wmnepeg, May 11
1906.
To US 1907. • AB U Denver, post-grad U
CO, Columbia. • Social worker; officer Natl
Council ofJewishJrs, Conf ofNatlJewish
Young Orgs, Juvenile House (NYC); natl bd
Young Judea; dir Community Center (Albany,
NY), CommunityJewish Center (Port
Chester). • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyerovitz, Morris (Dr); b. ca 1862; d. Mar
3 1937.
Communal & civic worker, author, Chicago;
mem State Bd of Health, Chicago Planning
Commn. • See: AJYB, 39:594; NYTimes, Mar 4
1937,23:5.
Meyerowitz, Abram; b. Pinsk, Mar 4 1896.
LLB Fordham.· To US 1922.· Communal
ldr & tchr, Zionist, Minneapolis, Brooklyn;
officer Poale-Zion; active Natl Workers
Alliance, World Jewish Cong.· See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Meyerowitz, Arthur M; b. Retovo,
Lithuania, Jan 17 1879; d. Scarsdale, Oct
101964.
To US 1914/1918. • U Berlin.· Important
natl communalldr, Reform rabbi, foreign bond
dealer, author, Germany, NYC; officer Union
of Am Heb Congregations; natl exec bd Am
Jewish Cong; a fdr Galveston Plan. • See:
AJYB, 66:579; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; NYTimes,
Oct 12 1964,29:1.
Meyerhardt, Max; b. Krojanke, Gennany,
Dec 51873.
To US 1892. • Merchant, Jefferson City, MO.
Meyerowitz, Jacob; b. ca 1859; d.
Baltimore, Aug 26 1931.
Rabbi, Baltimore.· See:AJYB, 34:112.
Meyerhof, Otto Fritz; b. Hannover, Apr 12
1884; d. Philadelphia, Oct 61951.
To US ca 1940. • MD U Heidelberg. •
German biochemist, Nobel laureate,
Philadelphia; faculty U Kiel, Kaiser Wilhelm
Inst (Berlin, Heidelberg), U PA; author in
field. • See: EJ; AJYB, 54:540; DAB, 5;
NYTimes, Oct 81951,21:4.
Meyerowitz, William; b. Ukraine, July 15
1887/1889/1893/1895/1898;d.NYC,
May 28IJune 41981.
To US 1905/1906. • CCNY, Natl Academy of
Design. • Artist, etcher, NYC; active Jewish
community. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:182, 83:359;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA,
8.
Meyerhoff, CharlesAD; b. ca 1833; d.
NYC, Mar 211913.
Journalist, NYC.· See:AJYB, 15(19131914):272.
Meyers, A Lincoln; b. Philadelphia, Aug 1
1898.
LLB Temple U. • Lawyer, newspaperman,
diamond expert, Philadelphia. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Meyerhoff, Hans; b. Brunswick, Gennany,
1914; d. 1965.
To US 1934. • Philosopher, Los Angeles;
Meyers, Aaron; b. ca 1842; d. Helena, AR,
May 31914.
Meyers, Charles B; b. NYC, Mar 27 1875;
d. Oct 1958.
CCNY, Pratt. • Architect, public servant,
NYC; mem Planning Commn. • See: UJE;
WWIAJ, 1938;NYTimes, Oct23 1958,31:3.
Meyers, Clarence L; b. Philadelphia, Jan 16
1886.
Yam mfr, Philadelphia; dir Orphans
Guardians, Fedn ofJewish Charities, Jewish
Seaside Home (Atlantic City). • See: WWIAJ,
1928, 1938.
Meyers, Delia (Mrs Henry Meyers); b.
Detroit, ca 1900; d. Detroit, Sep 141946.
Communal worker; officer League ofJewish
Womens Orgs, Natl Council ofJewish
Women. • See: AJYB, 49:615; NYTimes, Sep
16 1946,5:5.
Meyers, GeorgeJ; b. ca 1861; d. NYC, Feb
16 1917.
Physician, NYc. • See:AJYB, 19(19171918):266.
Meyers, Harry; b. ca 1897; d. NYC, 1960.
Music business exec, violinist, self-taught
engineer, NYc. • See: NYTimes, Oct 4 1960,
43:3.
Meyers, I Leon; b. Gauren, Russia, Dec 23
1883; d. before 1938.
U Chicago, MD Northwestern. •
Neuropsychiatrist, Los Angeles; author in
field. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Meyers, Jacque Louis; b. Rochester, NY,
Dec 261882.
AB U Rochester. • Clothing mfr, Rochester,
NY; mem Citizens Com on Unemployment
Relief; officer Jewish Welfare Council,
Chamber of Commerce, trade assn. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Meyers, Joseph; b. NYC, July 191898; d.
Nov 1957.
Publisher, NYC; pres Avon Books Charitable
Found. • See: WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Nov 4
1957,29:2.
Meyers, Milton Kayton; b. Philadelphia,
Jan 3 1882; d. Jan 1954.
BS Central High School (Philadelphia), MD,
LLB U PA. • Neurologist, Philadelphia; staff
U PA; consult US Public Health Service;
author/editor in field. • See: UJE; WWIAJ,
1938; WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Jan 27 1954,
27:2.
Meyers, Philip M (Phil); b. Cincinnati, June
25 1899; d. NYC, Dec 271978.
Business exec, philanthropist, civic ldr; bd U
Cincinnati, Brandeis, City Charter Com; active
437
Jewish Welfare Bd, Union ofAm Heb
Congregations, Nad Conf of Christians &
Jews, Am Jewish Com, Jewish Defense Appeal;
military service. • See: AJYB, 80:370; NYTimes,
Dec 28 1978, IV 1:5.
Meyers, Sidney; b. NYC, ca 1906; d. NYC,
Dec 1969.
CCNY. • Film dir, educator, violinist; "The
Quiet One"; 'WWII service. • See: NYTimes,
Dec 5 1969,45:2.
Meyers, SidneyJ; b. ca 1873; d. Louisville,
May281923.
Physician, Louisville; Spanish-Am War &
WWIservice.· See:AJYB, 26:156.
Meyers, Sidney Stuyvesant; b. New
Orleans, Jan 16 1876.
Columbia, LLB NYU. • Lawyer, NYC;
counsel auto mfrs.· See: BEOAJ; WWWIA, 5.
Meyers, Simon; b. Syracuse, May 14 1862.
Lawyer, legislator, Minneapolis; mem Charter
Com.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyers, Solomon G; b. Detroit, Mar 15
1897; d. Detroit, Oct 15 1965.
Physician, diagnostician, Detroit; specialty:
digestive tract; faculty Wayne; author in field.
• See:AJYB, 67:539.
Meyers, Wallace Edwin; b. NYC, Aug 13
1892.
Litt B Princeton. • Mfr, importer, Tulsa,
NYC; WWI service. • See:' WWIAJ, 1938.
Meyersburg, Harry; b. Brooklyn, Jan 26
1884; d. Mar 1966.
CM NYU, NY Post-Grad Med School, U
Vienna. • Otolaryngologist, Brooklyn; faculty
LI ColI Hospital; bd Boys Continuation
School; officer med socs. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938; NYTimes, Mar 241966,39:5.
Meyerson, Louis Alexander; b. NYC, Nov
241893.
Clothing merchant, city election commr,
Spartanburg, SCi pres B'nai B'rith, synagog;
active Chamber of Commerce. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Meyerson, Martin; b. NYC, Nov 141922.
Columbia. • City planner, university official;
pres SUNY, U PA; acting chancellor U CA
(Berkeley); faculty U Chicago, U PA, Harvard,
MIT. • See: NYTimes stories, May 30 1967,
Mar311969,Jan291970.
Meyerson, Max; b. ca 1870; d. NYC, Apr 9
1932.
Communalldr, NYC. • See: AJYB, 34:112.
Meyerson, Murray A; b. NYC, Dec 7 1899;
d. NYC, Aug 3 1971.
Lawyer, NYC; officer Am Jewish Cong, NY
Com on Community Interrelations, United
Jewish War Effort.· See:AJYB, 73:634;
Mezer, Joseph Henry; b. Vilna, May 18
1897.
MD Tufts. • Obstetrician, gynecologist,
Boston; faculty Boston U; supporter Assocd
Michelman, Joseph
Jewish Philanthopies, Hadassah; author in
field. • See: BEOAJ.
Germany; pres dental assns. • See: AJYB,
44:342.
Michael, Elias; b. Eschau, Bavaria, Sep 28
1854; d. St Louis, Sep 15 1913.
Businessman, civic & communal worker, St
Louis; mem Bd of Education; dir Jewish
Alliance, Heb Free School. • See: AJYB,
7(1905-1906):89, 16(1914-1915):164;
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Sep 16 1913, 11 :4.
Michaelis, Leonor; b. Berlin, Jan 16 1875;
d. NYC, Oct 81949.
To US 1926. • MD U Berlin, U Freiburg;
honorary degree. • Biochemist, med scientist,
embryologist, NYC; faculty U Berlin, Johns
Hopkins, Rockefeller Inst; author in field. •
See: UJE; EJ; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; DAB, 4;
NYTimes, Oct 10 1949, 23: 1.
Michael, Ema Sondheimer (Mrs JacobI
Jakob Michael); b. Frankfurt, Mar 16
1905; d. NYC, Dec 301964.
To US 1939. • Philanthropist, communalldr,
NYC; a fdr Albert Einstein Call ofMed;
benefactor Natl Museum Oerusalem); active
Jewish Welfare Bd, YM-YWHA. Am Friends
ofHeb U. • See: AJYB, 66:579; NYTimes, Dec
311964,19:1.
Michael, Jakob; b. Frankfurt, Feb 28 1894;
d. NYC, Sep 71979.
To US 1939. • Industrialist, businessman,
philanthropist; benefactor Alfred Einstein Call
ofMed, Weizmann Inst, Yeshiva U, Heb U;
German military service. • See: EJ; AJYB,
81:371-72; DetroitJewish News, Sep 21 1979;
NYTimes, Sep 10 1979.
Michael, Jerome; b. Athens, GA,Jan 1
1890; d. NYC, Jan 111953.
AB U GA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer,
communal official, Athens, GA, NYC; faculty
Columbia; with Justice Dept; active Am Jewish
Cong, Conf on Jewish Relations; author in
field.· See: UJE;AJYB, 55:458; WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes,Jan 12
1953,27:3.
Michael, Max; b.*; d. Mobile, Sep 15 1910.
City council mem, Mobile. • See: AJYB,
13(1911-1912):135.
Michael, Max; b. Athens, GA, May 28 1884;
d.June 10 1949.
AB U GA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, banker,
Athens, GA; pres synagog, Southeast Conf of
Congregations; trustee YWCA. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 3.
Michael, Morris; b. Athens, GA, Feb 4
1883.
AB U GA. • Mfr, alderman, Macon, GA; pres
Boy Scout Council, Chamber of Commerce;
trustee YMCA.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Michael, Moses Gerson; b. Jefferson, GA,
Aug 15 1862.
BCE U GA; honorary degrees. • Retail
merchant, Athens, GA; mem Bd of Education;
officer Chamber of Commerce, synagog, Heb
Orphans Home (Atlanta); active Democratic
politics. • See:JE; WWIAJ, 1938.
Michael, Rachel Stix (Mrs); b. ca 1866; d.
Sep 71936.
Civic, communal & welfare ldr, St Louis; mem
Bd of Education. • See: AJYB, 39:594.
Michaelis, Emanuel; b. ca 1861; d. Omaha,
July 13 1941.
To US 1936. • Dentist to royal family of
Michaels, Allen Jay; b. Chicago, Oct 4
1893.
Merchant, Newark; pres Credit Retailers Assn
ofAm; active synagog. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Michaels, Joseph; b. ca 1850; d. Agua
Caliente, Mexico, Mar 181938.
Banker, mfr, financier, Rochester, NY. • See:
AJYB, 40:389; NYTimes, Mar 20 1938, II 8:3.
Michaels, Joseph; b. Cincinnati, July 29
1872.
Exec, Chicago; officer synagog; dir Jewish
Orphans Home (Cleveland), Jewish Charities;
WWI War Industries Bd service. • See:
WWIA], 1926,1938.
Michaels, Moses; b. Harzfeld,Germany, ca
1685; d. Cura~ao,Jan 25 1740.
To NYC 1707. • Merchant, NYC, Boston,
Curac;ao. • See: BDEAJ.
Michaels, Philip Hope; b. NYC, July 26
1903; d. NYC, Feb 14 1968.
Lawyer, civic ldr, NYC; mem Mayors Advisory
Com on Puerto Ricans, Youth Bd; officer B'nai
B'rith, Bronx Community Council; bdJewish
Family Service, Anti-Defamation League. •
See:A]YB, 70:523;NYTimes, Feb 15 1968,
43:2.
Michaelson, Lewis B; b. Russia, ca 1881; d.
Brooklyn, Apr 14 1944.
To US 1900. • Rabbi, prison chaplain, Coney
Island. • See: A]YB, 46:343; NYTimes, Apr 15
1944, 11:6.
Michalesko, Michal; b. Nikoliev, Nov 26
1885/1888; d. NYC, Apr 281957.
To US 1920/1921. • Yiddish actor, Europe,
Chicago, NYc. • See:AJYB, 59:476; WWIA],
1928; NYTimes, Apr 30 1957,29:4.
Michalson, Harry; b. Pittsburgh, Aug 28
1898; d. Miami Beach, 1957.
Film sales mgr, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, NYC;
with RKO. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
Apr 3 1957, 31:2.
Michelman, Herbert; b. Harrisburg, Mar
261913; d. Nov 111980.
Brooklyn Call. • Publishing co exec, author,
NYC; with Gimbel Bros, Crown Publishers;
editor Civic News (Laurelton, NY); WWII
service. • See: WWWIA, 7,8.
Michelman, Joseph; b. Rovno, July 8 1869.
To US 1884.· LLB Boston U .• Lawyer,
master in equity, auditor at law, Boston; officer
United}ewish Com, United Palestine Appeal,
Heb U Fund; active bar assn.· See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Michels, Leopold
438
Michels, Leopold; b. ca 1841; d. San
Francisco, Nov 191920.
Civil War veteran, merchant, philanthropist,
San Francisco. • See: AJYB, 23: 13 3.
Algonquin Indians; with Immigration Commn,
Bureau of Ethnology; faculty George
Washington, Columbia; author/expeditions in
field. • See: WWWIA, 1.
Mier, Abraham B; b. Ligonier, IN, Dec 21
1868.
Notre Dame. • Banker, government agent,
Ligonier, IN. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Michelson, A (Arthur) Elihu; b. NYC, Nov
11909.
BS CCNY, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi, Peekskill,
NY. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Michnick, David; b. Ukraine, 1894.
Chicago Art Inst, Beaux Art. • Artist, NYC. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Migel, Louey; b. Russia, 1858.
Merchant, philanthropist, Waco; benefactor
Ex-Firemens Assn, Working Boys Club;
trustee Fedn ofJewish Charities, Heb
Immigrant Aid Soc. • See: BEOAJ.
Michelson, Albert Abraham; b. Strelno,
Gennany, Dec 19 1852; d. Pasadena,
May91931.
To US 1854/1855. • US Naval Acade1l!y, U
Berlin, U Heidelberg, ColI de France, Ecole
Polytech, PhD U Leipzig; honorary degrees. •
Physicist, naval officer, Nobel laureate; mem
CNNV pioneer family; inventor Michelson
interferometer, echelon spectroscope. • See:
JE; UJE; EJ;AJYB, 24:182, 33:127; WWIAJ,
1928; WWWlA, 1; NYTimes, May 10 1931,
1:4.
Michelson, Albert Heminway; b. Annapolis,
Jan 161878; d.June 91915.
Harvard. • US consul, Belgium, Italy,
Germany.· See: WWWlA, 1; NYTimes,June
11 1915, 15:6.
Michelson, Charles; b. Virginia County,
NV, Apr 18 1869; d. Washington DC,
Jan 81948.
Journalist, political publicist, San Francisco,
NYC, Chicago; with Hearst org; dir of
publicity Democratic Natl Com; dir of public
relations Natl Recovery Adm. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 24:182; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWlA, 2; DAB, 4; NYTimes, Jan 9
1948,21:1.
Michelson, Israel David; b. Baltimore, July
71897.
AB, MD Jo1u\s Hopkins. • Bacteriologist,
Memphis; facultyUTN.· See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938.
Michelson, Leo; b. Riga, 1887; d. Apr 1978.
To US 1941. • St. Petersburg Academy. •
Painter, etcher; Jewish subjects. • See: UJE;
NYTimes, Apr 11 1978,40:2.
Michelson, Miriam; b. Calaveras, CA, 1870;
d. May 28 1942.
Author, newspaper drama critic, short story
writer, San Francisco. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:182; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA,2.
Michelson, Morris; b. Boston, Jan 22 1903.
AB, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, Boston; trustee
Heb Tchrs ColI; active Zionist Org of Am. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Michelson, SelimJ; b. San Bernardino, CA,
Jan 11874.
Civic Idr, postmaster, Phoenix; officer
Chamber of Commerce; active Elks, Masons,
Democratic politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Michelson, Truman; b. New Rochelle, Aug
111879; d. after 1937.
AB, AM, PhD Harvard, post-grad Leipzig,
Bonn, Columbia. • Ethnologist; specialty:
Michnick, Nathan; b. ca 1851; d. Lake
Charles, GA, July 4 1911.
Rabbi, Lake Charles, LA.· See: AJYB,
14(1912-1913):123. • *See entry below.
Michnik, Nathan; b. Bielitz, Austria, Sep 20
1863.
Rabbi, Woodville, MS, Augusta, GA. • See:
AJYB, 5(1903-1904):82, 7(1905-1906):123. •
*See entry above.
Michtom, Benjamin Franklin; b. Brooklyn,
July 13 1901; d. Nov 101980.
Business exec, Harrison, NY; with Ideal Toy
Corp; bd ORT, Am Jewish Com; officer trade
org.· See: WWWIA, 7.
Michtom, Morris; b. ca 1870; d. July 21
1938.
Mfr, communalldr, Brooklyn. • See: AJYB,
41:428; NYTimes,July 22 1938, 17:5.
Middeldorf, Ulrich Alexander; b. Stassfurt,
Gennany, June 23 1901; d. Feb 2 1983.
To US 1935.· U Giessen, U Munich, PhD U
Berlin, Italy, US; honorary degree. • Art
educator, Florence; curator Kunsthistorisches
Inst; faculty U Chicago. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Mielziner, Jacob;b. Sep 19 1877.
BA U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, Helena, MT, Cincinnati. • See: AJYB,
5(1903-1904):82-83, 7(1905-1906):123. • *See
entry below.
Mielziner, Jacob; b. ca 1880; d.May41937.
Rabbi, Cincinnati, Copenhagen. • See: AJYB,
39:594. • *See entry above.
Mielziner,Jo; b. Paris, Mar 191901; d. Mar
1976.
PA Academy of Fine Arts, Art Students
League, Vienna. • Artist, noted stage designer,
NYC. • See: WWIAJ, 1928; BEOAJ; NYTimes,
Mar 16 1976,38:1.
Mielziner, Leo; b. NYC, Dec 81869; d.
Truro, MA, Aug 111935.
Cincinnati Art Academy, Beaux Arts (Paris),
Copenhagen. • Noted portraitist, NYC; WWI
regional dir J ewish Welfare Bd. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):156, 24:182, 38:432;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 1.
Mielziner, LeoJr; see MacKenna, Kenneth.
Mielziner, Moses; b. Schubin, Posen, Aug
12 1828; d. Cincinnati, Feb 18 1903.
To Denmark 1854, to US 1865. • U Berlin,
PhD U Giessen. • Reform rabbi, talmudist,
author, Germany, Cincinnati; acting pres,
faculty Heb Union ColI; revised prayer book.·
See: JE; UJE; EJ; AJYB, 5(1903-1904):216;
WWWIA, 1; DAB; NYTimes, Feb 201903,9:6.
Migel, Moses Charles; b. Houston; d. Oct
1958.
Merchant, NYC; chr NY Commn for the
Blind; WWI Red Cross service; Christian
Scientist. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Oct
251958,21:1.
Milch, Henry; b. NYC, Dec 20 1895; d.
Palm. Beach, Mar 1964.
Orthopedic surgeon, NYC; faculty Columbia;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,
Mar 5 1964,33:1.
Milch, Jacob;b. Warsaw, Nov 20 1866; d.
NYC, Aug 18 1945.
To US 1891. • Yiddish literary & labor figure,
translator, candy jobber, NYC; officer JTS
Tchrs ColI, United Heb Trades; editor
Zukunft; an orgr Peoples Relief Com. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 24:182,48:495; WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, Aug 19 1945, 39:3.
Milcoff, Isaac; b. Bakst, Russia, May 30
1883.
DDS Western Reserve. • Dentist, Cleveland;
active Poale Zion, Am Jewish Cong, League
for Labor Palestine, Jewish Welfare Fedn. •
See:BEOAJ.
Mildenberg, Albert; b. ca 1872; d. NYC,
July 1918.
Composer, NYc.. See:AJYB, 21:206;
NYTimes, July 4 1918, 13:2.
Mildenberg, Victor; b. ca 1876; d. Apr 13
1937.
Physician, Brooklyn; mem Bd of Health;
military service. • See: AJYB, 39:594; NYTimes,
Apr 15 1937,23:5.
Milder, Morris; b. Austra, Russia, July 28
1885.
Petroleum exec, Omaha; officer trade assns; dir
Jewish Welfare Fedn, Jewish Community
Center. • See: WWIAJ, 1928; REOAJ.
Miles, Jackie; b. Kiev; d. Los Angeles, Apr
1968.
To US 1914.· Nightclub comic.· See:
NYTimes, Apr 27 1968,39:3.
Milestone, Lewis (orginally Milstein); b.
Chisnau, near Odessa, Sep 301895; d.
Los Angeles, Sep 1980.
To US 1914.· Film director, Oscar winner;
"All Quiet on the Western Front"; military
service. • See: NYTimes, Sep 27 1980.
Milgram, Stanley; b. NYC, Aug 15 1933; d.
NYC, Dec 20 1984.
Queens ColI, PhD Harvard. • Social
psychologist, consult, author; faculty Yale,
439
Harvard, CCNY; exec dir comparative intern
program dept of social relations (Harvard). •
See: WWWIA, 8; NITimes, Dec 23 1984.
Milgrim, Louis; b. ca 1879; d. Paris, Aug 18
1934.
Couturier, communal worker, NYc. • See:
A]YB,37:259.
Milgrim, Sally; b. NYC, Apr 211898.
Womens clothing designer, NYC.· See:
WWIA], 1938.
Milgrom, Max C; b. ca 1894; d. Detroit,
Feb 11933.
Communal worker, Detroit. • See:A]YB,
35:127.
Milhaud, Darius; b. Aix, France, Sep 4
1892; d. June 22 1974.
To US 1940. • Paris Conservatory. •
Composer, Geneva; faculty Mills ColI; one of
les Six; used some Jewish themes. • See: UJE;
E]; WWWIA, 6; NITimes, Jan 25 1974,40:1.
Mill, Joseph Solomon (John); b.
Ponievyesz, Lithuania, 1870;,d.Miami
Beach, Oct 1 1952.
To US 1914. • Yiddish Journalist, NYC;
pioneer Russian Bund; editor Der Yidisher
Arbeiter; active Socialist Party, Workmen's
Circle, Jewish Social Democrat; military
service; autobiography. • See: E]; A]YB,
55:458;NITimes, Oct41952, 17:2.
Millard, MarkJacob; b.Kiev, June 14 1908.
To Hungary 1933, to US 1938. • U Berlin,
PhD U Heidelberg. • Investment banker,
Budapest, NYC; dir Madison Fund. • See:
WWWIA,8.
Miller, Abraham; b. ca 1882; d. Jan 9 1940.
Rabbi, NYc.. See:A]YB, 42:482; NITimes,
Jan 11 1940,23:3.
Miller, Abraham (Abe); b. Dubiecko,
Galicia,Jan 12 1887; d. NYC, Feb 17
1963.
To US 1903. • Union official, NYC; with
Pants Makers Union, NY Amalgamated
Union, Amalgamated Bank; a fdr Jewish Labor
Com. • See:A]YB, 65:436; WWIA], 1938.
Miller, Abram; b. ca 1874; d. Feb 13 1938.
Physician, communal & civic worker, Kansas
City. • See: A]YB, 40:389.
Miller, Alphonse B; b. NYC, Feb 5 1888; d.
Sep 1959.
U PA. • Business exec, author, Philadelphia; bd
Jewish Publication Soc. • See: WWIA], 1926;
NITimes, Sep 241959,37:4.
Miller, Andrew Nathan; b. Grodno, Sep 13
1882; d. Oct 1958.
To US 1889. • Bldr, Queens; pres synagog;
officer Pride ofJudea Orphan Home, United
Palestine Appeal; dir Home for Incurables. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Oct 13 1958,
29:4.
Miller, Arthur; b. NYC, 1915.
Noted playwright, "Death of a Salesman." •
See: E].
Miller, Heymen Rudolph
Miller, Arthur I; b. England, ca 1880; d.
Yonkers, Nov 61947.
To US as child. • Public official, legislator,
Yonkers; Deputy Commr of Public Works...
See: A]YB, 50:520; NITimes, Nov 7 1947,
23:4.
Miller, Benjamin Franklin; b. Yaneskel,
Lithuania, Aug 15 1874; d. Philadelphia,
June 201949.
To US 1886. • Iron City ColI (Pittsburgh). •
Clothing mfr, millowner, patent holder,
pioneer Zionist, philanthropist, communal
worker, Philadelphia; fdr Eagleville
Sanitorium; active Am Jewish Cong, B'rith
Sholom, KerenHayesod.· See:A]YB, 51:523;
WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes, June
211949,25:4.
Miller, Bernard; b. Austria, Aug 12 1869; d.
Madison, NJ, Dec 1951.
Auto supply merchant, Newark; active Heb
Free School, Heb Orphan Asylqm. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Dec 301951,24:5.
Miller, Bernard Levussove; b. NYC, May 7
1895.
LLB Fordham. • Lawyer, NYC, Brooklyn; natl
pres Phi 'Beta Delta; officer Madison Jewish
Center; active United Palestine Appeal. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Miller, Carl Isaac; b. Cleveland,June 10
1906; d. 1983.
AB U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, Helena, AR, Gary, IN; officer Fedn of
Jewish Charities, Jewish Assembly; dir Red
Cross. • See: WWIA], 1938; CCARYB.
AB, MD U CO, post-grad Chicago.· Genitourinary surgeon, Denver; officer Zionist Org of
Am, United Jewish Appeal, ColI ofJewish
Studies; military service. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Miller, Eli Aesar; b. Cincinnati, Feb 71888.
OH Mechanics Inst, U Cincinnati, OH-Miami
Med ColI. • Physician, Cincinnati; specialty:
industrial med; trustee synagogs. • See:
WWIA], 1928.
Miller, Ethel Bloch (Mrs Eli Miller); b.
Cincinnati, Apr 28 1890; d. Sep 22 1965.
Heb Union ColI School for Tchrs, U Chicago.
• Religious school tchr, Cincinnati; pres Fedn
ofJewish Womens Clubs, OH Fedn of Temple
Sisterhoods, synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NITimes, Oct 111965, 61:4.
Miller, Fannie S (Mrs William W Miller);
b. Nashville, Oct 4 1857; d. June 4 1910.
U Cincinnati, Cincinnati Normal School. •
Communal worker, Philadelphia; bdJewish
Seaside Home; active J ewish Foster Home,
Heb Sunday School Soc, Natl Council of
Jewish Women, Industrial Home for Jewish
Girls. • See: A]YB, 7(1905-1906):89, 12(19101911):111.
Miller, George Julius; b. Perth Amboy, Jan
15 1895/1901.
Lawyer, asst state atty general, historian,
author, Perth Amboy; dir NJ WPA Historical
Records Survey; WWI service. • See: UJE;
WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Miller, Charles; b. ca 1869; d. NYC, June
271909.
Yiddish poet & author, NYc. • See: A]YB,
11(1909-1910):109.
Miller, George; b. Paris, 1889; d. NYC, Oct
3 1950.
Shoe mfr, merchant, NYC; pres I Miller &
Sons; active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies,
United Jewish Appeal. • See: WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, Oct 5 1950,31:1.
Miller, Charles; b. Riga; May 15 1878.
To US 1892. • Quilt mfr, businessman,
Seattle; orgr synagog; benefactor Talmud
Torah. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Miller, George; b. Bayonne, Oct 311898;
d.Jan 17 1966.
PhG Western Reserve.• Pharmaceutical mfr;
WWI service. • See: WWWIA, 4.
Miller, Charles; b. Russia, Mar 121882.
Communal worker, Poplar Bluff, MO. • See:
WWIA],1928.
Miller, Charlie; b.*; d.Jan 261940.
Newspaper & dept store exec, civic worker,
Birmingham, AL. • See: A]YB, 42:482;
NITimes, Jan 28 1940, 33:1.
Miller, Harry Edward; b. Boston, Oct 10
1897; d.Nov 141937.
AB Boston U, MA, PhD Harvard. •
Economist, Providence; faculty Brown; chr RI
Special Commn on Liquor Legislation; dir
Jewish Family Welfare Service; author in field;
WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, l;NITimes, Nov 151937, 23:4.
Miller, David; b. Baltimore, 1896?; d. West
End, NJ, Aug 6 1965.
Clothing mfr, NYC; a fdr Rabbonim Aid Soc;
active United Jewish Appeal, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See:A]YB, 67:539; NITimes,
Aug 7 1965,21:3.
Miller, Henrietta (Mrs Elias Berliner); b.
Brooklyn.
Maxwell Training School for Tchrs. •
Soprano, music tchr, Brooklyn; principal
religious school; music dir Heb Sheltering
Guardian Soc. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Miller, Edward; b. Cleveland, Jan 21900.
LLB U Denver.· Lawyer, Denver; natl
advisory council Joint Distribution Com;
officer United Heb Appeal, Central]ewish
Council; author in field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Miller, Henry Sam; b. Dallas, Feb 26 1890.
Realtor, Dallas; natl officer Real Estate Bds; dir
Jewish Fedn for Social Services, United
Charities. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Miller, Eli Abraham; b. Denver, Apr 5
1896.
Miller, Heymen Rudolph;b. Russia, May
241888;d. Aug 1952.
To US 1888.· BS, MD Columbia.· Internist,
author in field, NYC; faculty Columbia;
Miller, Irving
consult Am Center (Paris). • See: WWIAJ,
1938;NYTimes,Aug251952,17:2.
Miller, Irving; b. Kovno, Dec 241903; d.
Woodmere, NY, Dec 24 1980.
To US 1912. • RIETS, CCNY, U Pittsburgh,
Columbia. • Nat! communalldr, rabbi,
Youngstown, Far Rockaway, Woodmere, NY;
nat! pres Am Jewish Cong, Zionist Org of Am;
seey-general World Jewish Cong. • See: EJ;
AJYB, 82:370; WWIAJ, 1926;NYTimes, Dec
281980.
Miller, Isaac A; b. Baltimore, ca 1889; d.
NYC, Nov 1969.
Hat mfr, philanthropist, NYC; active Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies, United Jewish Appeal;
developed straw hat. • See: NYTimes, Nov 15
1969,37:2.
Miller, IsaacJoseph; b. Kolinki, Austria,
May 51882.
Merchant, Los Angeles; officer Mt Sinai Home
for Chronic Invalids, Beth Israel Hospital
Clinic Assn. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Miller, Isabelle Lazarus (Mrs Sylvester M
Miller); b. Philadelphia, Nov 271907.
PA Museum & School of Industrial Art,
Graphic Sketch Club. • Artist, etcher,
Philadelphia. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Miller, Isaiah (Shin); b. Philipovich,
Volhynia, 1895.
To US ca 1912. • Critically acclaimed Yiddish
story & verse writer; neo-realist. • See: UJE.
Miller, Isidore; b. NYC, Sep 11883.
C Med, MD NYU, NY Post-Grad Med
School. • Otolaryngologist, NYC; faculty
NYU; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Miller, Israel; b. Baltimore, Apr 61918.
Ordained Yeshiva U. • Orthodox rabbi & ldr,
Bronx; admr Yeshiva U; pres Rabbinical
Council of Am; WWII chaplain. • See: EJ;
EJ:1973-1982; NYTimes story, July 261965.
Miller, Jacob; b. ca 1833; d. Philadelphia,
Jan 161917.
Communal worker, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB,
19(1917-1918):266.
Miller, Jacob; b. ca 1867; d. Detroit, Aug 28
1936.
Communal & Zionist worker, Detroit. • See:
AJYB, 39:594.
Miller, Jacob; b. Lithuania, Dec 201874.
Communal worker, Baltimore; bd Heb
Parochial Schools, RIETS, synagog. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928.
Miller, Jacob Kopel; b. Krivoesoer, Russia,
Oct 81893; d.June 1951.
To Philadelphia 1896. • BS PA State, LLB
Temple U. • Lawyer, Philadelphia; nat! officer
Intercoll Menorah Assn; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, June 91951,19:3.
Miller, Jesse Isidor; b. Lexington, 1891; d.
Nov91949.
BA, MA, LLB U KY. • Lawyer, government
servant, author, Washington DC; exec dir Natl
440
Labor Bd; dir synagog; WWI service. • See:
UJE; WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes,
Nov 101949,31:2.
Miller, Joel Lewis; b. London, Feb 2 1895.
To US 1902. • AB Harvard, LLB Suffolk Law.
• Lawyer, Boston; counsel Veterans Charitable
Legal Assn; officer Am Expeditionary Force
Menorah Soc, Veterans of Foreign Wars;
WWI se~ce. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Miller, Joseph; b. SuchavolIa, Grodno, Dec
20 1894; d. Brooklyn, June 18 1967.
To US 1902/1904. • Yeshiva, AB NYU, JTS,
MA Columbia. • Rabbi, author, Brooklyn;
reopened Frankfurt synagog (1946); officer
Nat! Fedn ofJewish Mens Clubs, World
Jewish Bible Assn; active Zionist Org of Am,
Rabbinical Assn of Am, United Synagogue of
Am.· See:AJYB, 69:610; WWIAJ, 1938;
Miller, Joseph William; b. Memel,
Germany, Feb 2 1889.
To NYC 1904. • SUNY, MD Albany Med
ColI. • Otolaryngologist, NYC; author in field.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Miller, Jules; b. Pittsburgh, Feb 281902; d.
Houston, Mar 15 1977.
Newspaper exec; with Jewish Exponent; officer
Am Jewish Press Assn. • See:AJYB, 79:371.
Miller, Julian Malcolm; b. Berkeley, Aug 5
1922; d. Berkeley, Dec 14 1976.
U CA (Berkeley), PhD Columbia. • Nuclear
chemist; faculty Columbia, U CA; consult
Brookhaven Nat! Lab; author in field. • See:
WWWL4, 7; NYTimes, Dec 16 1976, 50:3.
Miller, Julius; b. Jan 12 1880; d. NYC,
1955.
NY Law. • Public official, legislator, NYC;
pres Borough ofManhattan. • See: UJE;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; NYTimes, Feb 4 1955,
21:3.
Zionist, talmudist, NYC. • See:AJYB, 41:428.
Miller, Lewis Isaac; b. Denver, Jan 181895.
AB, MA, MD U CO, post-grad Chicago
School for Med & Surgery. • Surgeon, Denver;
officer Jewish Consumptives Relief Soc; bd
Allied Jewish Campaign, Central Jewish
Council; exec com United Health Appeal. •
See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Miller, Linda R (Mrs); b. 1877; d. July 26
1936.
Patron of learning & literature, New Rochelle;
donor of rare manuscripts JTS; benefactor
Columbia. • See: UJE (sub Miller, NathanJ);
AJYB, 39:594.
Miller, Louis; b. Lanovitz, Volhynia, 1887.
To US 1906. • Salesman, Yiddish writer, poet,
translator, editor; editor Kultur (cultural
magazine). • See: UJE.
Miller, Louis (pseud of Louis E Bandes); b.
Vilna, 1866;d.NYC, 1927.
To US 1886. • Yiddish editor, labor ldr, NYC;
a fdr Shirt-Makers Union, Arbeiter Zeitung,
Forward, Die Warheit; assocd with United Heb
Trades. • See: UJE; EJ. • *See entry below.
Miller, Louis E; b. Russia.
Yiddish journalist, NYc. • See: AJYB, 24:182.
• *See entry above.
Miller, Manasseh; b. NYC, June 24 1879; d.
Mar 10 1938.
LLB Brooklyn Law.· Lawyer, banker,
communal worker, Brooklyn; dir Chamber of
Commerce, Fedn ofJewish Charities. • See:
AJYB, 40:389; WWIAJ, 1928; BEOAJ;
Miller, Marion Monteser; b. NYC, July 23
1889.
AB Barnard, Columbia Tchrs CoIl. • Parent
education specialist, author; tchr Hunter; exec
dir Nat! Council ofJewish Women; dir Child
Study Assn. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Miller, Julius; b. ca 1904; d. Brooklyn, Apr
1968.
Dry cleaning & laundry exec, Brooklyn; officer
trade assns; active Anti-Defamation League,
Jewish Community Center, Brooklyn
Orchestral Soc. • See: NYTimes, Apr 30 1968,
47:1.
Miller, Marshall; b. Benton Harbor, MD,
Aug 15 1912; d. Prairie Village, KS, Feb
261965.
Rabbi, Kansas City; active B'nai B'rith,
communal orgs.· See:AJYB, 67:539.
Miller, Julius Asher; b. Husiatyn, Austria,
Dec 12 1892.
To US 1896. • CCNY, MD NYU. •
Gynecologist, med examiner, NYC; author in
field; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Miller, Marvin Julian;b. NYC, Apr 14
1917.
BS NYU, New School. • Labor ldr, sports
exec; with Internatl Assn ofMachinists, United
Steelworkers of Am; exec dir Major League
Baseball Players Assn; WWII War Labor Bd
service. • See: Fink: 243-44.
Miller, Kassel; b. Skidel, Poland, July 4
1866.
Cantor, Lewiston, ME. • See: AJYB, 5(19031904):83.
Miller, Lawrence; b. NYC, Jan 15 1887.
Exec, civic ldr, Dallas; natl pres Real Estate Bd;
mem Bd of Health; officer Civic Fedn; dir
United Charities, Dallas Open Forum. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928.
Miller, Leon H; b. ca 1880; d. Miami
Beach,Jan 241939.
Miller, Max; b. New Haven,June 22 1910;
d. Mar 251978.
Yale, MD Yale. • Physician, Cleveland; faculty
Case Western; consult Natl Inst on Arthritis;
trustee Chamber Music Soc; author/editor in
field. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Miller, Max Joseph; b. NYC,Jan 51906.
BS, LLBNYU. • Lawyer, NYC; dir Boys
Welfare Found, Jewish Community House of
Bensonhurst; .author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
441
Miller, Maynard Moses; h. NYC, Mar 15
1882; d.]uly 1971.
Furrier, realtor, NYC; dir Home for Chronic
Invalids;, active Yeshiva ColI; 'WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, July 28 1971,
38:3.
Miller, Meyer; h. Brooklyn, July 4 1904; d.
1985.
BS NYU, Heb U, MHL, ordained Jewish Inst
of Religion. • Rabbi, Garden City, NY,
Greenwich, CT; pres NYU Menorah chapter.
• See: WWIA], 1938; CCARYB.
Miller, Michael; h. Philadelphia, Aug 23
1889.
LLB U MD,Johns Hopkins. • Estate analyst,
philatelist, Baltimore; officer Jewish Court of
Arbitration, Heb Home for Aged; active Boy
Scouts.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Miller, Milton (Milt); h. NYC, Dec 10
1911; d. Dec 15 1969.
NYU. • Journalist, editor, sportswriter, NYC;
with PM, Frontpage.· See: WWWIA, 5;
Miller, Milton G; h. NYC, ca 1924; d.
Elizabeth, Jan 15 1964.
BA, MA U Louisville, ordained Heb Union
ColI. • Rabbi, Reform ldr, author, civil rights
advocate, Elizabeth. • See: A]YB, 66:579;
NYTimes, Jan 16 1964, 25:2.
Miller, Morris; h. Krivany, Comitat Saros,
Hungary, Jan 25 1847.
To US 1865. • Businessman, communal
worker, Milwaukee; officer Fedn ofJewish
Charities, Heb Relief Assn; dir Agricultural
Assn. • See:A]YB, 7(1905-1906):89-90.
Miller, Morris; h. Padzelva, Lithuania, Sep
301880; d. B.rooklyn, Oct 5 1954.
To US 1896. • Cotton jobber, realtor, NYC; a
fdr Albert Einstein ColI ofMed; officer United
Palestine Appeal; active Am Jewish Cong,
Zionist Org of Am. • See:A]YB, 57:607;
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Oct 61954,25:2.
Miller, Morris; h. Brooklyn, Apr 41905.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, Brooklyn; active Zionist
Org of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Miller, Moses E; h. ca 1866; d. Cfucinnati,
Oct 12 1932.
Communal worker, philanthropist, Cincinnati.
• See: A]YB, 35:127.
Miller, Mrs. Julian; h. ca 1887; d. St Louis,
Mar221939.
Civic & communal worker, St Louis. • See:
A]YB, 41:428.
Miller, Nathan; h. New Haven, Aug 11
1900.
PhB, MA, PhD Yale. • Economist, Pittsburgh;
faculty Carnegie Tech; author in field. • See:
WWIA], 1928.
Miller, Nathan Harry; h. Kopil, Minsk,Jan
141898.
To US 1909.· UNE,AB UCA, UCALaw
School. • Lawyer, deputy district atty,
Milstein, Morris
Oakland, CA; exec secy regional Zionist Org of
Am; pres B'nai B'rith; dir United Jewish
Welfare Fund. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Miller, NathanJ; h. Baltimore, Jan 81873;
d. Paris, 1927.
Johns Hopkins.· Banker, communal worker,
NYC; active Union of Am Heb Congregations;
'WWI relief worker. • See: UJE; WWIA],
1926.
Miller, Ned; h. London, Aug 21899.
Songwriter, Chicago; "Kentucky Lullaby." •
See: WWIA], 1928.
Miller, Samuel Charles; h. NYC, Nov 15
1903; d. Feh 8,1958.
CCNY, DDS NYU. • Dentist, periodontist,
NYC; chr Am Bd of Oral Medicine; faculty
NYU; author/editor in field. • See: WWIA],
1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Feb 9
1958,88:3.
Miller, Sara; h. NYC, Nov 7 1876.
Normal ColI, Columbia. • Elementary school
tchr, author, NYC. • See: A]YB, 6(19041905):156.
Miller, Simon; h. Harrishurg, 1862; d.
Philadelphia, Aug 12 1945.
Mfr, communal worker, Philadelphia; officer
Jewish Publication Society. • See: A]YB,
24:182,48:495; NYTimes, Aug 13 1945, 19:2.
Miller, Simon; h. St Istvan, Hungary, Sep
28 1887; d. Yonkers, Jan 1971.
To US 1907. • NYU.• Dental surgeon,
publisher, Yonkers; editor, publisher Apiryon;
officer Zionist Org of Am, Assn of Hungarian
Jews of Am, Jewish Community Center;
fundraiser Joint Distribution Com. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938; NYTimes,Jan 13 1971,
42:2.
Miller, Uri; h. NYC,July 191905.
BS Lewis Inst, ordained Heb Theological ColI.
• Rabbi, New Orleans; officer Mizrachi; exec
bd Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations;
active Community Chest. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Miller, Walter Ahraham; h. Brooklyn, Dec
23 1904.
AB Princeton, LLB Brooklyn Law.· Lawyer,
Brooklyn; fdr Jr Fedn ofJewish Charities;
officer United Jewish Aid Socs. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Miller, Warren (pseud=Amanda Vail); h.
Stowe, P A, Aug 31 1921; d. NYC, Apr
1966.
MA U IA. • Author, editor, public relations
advisor; "Sleep of Reason"; military service. •
See: NYTimes, Apr 211966,39:3.
Millgram, Abraham Ezra; h. KamenetzPodolsk, Feb 11901.
To US 1913. • BS CCNY, MA Columbia,
ordainedJTS, Dropsie. • Rabbi, author,
Philadelphia; instructor Gratz; pres Zionist
Org of Am (Wilmington, DE); officer League
for Labor Palestine. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Millhauser, DeWitt; h~ NYC, Aug 7 1884;
d. NYC, Apr 14 1946.
Radio exec, investment banker, NYC; with
Speyer & Co; trustee Mt Sinai. • See: A]YB,
48:495; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 2;NYTimes,
Apr 15 1946,27:3.
Millhauser, Isaac; h. ca 1863; d. NYC, Sep
291934.
Police lieutenant, NYc. • See:A]YB, 37:259.
Millionthaler, Louis; h. ca 1837; d. Boston,
June 61917.
Heb scholar, Boston.· See:A]YB, 20(19181919):230.
Millner, Simon L; h. Moscow, May 51882;
d. NYC,Jan 141952.
Author, Spinoza specialist; pres Spinoza Found
of Am; editor Gazith (Reb literary magazine);
donated Spinoza material to Columbia. • See:
A]YB, 54:540; NYTimes, Jan 15 1952,27:2.
Mills, Albert; h. Cincinnati, Nov 4 1884.
Businessman, Cincinnati; pres Zanol Products
Co.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Mills, Clarence M; h. Cincinnati, Apr 26
1881.
U Vienna. • Mfrg chemist, Cincinnati; with
Zanol Products Co.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Mills, Jack; h. NYC, Dec 5 1891.
Woods Business ColI. • Music publisher,
NYC; dir Music Publisher Protective Assn, Am
Soc of Composers, Authors & Publishers. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Milman, Adolph; h. ca 1865; d. Apr 28
1938.
Musician, opera singer, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
40:389.
Milmed, Leon S; h. Philadelphia, ca 1914;
d. Short Hills, NJ, Oct 1984.
Brooklyn ColI, Brooklyn Law. • NJ superior
court judge, deputy district atty; advisor State
Constitution,government. • See: NYTimes,
Oet171984.
Milner, IsaacJ; h.*; d. NYC, Aug 271905.
To US 1898. • Journalist, poet; correspondent
St Petersburg Friend. • See: A]YB, 8(19061907):224; NYTimes, Aug 291905,7:4.
Milofsky, Allan Henry; h. Washington, Apr
25 1933; d. Sep 61971.
MD Yale. • Physician, psychiatrist, Belmont,
MA; with US Public Health Service, J J
Putnam Childrens Center.· See: WWWIA, 5.
Milstein, Jacoh James; h. Denver, June 13
1897.
U CO. • Film industry sales exec, NYC; with
MGM, Republic Pictures; dir NatlJewish
Home for Jewish Children; 'WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Milstein, Morris; h. 1897; d. NYC, Nov 16
1972.
Business exec; a fdr Albert Einstein ColI of
Med, Mt Eden Center (Bronx); benefactor
Columbia.· See:A]YB, 74:557; NYTimes, Nov
17 1972, 50:1.
Milstein, Nathan
Milstein, Nathan; b. Odessa, Dec 31 1904.
To US 1928. • Concert violinist. • See: UJE;
EJ; WWIAJ, 1938.
Milsten, Travis L; b. Coalgate, OK, Jan 20
1902.
AB U OK, LLB Yale. • Lawyer, Tulsa; officer
Chamber of Commerce, bar assn, B'nai B'rith.
Milstone, Jacob Haskell; b. St Louis, June
301912; d.Jan 271977.
Physician, pathologist, New Haven; faculty
NYU, Yale; author in field; WWII service. •
See: WWWIA, 7.
Milwitzky, William; b. Janishki, Lithuania,
Dec 241874; d.June 1956.
To US 1888. • Columbia, U Paris. •
Philologist, author, Newark; specialty: Spanish,
Judeo-Spanish dialects; contributor JE. • See:
AJYB, 6(1904-1905): 156; NYTimes, June 9
1956,17:5.
Minchin, Nina Mesirow; b. Chicago; d. Aug
271972.
Pianist, chamber music sponsor, Chicago; fdr
Chicago Chamber Music Soc; dir Pro Musica
Trio. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Minda, Albert Greenberg; b. Holton, KS,
July 301895; d. Minneapolis, Jan 15
1977.
post-grad Columbia, U MN, U Chicago;
honorary degree. • Rabbi, communalldr,
author, Minneapolis; a fdr Round Table of
Christians & Jews, Urban League; officer
Central Conf of Am Rabbis, World Union for
Progressive Judaism. • See: AJYB, 78:544,
79:371; WWIAJ, 1926,1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Jan 18 1977, 34: 1.
Mindlin, Harris; b. ca 1868; d. Apr 11 1933.
Communal & educational worker, Great Neck.
• See:AJYB, 35:127.
Minikes, ChononJacob (Yankov); b. Vilna,
1865; d. NYC, 1932.
To US 1888. • Yiddish editor, publisher,
author, playwright, Jewish trade union
movement pioneer, NYC; fdr Minikes Yom Tor
Blaetter; orgr Peoples Relief Com. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 24:182; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Minis, Abigail (Mrs); b. 1701; d. Savannah,
Oct 111794.
Pioneer, merchant, Savannah. • See: BDEAJ.
Minis, Abraham; b. ca 1695; d.Jan!3 1757.
Merchant, farmer, pioneer, Savannah. • See:
UJE (sub Minis); EJ (sub Minis); BDEAJ.
Minis, Isaac; b. Savannah, ca 1857; d.June
181893.
Businessman, Savannah; dir Cotton Exchange.
• See: PAJHS, 2:181.
Minis, Philip; b. Savannah, July 11/12 1733/
1743; d. Mar 61189.
Pioneer, patriot, Savannah; Revolutionary War
paymaster & commissary general; pres Mikve
Israel. • See: UJE(sub Minis); EJ (sub Minis);.
BDEAJ.
442
Minkin, Jacob Samuel; b. Swieciany,
Poland, Oct 1/3 1885; d. Tel Aviv, Mar
13 1962.
ToUS 1902/1904. • AB, MA Columbia,
DHL, ordainedJTS.· Rabbi, author,
Rochester, NY, NYC; feature writer News of
the Jewish World. • See: UJE; AJYB, 64:495;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Mar 15 1962,
35:2.
Minkoff, Isaiah M; b. Warsaw, 1901; d.
NYC, May 101983.
To US 1922.· Communal worker & admr,
civil rights supporter, NYC; with NatlJewish
Community Relations Advisory Council; a fdr
Jewish Labor Com; active Labor & Liberal
parties.· See:AJYB, 85:418-19.
Minkoff, Nochum Boruch (Nahum
Baruch); b. Warsaw, Nov 18 1893; d.
NYC, Mar 141958.
LLB NY Law, Columbia, NYU, CCNY. •
Yiddish poet, essayist, critic; editor In Sieh,
Zunkunft; tchr New School. • See: UJE; AJYB,
60:356; NYTimes, Mar 151958,17:6.
Minkowski, Rudolph Leo B; b. Strasbourg,
May 281895; d.Jan 41976.
To US 1935. • PhD U Breslau; honorary
degree. • Astronomer; faculty U Hamburg, U
CA(Berkeley); staffMt Wilson Observatory. •
See: WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Jan 12 1976,30:4.
Minkowsky, Abraham; b. Biala-Zerkoff,
Russia, Nov 15 1869.
Moscow In;t.perial Conservatory. • Cantor,
composer, NYC; faculty Cherson Imperial Inst
ofMusic. • See:AJYB, 6(1904-1905):221.
Minkowsky, Pinchos (Phinehas, Pinie); b.
Belaya Tzerkov, Russia, Apr 1859; d.
Boston,Jan 18 1924.
To US 1923/1924. • Noted cantor, composer;
faculty Jewish Conservatory (Odessa). • See:
JE; UJE; EJ; AJYB, 26: 156; NYTimes, Jan 19
1924,13:4.
Minow, Newton Norman; b. Milwaukee,
1926.
.
Lawyer, public official; chr Federal
Communications Commn; asst Adlai
Stevenson; dir Am Jewish Com, B'nai B'rith. •
See: EJ.
Minskoff, Henry H; b. NYC, May 27 1911;
d. NYC, Aug 13 1984.
Lehigh, Columbia. • Bldr, contractor,
philanthropist, NYC; fdr, benefactor Cultural
Center; pres United Home for Aged Heb; dir
Citizens Tax Council, Lexington School for
the Deaf.· See:AJYB, 86:442.
Minskoff, Sam; b. Russia, 1884?; d. NYC,
Dec 261950.
BIdr, philanthropist, NYC; dir Yeshiva U. •
See: AJYB, 53:526; NYTimes, Dec 27 1950,
27:1.
Minsky, Henry; b. NYC, June 211895; d.
Rhinebeck, NY, May 1954.
MD Columbia. • Ophthalmologist, NYC;
officer med socs; author in field. • See: BEOAJ;
NYTimes, May 24 1954,27:4.
Minsky, Isaac; b.*; d. reported Apr 231937.
Rabbi, Zionist worker, Wilmington, DE. •
See:AJYB, 39:594.
Minsky, Louis; b. Southsea, England, June
41909; d. NYC, Dec 301957.
To US 1923.· Journalist, NYC; fdr, editor
Religious News Service. • See:AJYB, 60:356;
NYTimes, Dec 31 1957, 17:1.
Mintz, Bernard; b. NYC,July 301914; d.
Nov 11984.
CCNY, Columbia, NYU. • University admr,
author, NYC; official Bernard M Baruch
School of Business and Public Adm, CCNY. •
See: WWWIA, 8.
Mintz, Herman Arthur; b. Vilna, Mar 18
1886.
To US 1892.· AB, LLB Harvard.• Lawyer,
Boston; trustee AssocdJewish Charities, Beth
Israel Hospital, Childrens Cancer Research
Found.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA., 7.
Mintz, Hyman E; b. ca 1909; d. NYC, Mar
1966.
NY State Republican Assemblyman, convicted
for bribery. • See: NYTimes, March 26 1966,
29:2.
Mintz, Moses, b. ca 1859; d. NYC, Sep 3
1930.
Physician, publisher, communal worker, NYC.
• See:AJYB, 33:127.
Mintz, Nathan; b.*; d. Brooklyn, Dec 31
1916.
Communal worker, Brooklyn. • See: AJYB,
19(1917-1918):266.
Mintz, Pinchus; b. ca 1864; d. Cleveland,
Jan 191912.
Rabbi, Cleveland. • See:AJYB, 14(19121913):125.
Mintzer, George Jay; b. Galicia, May 17
1898; d. NYC, May 1976.
To NYC 1901.· AB CCNY, LLB Fordham.·
Lawyer, asst US district atty, NYC; counsel
Am Jewish Com; exec com ORT; bd Haarlem
House. • See:AJYB, 78:544; WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, May 6 1976,40:4.
Minzesheimer, Charles; b. ca 1835; d.
NYC, Apr 11916.
Mem, Stock Exchange, NYC. • See: AJYB,
18(1916-1917):109.
Miranda, Isaac; b.*; d. Lancaster, PA, 1732/
1733.
To Philadelphia from Italy (?) 1710-15. •
Jewish pioneer, admiralty court judge,
Philadelphia; Lancaster Indian trader; a
convert to Christianity. • See: UJE; BDEAJ.
Mirisch, HaroldJoseph; b. NYC, May 4
1907; d. Dec 5 1968.
Motion picture exec, Los Angeles; active Am
Israel Cultural Found. • See: WWWIA., 5;
NYTimes, Dec 7 1968,47:1.
Mirovitch, Alfred Bernard; b. Leningrad,
May 4 1884; d. Whitefield, NH, Aug
1959.
Mittenthal, Norman]erome
443
To US 1921. • ColI of St. Petersburg, Imperial
Conservatory. • Concert pianist; Am debut
Carnegie Hall 1921. • See: WWWIA,7;
NYTimes, Aug 41959,27:2.
Mirsky, Alfred Ezra; b. Flushing, LI, Oct
17 1900; d. June 19 1974.
AB Harvard, PhD Cambridge; honorary
degree. • Biochemist, NYC; librarian, faculty
Rockefeller Inst; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEGAJ; WWWIA, 6; NYTimes,
June 21 1974,40:1, correction June 241974,
31:7.
Mirsky, David; b. Jerusalem, 1921; d. NYC,
Mar 301982.
To US 1930s? • English teacher, NYC; faculty
Yeshiva U; dean Stern ColI for Women; active
Histadruth Ivrith, professional orgns, Jewish
Book Council, Am Assn for Jewish Education;
authorin field.· See:AJYB, 84:337.
Mirsky, I. Arthur; b. Montreal, Mar 28
1907; d. Sep 16 1974.
To US 1931. • MD McGill, Chicago
Psychoanalytic Inst. • Physician, med
researcher; faculty U Cincinnati, UCLA;
consult US Public Health Service, Veterans
Adm; WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 6;
Mirsky, Samuel Kalman; b. Dubesar,
Russia, Mar 2 1899; d. Brooklyn, Sep
1967.
To Palestine as child; to US 1926. • AB NYU,
MA Columbia; ordained Jerusalem. • Rabbi,
rabbinic scholar, religious Zionist, Hebraist,
NYC; faculty Yeshiva U; officer Mizrachi,
Histadruth Ivrit; author numerous critical
texts.· See:EJ;AJYB, 69:610; WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Oct 11967,47:3.
Mirvis, Hirsch; b. ca 1840; d. Baltimore,
May 1920.
Scholar, tchr, Baltimore. • SeeAJYB, 22:167.
Misch, Marion L (Mrs Caesar Misch); b.
Allentown, PAl Newark, May 13 1869; d.
Providence, Jan 18 1941.
Normal School (Pittsfield, MA). • Dept store
exec, communal & civic ldr, Providence; mem
School Bd; officer Natl Council ofJewish
Women, State Fedn ofWomens Clubs, Natl
Fedn of Temple Sisterhoods; author/lecturer
in field. • See: UJE; AJYB 24:182; 43:361-62;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; NYTimes, Jan 20 1941,
17:4.
Mischakoff, Mischa (adopted name); b.
Proskurov, Russia, Apr 3 1895; d. Feb 1
1981.
To US 1922. • Imperial Conservatory
(Petrograd), PhD East MI U. • Violinist,
recitalist, concertmaster, Detroit; faculty
Juilliard, Wayne; mem Mischakoff String
Quartet; WWI Russian army service. • See:
UJE; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; BEGAJ; WWWIA,
7.
Mischkind, Louis A; b. ca 1897; d.
Wtlmington, DE,June 191929.
Rabbi, Wilmington, DE.· See:AJYB, 31:93.
Mises, Ludwig Edler von; b. Lemberg,
188l.
To NY 1940.· PhD UVienna.· Economist,
sociologist, NYC; German government
official; specialty: monetary theory: faculty U
Vienna, U Geneva; author in field. • See: UJE;
EJ.
Mises, Richard Martin Edler von; b.
Lemberg, 1883.
To Turkey, to US 1940. • Briinn, Vienna. •
Mathematician; faculty U Berlin, Harvard;
specialty: dynamics; WWI German service. •
See: UJE.
Mishkin, Charles; b. Chicago, June 26
1895.
LLB Northwestern. • Lawyer, Chicago; officer
Zionist Org of Am; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Mishkin, Herman; b. Minsk, Jan 15 1871;
d. Feb 1948.
Fedn ofJewish Charities; fdr Gemilath
Chassodim, Boys Symphony Orchestra; officer
Boys Industrial League. • See: AJYB, 7(19051906):90.
Mitchell, Samuel; b. Russia, 1885; d. NYC,
Nov 30 1970.
To US 1901. • Business exec, philanthropist,
NYC; est Samuel and Rose Mitchell Found;
active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies;
benefactor Fordham, NYU. • See: AJYB,
72:543; NYTimes, Dec 2 1970,50:1.
Mitchell, Samuel;b. Odessa, Oct 141885;
d. NYC, May 19 1967.
To US 1893. • Business exec, NYC; dir Jewish
Bd of Guardians; active Am Jewish Cong;
WWII government consult. • See: AJYB,
69:610; NYTimes, May 20 1967,35:3.
Mitchell, William; b. NYC, Sep 231867; d.
NYC, Mar 111933.
To NYC 1884. • Photographer, NYC;
portraits of many famous people; officer
Minsker Independent Benevolent Soc. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Feb 7 1948, 15:2.
CCNY. • Merchant, communal worker, NYC;
supt YMHA; principal Downtown Mission
School; active Heb religious, communal
education. • See: AJYB 7(1905-1906):90,
35:127.
Mishkowsky, Noah; b. Russia, 1877; d.
NYC,Jan 111950.
Mitchell, William John; b. NYC, Nov 21
1906; d. Aug 17 1971.
Educator, Yiddish author, Zionist, NYC; fdr
first Yiddish school in Russia; with Workmen's
Circle schools; active Left Poale Zion. • See:
AJYB, 52:503.
AB, MA Columbia. • Musicologist, audlor;
faculty SUNY (Binghampton), Columbia;
consult govt agencies; dir Naumburg Found;
officer professional soc; co-ed Music Forum. •
See: WWWIA, 5,7; NYTimes, Aug 19 1971,
38:4.
Mishulow, Lucy; b. Poltava.
To NYC 1899. • AB Normal ColI (NYC). •
Bacteriologist, NYC; with NYC, NY State
Depts of Health; staff NYU; author in field. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Mitnick, Isadore; b. ca 1871; d. NYC, Dec
31194l.
Rabbi, cantor, NYc. • See: AJYB, 44:342;
NYTimes,Jan 2 1942,23:2.
Mitchell, Abbie; b. NYC, Sep 25 1884; d.
NYC, Mar 16 1960.
Mittau, Irving; b. Frankfurt, June 3 1885.
Black theatrical personality ewish father,
black mother); actress, recital singer; toured
US, abroad. • See: NAJ¥:modern; NYTimes,
Mar 201960,86:4.
Shoe mfr exec, communal worker, Brockton,
MA; officer United Palestine Appeal, Joint
Distribution Com campaigns.· See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Mitchell, Bernard A; b. Chicago, Dec 12
1912; d. Dec 5 1983.
Mittel (Mittell), Sherman; b. Boston, ca
1904; d. Washington DC,July 1942.
Northwestern. • Mfrg exec, lighting inventor,
Chicago; mem Bd ofJewish Education; bd
Jewish Vocational Service. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Editor, publisher; pres Natl Home Library
Found; with War Manpower Bd. • See: AJYB,
45:390; NYTimes, July 23 1942, 19:2.
Mitchell, Hyman; b.*
Mittelman (Mittelmann), Bela; b. Budapest,
Oct 2 1899; d. NYC, Oct 41959.
a
ToLittle Rock 1830. • Little Rock merchant
with brothers; cfJacob and Levy. • See:
PAJHS, 6:158.
Mitchell, Jacob Dr; b.*
To Little Rock 1830. -Little Rock merchant
with brothers, cfHyman and Levy;
inaugurated stage line to Hot Springs; bought
part of the hot mountain but lost it in a
Supreme Court case. • See:PAJHS, 6:158.
To US 1924.· MD UPrague.· Psychiatrist,
psychoanalyst, consult, NYC; faculty
Columbia; authorin field. • See:AJYB, 62:451;
NYTimes, Oct 5 1959,31:2.
Mittelman, Edward Becker; b. Lisk,
Poland, June 5 1890; d. NYC, Sep 25
1949.
To Little Rock 1830. • Little Rock merchant
with brothers, cfJacob and Hyman. • See:
PAJHS, 6:158.
AB U WI, PhD U Chicago. • Labor
economist, tchr, Washington DC; with Dept
of Labor, War Production Bd; arbitration
expert Internatl Assn of Machinists; author in
field. • See: AJYB, 52:503; NYTimes, Sep 27
1949,27:1.
Mitchell, Max; b. Constanta, Rumania,
187l.
Mittenthal, Norman Jerome; b.
Waxahachie, TX, Oct 221893.
To US 1891. • Social work exec, Boston; supt
AB Stanford. • Engineer, San Francisco; with
Mitchell, Levy; b.*
Mittleman, Harry
General Electric; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926.
Mittleman, Harry; b. Russia, May 24 1900.
To US 1907. • Realtor, Pordand, OR; officer
Jewish Old Peoples Home, Jewish Education
Assn; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ.
Mittler, Benjamin B; b. NYC, ca 1893; d.
NYC, Feb 28 1948.
Lawyer, legislator, NYC; military service. •
See: AJYB, 50:520; NYTimes, Feb 29 1948,
60:8.
Modansky, Jacob R; b. Kiev, Oct 11896; d.
NYC, Sep 191977.
To US 1912. • Business exec, philanthropist,
NYC; officer Zionist Org of Am; bd Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; benefactor Yeshiva U. •
See: AJYB, 79:371.
Moeller, Philip (Phillip); b. NYC, Aug 26
.
1880; d. Apr 261958.
Columbia, European travel. • Playwright, dir,
NYC; fdr, dir Washington Square Players; fdr
NY Theater Guild. • See:AJYB, 24:182;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA,
3; NYTimes, Apr 27 1958, 86:8.
Mogil, Isidore; b. ca 1886; d.June 15 1939.
Physician, Zionist worker, NYC. • See: AJYB,
41:428; NYTimes, June 16 1939,23:6.
Mogilanski, Simon; b. ca 1884; d. Dec 5
1936.
Concertmaster, NYC; conductor Vladivostock
Symphony Orchestra. • See: AJYB, 39:595.
Mogilesky, Bernard; b. NYC, June 29 1896;
d. Bronx, Dec 61939.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, municipal judge,
communal worker, NYC; active United
Palestine Appeal, Fedn ofJewish Charities,
B'nai B'rith, synagog. • See: AJYB, 42:482;
Mogilner, David; b. Newark, June 18 1931;
d. Lake Como, PA,Aug 191975.
Rabbi, educator; nad dir Ramah Camps; tchr
ColI ofJewish Studies (Chicago), Gratz,JTS
Tchrs Inst. • See: AJYB, 77:597; NYTimes, Aug
201975,40:4.
Mogulesco, Sigmund; b. ca 1858; d. NYC,
Feb 41914.
Actor, NYc.. See:AJYB, 16(1914~1915):164;
NYTimes, Feb 5 1914,9:5.
MoW, Emanuel Nehemiah; b. Russia, 1883.
Cooper Union. • Engineer, economist; setded
in Palestine. • See: UJE.
MoW, Sophie Berger (Mrs Emanuel N
MoW); b. La Crosse, WI, 1882; d. Haifa,
1958.
To Palestine 1918, to US 1941.· U Chicago.·
Social worker; exec dir YWHA; a fdr, officer
Hadassah; WWI with Red Cross in France. •
See: UJE (sub Mohl, Emanuel Nehemiah);
NYTimes, July 2 1958,29:3.
Moholy-Nagy, Ladislaus (Laszlo); b.
Borsod, Hungary, July 201895; d.
444
Chicago, Nov 24 1946.
To US 1937. • Painter, designer; faculty
Bauhaus, New Bauhaus (Chicago); Jewish? •
See: UJE, EJ: 1973-82; DAB, 4; NYTimes, Nov
25 1946,27:4.
Mohr, Meir; b. Rozwadow, Galicia, 1888; do
1967.
To US 1908, returned to Austria, to Palestine
1939. • Heb writer; pen name R Simla'i; WWI
Austrian service. • See: EJ.
Mohr, Michael; b. ObenJustadt, Rhenish
Palatinate, July 4 1849.
Communal worker, Montgomery, AL; officer
United Heb Charities, B'nai B'rith, Sunday
School Bd. • See: AJYB, 7(1905-1906):90-91.
Moidel, Jacob; b. Pittsburgh, Feb 51907.
Youngstown School of Law. • Lawyer,
Warren, OH, Los Angeles; personal attorney
to Aimee Semple McPherson. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Moise, A Welborne; b. 1846.
Lawyer, editor; page US House of
Representatives, 1857-1861; Civil War
Confederate service; went West. • See:JE.
Moise, Aaron; b. Charleston, SC, 1820; d.
Richmond, 1880.
Lawyer, editor, US Treasury clerk; Civil War
Confederate service. • See: JE.
U GA, Rhodes Scholar (Oxford U). • Lawyer,
business exec, trustee John Bulow Campbell
Found, Adanta; WWI service. • See:
WWWIA,4.
Moise, Edwin WarrenJr; b. Charleston,
SC, May 21 1832; d. Sumter, SC, Dec 9
1902.
Lawyer, Democratic politician, state official,
Civil War Confederate officer; organized,
equipped and led a company. • See: JEi UJE
(sub MOIse).
Moise, Edwin Warren Sr; b. Charleston,
SC, 1811; d. New Orleans, 1868.
Charleston Med ColI. ~ Physician, Woodville,
MS; then lawyer, legislator, Speaker of the
House, judge, New Orleans; secessionist. •
See: JEi UJE.
Moise, Harold A; b. Natchitoches, LA, Aug
23 1879; d. Sep 261958.
BA Cote Brillient ColI, LLB Tulane. •
Lawyer, legislator, state supreme court justice,
New Orleans. • See: WWWIA, 3.
Moise, Penina; b. Charleston, SC, Apr 23
1797; d. Charleston, SC, Sep 13 1880.
Popular poet, hymn writer, tchr, Charleston,
SCi supt Beth EI Sunday School. • See: JE;
UJEi EJi AJYB, 7(1905-1906):17-31; BDEAJ;
NAW;DAB.
Moise, Abraham; b. Strasbourg, 1736; d.
SC,1809.
To US 1791, refugee from San Domingo
rebellion. • Fdr of family in Am, shopkeeper,
auctioneer. • See:JEi UJE (sub MOIse); EJ.
Moise, Theodore Sydney; b. Charleston,
SC, 1806; d. Natchitoches, LA, July 2
1883.
Portrait painter; traveled the South doing
portraits for wealthy families; Confederate
service. • See: JEi UJEi EJ.
Moise, AbrahamJr; b. Charleston, SC,June
12 1799; d. Sumterville, SC, June 11
1869.
Lawyer, justice of the peace, magistrate,
Charleston, SC; ldr Reformed Soc ofIsraelites.
• See: UJE (sub MOIse); BDEAJ.
Moise, Wtlliam Sidney; b. Carlinville, IL,
Feb 2 1922; d. Aug 61980.
U South, Cooper Union, Columbia. • Artist,
author, tchr, NYC, ME; officer Wilhelm Reich
Found, professional orgs; WWII service. • See:
WWWIA, 7.
Moise, Albert US; b. Sumter, SC, ca 1872;
d. Philadelphia, May 251940.
Laywer, author, Philadelphia; faculty U P A;
co-author first PA law digest, textbooks. • See:
AJYB, 42:482; NYTimes, May 27 1940, 19:5.
Moiseiwitsch, Benno; b. Odessa, Feb 22
1890; d. Apr 1963.
Imperial Music Academy (Odessa). • Concert
pianist, London. • See: WWIAJ, 1928;
NYTimes, Apr 10 1963, 39:3.
Moise, Camillus; b. Charleston, SC, 1820;
d. Richmond, 1880.
Civil War soldier; public official. • See: UJE
(sub MOIse).
Moisseiff, Leon Solomon; b. Riga, Nov 10
1872; d. Belmar, NJ, Sep 3 1943.
To US 1891. • CE Columbia. • Noted consult
engineer, bridge builder, Yiddishist, NYC;
authority on long-span bridges, designed
Manhattan and Queensboro bridges among
others; publisher of Freie Gesellschaft;
introduced many famous European authors. •
See: UJE, AJYB, 24:182,46:343; WWIAJ,
1926,1928, 1938; ~,2;DAB, 3;
NYTimes, Sep 4 1943, 13:1.
Moise, Columbus Jr; b. New Orleans,
1855; d. Kansas City, 1895.
ChiefJustice, US Court of NM; public official,
judge, city atty, East Las Vegas, NM; author
poems, short stories. • See: JE.
Moise, Columbus Sr; b. Charleston, 1809;
d. VA, 1871.
Banker, postmaster, poet, New Orleans. • See:
JEi UJE (sub MOIse).
Moise, Cordelia; b. 1809; d. 1869.
Hymn writer. • See: UJE (sub MOIse).
Moise, Edwin Warren; b. Montgomery,
Dec 29 1889; d. Nov 9 1961.
Molarsky, Maurice; b. Kiev, May 25 1885;
d. 1949/1950.
To US 1890.· School of Industrial Arts,
Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia), Paris. •
Artist, portrait painter, Philadelphia. • See:
AJYB, 24:182; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
NYTimes, Jan 3 1950,25:4.
445
Mordecai, Alfred Sr
Moldawski, Ben Zion; b. Russia, ca 1877; d.
Detroit, Sep 291945.
AB Dartmouth. • Stockbroker, Chicago. • See:
WWIA],1938.
To US ca 1926. • Rabbi, cantor, Detroit;
composer of religious music. • See: A]YB,
48:495-96.
Monis, Judah; b. AlgierslItaly, Feb 4 1683;
d. Apr 25 1764.
MD Womens Med ColI (philadelphia). •
Physician, Boston; faculty Boston U. • See:
WWWIA,5.
MA Harvard (firstJew). • Colonial Heb
scholar, theologian, Jamaica, Boston, NYC;
convert to Christianity, but kept Saturday
Sabbath; prepared Heb grammar for Harvard
students; faculty Harvard (ca 40 years). • See:
]E; UJE, E]; BDEA]; PA]HS, 22:1-24; 35:16169; 37:121-34; DAB.
Moll, Max S; b. Graetz, Prussia, Aug 27
1846.
Monosson, Fred; b. Moscow, Feb 22 1892;
d. Boston, Dec 221972.
Rabbi, author, Rochester, NY; earlier in NYC,
Paterson. • See: A]YB, 5(1903-1904):83.
To US 1906. • Business exec, natl Zionist ldr,
Boston; natl officer Zionist Org of Am; fdr
Zionist House; sponsor ofvillages in Israel. •
See:A]YB, 74:557.
Moldveen-Geronimus, Miriam Esther (Mrs
Lippman Hart Geronimus); b. NYC, Feb
8 1923; d. Sep 23 1970.
Molnar, Ferenc (orig Neumann); b.
Budapest, Jan 12 1878; d. NYC, Apr 1
1952.
To US 1940. • Noted European playwright;
many of his plays were translated and staged in
US; Liliam; wrote in English in 1940s. • See:
UJE; E]; A]YB, 54:540; WWWIA, 4; NITimes,
Apr 2 1952,33:1.
Molodowsky, Kadia (Kiejla MolodowskyLew); b. Bereza-Kartuzka, Poland, 1894.
To US 1935. • Yiddish poet, author; wrote
childrens books under pseudonym Rivke
Silverberg. • See: ]E; UJE.
Monash, David; b. Plattsburg, NY, Jan 20
1871.
Syracuse U, MD Columbia; post-grad Vienna,
Berlin. • Surgeon, Des Moines, Chicago;
faculty Drake, Northwestern. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Monash, Edward; b. ca 1848; d. Denver,
Dec 20 1920.
Communal worker, Denver; pres Chamber of
Commerce, Bd of Public Works.· See:A]YB,
23:133.
Monash, Louis; b. NYC, Nov 25 1889.
BS NYU, MS CCNY, PhD Fordham. • Public
school principal & civics tchr, NYC; author/
lecturer in field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Mond, Herman; b. ca 1891; d. NYC, Sep 17
1935.
Cardiologist, tchr, NYC. • See: A]YB, 38:432.
Mones, Leon; b. NYC, Dec 8 1894.
AB CCNY, MA NYU, PhD Oskaloosa ColI. •
Public & communal schools educator, Newark;
dean NJ Normal School for Jewish Tchrs;
officer Zionist Org of Am; active Am Jewish
Cong; author/editor in field. • See: WWIA],
1938; BEOA].
Monheim, Leonard Myers; b. Clairton, PA,
June 7 1911; d. Pittsburgh, Oct 18 1971.
BS, DDS, MS, U Pittsburgh. • Dentist,
Pittsburgh; faculty U Pittsburgh; specialty:
anesthesiology; officer med societies; editor/
author in field; military service. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Oct211971, 50:3.
Monheimer, Henry I; b. Chicago, Jan 27
1893.
Monossowitsch, Moness; b. Shati, Russia,
July 15 1857.
Author, educator, Libau, NYC; fdr Heb &
general education schools abroad; studied
immigration questions; Heb textbook writer. •
See:A]YB, 24:183; WWIA], 1926,1928.
Monroe, Marilyn (born NormaJean
Mortensen); b. Los Angeles, June 1
1926; d. Los Angeles, Aug 5 1962.
Motion picture actress; convert to Judaism
after marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. •
See: DAB, 7; NITimes, Aug 6 1962, 1:2.
Monsanto, Benjamin; b.*; d. Natchez, ca
1795.
Slave trader, planter. • See: BDEA].
Monsky, Henry (Zevi); b. Omaha, Feb 4
1890; d. NYC, May 2 1947.
LLB Creighton. • Pres, Internatl B'nai Brith,
lawyer, Zionist, communal & civic ldr, Omaha;
orgr Community Chest, Jewish Welfare Fedn,
NE Conf of Social Work; mem Reform,
Conservative & Orthodox synagogs; est Am
Jewish Conf to aid Nazi victims & estJewish
state. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 49:85-90, 615;
WWIA], 1926, 1928; DAB, 4; • NITimes, May
3 1957,17:1.
Monsky, Jacob; b. Kiev, Dec 14 1884; d. Jan
1976.
Cooper Union. • Printer, publisher, bldr,
Zionist; publisher Who's Who in Government;
active JTS, SOC for the Advancement of
Judaism. • See: BEOA]; NITimes, Jan 17 1976,
28:3.
Montaque, Abraham; b. Boston, Oct 28
1892; d. Stuart, FL, Feb 13 1962.
Motion picture exec, NYC; officer Will Rogers
Memorial Hospital. See: WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, Feb 14 1962, 35: 1.
Montefiore, Joshua; b. London, Aug 7110
1762; d. St. Albans, vr, June 26 1843.
To US 1812. • Lawyer, soldier, Mrican
traveler, author; failed Mrican colonizer; editor
Men and Measures (political journal),
Commercial Dictionary (standard work). • See:
]E; UJE; E]; PAJHS, 40:119-34; DAB.
Monteux, Pierre; b. Paris, Apr 41875; d.
ME,July 11964.
To US by 1917.· Paris Conservatory.· Noted
orchestra conductor; WWIFrench service;
convert to Catholicism. • See: UJE; WWWIA,
4; DAB, 7; NITimes, July 2 1964,1:2.
Montor, Henry (Goldberg, Henry); b. Nova
Scotia, ca 1905/1908; d.Jerusalem, Apr
141982.
U Cincinnati, HUC. • Communal org exec,
Zionist, broker; a fdr, officer United Jewish
Appeal, Israel Bond campaigns; asst editor New
Pakstine.· See: E];A]YB, 84:337;]TA-DNB,
Apr 16 1982; NITimes, Apr 16 1982.
Montroll, Elliot Waters; b. Pittsburgh, May
41916; d. Dec41983.
PhD U Pittsburgh. • Scientist; faculty U
Pittsburgh, U MD, U Rochester; with Office
of Naval Research, ffiM Research; author/
editor in field. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Moore, Isaiah D; b. British West Indies,
1846.
Judge, civic worker, New Orleans. • See:
A]YB,24:183.
Moos, Sigmund, b. ca 1870; d. Hollywood,
CA,July 91933.
Motion picture exec, Hollywood, CA. • See:
A]YB, 36:284.
Mora,Jacob; b. Chicago, May 121900.
BS, MD U IL. • Surgeon, Chicago; faculty U
IL; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Morais, Henry Samuel; b. Philadelphia,
May 13 1860; d. NYC, Sep 21 1935.
Rabbi, journalist, drama & music critic; NYC;
fdr, editor Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia);
historian ofAmerican Jewry. • See:]E; UJE;
A]YB, 5(1903-1904):83,24:183; 38:432;
WWIA], 1926,1928.
Morais, Sabato; b. LeghomlLivomo, Apr
13 1823; d. Philadelphia, Nov 11/12
1897.
To US 1851. • Fdr ConservativeJudaism,JTS,
Sephardic rabbi, Philadelphia; active supporter
ofJewish agricultural colonies; faculty
Maimonides CoIl; friend ofMazzini. • See: JE;
UJE; EJ; PA]HS, 8:149-50; 37:55-94; DAB.
Morawetz, Victor; b. Baltimore, Apr 3
1859; d. Charleston, SC, May 1938.
Europe, LLB Harvard; hononary degrees. •
Lawyer, financier, author, philanthropist,
Chicago, NYC; war correspondent from Spain
(Carlist wars); in retirement became plantation
owner (near Charleston); endowed hospital
wing for Negroes; active civic causes,
Charleston. • See:A]YB, 24:183; WWWIA, 1;
DAB, 2; NITimes, May 18 1938, 21 :4.
Mordecai, Abram (Old Mordecai); b.
Philadelphia, Oct 241755/1773; d.
AL(?), ca 1847.
Alabama pioneer, Montgomery; fought in
Revolutionary War, War of 1812; Indian
agent; est first cotton gin in AL (1804). • See:
UJE; BDEA]; PA]HS, 13:71-81.
Mordecai, Alfred Sr; b. Warrenton, NC,
Jan 3 1804; d. Philadelphia, Oct 23 1887.
Mordecai, Alfred Jr
US Military Academy. • Army officer,
engipeer, ordnance expert, arsenal commander;
resigned US Army 1861; visited foundries and
arsenals abroad; interested in Mexican rivers,
canals, railroads; author in field. • See: JE;
UJE; EJ; DAB.
Mordecai, AlfredJr; b. Philadelphia, June
30 1840; d. Washington DC, Jan 20
1920.
US Military Academy. • Brigadier general,
engineer. • See:JE; UJE; EJ(sub Alfred
Mordecai Sr);AJYB, 22:167; WWWIA, 1;
NYTimes,Jan211920,7:2.
Mordecai, Augustus; b. Philadelphia, Sep 8
1847.
PA Polytech. • Railroad engineer, Cleveland.•
See:AJYB,6(1904-1905):156-57.
Mordecai, Emma; b. 1813; d. Richmond,
Apr 9·1906.
Educator; writer, Richmond. • See: AJYB,
8(1906-1907):225.
Morde~ai,
George Washington; b. 1801.
Lawyer, railway pres; pres Bank ofNC. • See
UJE(sub Mordecai, Jacob).
Mordecai, Goodman L; b. ca 1829; d.
Philadelphia, Apr 25 1922.
Civil War veteran, Philadelphia. • See:AJYB,
24:102; NYTimes, Apr 27 1922, 17:4.
Mordecai, Gratz; b. Washington DC, Dec
17 1849; d. Swarthmore, PA, Feb 28
1902.
Polytechnic (Philadelphia). • Civil & mining
engineer, Jewish historian, NYC, Philadelphia;
bd Gratz; author in field. • See: PAJHS,
11:195-97.
Mordecai, Jacob; b. Philadelphia, Apr 11
1762; d. Richmond, Sep41838.
Cultured educator, unsuccessful businessman,
merchant; fdr Warrenton (NC) Female
Academy; a fdr, pres Beth Shalome
(Richmond). • See: JE; UJE; EJ; BDEAJ;
PAJHS, 6:39-48.
Mordecai, Laura; b. Philadelphia.
Comniunal worker, Philadelphia; pres Sunday
School Soc; bd Natl Council ofJewish
Women; active synagog, Needlework Guild.·
See:AJYB,7(1905-1906):9.
Mordecai, Miriam Gratz; b. ca 1844; d.
Philadelphia,June 291923.
Educator, Philadelphia. • See:AJYB, 26:156.
Mordecai, Mordecai M; b. Lithuania.
Colonial distiller, merchant, NYC,
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Easton, PA,
Richmond; performed religious functions. •
See:BDEAJ.
Mordecai,Moses; b. Bonn, 1707; d.
Philadelphia, May 28 1781.
To US ca 1750. • Merchant, patriot,
Philadelphia; signer Non-Importation
Agreement. • See: JE; BDEAJ.
Mordecai, Moses; b. 1785.
Lawyer. • See: UJE (sub Mordecai,Jacob).
446
Mordecai, Moses Cohen; b. Charleston,
SC, Feb 19 1804; d. Baltimore, Dec 30
1888.
Shipowner, merchant, legislator, Confederate
patriot, civic & communalldr; pres synagog; co
fdr Southern Standard (later Charleston
Standartl). • See: DAB.
Mordecai, Rachel (Mrs Aaron Lazarus); b.
June 11789; d. Petersburg, VA, June 23
1838.
Tchr, intellectual, helped est Warrenton
Female Academy; convert to Christianity. •
See:BDEAJ.
Mordecai, Rosa; b. ca 1838; d. Washington
DC, Oct 211936.
Religious educator, Philadelphia, Washington
DC; co-owner private school for girls; active
communal affairs. • See:AJYB, 39:595;
PAJHS, 42:397-406.
Mordecai, Samuel; b. NYC, July 24 1786; d.
Raleigh, SC, Apr 91865.
Merchant, Richmond; author Richmond in
Byegone Days. • See: UJE (sub Mordecai,
Jacob); BDEAJ.
Mordecai, Solomon; b. Oct 10 1792; d.
1869.
Physician, Mobile. • See: UJE (sub Mordecai,
Jacob); BDEAJ.
Mordecai, T (Thomas) Moultrie; b.
Charleston, SC, Mar 15 1855.
Charleston ColI. • Lawyer, Charleston, SCi
officer City Orphan Asylum, bar assn, Masons,
B'nai Brith.· See: WWWIA, 4.
Morden, Albert; b. Philadelphia, Aug 13
1885.
BA Central High School (Philadelphia). •
Lawyer, author, editor, litterateur,
Philadelphia; edited works by L. Hearn, H.
James etc; Notorious Literary Attacks (1926). •
See: UJE; AJYB, 24:183; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOAJ.
Morden, Louis Joel; b. Philadelphia, Jan 28
1888.
BA Central High School (Philadelphia), BA,
MSc StJohns ColI (Cambridge U). •
Mathematician; faculty U Manchester, U
London, U Chicago. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
24:183; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Morden, Phineas (phinehas); b. Zeim,
]{ovno, 1861/1862;d.Philadelphia,June
221934.
To US 1881. • Philologist, Heb scholar,
Hebraist, pioneer Zionist, Philadelphia;
specialty: Heb grammar; author in field. • See:
UJE; EJ; AJYB, 24:183,36:284; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928.
Mordkhin, Boris; b. Russia, 1865.
Painter, Brooklyn. • See:AJYB, 24:183.
Moreen, Moreel Ben; b. Salt Lake City,
Sep 14 1892; d.July 1978.
BS Washington U.· Admiral US Navy,
engineer, chief ofyards; WWII orgr Seabees. •
See: UJE, EJ (sub Military Service); WWIAJ,
1938 (addenda); NYTimes, July 31 1978, IV 7:5.
Moreno, Jacob L; b. Bucharest, May 20
1889/1892; d. May 141974.
To US 1925/1927. • MD UVienna; honorary
degree. • Psychodramatist, social scientist, .
author; fdr Sociometry, Psychodramatic
Institute; est programs in NY, Washington DC
hospitals. • See: EJ; WWWIA, 6; NYTimes,
May 161974,44:4.
Morgan, Russ; b. Scranton, Apr 29 1904; d.
Las Vegas, Aug 1969.
Bandleader; coal miner as child. • See:
Morganroth, Amelia Ring (Mrs); b. ca
1872; d. NYC,June 161934.
Dramatic coach, dir childrens summer camps,
NYC. • See:AJYB, 36:284.
Morganstern/Morgenstern, Julian; b. St
Francisville, IL, Mar 181881; d. Macon,
GA,Dec41976.
AB, LLB U Cincinnati, HUC, U Berlin, PhD
U Heidelberg; honorary degrees. • Pres Heb
Union ColI, rabbi, biblical and Semitic
language scholar; officer Central Conf of Am
Rabbis, Am Oriental Soc, World Union for
Progressive Judaism; dir Am School for
Oriental Research; author in field. • See: UJE,
EJ;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):221, 7(19051906):123,24:183,78:544; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 6; NYTimes,
Dec 7 1976,46:4.
Morganstern (Morgenstern), Morris; b.
Austria, ca 1882; d. NYC,June 1969.
Businessman, realtor, Orthodox ldr, cantor,
philanthropist, NYC; benefactor yeshivas,
United Jewish Appeal, B'nai B'rith, YMCA. •
See: Natl Jewish Monthly story, Nov 1963;
Morganstern, Mossette Catherine Levaur
(Mrs Louis Morganstern); b.
Philadelphia, Dec 51903.
Optometry degree, Columbia. • Optometrist,
NYC;communalworker,Hartford;presNatl
Council ofJewish Women; dir Mt Sinai
Auxiliary, Heb Womens Home for Children. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Morganstern, Ralph Morris; b. Pittsburgh,
May 2S 1876.
EE U Pittsburgh. • Electrical engineer,
contractor, Pittsburgh; trustee synagog. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Morgenstern, Alfred L; b. ca 1873; d.July
1934.
Public servant, legislator, San Francisco;
deputy collector Internal Revenue; pres
Alameda Chamber of Commerce. • See: AJYB,
37:260.
Morgenstern, Elkan; b. ca 1869; d. Seattle,
Apr 1934.
Merchant, Seattle. • See: AJYB, 36:284.
Morgenstern, Morris; b. 1882; d. NYC,
June 51969.
Financier, philanthropist; a fdr Albert Einstein
Coll,ofMed, Bar-l1an; bdJewish Braille Inst;
est Morris Morgenstern Found; supported
447
Morris, Jack Sidney
education (US, Israel). • See: AJYB, 71 :607;
business exec, NYC. • See: NITimes, Jan 25
1938,21:5.
Morgenstern, Oskar; b. Goerlitz, Germany,
i902; d.July 1977.
To US 1938. • Economist, statistician; faculty
U Vienna, Princeton; consult League of
Nations, governments; author in field. • See:
EJ; NITimes:July 27 1977, II 2:1, correction,
July291977, II 1:6.
Morgenthau, Rita (Mrs Max Morgenthau
Jr); b. NYC, Mar 4 1881; d. NYC, Apr 8
1964.
Social worker, pioneer vocational counselor,
NYC; fdr, dir Neighborhood Playhouse
School; chr Henry St Vocational Guidance
Bureau; bd Womens City Club. • See:AJYB,
66:579; NITimes, Apr 9 1964; 31 :2.
Morgenstern, Soma; b. Budzanow, Galicia,
May 31890; d. NYC, Apr 171976.
To US 1941. • PhD U Vienna. • Noted
novelist of the Jewish experience, journalist;
columnist Frankfurter Zeitung; WWI Austrian
army service. • See: EJ:1973-1982;AJYB,
78:544; NITimes, Apr 19 1976, 30:4.
Morgenthau, Elinor Fatman (Mrs Henry
MorgenthauJr); b. NYC, Feb 191892; d.
NYC, Sep 211949.
Civic and communalldr, philanthropist; active
Democratic politics, wornens affairs. • See:
AJYB, 52:503.
Morgenthau, Hans Joachim; b. Coburg,
Germany, Feb 17 1904; d. NYC, July 19
1980.
To US 1937. • U Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich,
post-grad U Geneva; honorary degrees. •
Renowned lawyer, jurist, NYC; specialty:
internatllaw; faculty U Frankfurt, U Madrid,
U Chicago, CCNY, New School; consult State
Dept; authorinfield.· See: EJ;AJYB, 82:37071; WWWIA, 7; NITimes, July 21 1980.
Morgenthau, Henry; b. Mannheim,
Germany, Apr 26 1856; d. NYC, Nov 25
1946.
To US 1865/1866. • CCNY, LLB Columbia;
honorary degrees. • Lawyer, diplomat, public
official; ambassador to Turkey; presidential
investigator (Poland); chr Greek Refugee
Settlement Committee; supporter League of
Nations; fdr, pres Free Synagogue; fought
tenement "problem" and for factory safety;
anti-Zionist.· See: UJE; EJ;AJYB, 24:183,
49:615; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 2; NITimes, Nov 261946,18:3.
Morgenthau, HenryJr;b.NYC,May 11
1891; d. Poughkeepsie, Feb 61967.
Cornell; honorary degrees. • Secy of Treasury,
farmer, publisher, financier, public official;
WWI service.· See: UJE; AJYB, 69:610;
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 4; DAB, 8;
JTA-DNB, Feb 8 1967; NITimes, Feb 71967,
1:2.
Morgenthau, Robert Morris; b. NYC, July
311919.
Amherst. • Lawyer, US district atty, public
servant, political figure, NYC; active
Democratic Party; WWII military service. •
See: NITimes story, Dec 20 1967.
Morgulis, Sergius; b..Balta, Russia, Aug 6
1885; d. Dec 20 1971.
To US 1904. • U Odessa, MA Columbia, PhD
Harvard, post-grad Vienna, Berlin, Naples. •
Biochemist, Omaha; faculty OH State,
Harvard, Columbia, Creighton, U NE; author
in field.· See:AJYB, 24:183; WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 5,7.
Morini, Albert; see Moritz, Albert.
Morini, Erika; b. Vienna.
Violinist, NYC. • See:AJYB, 24:183.
Moritz (Morini), Albert; b. Cincinnati, June
81860/1861; d. Brooldyn,Jan 16 1941.
CCNY, US Naval Academy. • Naval engineer,
commander, consult engineer, NYC; active
civic affairs, Brooklyn; author in field. • See:
JE; UJE (sub Morini); A]YB, 6(19041905):157; 24:183; 43:362; WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ; NITimes, Jan 171941,17:4.
Moritz, Charles F; b. ca 1858; d.
Montgonery, AL,June 1933.
Communal & civic worker, Montgomery, AL;
mem Bd of Education. • See:AJYB, 35:127.
Mork, Harry Solomon; b. Boston, Apr 10
1878.
BS MIT. • Chemist, exec, consult, patent
holder, Boston; officer AssocdJewish
Philanthropies; author in field. • See: A]YB,
24:183; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Morningstar, Joseph; b. NYC, July 11 1890;
d.May 1975.
Wesleyan U; LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, NYC;
trustee Wesleyan; WWI army service. • See:
WWWIA, 8; NITimes, May 13 1975,38:4.
Morgenthau, Julius C; b. ca 1859; d. NYC,
May 221929.
Dealer in rare stamps, NYC; pres Assn of
Stamp Exhibitions; faculty CCNY. • See:
AJYB, 32:154.
Morogowski, Jacob Samuel (Zaydl Rovner);
b.Radomyshl, lJkraine, 1856;d. 1942.
To US 1914. • Cantor, composer, conductor,
Russia, London, US; composed numerous
Hassidic-like prayers. • See: EJ.
Morgenthau, Maximilian; b. ca 1847; d.
NYC, Dec 13 1936.
Lawyer, realtor, NYC.· See:A]YB, 39:595;
NITimes, Dec 141936,23:3.
Morris, Arthur J; b. Tarboro, NC, Aug 5
1880; d. North Tarrytown, NY, Nov
1973.
UVA, LLB UVA.· Financier, NYC; est
"Morris Plan" banks throughout US;
Presbyterian.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes,
Nov 20 1973,42:4.
Morgenthau, Maximilian Jr; b. NYC; d.
NYC,Jan 1938.
BS U Chicago. • Real estate & mortgage
Morris, Benjamin; b. Poland, Dec 17 1844.
Cantor, Long Branch, NJ"; earlier London.·
See:AJYB, 5(1903-1904):83.
Morris, Benjamin Israel; b. Cincinnati, Dec
11885.
LLB Kent ColI of Law. • Lawyer, communal
ldr, Chicago; asst atty IL Commerce Commn;
dir Cleveland Orphan Home, Jewish
Education Bd. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Morris, Charles Wendel(l); b. Glasgow,
KY, July 3 1892; d. Louisville, Dec 20
1961.
U Louisville, LLB Medallion U. • Lawyer,
communalldr, Louisville; natl officer Am
Jewish Com; active KY Democratic politics,
Legal Aid Assn, Urban League, Natl Conf
Christians and Jews, Anti-Defamation League.
• See:AJYB, 64:495; WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA,
4.
Morris, Clarence; b. Denver, Jan 81903.
LLB U CO, Harvard Law, LLM Columbia. •
Lawyer, Laramie; faculty U WY. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Morris, Constance Lily (Mrs Ira Nelson
Morris); b. NYC, Nov 1.1880; d. May
1954.
AB Wellesley.· Author, NYC; Marie Theresa
(1937);.Episcopalian. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, May 15 1954, 15:5.
Morris, Edward; b. Chicago, Oct 11866; d.
Nov 1913.
Businessman, banker, Chicago; assocd with
meat packing, canning. • See: WWWIA, 1;
NITimes, Nov 141913, 9:5.
Morris, Ernest; b. Thorn, Germany, May 6
1875; d. Jan 20 1937.
Cornell; PhD, LLB U CO.· Lawyer, civic ldr,
Denver; officer bar assn; dir Chamber of
Commerce, State Historical Soc. • See: AJYB,
24:183,39:596; WWIAJ, 1926,1928.
Morris, George Bertrand; b. Odessa, Aug
291892; d. Sep 1972.
To US 1905.· DDS NYU.• Dentist, NYC;
faculty NYU. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
NITimes, Sep 15 1972,40:3.
Morris, Harold; b. San Antonio, ca 1890; d.
May 1964.
Cotri.poser, NYC; faculty Juilliard, Columbia. •
See:AJYB, 24:183; NITimes, May 71964,
37:4.
Morris, Ira Nelson; b. Chicago, Mar 8
1875; d. Chicago, Jan 15 1942.
AB Yale. • Financier, diplomat, art patron,
author, Chicago; Minister to Sweden; fdr
Internatl Radio Forum. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:184,44:342; WWIA], 1926 (addenda),
1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 1; NITimes,
Jan 16 1942,21:1.
Morris, Jack Sidney; b. Chicago, May 26
1906; d. Apr 261974.
JD U Chicago; • Lawyer, Chicago; specialty:
real estate law; active bar assns. • See:
WWWIA,6.
Morris, Jacob
Morris, Jacob; b. Jitomir, Russia, Sep 14
1888.
To US 1904. • DDS U Denver; post-grad
Dewey School of Orthodontia. • Dentist,
communalldr, Denver; pres Centra1]ewish
Council; officer Nat! Home for Jewish
Children. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Morris, Julian Hyman; b. Macon, GA, Aug
71880.
MD UVA; post-grad NY Polyclinic, PhG
State Dental ColI (Dallas). • Physician, Civic &
communal worker, Dallas; faculty U VA,
Baylor, 'IX State Dental ColI; bd United
Benevolent Assn; dir synagog. • See: WWIA],
1926,1928,1938.
Morris, Louis; b.*; d. Ft Worth, Nov 22
1927.
Journalist, Ft Worth; fdr Jewish Monitor. • See:
A]YB, 30:80.
Morris, Max; b. Bielaya, Tserkov, Feb 1
1890.
To US 1909. • BS U Akron, MA Harvard,
PhD U Chicago. • Madlematician, Cleveland;
faculty Case School ofApplied Science; author
in field, textbooks. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Morris, Max; b. ca 1866; d. Denver,June 7
1909.
Legislator, Denver. • See:A]YB, 11(19091910):109.
Morris, Moses; b. Monticello, MO, July 30
1869.
U MO, Columbia ColI of Physicians and
Surgeons. • Clothing mfr, Baltimore; orgr,
officer Nat! Assn of Union Made Garment
Mfrs. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Morris, Nelson; b. Schwarzwald, Germany,
Jan 211839; d. Chicago, Aug 1907.
To US ca 1851.· Meat packer, Nelson Morris
& Co, Chicago. • See: UJE; A]YB, 6(19041905):157; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 28
1907, 7:6
Morris, Percy Strouse; b. Boulder, MT,
June 17 1887.
LLB U Denver. • Lawyer, Denver; officer
B'nai B'rith, synagog, bar assns. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Morris, Richard Brandon; b. NYC, July 24
1904.
AB CCNY, MA, PhD Columbia. • Noted
historian of US, NYC; faculty CCNY,
Columbia; officer Conf on Jewish Relations;
author/editor numerous books in field. • See:
E]; WWIA], 1938.
Morris, Samuel Edwin; b. Oil City, PA, Oct
28 1881; d. Beverly Hills, Aug 1954.
Motion picture exec, theatre owner, film
distributor, NYC; exec Warner Bros. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, August 241954,
21:3.
Morris, Sarah Vogel; b.*; d. Fontainebleau,
France, 1909.
Philanthropist, Chicago; benefactor Michael
Reese Hospital, Home for Aged Jews, Home
448
for Jewish Friendless and Working Girls. •
See: UJE (sub Morris, Nathan).
Morris, William; b. Schwarzenau,
Germany, May 11873; d. Nov 2 1932.
Theatrical mgr, civic & communalldr, NYC;
pres Jewish Theatre Guild; dir synagog, St
Marys Catholic Church, Methodist Episcopal
Church, Saranac Lake Day Nursery, United
Jewish Charities. • See:A]YB, 35:127;
WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Morris, William; b. Pnissian Poland, 1855;
d. Philadelphia, Oct 19 1924.
To NYC 1872.· Jewelry & shoe businessman,
banker, communal worker, Philadelphia;
officer synagog. • See: PA]HS, 31 :283-84.
Morrison, Hyman; b. VJlna, Oct 11881.
To Boston 1893. • AB, MD Harvard.·
Physician, Boston; faculty Tufts; pres regional
Zionist Org of Am; trustee Heb Tchrs ColI,
Boston Med Library. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Morrison, Isidore Dundwick; b. Lomza,
May 241871; d. Oct 2 1938.
To US 1886.· LLB NYU.• Lawyer, realtor,
nat! communal & Zionist ldr, philanthropist,
NYC; orgr Keren Hayesod, Am Jewish Com;
active Education Alliance, Americanization of
immigrants, Fedn ofAm Zionists. • See: A]YB,
41:428; WWIA], 1926,1928, 1938;NYTimes,
Oct31938,15:1.
Morrison, Joseph Lederman; b. NYC, May
281918; d. Nov 111970.
AB U NC, MA Columbia, PhD Duke. •
Journalist, author, violinist, Chapel Hill;
faculty U NC; author in field; WWII service. •
See: WWWIA, 5.
Morrison, Lewis; b.Jamaica, BWI, 1845; d.
Long Island, Aug 18 1906.
Actor, theatrical producer, NYC; Union Civil
War service. • See: ]E; A]YB, 9(19071908):504; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 20
1906,6:6.
Morrison, Morris; b. ca 1857; d. Brooklyn,
Aug281917.
Yiddish actor, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
20(1918-1919):230; NYTimes, Aug 311917,
7:4.
Morrison, Morris L; b. Poland, Mar 14
1873.
Exec, communal worker, Boston; officer
Benoth Israel Sheltering Home, Zionist Org of
Am, Boy Scouts. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Morros, Boris M; b. St Petersburg, Jan 1
1895; d.Jan 1963.
To US 1922. • U St Petersburg, Imperial
Conservatory. • Motion picture producer,
music dir, composer, symphony & opera
conductor, Russia, US; composer "Parade of
the Wooden Soldiers"; adviserJuilliard; FBI
counterspy. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Jan 10 1963, 15:6.
Morse, Arthur David; b. Brooklyn, Dec 27
1920/1921; d. Belgrade, June 11971.
BA UVA.· Author, journalist, TV
documentary producer; exec dir Internat!
Broadcast Inst; While Six Million Died; WWII
service.· See:A]YB, 73:634; WWWIA, 5;
Morse, David Abner; b. NYC, 1907.
Labor exec, lawyer, public official; with Dept
of Labor; general counsel Nat! Labor Relations
Bd (NY); dir general ILO (Geneva); WWII
service. • See: E].
Morse, Godfrey; b. Wachenheim, Bavaria,
May 191846; d. Dresden, June 20 191t.
To US 1854. • AB, LLB Harvard; honorary
degree. • Public servant, lawyer, Boston;
represented US in Alabama Claims; pres
Common Council, School Com; officer Assocd
Jewish Philanthropies, Leopold Morse Home.
• See: ]E; UJE (sub Morse, Leopold); A]YB
6(1904-1905):157-58, 13(1911-1912):138;
PA]HS, 22:228-30; WWWIA, 1.
Morse, Jacob R; b. ca 1866; d. Boston, Oct
81921.
Merchant, civic worker, Boston. • See: A]YB,
24:102.
Morse, Josiah; b. Richmond, Feb 171879;
d. Mar 22 1946.
AB Richmond ColI, MA, PhD Clark. •
Psychologist, civic & communalldr, author;
faculty Clark, U'IX, Peabody; officer Joint
Distribution Com; WWI with Red Cross. •
See: WWIA], 1926,1929,1938; WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, Mar 23 1946, 13:4.
Morse, Leopold; b. Wachenheim, Bavaria,
Aug 15 1831; d. Boston, Dec 15 1892.
To US 1849. • Congressman, merchant,
communalldr, Boston; fdr Home for Infirm
Hebrews (Leopold Morse Home); active
Democratic politics. • See: ]Ei UJEi E]i A]YB,
2(1900-1901):251.
Morse, Lester Samuel; b. Sommerville,
MA, Jan 10 1897; d. Palm Beach, FL, Feb
41970.
Dartmouth, Boston U. • Business exec,
philanthropist, Canton, MA, Boston;
benefactor Brandeis, Albert Einstein ColI of
Med, Beth Israel Hospital; officer Assocd
Jewish Philanthropies. • See:A]YB, 72:543;
WWWIA, 5;NYTimes, Feb 61970,37:4.
Morse, Morris; b. ca 1870; d. May 13 1940.
Communal worker, Brookline, MA. • See:
A]YB, 42:482.
Mortimer, Lee; b. Chicago; d. Mar 11963.
Northwestern, NYU.• Newspaper columnist,
NYC; with Confidential, Daily Mirror. • See:
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Mar 2 1963, 7:5.
Morton, Jack A; b. St Louis, Sep 4 1913; d.
Dec 111971.
BSc Wayne, MSc U MI, post-grad Columbia;
honorary degrees. • Engineer; with Bell
Telephone Labs; mem planning bd,
Hillsborough, NJ.· See: WWWIA, 5.
Morton, Louis; b. NYC, Dec 301913; d.
Feb 121976.
NYU, PhD Duke; honorary degree. •
Historian; faculty Dartmouth; specialty:
449
military history; mem Pulitzer Prize jury;
wwn service. • See: WWWIA, 6; NITimes,
Feb 141976,28:4.
Morton, Martha (Conheim); b. NYC, Oct
10 1865; d. NYC, Feb 18 1925.
Normal ColI. • Popular playwright, NYC;
"The Refugees Daughter." • See: UJE; A]YB,
24:184,27:151; NITimes, Feb 20 1925, 17:4.
Morton, Michael, b.*
Playwright, NYc.. See:A]YB, 24:184.
Morvay, Leonard Samuel; b. NYC, Apr 1
1895.
.
NYU ColI Dentistry, DDS Jersey City Dental
ColI. • Dentist, Newark; nat! officer Veterans
of Foreign Wars; consult NJ Dept of Labor;
officer professional socs; active synagog; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Morwitz, Edward; b. Danzig, June 11 1815;
d. Philadelphia, Dec 13 1893.
To US after 1848. • U Halle, MD U Berlin. •
Physician, historian of med, political activist,
Philadelphia; owner Philadelphia Demokrat
(German); publisher Jewish Record; orgr
Newspaper Union; opened dispensary for
poor.· See:]E; DAB.
Morwitz, Samuel Mordecai; b. Russia,
1886; d. Feb 22 1972.
MD Rush Med ColI, post-grad U Vienna. •
Otolaryngologist, Chicago; faculty U IL. • See:
WWWIA,6.
Mosbacher, Emil; b. NYC, Dec 30 1896.
Broker, NYc. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Mosbacher, George; b. Miltenberg-onMain, Bavaria, Nov 30 1852; d. Los
Angeles, June 27 1944.
To US 1866. • Clothier, philanthropic worker,
Oakland, CA, Los Angeles; orgr employee
profit-sharing program; pres Fedn ofJewish
Welfare Orgs; dir Jewish Orphans Home of
Southern CA. • See: A]YB, 46:343; WWlA],
1928,1938.
Moschcowitz, Alexis Victor; b. Giralt,
Hungary, Apr 25 1865; d. NYC, Dec 21
1933.
To US 1880. • PhG, MD Columbia. •
Surgeon, NYC; faculty Columbia; author in
field; WWI service. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:184,
36:284; WWIA], 1926, 1928; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 1.
Moschcowitz, Eli; b. Giralt, Hungary, Aug
2 1881; d. NYC, Feb 23 1964.
To US 1882. • CCNY, MD Columbia. •
Physician, researcher, NYC; specialty:
psychosomatic illness; med dir Mt Sinai;
faculty Columbia; author in field. • See: A]YB,
66:579; NITimes, Feb 241964,25:1.
Moschcowitz, Paul; b. Giralt, Hungary,
Mar 4 1873/1875/1876; d. NYC, Jan 4
1942.
To US 1881. • Art Students League, Julien
Academie. • Artist, portraitist & muralist, NYC;
faculty Art Students League, Pratt. • See:A]YB,
6(1904-1905):158,24:184,44:342; WWIA],
1926,1928, 1938;BEOA]; WWWIA,2.
Moses, Felix
Mosche, Solomon; b. ca 1836; d. Brooklyn,
Nov31911.
Rabbi, Brooklyn.· See:A]YB, 14(19121913):125.
Moscovich, Maurice; b. ca 1872; d. June 18
1940~
Actor, Hollywood, CA. • See: A]YB, 42:482;
NITimes, Jqne 191940,23:3.
Moscovitz, David Abner; b. NYC, May 31
1907.
AB Rutgers, LLB Harvard. • Government
lawyer, NYC; with Dept of Interior; special
asst US Atty General (Washington, DC);
counsel Nat! Labor Relations Bd. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Moscovitz, Harry Sholom; b. Philadelphia,
1894.
Painter, etcher, portraitist; WWI military
service. • See: UJE.
Moscovitz, Maurice; b. Odessa, Nov 23
1871; d. Hollywood, CA, 1940.
To NY 1890. • Actor, US and abroad; played
parts in four languages. • See: UJE; WWlA],
1938; BEOAJ.
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):91, 8(1906-1907):224;
PA]HS, 11:200-03.
Moses, Adolph S; b. Kletchevo, Poland,
1840; d. Louisville, Jan 7 1902.
To US 1870.· UBreslau, UVienna.· Rabbi,
Reform ldr, Mobile, Louisville; fought under
Garibaldi & in Polish insurrection; co-editor
German weekly. • See: ]E; UJE; A]YB,
4(1902-1903):196; PA]HS, 11:201-03.
Moses, Albert Luria; b. Geneva, Aug 2
1866.
To US as child. • Lawyer, deputy county clerk,
county atty, district judge, NV, CO; pres bar
assn; chr WWI fundraising campaigns, United
War Work, Jewish Relief. • See: WWIA],
1928, 1938.
Moses, Alfred Geiger; b. Livingstone, AL,
Sep 23 1878; d. 1956.
AB U Cincinnati, ordained, BHL Heb Union
ColI; honorary degrees. • Rabbi, author,
communal & civic worker, Mobile; mem Dept
of Public Welfare; field rep Jewish Welfare Bd.
• See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):83,24:184;
WWlA], 1926,1928,1938; WWWIA, 6;
CCARYB.
Mo~cowitz,
David; b. ca 1886; d. Los
Angeles, June 5 1946.
Rabbi, talmudic scholar, NYc. • See: A]YB,
49:615.
Moses, Altamont; b. ca 1846; d. Sumter,
SC, Dec 81905.
Legislator, sc. • See: A]YB, 8(19061907):224.
Moscowitz, Grover M; b. Hot Springs, AR,
Aug 311886; d. Brooklyn, Mar 311947.
LLB NYU. • US district court judge,
communalldr, Brooklyn; nat! pres Zeta Beta
Tau; exec bd Natl Fedn of Temple
Brotherhoods; dir Fedn ofJewish Charities,
YMHA. • See: UJE; A]YB, 49:615; WWlA],
1926, 1928, 1938; WWWL4, 2; NITimes, Apr 1
1947,27:1.
Moses, Belle; b. Savannah.
Writer, NYC.· See:A]YB, 24:184.
Moscowitz, Jennie; b. Jassy, 1868?; d. NYC,
July 261953.
To US 1888. • Yiddish & English actress,
debut with Sarah Bernhardt. • See: A]YB,
56:571; NITimes, July 27 1953, 19:5.
Moser, Henry Seymour; b. Chicago, Oct 27
1898/1900; d. Mar 111971.
BS Crane, LLBJohnMarshall.· Lawyer,
Chicago; pres Young Mens Jewish Charities;
general counsel Allstate Insurance Co; trustee
John Marshall Law School. • See: WWIA],
1938; WWWIA, 5.
Moser, Herman Meyerstein; b. Baltimore,
Feb 22 1900.
LLB U MD.· Lawyer, Baltimore; lecturer U
Baltimore~ • See: WWIA], 1938.
Moses, Addie; b.*; d. Mobile, Nov 1916.
Pioneerlibrarian in AL. • See: A]YB, 19(19171918):266.
Moses, Adolph; b. Speyer, Germany, Feb
27 1837; d. Asheville, NC, Nov 6 1905.
To New Orleans 1852. • LLB U LA. •
Lawyer, civic ldr, Chicago; officer B'nai B'rith;
dir Public Library; active local, state bar assns,
Democratic politics; author in field;
Confederate Civil War service. • See: UJE;
Moses, Bernard; b. Burlington, vr, Aug 27
1846; d. Mar 4 1930.
BA U MI, PhD U Heidelberg. • Political
scientist, historian, Berkeley; specialty:
Hispanic-American history; faculty U CA;
mem US Philippine Commn. • See: DAB.
Moses, Bessie Louise; b. Baltimore, Dec 21
1893.
AB Goucher, MD Johns Hopkins. •
Obstetrician, gynecologist, Baltimore; med dir
Birth Control Clinic; head Johns Hopkins
Maternal Health Clinic. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Moses, David; b. ca 1860; d. Philadelphia,
Dec 301932.
Rabbi, Philadelphia. • See:A]YB, 35:127.
Moses, Elsa R (Mrs Harry Moses); b.
Cincinnati; d. Stamford, CT, May 1956.
U Cincinnati. • Social worker, experimental
theatre dir; "discovered Katherine Hepburn";
with settlement houses, Michael Reese
Hospital, Deborah Boys Club; a fdr
Correspondence School for Blind (Chicago). •
See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes, May 23 1956,
31:5.
Moses, Emile Phillips; b. Sumter, SC, May
1880.
LLB USC, GA Tech, Army War ColI, Naval
War ColI. • Marine corps officer, major
general, Parris Island; developer amphibious
tractor.· See: WWWIA, 6.
Moses, Felix; b. 1827; d. near Ghent, KY,
1886.
Moses, Franklin J
Colorful KY character, peddler; mem Morgans
Raiders; received public funeral in Cincinnati;
character in novel byJ 000 U rin Lloyd,
Stringtown-on-the-Pike; Confederate Civil War
service. • See: UJE.
Moses, Franklin]; b. Charleston, SC, 1804;
d. Columbia, SC, 1877.
Chief justice state supreme court, legislator,
earlyJewish settler, Sumter, SC; faculty,
trustee SC ColI. • See: UJE.
Moses, Franklin] ]r; b. Sumter, SC, 1838;
d. Wmthrop, MA, Dec 11 1906.
SC ColI. • Governor, SC; editor Sumter News;
raised Confederate flag'at Fort Sumter;
controversial use of official powers, criminal
career; Episcopalian. • See: UJE; DAB;
Moses, Gustave; b. ca 1836; d. New
Orleans, Oct 23 1915.
Photographer, Civil War veteran, New
Orleans.· See:A]YB, 18(1916-1917):109.
Moses, Henry Leo; b. Scranton, May 11
1879; d. NYC, Feb 18 1961.
AB Yale, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer,
philanthropist, NYC; officer Greater NY
Fund, Montefiore Hospital, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, Girls Home Club. • See:
A]YB, 63:561; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 4.
Moses, Isaac; b. 1742; d. NYC, Apr 16
1818.
Prominent colonial merchant, Revolutionary
patriot, Boston, NYC; pres Shearith Israel;
went into exile during British occupation of
NY; orgr, first pres Mikveh Israel
(Philadelphia); a fdr Bank of NY. • See: UJE;
BDEA].
Moses, Isaac; b. ca 1875; d. JUly 211938.
Mfr, banker, communalldr, Gloversville, NY.
• See:A]YB, 41:428.
Moses, Isaac S; b. Santomichel, Posen, Dec
8 1847; d. NYC, Dec 2 1926.
Rabbi, influential radical Reform figure,
author, NYC; co-editor Der Zeitgeist; charter
mem Central Conf of Am Rabbis; helped write
Union Prayer Book. • See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB,
5(1903-1904):83,29:117; NfTimes, Dec 4
1926, 17:4.
Moses, Israel; b. NYC; d. 1870.
Surgeon, soldier; during Civil War in charge of
camp hospitals for Army of the Potomac. •
See: UJE.
Moses, Israel Newton; b. ca 1859; d.
Natchez, Nov 23 1910.
Legislator, Natchez.· See:A]YB, 13(19111912):136.
Moses, Jacob; b.*; d. New Orleans, July 4
1912.
Confederate veteran, Greenville, MS. • See:
A]YB, 15(1913-1914):272.
Moses, Jacob M; b. Baltimore, Feb 17 1873.
ABJohns Hopkins, LLB U MD.· Lawyer,
legislator, juvenile court judge, Baltimore;
supporter suffrage, equal rights, trade union
450
movement; nat! exec com Am Jewish Cong; bd
Zionist Org of Am. • See: A]YB, 6(19041905):158; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
Moses, Joseph W; b. ca 1869; d. Atlantic
City, Dec 311918.
Lawyer, Chicago; pres bar assn. • See:A]YB,
21:206.
Moses, Julius A; b. Chicago, Apr 91872; d.
May 1938.
,U MI, Kent ColI of Law. • Lawyer, Chicago;
faculty Kent ColI of Law. • See: WWIA],
1928; NITimes, May 18 1938,21:3.
Moses, Lionel; b. NYC, Apr 16 1870; d.
Feb 19 1931.
Brooklyn Polytech, Am Academy (Rome),
Paris. • Architect, NYC; WWI asst general
mgr US Housing Corp. • See:A]YB, 33:127;
WWIA], 1928.
Moses, Max; b. ca 1831; d. New Orleans,
Feb 9 1912.
Rabbi, New Orleans. • See: A]YB, 15(19131914):272.
Moses, Max Abraham; b. Russia, Nov 21
1886.
To US 1896. • Business exec, Pittsburgh;
officer Jewish Home for the Aged, synagogs,
YMHA. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Moses, M H (Mrs); b.*; d. NYC, Feb 17
1920.
22:167.
Moses, Montrose Jonas; b. NYC, Sep 2
1878; d. Mar 291934.
BS CCNY. • Writer, drama critic, litterateur,
editor, anthologist, NYC; Episcopalian. • See:
A]YB, 24: 184; WWWIA., 1; DAB, 1; NITimes,
Mar 301934,21:3.
Moses, Moses H; b. ca 1840; d. NYC, Oct
1919.
Communal worker, NYc. • See: A]YB,
22:167;NITimes, Oct 151919,17:3.
Moses, Myer; b. Charleston, SC, Feb 12
1779; d. NYC, Mar 201833.
To NYC 1825. • Soldier, legislator, merchant,
communal & civic ldr, author, Commr of Free
Schools, Charleston, SC; War of 18i2 service.
• See: UJE; E]; BDEA].
Moses, Myer (Meyer); b. England, 1735; d.
Charleston,SC, Feb 15 1787.
Jewish pioneer, merchant, Charlestown, SC;
Revolutionary War patriot. • See: UJE;
BDEA].
Moses, Nathan; b. ca 1827; d. Cincinnati,
Jan 201912.
Communal worker, Cincinnati.· See:A]YB,
14(1912-1913):125.
Moses, Otto A; b. Charleston, SC, 1846; d.
NYC, Jan 3 1906.
U Leipzig. • Scientist, electrical engineer,
communal philanthropist, NYC; introduced
many of EdisoiJ.s inventions to Europe; fdr Heb
Technical Inst. • See: UJE; A]YB 8(19061907):225; NITimes, Jan 6 1906,9:4.
Moses, Raphael J (Major); b. Charleston,
SC, 1812; d. Brussels, 1893.
Lawyer, legislator, the "honest commissary,"
well-known statesman & orator, GA; known
for "An Open Letter to the Honorary W. O.
Tuggle" defending his JewisOOess; Confederate
Civil War service. • See: UJE; E].
Moses, Robert; b. New Haven, Dec 18
1888; d.July 291981.
AB Yale, MA Oxford, PhD Columbia;
honorary degrees. • Public official,
controversial public works developer,political
figure, NY; mem Ethical Culture Soc. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 7.
Moses, Rosalie; b.*; d. NYC, Mar 91912.
Educator, NYC. • See: A]YB, 15(19131914):272.
Moses, Sol; b. ca 1855; d. Cleveland, Feb 22
1936.
Mfr, communal worker, Cleveland. • See:
A]YB,38:432.
Moses,SoloOlon;b. 1774;d. 1857.
Prominent merchant, NYC. • See: UJE (sub
Moses, Isaac).
Moses, Stanford Elwood; b. Washington
County?, 1872.
Captain US Navy, Berkeley, CA. • See: A]YB,
24:184.
Moses, Walter B; b. New Orleans, Dec 6
1892.
BE, ME Tulane. • Engineer, New Orleans;
officer professional soc. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Moses, Will H; b. ca 1871; d. New Orleans,
Sep 241923.
Artist, NewOrleans. • See:A]YB, 26:156.
Mosesco, Filippus; b. Dorohoi, RUOlania,
1895.
To US as child. • Editor, author, NYC; coeditor The Conscientious Objector; WWI military
service. • See: UJE(sub Mosesco, Lillian
Doris).
Mosesco, Lillian Doris (Mrs Filippus
Mosesco); b. NYC, 1899; d. Mar 1966.
Editor, Prentice-Hall, NYC; author. • See:
UJE; NITimes, Mar 17 1966, 43:7.
Moseson, SoloOlon Isiah; b. NYC, Mar 31
1912; d. Pittsburgh, Apr 1962.
BS CCNY, ordained Yeshiva ColI. ., Rabbi,
Coney Island; dir Young Israel, Yeshiva of
Brighton Beach. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NITimes, Apr 23 1962,29:3.
Mosessohl1, David Nehemiah; b.
Ekaterinoslav, Jan 1 1883; d. NYC, Dec
161930.
To US 1887.· LLB U OR.· Lawyer,
publisher, labor arbitrator, NYC; co-publisher
Jewish Tribune; chr Assocd Dress Industries of
Ani;' fdr Jewish Education Assn, Zionist
Avukah; active civic, communal & professional
451
orgs. See: UJE;A]YB, 24:184, 33:127;
WWlA], 1926, 1928; WWWIA, 1; DAB.
Mosessohn, Moses Dayyan; b. Odessa!
Portland, OR, Aug 17 1884; d. NYC, Aug
11940.
To US ca 1887.· LLB U OR. • Lawyer,
publisher, trade union orgr, Americanization
tchr, author, Portland, OR, NYC; co-publisher
Jewish Tribune; orgr, general counsel, exec dir
United Womens Wear League; active AntiDefamation League. • See: UJE; A]YB,
43:362; WWlA], 1926,1928, 1938;BEOA];
WWWlA, 1; NYTimes, Aug 3·1940, 15:3.
Mosessohn, Nehemiah; b. Crimea, Apr 15
1853; d. NYC, Dec 10 1926.
To US 1887.· LLD U Odessa, Dr Semitic
Languages, St Petersburg, LLB U OR. •
Orthodox rabbi, theologian, lawyer; editor
Jewish Tribune, Portland, OR, NYC; assoc
editor Heb Encyclopedia; fought apostates,
missionaries & all maligners ofJews. • See:
UJE; A]YB, 24:184; 29:117; WWlA], 1926;
WWWlA, I; NYTimes, Dec 11 1926, 17:4.
Mosesson, David Stephen; b. Tolotchin,
Russia, Aug 241887; d.Jan 1947.
To US 1893. • BS CCNY; post-grad Brooklyn
Polytech, Columbia. • Advertising consult,
civil engineer, city surveyor, NYC; faculty
Hunter, CCNY; editor Monthly Bulktin, assoc
editor Bronx]ewish Chronick. • See: WWlA],
1938; NYTimes,Jan241947, 21:3.
Mosesson, Maurice S; b. Tolotchin, Russia,
Feb 271892; d. Apr 1969.
To US 1893.· CCNY.· Leather goods mfr,
NYC; exec secy Assocd Leather Goods Mfrs. •
See: WWlA], 1938;NYTimes,Apr 151969,
47:2.
Mosewitzky, Max; b. Nieswizh, Russia, July
15 1891.
To US 1907. • Columbia,JTS.· Communal
educator, author, Brooklyn; orgr first Am Heb
kindergarten, Jewish N atl Workers Alliance,
Heb Tchrs Union, Jewish Legion for Palestine.
• See: WWlA], 1938.
Moshele, Chaim (Cremenetzer Rebbe); b.
ca 1876; d. Adantic City, NJ, Aug 18
1932.
Rabbi, Philadelphia. • See:A]YB, 35:127.
Mosinter, EM; b. Russia, 1865.
Rabbi, Springfield, OH; earlier in Pocahantas,
VA, Marietta, OH. • See: A]YB, 5(19031904):84.
Moskin, Charles H; b.ca 1870; d.
Brooklyn, Feb 1940.
Religious & civic ldr, Englewood, NJ,
Brooklyn. • See: NYTimes, Feb 9 1940, 19: 1.
Moskovics, Frederick E; b. Budapest, ca
1880; d. Old Greenwich, CT, Feb 1967.
Automobile & aircraft pioneer, racing car
driver; pres Stutz Car Co; advisor US Air
Force. • See: NYTimes, Feb 19 1967,88:8.
Moskovitz, David; b. Ungvar, Hungary, Apr
11903.
To US 1906. • BS, MS Carnegie Inst
Moss, Joseph
Technology, PhD Brown. • Mathematician,
Pittsburgh; faculty Carnegie Tech; author in
field. • See: WWlA], 1938.
Moskovitz, Harry Sholom; b. Philadelphia,
Feb 51894.
Graphic Sketch Club, Industrial Art School
(Philadelphia), abroad. • Portrait etcher,
painter, commercial artist; portrait of Franklin
Delano Roosevelt; WWI military service. •
See: WWlA], 1938.
Moskowitz, Belle Lindner Israels; b. NYC,
Oct 51877; d.Jan 21933.
Columbia Tchrs ColI. • Political advisor,
social service exec, public relations counsel,
NYC; aide to Al Smith, campaign worker; an
orgr NY Travelers Aid Soc; active Educational
Alliance, investigating East Side dance halls;
specialist on factory legislation. • See: UJE; E]
(sub Moskowitz, Henry);A]YB, 24:184,
35:127; WWlA], J926, 1928; WWWIA, 1;
NAW;DAB, 1; NYTimes, Jan 3 1933,1:4.
Moskowitz, David H; b. ca 1893; d. LI, Jan
1962.
BA, MA Columbia; honorary degree. • Public
school educator, mathematics tchr, supt, NYC.
• See:NYTimes,Jan211962, 88:7.
Moskowitz,Henry;b.Husse,Rumania,Sep
271879; d. NYC, Dec 17 1936.
AB CCNY, post-grad Columbia, U Berlin,
PhD U Erlangen. • Settlement house ldr,
industrial consult, labor arbitrator, .NYC; orgr
Madison House Settlement; aided passage of
Tenement House Law; active Progressive
Party; ldr Ethical Culture Society. • See: UJE;
E];A]YB, 7(1905-1906):92, 24:184, 39:596;
WWlA], 1926, 1928; BEOA].
Moskowitz, Julius; b. NYC, ca 1905; d.
Jerusalem, Oct 10 1971.
CCNY, LLB Brooklyn. • Lawyer, Democratic
politician; mem Boro Park-Coney Island City
Council; sponsor methadone for heroin users,
Truth in Lending legislation. • See: NYTimes,
Oct 28 1971,44:1.
Moskowitz, Meyer; b. NYC, July 20 1894.
Chern E Columbia, post-grad Brooklyn
Polytech. • Research chemist, plastic
developer, Edgewater, NJ; WWI government
service. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Moskowitz, Morris; b. Botez, Rumania,
May 30 1883.
To US 1889. • AB CCNY, MA NYU, LLB
NYU. • Educator, lawyer, NYC; principal,
tchr public evening schools; delegate Am
Jewish Cong;.active Democratic politics. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Moskowitz, Samuel; b. NYC, Aug 26 1905.
BS, MS, PhD NYU. • Chemist, NYC; with
NY State Dept of Labor; faculty NYU, LI CoIl
Hospital. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Moskowitz, Samuel David; b. Kovno, Aug
15 1897.
To US 1906. • AB NYU, MA Columbia. •
Public school educator, principal; history tchr,
textbook author, NYC; active Am Jewish
Congo • See: WWIA], 1938.
Mosler, Gustave Henry; b. Munich (Am
parents), June 6 1875; d. Margaretville,
NY, Aug 171906.
Beaux Arts (Paris). • Artist, animal painter,
NYC. • See: UJE (sub Mosler, Henry); A]YB,
6(1904-1905):158,9(1907-1908):473,504.
Mosler, Henry;b. NYC/Silesia, June 6
.
1841; d. NYC, Apr 211920.
Artist, Civil War art correspondent, NYC;
"The Lost Cause," reproduced in numerous
museums. • See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB, 6(19041905):158,22:167; WWWIA, I; NYTimes, Apr
22 1920,11:4.
Mosler, Max; b. ca 1843; d. Cincinnati, Mar
27 1914.
Civil War Colonel, Cincinnati. • See: A]YB,
16(1914-1915):164.
Mosler, Rosa (Mrs William Mosler); b.
Neuheinigen, Germany, Jan 211862.
CoIl ofMusic (Cincinnati?). • Social welfare
worker, Cincinnati; officer Red Cross, Am
Com for Devastated France; trustee Jewish
Infants Home ofOH.· See: WWIA], 1928.
Moss, Anton (Clarke, Edward); b. aboard
ship, ca 1885; d. White Plains, Aug 1960.
Vaudeville player, NYC; juggler, clown, "rude
waiter." • See: NYTimes, Aug 9 1960,27:2.
Moss, B S; b.*; d. NYC,Dec 1951.
Theatre owner, NYC; early movie exhibitor;
officer professional socs. • See:A]YB, 24:184;
NYTimes, Dec 13 1951,33:2.
Moss, Benjamin; b. Hungary, ca 1881;d.
Astoria, NY,Jan 1940.
To US as child. • Businessman, LI City; pres
Astoria Bd of Trade, synagog, business assn. •
See: NYTimes, Jan 111940,23:4.
Moss, Harry Joseph; b. Russia, June 13
1884.
To US 1894.· MDJeffersonMed ColI.·
Physician, hospital admr, NYC, Chicago; orgr
Hospital Assn; officer B'nai B'rith; author/
editor in field. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Moss, Hartwig; b. ca 1851; d. New Orleans,
Sep 261912.
Communal worker, New Orleans. • See:
A]YB, 15(1913-1914):273.
Moss, Herman; b. Cleveland, Aug 5 1874.
Western Reserve. • Insurance agent,
Cleveland; originator life insurance course
Western Reserve; active civic & business
affairs, synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Moss, John; b. London, ca 1771; d.
Philadelphia, 1847.
To US as child. • Merchant, civic &
communal worker, Philadelphia; mem
Common Council; pioneer in use of coal as
fuel in inland navigation; presided at Damascus
protest meeting 1840; steward St George Soc;
active Mason, synagog. • See: UJE; E];
BDEA]; PA]HS, 2:171-74.
Moss, Joseph; b. Poniviez, Lithuania, Feb
191881.
To US 1899. • Exec, insurance & business
Moss, Joseph
mgr, Bloomsburg & Harrisburg, PA; orgr
synagog, Talmud Torah, Berwick, PA. • See:
WfiVIA.J, 1938.
Moss, Joseph; b.*; d. NYC, Mar 301913.
Merchant,NYC.· See:AJYB, 15(19131914):273.
Moss, Louis John; b. Ungvar, Hungary, Feb
121884; d. Brooklyn, Mar 181948.
AB CCNY, LLB St Lawrence. • Lawyer,
commuilalldr, Brooklyn; pres United
Synagogue ofAm; officer United Palestine
Appeal, Zionist Org ofAm, Am Jewish Com;
exec bd N atl Conf of Christians and Jews. •
See:AJYB, 50:520; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, Mar 191948,24:2.
Moss, Lucien; b. Philadelphia, May 25
1831; d. Philadelphia, Apr 191895.
Philanthropist, metal business owner,
Philadelphia; built sugar mills in Puerto Rico;
helped Russian Jewish refugees; endowed
Lucien Moss Home for Incurables ofJewish
Faith. • See: JE; UJE (sub Moss, John);
PAJHS, 5:205-07.
Moss, Mary; b. Philadelphia, Sep 24 1864;
d. Taonnina, 1914.
Author of essays, criticism, fiction,
Philadelphia; contributor Atlantic Monthly. •
See:JE; UJE;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):158-59.
Moss, Maximilian; b. Brooklyn, Dec 14
1896; d. Brooklyn, Apr 191964.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, state supreme court
judge, NYC, Brooklyn; pres Bd of Education;
officer Jewish Com Council, Jewish Hospital,
Inst ofArts & Sciences, Academy ofMusic,
Natl Conf of Christians andJews. • See:AJYB,
66:579; WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Apr 20 1964,
29:1.
452
Moss, Wtlliam; b. Philadelphia, 1833.
U PA, MC, MD Jefferson Med School. •
Physician, Philadelphia; Civil War service. •
See:AJYB,6(1904-1905):159.
Mosse, Erich (pseud=Peter Flamm); b.
Berlin, Jan 251891; d. NYC,June 1963.
To France 1933, to US 1934.· UFreiburg,
Konigsberg, Berne, Munich, MD U Berlin. •
Writer, physician, psychologist, psychiatrist,
NYC; articles, dramas, novel under
pseudonym. • See: UJE (sub Mosse); WWIAJ,
1938; NITimes, June 20 1963,33:4.
Mosse, George L; b. Berlin, 1918.
Historian, Madison; faculty U WI; specialty:
German & Jewish history. • See: EJ.
MossIer, Solomon; b.*; d. Chicago, Feb 13
1911.
Philanthropist, Chicago. • See: AJYB,
13(1911-1912):137.
Mostel, Zero (born SamuelJoel Mostel); b.
Brooklyn, Feb 28 1915; d. Philadelphia,
Sep 81977.
State & screen actor, painter; best known for
Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof; sponsor Natl
Negro Cong, Spanish Refugee Appeal of the
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Com; WWII
military service. • See: EJ; AJYB, 79:371;
WWWIA, 7; NITimes, Sep 9 1977, 1:2.
Motchan, Louis A; b. Cairo, IL, 1908; d.
Feb 241973.
MD Washington U (St Louis). • Physician, St
Louis, Los Angeles; WWII service. • See:
WWWIA,6.
Moss, Michael L; b. ca 1859; d. Mar 15
1931.
Dentist, NYC; faculty NYU. • See: AJYB,
33:127.
Motta, Emanuel De La; b. Santa Croix,
West Indies, Jan 5INov 2 1760/1761; d.
Charleston, May 15 1821.
Pioneer civic & communalldr, Charleston, SCi
prominent Freemason, merchant; helped
reorganize Jewish community, synagog,
Savannah; Revolutionary & War of 1812
service. • See: UJE; EJ; BDEAJ.
Moss, Paul; b. Austria, Apr 11881; d. NYC,
Feb 251950.
Pioneer motion picture theatre mgr, theatre
reformer, NYC; cancelled licenses for
burlesque theatres; bd Theatre Guild. • See:
AJYB, 52:503; WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes,.Feb
26 1950, 76:1.
Motta, Jacob De La; b. Savannah, Feb 24
1789; d. Charleston, SC, Feb 13 1845.
Noted physician, surgeon, communalldr &
occasional religious functionary, Charleston,
SC, Savannah; eulogized Gershom Seixas; secy
CharlestonMed Soc; War of 1812 service.·
See:JE; UJE;BDEAJ;AJHQ, 52:200-19.
Moss, (Randolph) Marshall; b. Woodbine,
NJ,June 23 1908.
Peabody Conservatory, Juilliard. • Concert
violinist, NYC; tchr NY ColI ofMusic, Henry
St Settlement Music School. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Motzkin, Theodore Samuel; b. Berlin,
1908; d. Dec 15 1970.
To US 1948. • U Berlin, U Gottingen, U
Paris, PhD U Basel. • Mathematician; faculty
Heb U, Harvard, UCLA; author in field. • See:
EJ (sub Motzkin, Leo); WWWIA, 5.
Moss, Solomon C; b. ca 1877; d. NYC, Feb
23 1934.
Prominent textile merchant, communal
worker, NYC. • See: AJYB, 36:284.
Mount, Louis Burgh;b. Troy, Sep 28 1880.
AB, MD Cornell. • Dermatologist, Troy,
Albany & Glens Falls, NY; WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Moss, Washington Irving; b. Waterproof,
LA, Jan 271888.
Insurance agency exec, businessman, New
Orleans. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA,8.
Mowshowitz, Israel; b. Olinka, Poland,
1914.
Rabbi, psychologist, Durham, NE, Omaha,
Queens; officer NY Bd of Rabbis, Histadrut
Ivrit; fdr Ini:ernatl Synagogue (Kennedy
Airport); faculty U Omaha, CUNY. • See:
EJ:1973-1982.
Mowsonitz, Abraham H; b. Russia.
Rabbi, Burlington, yr. • See: AJYB, 5(19031904):84.
Moyer, Dorothy (Mrs Elmer L Moyer); b.
Chicago, Mar 9 1904; d. Dayton, OH,
July 81962.
Natl communalldr; natl officer Council of
Jewish Fedns and Welfare Funds, Natl Fedn
Temple Sisterhoods, Jewish Welfare Bd. • See:
AJYB, 65:436; NITimes, July 101962,33:1.
Mozdorf, Elbanan (pseud=Choneh); b.
Poland, ca 1886; d. Tel Aviv, Aug 6 1966.
To US before WWI. • Colorful Zionist
character; "gatecrasher," "freeloader." • See:
NITimes, Aug 8 1966,27:5.
Mueller, Ignatius;b. Eperies, Hungary,
June 10 1857; d. Atlantic City, Sep 7
1925.
PhD U Berlin, Berlin Lehranstalt, ordained
Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi, tchr, Louisville;
earlier Kalamazoo, Des Moines; tchr Leipzig,
Heb Union ColI, Kalamazoo ColI. • See:
AJYB, 5(1903-1904):84,28:151; NITimes, Sep
9 1925,25:5.
Muehlstein, Herman; b. Erdokoz,
Hungary, Feb 111879; d.June 1962.
To US 1893. • Merchant, importer, dealer in
rubber, NYC; active trade assns. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, June 311962, 27:4.
Muensterberg, Hugo; b. Danzig, June 1
1863; d. Cambridge, MA, Dec 161916.
Danzig, PhD U Leipzig, MD U Heidelberg;
honorary degrees. • Psychologist, linguist,
Cambridge, MA; faculty U Freiburg, Harvard;
pioneer in applied experimental psychology;
pres Am Psychological Assn; convert to
Christianity.· See:JE; UJE; EJ; WWWIA, 1;
DAB; NITimes, Dec 17 1916, 19:1.
Mufson, Samuel; b. Passaic, Sep 6 1898; d.
Biloxi,Jan 1957.
AB, MD Harvard. • Surgeon, NYC; faculty
NYU.• See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Jan 15
1957,29:4.
Muhlfelder, David; b. Ballston Spa, NY,
Dec 261860.
AB Union, LLB Albany Law. • Lawyer,
municipal judge, Albany, NY; active charity
orgs.· See:AJYB, 6(1904-1905):159.
Muhlmann, Adolf Alter; b. Schiriwa,
Russia, 1866/1867.
Conservatories (Odessa, Vienna). • Operatic
baritone, musical dir, tchr, Chicago; music
critic Chicago Abendpost; autobiography. • See:
UJE;AJYB, 24:184; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,
Muhr, Philip; b. ca 1862; d. Philadelphia,
Feb 2 1916.
Painter, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB, 18(19161917):109.
Muhr, Simon; b. Hiirben, Bavaria, 1845; d.
Philadelphia, Feb 9 1895.
453
Jewelry merchant, philanthropist, Philadelphia;
fdr Jewish Alliance of Am (aid to Russian
immigrants); officer Jewish Hospital, Foster
Home; endowed scholarships. • See: JE; UJE.
Mukdoni, Alexander Kappel (MukdoniKappel); b. Lechavich, Minsk, Mar 14/15
1877; d. Pine Plains, NY, Sep 71958.
To US 1923/1924.· PhD UBern, Sorbonne,
JD U Lausanne. • Heb & Yiddish journalist,
critic, author, NYC; co-editor The New World
(Warsaw); staffJewish MorningJournal. • See:
UJE; EJ;AJYB, 61:418; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Muller, Alfred; b. Frankfurt, Nov 13 1861.
To Chicago 1884.· LLB Chicago ColI of Law
• Lawyer, communal worker, Denver; officer
NadJewish Hospital, Assocd Charities; active
B'nai Brith, Heb Free School. • See: AJYB,
7(1905-1906):92.
Muller, iIerman(n) Joseph; b. NYC, Dec
211890; d. Apr 51967.
PhD Columbia, U TX, U Berlin, DSc
Edinburgh, MD Jefferson ColI ofMed. •
Geneticist, zoologist, Nobel laureate; faculty U
TX, IN U; research on mutations, X-ray. •
See: UJE; EJ; WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Apr 6
1967,39:1.
Muller, Isidor [Isador] Joseph; b. Budapest,
Feb 41876; d. NYC, Mar 201943.
To NYC 1924. • Royal Academy of Fine Arts
(Munich). • Portrait painter, etcher, NYC;
portraits Emperor Franz Josef, Admiral
Horthy, Albert Einstein, FDR; WWI Austrian
army service. • See: AJYB, 45:390; WWIAJ,
1938;NYTimes,Mar221943,19:3.
Muller, Jonas Norman; b. NYC, Feb 7
1920; d. Mar 261969.
BS Harvard, MD Columbia, MPH U MI;
honorary degree. • Physician, public health
admr; with Am Public Health Assn; faculty
Yale, NY Med ColI; mem Nad Bd ofMed
Examiners; officer professional assns. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Mar 27 1969,47:3.
Multer, AbrahamJ; b. NYC, Dec 241900.
CCNY, LLB Brooklyn Law. • Congressman,
trial lawyer, NYC; active Democratic Party,
denied Liberal Party endorsement. • See:
NYTimes story, Apr 1 1964.
Munchweiler, Josephine M (Mrs Lester S
Munchweiler); b. St Louis, June 3 1899.
AB Washington U (St Louis). • Secy,
communal worker, St Louis; officer United
Order ofTrue Sisters, Miriam Convalescent
Home; United Heb Ladies Aid Soc. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Mundheim, Lewis; b. ca 1831; d. Brooklyn,
Nov281915.
Civil War veteran, Brooklyn. • See: AJYJ3,
18(1916-1917):109.
Mundheim, Samuel; b. Washington DC,
Nov 20/261871; d. Mar 16 1940.
Merchant, business exec, communal worker,
NYC; chr bd Am Safety Razor; officer trade
assn. • See: AJYB; 42:482; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928,1938; BEGAJ; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes,
Mar 17 1940, 48:8.
Myers, Charles M
Muni, Paul (born Mehilem "Muni"
Weisenfreund); b. Lemberg, SeplOct 14/
22 1895; d. Santa Barbara, CA, Aug 25
1967.
To NY 1902. • Yiddish & English stage &
screen actor; memJewish Art Theatre; famous
for roles as Pasteur, Zola. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 69:610; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEGAJ; DAB, 8;JTA-DNB, Aug 281967;
Munker, Louis L; b. ca 1874; d.
Steubenville, OH,July 81912.
Mem Bd of Education, Steubenville, OH. •
See:AJYB, 15(1913-1914):273.
Munz, Mieczyslaw; b. Cracow, ca 1901; d.
NYC, Aug 1976.
Academy ofMusic (Vienna), Hochschule rur
Musik (Berlin). • Concert pianist, NYC;
faculty Juilliard. • See: NYTimes, Aug 26 1976,
36:5.
Muravchik, Chaim; b. Kiev, Sep 1880; d.
NYC, Apr 7 1950.
Yiddish journalist, proofreader, socialist, NYC;
with Forward. • See: AJYB, 52:503; NYTimes,
Apr 8 1950, 13:2.
Murov, Nathan; b. Dawid-Grodek, Poland,
Mar 111877.
To US 1904. • Merchant, communalldr,
Shreveport; nad exec com Joint Distribution
Com; regional exec com Zionist Org of Am,
Am Jewish Cong, Nad Farm School.· See:
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Muschat, Maurice; b. Riga, July 16/30
1898; d. Sep/Oct 1969.
To US 1923. • MD U Heidelberg. • Chief
urologist, Mt Sinai, Philadelphia; faculty U PA;
author in field. • See: WWlAJ, 1938; BEGAJ;
NYTimes, Oct2 1969,47:2.
Muskin, Elazer Reuven; b. Lithuania,
1889(?); d. Chicago, Aug 21950.
Rabbi, Zionist, Chicago; a fdr Heb
Theological ColI; officer Union of Orthodox
Rabbis. • See:AJYB, 53:526; NYTimes, Aug 3
1950,23:5.
Muss, LouisJ; b. NYC, Aug 101914; d.
Boston, May 15 1962.
Bldr, Brooklyn; benefactor Yeshiva U; active
Jewish education. • See:AJYB, 64:495;
NYTimes, May 17 1962, 37:2.
Muster, Morris; b. Sarajevo, Nov 271900;
d. NYC, Aug 171978.
To US 1909. • Business exec, communalldr;
secy Home Furniture Assn of NY; active
Histadrut Ivrith, B'nai B'rith, Israel Bonds,
UJA. • See:AJYB, 80:370-71.
Mutterperl, Sol; b. Galatz, Rumania, Oct
281878; d. NYC, Oct 13 1968.
To US 1889/1894.· Handbag mfr, NYC;
officer Fedn ofJewishPhilanthropies; exec
com United RumanianJews of Am; active
industryassns, regulation.· See:AJYB, 70:523;
WWlAJ, 1928,1938; NYTimes, Oct 151968,
47:3.
Myar, Henry W; b. ca 1841; d. Camden,
AL, May 311912.
Confederate army veteran, Camden, AR. • See:
AJYB, 14(1912-1913):128.
Myer, Max W; b. Salisbury, MO, Feb 22
1878; d. St Louis, May 161948.
AB U MO, MD Marion-Sims ColI ofMed. •
Surgeon, St Louis; faculty U MO, St Louis U;
dir Jewish Fedn; WWI service. • See: AJYB,
50:520; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEGAJ.
Myerberg, Michael; b. Baltimore, Aug 5
1906; d.Jan 61974.
Baltimore City ColI, Johns Hopkins. •
Theatrical producer, agent, NYC; "Skin of
Our Teeth," won Pulitzer Prize. • See:
WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Jan 71974,34:3,
correction Jan 81974,35:7.
Myerovich, Max Abraham; b. Suraz, Russia,
Sep 251889.
To US 1907. e Merchant, tailoring business,
civic & communalldr, Youngstown; fdr Jewish
Community Center; officer County Central
Com, South Side Civic Assn, B'nai B'rith; dir
Red Cross. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Myers, Aaron Howard; b. Albany, NY, Aug
61904.
AB Cornell, MA, PhD Columbia. • Labor
economist, author; exec dir Nad Recovery
Adm Labor Advisory Bd (Washington DC);
faculty Boston ColI School of Social Work. •
See: UJE; WWlAJ, 1938.
Myers, Abraham; b. ca 1847; d. Los
Angeles, Dec 41914.
Rabbi, Los Angeles. • See:AJYB, 17(19151916):221.
Myers, Abraham Charles; b. Georgetown,
SC, 1811; d. Washington DC, June 20
1889.
US Military Academy. • US Army officer;
Quartermaster General Confederate Army;
superseded for "inefficiency," resigned. • See:
DAB.
Myers, Benjamin; b. 1755; d. Pleasantville,
NY, Dec 111851.
Jewish pioneer, Nashville; lived NYC,
Richmond, Baltimore. • See: BDEA].
Myers, Carmel (Mrs Ralph H. Blum); b.
San Francisco, Apr 41901102.
Motion picture actress, story writer, Los
Angeles.· See:AJYB, 24:184; WWlAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938.
Myers, Charles Augustus; b. NYC, Jan 26
1889; d.July 291955.
Columbia ColI of Pharmacy. • Aromatic oils &
chemicals mfr, NYC, Bayonne; WWI service.
• See: WWWL4., 3; NYTimes, July 301955,
17:3.
Myers, Charles M; b. ca 1870; d. Feb 4
1940.
Columbia. " Lawyer, Newark; authority on
municipal law; dismissed from city council post
& successfully fought through courts for
reinstatement. • See: AJYB, 42:482; NYTimes,
Feb 6 1940,21:3.
Myers, Dorothy Schlesinger (Mrs Arthur L Myers)
Myers, Dorothy Schlesinger (Mrs Arthur L
Myers); b. Newark, Sep 13 1886; d.Jan
1967.
Newark Nonnal School, NYU. • Communal
exec, Newark;·pres]ewish Day Nursery &
Neighborhood House; dir Child Guidance
Bureau.· See: WWIA], 1938;NYTimes,]an4
1967,43:3.
Myers, Eugene Lee; b. St Louis, May 22
1884.
MD Columbia, post-grad Vienna, UPA. •
Physician, St Louis; faculty St Louis U; author
in field. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Myers, Lawrence E; b. Richmond, 1858; d.
1899.
Track athlete, runner, natl title winner. • See:
E].
Myers, Lee Roy; b. Richmond, Feb 24
1852.
U Richmond. • Cigar mfr, civic worker,
Savannah; mem Bd of Education. • See:
WWlA], 1926.
Myers, Leonard; b. Attleborough, PA, Nov
13 1827.
Congressman, lawyer, city solicitor,
Philadelphia; active Republican politics; author
digest of Philadelphia ordinances. • See: A]YB,
2(1900-1901):251.
Myers, Gustavus; b. Trenton, Mar 20 1872;
d. Bronx, Dec 7 1942.
Historian, sociologist, political reformer,
author, NYC; known for rigorous social
research. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 24:184;
WWlA], 1938; WWWIA, 2; DAB, 3; NYTimes,
Dec 91942,27:4.
Myers, Levy; b.*; d. Charleston, SC, Sep 22
1822/1827.
Physician, legislator, apothecary general, SCi
apothecary Georgetown, Sc. • See: BDEA].
Myers, Gustavus Adolphus; b. 1801; d.
1869.
Leading Richmond figure, lawyer; mem City
Council; negotiated with Pres Lincoln after fall
of Richmond. • See:E] (sub Myers, Samuel).
Myers, Lewis Edward; b. Pittsburgh, 1864;
d. Chicago, Feb 1945.
Public utilities exec, civic worker, Chicago;
pres Bd of Education; active Salvation Army. •
See:A]YB, 24:185;NYTimes, Feb 61945,19:5.
Myers, Henry Coffinberry; b. Cleveland,
Aug281864.
Case, U Gottingen, U Lausanne, PhD
Strasbourg, post-grad Columbia, Stanford;
honorary degree. • Chemist; faculty
Washington U, Pacific U, U OR; specialty: soil
reclamation in West and Hawaii. • See: UJE;
WWlA],1938.
Myers, Louis; b. ca 1886; d. NYC, Nov 8
1938.
Motion picture operator, communal worker,
NYC.· See:A]YB, 41:428; NYTimes, Nov 9
1938,23:5.
Myers, Herman; b. Bavaria, Jan 18 1847; d.
Savannah, Mar 24 1909.
Banker, mayor, Savannah. • See: A]YB,
6(1904-1905):159, 11(1909-1910):108.
Myers, Howard; b. Philadelphia, 1894; d.
NYC, Sep 181947.
NYU, NY School of Fine and Applied Arts. •
Publisher, editor, government advisor, NYC;
proponent prefab housing; publisher
ArchitecturalForum.· See: WWWIA, 2;
Myers, Isidor (Isidore, Isador); b. Suwalki,
Feb 1S 1856; d. Los Angeles, Apr 25
1922.
AB U Melbourne (Australia). • Rabbi, Zionist,
popular lecturer, Los Angeles, San Francisco;
earlier in Australia, England, Palestine; active
.womens suffrage movement, abolition of
capital punishment. • See: UJE; A]YB, 5(19031904):84,6(1904-1905):221, 7(1905-1906):123,
24:102.
Myers,Jerome; b. Petersburg, VA, Mar 20
1867; d. NYC,June 1940.
Cooper Union, Art Students League.· Painter,
NYC; painted everyday life on Lower East
Side; a planner Armory Show; autobiography.
• See:A]YB, 24:184; WWWL4, 1; DAB, 2;
NYTimes,]une 201940,23:3.
Myers, John; b. Sep 15 1787; d. Nov 27
1830.
Businessman, customs collector, Norfolk; War
of 1812 service. • See: BDEA].
Myers, Louis Robert; b.Johnstown, PA,
Aug281902.
U PA. • Retail merchant, collection bureau
owner, Canton, OH; officer trade assns; active
communal affairs, fundraising, synagog. • See:
WWWIA,5.
Myers, Louis Samuel; b. Odessa, Dec 6
1896; d. Kansas City, May 29 1951.
Milling exec, natl communalldr; active United
] ewish Appeal,]oint Distribution Com,
Council ofJewish Fedns. • See: A]YB, 53:526;
NYTimes, May 31 1951, 19:2.
Myers, Maurice William; b. London, 1821;
d. Cincinnati, Dec 81899.
To NY 1833. • Librarian, Cincinnati Law
Library.·· See: JE.
Myers, Mordecai; b. 1727; d. Georgetown,
SC, Dec 16 1788.
Revolutionary War paymaster, first
Georgetown, SC, postmaster. • See: BDEA].
Myers, Mordecai; b. Newport, May 31
1776; d. Schenectady, Jan 1871.
Army officer, mayor, legislator, Schenectady;
active Mason, Democratic Party; War of 1812
service.· See: UJE; EJ; BDEA]; NYTimes,]an
22 1871, 1:5.
Myers, Moses; b. NYC, ca 1752; d.
Norfolk, July 81835.
Import-export merchant, banker, politician,
consul for European countries,· NYC,
Amsterdam, Norfolk; Collector of Customs. •
See: E]; BDEA].
454
Myers, Moses; b. Georgetown, SC, Feb 19
1772; d. Charleston, SC,June 61821.
Lawyer, clerk Court of General Sessions &
Court of Common Pleas; prothonotary,
Georgetown, Sc. • See: BDEA].
Myers, Myer;b. NYC, 1723;d.NYC, 1795.
Noted silversJ;Ilith, patriot, merchant, NYC;
active synagog, Masons; honored on US stamp.
• See: E]; E]:1973-1982; BDEA]; PA]HS,
43:1-9;A]HQ,70:462-67.
Myers, Naphtali Hart; b. ca 1711; d.
London, Oct 18 1788.
To London 1771. • Colonial merchant, NYC,
Newport, Philadelphia, Easton, PA; pres
Shearith Israel; head Great Synagogue
(London). • See: BDEA].
Myers, Nathan; b. Newark, Feb 2 1875; d.
Aug 1937.
BS Cornell. • Architect, Newark; designed
Newark synagog. • See:A]YB, 24:185;
WWIA], 1926,1928; NYTimes; Aug 141937,
13:4.
Myers, Nathaniel; b. St Louis, Aug 4 1848;
d. NYC, Aug 291921.
Lawyer, philanthropist, NYC; a fdr Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; pres Heb Technical
School for Girls. • See: A]YB, 24:102;
Myers, RebecCa (Mrs Jacob Mordecai); b.
Norwalk, CT, Apr 26 1776; d.
Richmond, Oct 1 1863.
Helped husband]acob run school at
Warrenton, NC.· See: BDEA].
Myers, Samuel; b. NYC, Apr 16 1755; d.
Richmond, Aug 22 1836.
Merchant, tobacco dealer, alderman,
Richmond; fdr Richmond Amiable Soc;
Revolutionary War service. • See: E]; BDEA].
Myers, Samuel Hays; b. Richmond, Jan 1
1799; d. Richmond, Oct 2 1849.
Lawyer, prominent Mason, alderman,
Richmond; officer VA Militia; protestor
Damascus affair. • See: BDEIl].
Myers, Sigo; b. ca 1853; d. Dec 1S 1932.
Colonel, aide to governors, Savannah. • See:
A]YB, 35:127.
Myers, Sophie Ipp (Mrs Samuel W Myers);
b. Chernigov, Dec 51882.
To US 1897. • LLB Northeastern. • Lawyer,
Roxbury, MA; natl officer Hadassah; active
Republican politics. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Myers, Sutnner Byron; b. Boston, Feb 19
1910; d. Oct 8 1955.
AB, PhD Harvard. • Mathematician, Ann
Arbor; faculty U MI; author in field. • See:
WWWIA,4.
'
Myers, Theodore Walter; b. NY, 1844; d.
NY, Mar 1918.
Banker, civic official, NY Park Commissioner,
City Comptroller, NYC; active]ewish
community; Civil War service. • See: UJE;
NYTimes, Mar 21 1918, 13:1.
Myerson, Joseph George
455
Myerson, Abraham; b. Yanova, Russia, Nov
23 1881; d. Brookline, MA., Sep 3 1948.
To US 1885/86.· Columbia, MD Tufts.·
Neurologist, physiological psychiatrist,
communal worker, Boston; faculty Tufts,
Harvard; consult US Public Health Service;
trustee AssocdJewish Philanthropies; author in
field. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:185, 51:523;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
2; DAB, 4; NYTimes, Sep 41948,15:1.
Myerson, Joseph George; b. Brooklyn, Dec
291896.
LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, veterans relief
commr, NYC; mem nat! Com on Unifonn
Traffic Regulation; active Republican politics;
author in field; "WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.

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