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Motion picture theatre owner, Atlanta. - See:
A]YB, 40:381.
Heb.· See: UJE; WWIA], 1926; WWWIA, 1;
NYTimes, Oct 111927,1:7.
Bach, Marcus; b. ca 1824; d. Brooklyn, Oct
28 1914.
Merchant, Brooklyn.· See:A]YB, 17(19151916):218.
Baar, Emile Nathaniel; b. Vienna, Sep 9
1891; d. NYC, Nov 111985.
To US 1893.· AB, LLB Columbia; honorary
degree. - Lawyer, state supreme court judge,
communalldr, NYC; natl trustee Union of Am
Heb Congregations; officer Jewish Hospital,
Jewish Braille Inst; bd Natl Conf cif Christians
& Jews; WWIservice. - See:A]YB, 87:436;
WWIA],1938.
Bacharach, Benjamin; b. Philadelphia,
1865; d. Adantic City,]une 18 1936.
To Atlantic City 1881. - Banker, realtor, civic
ldr, philanthropic worker, Atlantic City; a fdr
Home for Afflicted Children; officer synagog.
- See: UJE; E] (sub Bacharach); A]YB, 38:425.
Bachman, Milton Homer; b. Pittsburgh,
Nov 121884.
MD Jefferson Med ColI, post-grad Vienna,
London. - Physician, radiologist, Youngstown;
officer med soc; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Baar, Herman (Hermann); b. Stadthagen,
Germany, 1826;.d. NYC, Sep 41904.
To US ca 1867. - U Gottingen. - Communal
admr, rabbi, scholar, author, NYC; earlier
England, Washington DC, New Orleans; supt
Heb Orphan Asylum. - See: ]E; UJE; A]YB,
7(1905-1906):216;NYTimes, Sep 51904,5:6.
Baar, Jesse; b. Brooklyn, June 15 1885; d.
Miami, Apr 9 1936.
Stockbroker, NYC; active Jewish community. See:A]YB, 38:425; WWIA], 1928.
Bab, Julius; b. Berlin, 1880; d. Feb 1955.
To US 1940. • German drama critic & literary
historian; fdr Jiidischen Kulturband; authorin
field. - See: E]; NYTimes, Feb 13 1955,86:7.
Babin, Victor; b. Moscow, Dec 13 1908; d.
1972.
To US 1937.· Honorary degree. - Pianist,
composer; dir Cleveland Inst ofMusic; chr
Berkshire Music Centre; WWII service. - See:
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Mar 2 1972, 42 :4.
Bacarat, Georges; b. Marseilles, 1883; d.
Brooklyn, Oct 5 1943.
To US 1911. - Orthodox rabbi, Portsmouth,
VA, Memphis; then court interpreter. • See:
A]YB, 46:334; NYTimes, Oct 6 1943,23:4.
Bach, AaronJ; b. NYC, 1855?; d. Deal, NJ,
Sep 241934.
Tobacco dealer, NYC; public official, mayor,
Deal, NJ; active Republican politics. - See:
UJE; A]YB, 37:254.
Bach, Ephraim Lee; b. Linton, IN, Aug 31
1905.
BS U IL, Natl Inst of Commercial Org Secys.
- Business assn exec, South Bend; earlier
Linton & Misawaka, IN. - See: WWIA], 1938.
Bach, Ferdinand S; b. Nashville, IL, Aug 28
1866.
Social work exec, St Louis; exec dir Jewish
Fedn of Charities; active YMHA. - See:
WWIA], 1928 (addenda), 1938.
Bach, Julius Max; b. Austria, ca 1872; d.
NYC, Nov291946.
To US 1939.· Rabbi, Vienna, NYC; withAm
Congregation ofJews from Austria. - See:
A]YB, 49:608; NYTimes, Nov 301946,15:3.
Bach, Louis S; b.*; d. Nov 27 1937.
Bacharach, George; b. Berne, Oct 16 1888;
d. NYC, Sep 201943.
To NYC 1920. -U Zurich, BS, DSc U
Geneva; honorary degree. • Chemist,
Brooklyn; faculty Fordham, Brooklyn ColI;
author in field. - See: UJE; A]YB, 46:334;
WWIA], 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Sep 22 1943,
23:3.
Bacharach, Gustav; b. ca 1868; d.
Philadelphia, Apr 8 1912.
Pres, Commonwealth Realty Co, Philadelphia.
• See:A]YB, 14(1912-1913):126.
Bacharach, Harry B; b. Philadelphia, Oct 24
1873; d. Arlantic City, May 13 1947.
Public official, banker, realtor, mayor,
postmaster, NJ Public Utility Commr, Atlantic
City; pres City Council; est Jewish Community
Center, home for crippled children; active
Republican politics. - See: UJE; E] (sub
Bacharach);A]YB, 24:116, 50:513; WWIA],
1926,1928,1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, May 14
1947,25:1.
Bacharach, Herman Dfeld; b. Las Vegas,
NM, Aug 5 1899.
UPA, PA Museum School ofArt. - Artist,
Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bacharach, Isaac; b. Philadelphia, Jan 5
1861/1870; d. Arlantic City, Sep 5 1956.
Congressman, legislator, businessman, realtor,
insurance agent, public official, Atlantic City;
active Republican politics. - See: UJE; E] (sub
Bacharach);A]YB, 24:116; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Sep 6 1956,
25:5.
Bache, Harold L; b. NYC, June 17 1894; d.
NYC, Mar 14/15 1968.
Cornell. - Stockbroker, financialldr, NYC;
active Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Jewish
Big Brothers; WWI service. - See: A]YB,
70:519; WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Mar 18 1968,45:4.
Bache, Jules Semon; b. NYC, Nov 9 ·1861;
d. Palm Beach, Mar 24 1944.
Financier, broker, art collector, NYC; donated
art collection to Metropolitan Museum ofArt;
Episcopalian. - See: UJE; E] (sub Bache);
A]YB, 24:116; WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 2; DAB, 3.
Bache, Leopold Semon; b. NYC, Nov 12
1865/1866; d. NYC, Oct 101927.
Financier, commodity broker, NYC; officer
trade assns; trustee Home for Aged & Infirm
Bachmann, Alberto Abraham; b. Geneva,
1875.
To US 1916, to Paris 1922. - Lille
Conservatory ofMusic. - Violinist, composer;
mem NY Philharmonic; author in field. - See:
UJE.
Bachmann, Burton Stanley; b. Chicago, Sep
201897.
Northwestern. • Mfr, salesman, Chicago;
WWI service. - See: WWIA], 1938.
Bachner, Lester R; b. NYC, Aug 9 1897; d.
Apr 51976.
LLB NYU, post-grad Columbia, NYU. Lawyer, NYC; pres Dreyfus Fund; active
Republican politics. - See: WWIA], 1928;
NYTimes, Apr 71976,44:4.
Bachrach, Alfred R; b. 1900; d. NYC, Sep
211982.
CPA, communalldr, NYC; pres Emanu-EI; bd
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Montefiore
Hospital, Beth Abraham Hospital. - See:
A]YB, 84:329.
Bachrach, Benjamin Charles; b. Elgin, IL,
Jan 29 1874; d. Dec 1950.
AB Notre Dame, Cornell, Columbia, LLB
Kent ColI of Law. - Lawyer, noted public
defender, Chicago; defense lawyer in LeopoldLoeb case. - See: UJE; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Jan 11951, 17:2.
Bachrach, Clarence Grover; b. Brooklyn,
Apr 25 1883; d. Oct 1977.
AB Harvard, LLB Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer,
Brooklyn; specialty: equity; faculty Brooklyn
Law; active Fedn ofJewish Charities, Jewish
Bd of Guardians, Progressive Party. - See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Oct 24 1977, 32:4.
Bachrach, David; h. Russia, ca 1863; d.
Cincinnati, July 31 1946.
To US ca 1886. - Rabbi, Cincinnati. - See:
A]YB, 49:608.
Bachrach, David Hayyim; b. Russia, Oct 4
1863/1865; d. May 281939.
To US 1889. - Rabbi, Trenton, Providence. •
See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):43,41:418; Gottlieb,
313.
Bachrach, Grace Baer (Mrs Clarence G
Bachrach); b. NYC, June 12 1884; d.
Brooklyn, June 17 1962.
NY Training School for Tchrs. - Communal
worker, public school tchr, Brooklyn; active
Jewish Hospital, Fedn ofJewish Charities, Natl
Council ofJewish Women, Visiting Nurse
Assn, Joint Distribution Com, United Hospital
Fund.- See:A]YB, 64:492; WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, June 191962,35:1.
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Bachrach, Herman S
Bachrach, Herman S; b. Sandusky, Oct 3
1872; d. Mar 1949.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, Brooklyn; mem State
Judicial Council; pres bar assn; officer Heb
Education Soc; active Jewish Sanitarium for
Chronic Diseases, Industrial Home for the
Blind; WWI draft appeal agent. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Mar 30 1949,25:1.
Bachrach, Irving; b. ca 1869; d. June 3
1936.
Realtor, communal & philanthropic worker,
NYC.· See:A]YB, 38:425.
Bachrach, Isaac; b. ca 1847; d. Kansas City,
Dec 161923.
Communal worker, Kansas City. • See: A]YB,
26:153.
Bachrach, Louis; b. 1891?j d. NYC, Dec 7
1968.
Business exec; trustee Kingsbridge Hgts Jewish
Center; pres Yeshiva Salanter; officer Heb
Akeba Academy. • See: A]YB, 70:519.
Bachrach; Louis Fabian; b. Baltimore, July
161881; d. Boston, July 241963.
Baltimore Polytech, Art Students League. •
Portrait photographer, Worcester, NYC;
Unitarian. • See: WWWIA, 4; DAB, 7;
NYTimes,July261963,25:3.
Bachrach, Mendel; b. ca 1858; d. Jerusalem,
Dec 71935.
Educational worker, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB,
38:425.
Bachrach, Walter; b. Chicago, Sep 13 1885.
Lawyer, Chicago; counsel in Leopold-Loeb
case. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bachrach, Walter Keyser; b. Baltimore, Jan
291888; d. Oct 1963.
Baltimore Polytech, MD Inst School of Art &
Design. • Realtor, portrait photographer,
landscape painter, Washington DC; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 4;
Back, Jacques; b. Treves, Germany, Dec 16
1879.
To US 1897. • Publisher, editor, The Observer,
Nashville; active Zionist Org, YMHA,
Nashville Symphony Soc. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Backer, Gabriel; b.*; d. May 23 1934.
Communal worker, Dorchester, MA; supporter
communal education. • See:A]YB, 36:278.
Backer, George; b. NYC, Jan 18 190211903;
d. NYC, May 11974.
Realtor, newspaper publisher, public official,
politician, NYC; mem City Council; pres
Jewish Telegraphic Agency; owner, publisher,
editor NY Post; active Joint Distribution Com,
ORT, Am Jewish Com, Am Labor Party,
refugee aid. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 76:511;
WWlA], 1938; WWWlA, 6; NYTimes, May 2
1974,50:4.
Backer, Jacob; b. ca 1864; d.July 23 1938.
Merchant, communal worker, St Louis. • See:
A]YB,41:418.
Backman, Jules; b. NYC, May 3 1910; d.
Scarsdale, Mar 251982.
BCS, AM, MBA, DCS NYU. • Economist,
consult; faculty NYU; nat! chr Reform Jewish
Appeal; exec com Union of Am Heb
Congregations; author/editorialist in field. •
See:A]YB, 84:329; WWWIA, 8.
Backrach, Irving; b. 1869; d.June 3 1936.
Realtor, communal & civic worker, NYC. •
See:A]YB, 38:425.
Badanes, Ida (Mrs Alexander Rovinsky); b.
Russia, ca 1867; d. Los Angeles, Jan
1946.
To US 1890.· MD Boston U. • Physician,
journalist, playwright, NYC; with Bd of
Health; feature staff Day. • See: BEOA];
NYTimes, Jan 291946,25:1.
Badanes, Saul; b. Russia, ca 1865; d.
Brooklyn, Apr 23 1940.
To US ca 1881. • AM Columbia, MA, PhD
NYU.• Educator, Brooklyn; developed
method for teaching math in primary grades;
tchr Heb Technical School; author/lecturer in
field. • See: A]YB, 42:476; NYTimes, Apr 25
1940,23:6.
Bader, Gershom (Gustav); b. Cracow, Aug
211868; d. NYC, Nov 111953.
To US 1912.· Yiddish, English & Heb
author, dramatist, journalist, tchr, translator,
editor, NYC.· See: UJE; E];A]YB, 24:116,
56:568; WWIA], 1926,1928, 1938;NYTimes,
Nov 13 1953,27:4.
Bader, Maximilian; b. Lemberg, Mar 5
1893.
To US 1913. • U Vienna, BA? U Lemberg,
BA?, MA, PhD Cohllnbia, JD NYU. • Lawyer,
NYC; staff Reb Standard, Am Jewish Chronicle;
asst atty US Dept Labor; active Democratic
politics, Jewish immigrant causes, Mason. •
See: WWIA], 1928,1938.
Badman, Theodore;b.Oe~gen,
Germany, June 25 1884; d. NYC, Feb 25
1941.
To NYC 1901. • AB Eton. • Realtor, banker,
importer, world traveler, NYC; officer Lessing
League, B'nai B'rith. • See:A]YB, 43:355;
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Feb 27
1941,20:3.
Badt, Harry Asher; b. Tyler, TX, Sep 22
1884.
BS US Naval Academy, MS Columbia;
honorary degree. • Naval commodore,
Washington DC; Nicaragua, Mexico, WWI &
WWII service. • See: UJE; WWWIA, 7.
Badt, Milton B; b. San Francisco, July 8
1884; d. Apr 2 1966.
AB U CA, LLB Hastings; honorary degree. •
Chief justice state supreme court, pres state bar
assn, Elko, NV; earlier lawyer, San Francisco. •
See: WWWIA, 4.
Baeck, Leo; b. Lissa, Germany, 1873; d.
Nov31956.
To US ca 1948. ·JTS (Breslau), Berlin
Lehranstalt, U Breslau, U Berlin. ·-Rabbi,
outstanding ldr ofJews during Nazi period,
religious thinker, Berlin; memJewish Agency;
faculty Heb Union ColI; chr World Union for
Progressive Judaism. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
59:478-82; NYTimes, Nov 3 1956,23:3.
Baehr, George; b. NYC, Apr 16 1887; d.
NYC, Sep 6 1978.
MD Columbia, U Freiburg, U Vienna;
honorary degree. • Physician, NYC; mem
State Public Health Council; faculty Columbia,
Mt Sinai; officer med socs; consult US Public
Health Service; author in field; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 7;
NYTimes strike summary, Nov 6 1978, 56:1.
Baer, Abel Harris; b. Baltimore, Mar 16
1894; d. NYC, Oct 1976.
ColI of Physicians & Surgeons (Boston). •
Popular song writer, NYC; active professional
orgs; WWI service. • See: WWlA], 1928,
1938;NYTimes, Oct71976, 50:3.
Baer, Abram K; b. Baltimore, Apr 3 1884.
Mfr, Baltimore. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Baer, Ben; b. Strasbourg, June 3 1845; d. St
Paul, July 271921.
To US ca 1861. • Civic & philanthropic
worker, St Paul; pres AssocdJewish Charities;
earlier rancher, banker, Deadwood, SD. • See:
A]YB, 24:100; NYTimes, July 28 1921, 13:5.
Baer, Bernard Adolphe; b. Washington DC,
Sep 251887.
Dr Opt Northern IL ColI of Optometry, postgrad Rochester School of Optometry, PA State
ColI of Optometry. • Optometrist,
Washington DC; bd Optometry Examiners;
officer professional soc; active Jewish War
Veterans; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Baer, Buddy (hom Maximilian Adelbert
Baer); b. Omaha, Feb 111909/1915; d.
Nov 1959.
Pugilist, radio, stage & movie performer,
heavyweight champion of the world; claimed to
beJewish.· See: UJE; E]; BEOA]; NYTimes,
Nov22 1959,1:3.
Baer, Edwin; b. NYC, Mar 28 1876; d.
NYC, Aug 13 1938.
Urologist, surgeon, NYC; specialty: bladder
tumors; author in field; WWI service. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1928, 1938;NYTimes, Aug 15
1938,15:4.
Baer, Eli; b. Baltimore, Mar 281905.
LLB U MD. • Lawyer, Washington DC;
earlier US District Atty, Virgin Island; with
General Accounting Office; active Democratic
party.· See: WWlA], 1938.
Baer, Harold Meyer; b. Pittsburgh, Feb 18
1894.
BL Princeton, MA, PhD Harvard. • Historian,
Boston; faculty Simmons; later broker, St
Louis.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Baer, Herbert M; b. NYC, 1879.
Painter, engraver, architect. • See: A]YB,
24:116.
Baer, Herman; b. Germany, Jan 29 1830; d.
Charleston, SC,Jan 2 1901.
29
To US ca 1847. • MD CharlestonMed ColI.·
Author, tchr, physician, wh~lesale druggist,
language tchr, Charleston, SCi Civil War
Confederate service; convert to Methodism. •
See:JE.
Baer, Jacob; b. ca 1846; d. Hancock, MI,
Jan 51915.
Pres Bd of Education, Hancock, MI. • See:
AJYB, 17(1915-1916):218.
Balaban, Abraham Joseph
24:116,64:492; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, July 3 1961,15:3.
Bailey, Carol Oppenheimer (Mrs Thomas
Pearce Bailey); b. Savannah, Sep 19 1884.
Chicago Tchrs ColI, Columbia. •
Kindergarten & normal school tchr, summer
camp owner, Winter Park, FL; Episcopalian. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
BS, MD Harvard.• Physician, Boston;
specialty: cholesterol, lipids, blood clotting,
cancer control; faculty Tufts; active med assns;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWUlIA,
7.
Baker, Hyman D; b. ca 1861; d. Los
Angeles, Dec 26 1934.
Realtor, NYc. • See:AJYB, 37:254.
Baird, Cora (Mrs William B Baird); b.
NYC, Jan 261912;d. Dec 1967.
Hunter. • Noted puppeteer, NYc. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Dec 7 1967, 52 :4.
Baker, Isaac; b. Erie, 1845; d. Erie, 1929.
Clothier, banker, stockbroker, Erie; mem
school bd; officer synagog, trade assn. • See:
UJE.
Baiz, Jacob; b. Barcelona, Venezuela, Jan
171843; d. NYC,June 201899.
To US 1851. • Merchant, exporter,
entrepreneur, railroad bldr, NYC; consul
various Central American countries; officer
Heb Sheltering & Guardian Soc; active
synagog. • See: UJE; PAJHS, 9:163-65.
Baker, JosephJ;b. Brooklyn, Aug 241880;
d. Mar 2 1938.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, civic & communal
worker, NYC, Brooklyn; pres Jewish Hospital;
regent LI ColI Hospital. • See: AJYB, 24: 116,
40:381; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Mar 51938,17:6.
Baer, Louis; b. Korocin, Poland, July 20
1888.
To Philadelphia 1905. • MD MedicoChirurgical College (philadelphia). •
Otorhinolaryngologist, Philadelphia; faculty U
PA.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Baizerman, Eugenia (Mrs Saul Baizerman);
b. Warsaw, 1899; d. NYC, Dec 1949.
To NY 1914. • Educational Alliance, Nat!
Academy of Design. • Painter, forerunner of
abstract expressionists, NYC. • See: EJ (sub
Baizerman);NYTimes, Dec 311949, 15:5,Jan 1
1950,43:1.
Baker, Leonard Stanley; b. Pittsburgh, Jan
41931; d. Washington DC, Nov 23 1984.
BA U Pittsburgh, MA Columbia. • Writer,
journalist, biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner,
Washington DC.· See:AJYB, 86:436;
WWWIA,8.
Baer, Max; b. Frankfurt, Nov 101912.
To US 1921.· Notre Dame, U AZ, LLB
Creighton. • B'nai B'rith fraternal worker,
Omaha; asst seey Aleph Zadik Aleph. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Baizerman, Saul; b. Vitebsk, 1887; d. Aug
1957.
To US 1910.· Noted sculptor, NYC; used
hammered copper. • See: EJ (sub Baizerman);
AJYB, 24:116; NYTimes, Sep 11957,56:1.
Baer, Maximilian Adelbert; see Baer,
Buddy.
Bak, Henry; b. ca 1847; d. Atlanta, May 25
1915.
Surgeon, US Army, Atlanta. • See: AJYB,
17(1915-1916):218.
Baer, Joseph Louis; b. Chicago, Apr 29
1880; d. Dec 81954.
BS, MS U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI, postgrad Berlin, Vienna. • Surgeon, obstetrician,
gynecologist, Chicago; faculty Rush Med ColI;
officer professional soc; author in field; WWI
service.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 3.
Baer, Louis; b. ca 1864; d. Manchester,
NIl, Sep 1935.
Merchant, communal worker, Boston.· See:
AJYB, 38:425.
Baer, Morris; b.*; d. Pittsburgh, Mar 1919.
Merchant, communal worker, Pittsburgh. •
See:AJYB, 21:204.
Baer, Rachlin; b. ca 1869; d. Sep 111939.
Rabbi, Oakland, CA. • See: AJYB, 42:476.
Baer, Sidney Raymond; b. Ft Smith, AR,
Mar 211891; d. Aug 25 1956.
AB Yale. • Retail, hotel & realty exec,
Louisville, Des Moines, St Louis. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928; NITimes, Aug 26 1956,84:8.
Baer, Simeon; b. ca 1847; d. Atlanta, Dec
15 1910.
Financier, Atlanta. • See:AJYB, 13(19111912):136.
Baerwald, Edith (Mrs Paul Baerwald); b.
San Francisco, 1878?; d. Neptune, NJ,
Aug81965.
Communalldr, philanthropist, NYC; a fdr
United Jewish Appea:I; honorary mem
Womens Mt Sinai Bd. • See: AJYB, 67:531;
NITimes, Aug 10 1965,29:4.
Baerwald, Paul;,.b. Frankfurt, Sep 271871;
d. Long Branch, July 2 1961.
To US 1886/1896. • Banker, communalldr,
NYC; partner Lazard Freres; a fdr, natl officer
J oint Distribution Com, Agro-Joint; benefactor
Heb U; active War Refugee Bd, Palestine
Economic Corp. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
Baker, Belle (Mrs Elias E Sugarman, Mrs
Maurice Abrahams); b. NYC, Dec 25
1895/1896/1898; d. Beverly Hills, Apr 28
1957.
Singer; with Ziegfeld Follies, Adler theatrical
troupe; introduced "Alexanders Ragtime
Band." • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:116, 59:474;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Apr 30
1957,29:1.
Baker, Benny (hom Benjamin Michael
Zifkin); b. StJoseph, May 5 1906.
Actor, motion picture comedian, Hollywood,
CA.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Baker, Edward G; b. Erie, Aug 251906.
Wharton. • Merchant, Erie; active synagog. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Baker, Edward Max; b. Erie, Aug 18 1875;
d. Feb 1957.
BA U Chicago. • Investment broker,
communal & civic worker, Cleveland; fdr
Legal Aid Soc; fdr, officer Fedn ofJewish
Charities; active Republican politics, Union of
Am Heb Congregations, natl Am Jewish Com.
• See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 7(1905-1906):37;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Feb
181957,27:4.
Baker, Henry; b. Boston, May 101898; d.
Brookline, MA,June 291979.
Baker, Louis Eliot; b. Kovno, Nov 29 1898.
To US 1905. • BS MA State ColI, LLB Suffolk
Law School. • Lawyer, communalldr, Salem,
.MA; pres YMHA, district B'nai B'rith. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Bakesef, Samuel; b. London, Apr 13 1889.
To US 1919. • U London. • Engineer, patent
holder, NYC, Los Angeles, San Diego. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926,1928.
Bakst, HenryJacob; b. Providence, May 19
1906;d. Aug 251972.
PhB Brown, MD Harvard. • Physician, Boston;
faculty, dean Boston U; advisor US Public
Health Service; chr United Community
Services; officer med socs; author in field;
WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 5; NYTimes,
Aug 261972,28:5.
Bakst, Max; b. Russia, ca 1889; d. Brooklyn,
Nov 10 1943.
To US 1902. • Otolaryngologist, Brooklyn. •
See:AJYB, 46:334; NYTimes, Nov 13 1943,
13:6.
Bakstein, Aaron Solomon; b. ca 1870; d.
reported Dec 171936.
Rabbi, NYc.. See:AJYB, 39:588.
Bakwin, Harry; b. Utica, Nov 19 1894; d.
Dec 25 1973.
BS, MD Columbia. • Pediatrician, NYC;
faculty NYU; pres med soc; author in field. •
See: WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Dec 27 1973, 40:1.
Balaban, Abraham Joseph; b. Chicago, Apr
20 1889; d. Nov 1962.
Motion picture exhibitor, NYC; mgr Roxy
Theatre; officer Central Refugee Com; bd ColI
for Women (Geneva, Switzerland); WWII
USO service. • See: WWWIA, 4; NYTimes,
Nov31962,25:3.
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Balaban, Barney
Balaban, Barney; b. Chicago, June 8 1887;
d. Byram, CT, Mar 7 1971.
Motion picture exec, communal worker,
Chicago; exec Paramount Pictures; bd Heb
Theological ColI, Yeshiva ColI, United Jewish
Appeal.· See: UJE; E];A]YB, 73:629;
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Mar 8 1971; 36:1.
Balaban, Emanuel; b. Brooklyn, Jan 27
1895; d. Apr 1973.
Accompanist, conductor, NYC; faculty
Juilliard, Tanglewood-Berkshire Music Center;
dir Eastman School ofMusic. • See: WWWIA,
5; NYTimes, Apr 18 1973,50:4.
Balaban, Harry; b. Chicago,July 23 1903.
Theatre operator, Chicago; with First Nat!
Pictures. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Balaban,]ohn; b. Chicago, Oct 15 1894; d.
Apr41957.
Motion picture exec, Chicago. • See:
WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Apr5 1957,27:4.
Balabanoff, Angelica; b. Chemigov, 1877; d.
Nov261965.
To NYC 1936. • PhD U Brussels. • Socialist
ldr, worker; ldr Communist Internationale;
autobiography. • See: UJE; NYTimes, Nov 26
1965,37:3.
Balag, Mordecai; b. ca 1860; d. Mar 20
1938.
Hazzan, NYc. • See: A]YB, 40:381.
BS MI ColI ofMining. • Paper mfr, Chicago;
pres Home for Jewish Orphans; officer Jewish
Childrens Welfare Soc; WWI service. • See:
WWIA],1938;BEOA].
Ballin, Hugo; b. NYC, Mar 7 1879; d.
Pacific Palisades, CA, Nov 1956.
Art Students League. • Painter, author, motion
picture producer, Los Angeles. • See: UJE;
A]YB, 24:116; WWIA], 1926,1928,1938;
WWWIA, 3;NYTimes, Nov281956, 35:6.
Ballin, Julius; b. Germany, ca 1848; d.
NYC, Nov 30 1923.
To US 1862. • Social worker, philanthropist,
NYC; officer Home for Aged & Infirm
Hebrews.· See:A]YB, 7(1905-1906):38,
26:153; NYTimes, Dec 3 1923, 17:3.
Ballin, Max; b. Nordhausen, Germany, Aug
131869; d. Detroit, Mar 3 1934.
In US by 1901. • MD U Berlin. • Surgeon,
research scientist, Detroit; WWI service. •
See:A]YB, 24:116, 36:278; WWIA], 1926,
1928; WWWIA, 1.
Ballin, MiltonJ; b. NYC, ca 1864; d. NYC,
Sep 1947.
Yale, MD Columbia, Vienna. • Physician,
NYC; specialty: ear, eye, nose; author/
translator in field. • See: A]YB, 24:116;
NYTimes, Sep 13 1947,11:6.
Baldauf, Leon Kahn; b. Louisville, 1877.
Physician, Louisville. • See: A ]YB, 24:116.
Ballis, Samuel R; b. Chicago, Nov 111901.
Crane Technical SchooL • Clothing mfr,
Chicago; active Republican politics. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Baldauf, Minnie L; b. Louisville, July 7
1872.
Social worker, kindergarten tchr, Louisville;
with Neighborhood House; active Nat!
Council ofJewish Women. • See:A]YB,
7(1905-1906):37-38.
BaIlon, Harry Clarence; b. Montreal, Dec 6
1901.
To US 1928, to Montreal 1933. • McGill U, U
Frankfurt, U Budapest. • Surgeon, St Louis,
Montreal; faculty Washing~on U; author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Baldauf, Morris; b. ca 1839; d. Henderson,
KY, July 9 1911.
Communal worker, Henderson, KY. • See:
A]YB, 14(1912-1913):123.
Bamber, Golde; b. Boston, Jan 51862/
1869.
Boston U, Harvard. • School admr, tchr, social
worker, author, Boston; supt Heb Industrial
School. • See: A]YB, 7(1905-1906):38;
WWIA],1938.
Balint, Emery; b. Hungary, 1892.
Academy ofArt (Budapest, Berlin), Julien
Academie. • Author, artist, NYC; general secy
Anti-Horthy League. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Balish, Benjamin; b. NYC, Jan 3 1896.
Produce merchant, realtor, NYC; active trade
assn. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Balkin, Louis Ellis; b. Kursenai, Lithuania,
Dec 15 1886.
To US 1904. • Garment mfr, St Louis. • See:
WWIA],1928.
BaIl, Charles; b. Poland, Sep 211885; d.
Scranton, May 1953.
Shoe merchant, Scranton; officer YMHA,
Civic Betterment Assn; active Community
Chest, Travelers Aid. • See: WWIA], 1928
(addenda); NYTimes, May 22 1953,27:1.
BaIlenberg, Adolf Gerhard; b. Chicago,
May91893.
Bamberger, Alfred H; b. NYC, July 18
1874; d. Apr 1948.
Umbrella mfr, NYC; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, United Palestine Appeal, Joint
Distribution Com, WWI Liberty Loan drive. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Apr 28 1948,
Bible translation com. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
82:362; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA; 8.
Bamberger, Clarence; b. Salt Lake City,
July 16 1886.
ME Cornell, Berlin, Paris. • Mining engineer,
legislator, Salt Lake City; bd Red Cross; active
Republican politics; WWI military &
government service..• See: WWWIA, 7.
Bamberger, Edgar S; b. Baltimore, 1883; d.
Avon, N],June 28 1952.
Merchant, radio station pres, civic ldr, Newark;
fdr, chr United Jewish Appeal; trustee Inst for
Advanced Study (Princeton); active Boys
Scouts. • See: A]YB, 54:538; NYTimes, June 30
1952,19:4.
Bamberger, Elkan; b. ca 1822; d. Baltimore,
May31909.
Merchant, Baltimore.•. See: A]YB, 11 (19091910):108.
Bamberger, Ernest; b. Salt Lake City, Aug
11 1877; d. Jan 111958.
AB Williams, EM Columbia; honorary degree.
• Engineer, mining exec, Salt Lake City; active
Republican politics. • See:A]YB, 24:116;
WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 3.
Bamberger, Florence Eilau; b. Baltimore,
Oct 191882.
BS, MA, PhD Columbia. • Educator,
Baltimore; with public school system; faculty
Johns Hopkins; dir Tchrs ColI; author in field.
• See: UJE;A]YB, 24:116; WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938;BEOA].
Bamberger, Fritz; b. Frankfurt,Jan 71902;
d. NYC, Sep 22 1984.
To US 1939. • PhD U Berlin; honorary
degree. • Scholar of philosophy; editor, Berlin,
NYC; faculty Academy for Jewish Research,
ColI ofJewish Studies (both Berlin), Jewish
Inst of Religion; exec Leo Baeck Inst; staff
Coronet; author in field. • See: E]; E]:19831985;A]YB, 86:436-37.
Bamberger, Gabriel; b. Darmstadt, 1845; d.
Chicago,Jan 91909.
To US 1879. • Pioneer in manual training;
orgr Chicago Jewish Training School; active
religious schools, synagog. • See: UJE; A]YB,
5(1903-1904):216.
27:4.
Bamberger, George W; b. ca 1880; d. July 9
1936.
Physician, pioneer in bloodless surgery,
Chicago. • See: A]YB, 39:588.
Bamberger, Arrie; b. Danville, IL, June 22/
241887.
BS U Chicago, MI? Rush Med ColI. •
Surgeon, Chicago; faculty U IL; officer med
soc; author in field. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1938.
Bamberger, Henry Fischler; b.
Philadelphia, May 17 1894.
BS, CE U PA. • Civil engineer, Philadelphia;
with PA Railroad, US War Dept; active flood
control, hydro-electrical power; WWI service.
• See: WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Bamberger, BernardJacob; b. Baltimore,
May 30 1904; d. NYC, June 14 1980.
ABJohns Hopkins, ordained, DD Heb Union
ColI; honorary degree. • Rabbi, scholar,
author, Albany, NY, NYC; pres Central Conf
of Am Rabbis; memJewish Publication Soc
Bamberger, Ira Leo; b. Hartford, Jan 21
1852; d. Brooklyn, Dec 271919.
MA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, industrialist,
social worker, banker, Brooklyn; counsel Bd of
Education; officer Heb Orphan Asylum. ,. See:
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):38,22:164; NYTimes, Dec
29 1919,9:3.
31
Bamberger, Jacob; b. ca 1839; d. Ft Scott,
KS, Aug 23 1920.
Barack, Louis Barry
6(1904-1905):58, 24:117; NYTimes, June 18
1957,33:2.
Pioneer merchant, Civil War veteran, Ft Scott,
KS.· See:AJYB, 23:131.
Bamberger, Julian Maas; b. Salt Lake City,
Feb 91889.
Bamberger, Reba Cecelia (Mrs Ira Leo
Bamberger); b. Brooklyn, Mar 261865;
d. May 211937.
1938; BEOAJ.
Communal & civic worker, NYC; mem Bd of
Education, Local Bd of Education (Brooklyn);
officer Clara de Hirsch Home, Natl Council of
Jewish Women. • See:AJYB, 39:588; WWIAJ,
1938;NITimes, May 22 1937, 15:2.
Bamberger, Leo; b. NYC, Sep 2 1868; d.
Philadelphia, Feb 1961.
Bamberger, Simon; b. Darmstadt, 1845/
1846; d. Salt Lake City, Oct 7 1926.
Cooper Inst. • Photoengraving exec,
Philadelphia; fdr Labor Day Baby Parade
(Ocean City, NJ); active trade assns. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Feb 251961,21:3.
To US 1861. • Governor, storekeeper, railroad
& traction line bldr, banker, mineowner, Salt
Lake City; mem Bd of Education; officer
synagog; active Democratic politics, aid Jewish
agricultural colony at Clarion. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 24:117, 29:117; WWWIA., 1.
BA Princeton. • Corp exec, legislator, Salt
Lake City; pres State Travelers Aid; active Red
Cross, Boy Scouts, Am Legion. • See: WWIAJ,
Bamberger, Leon; b. NYC, Dec 22 1892; d.
Apr 1967.
Motion picture sales promoter, NYC; with
Paramount Pictures, RKO. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; NITimes, Apr 27 1967,45:2.
Bamberger, LeviS; b. ca.1839; d. Locust
Valley, LI,July 1912.
Merchant, NYC.· See:AJYB, 15(19131914):269;NITimes,July81912,9:5.
Bamberger; Louis; b.*; d. Selma, AL,Jan 7
1909.
.
Newspaper editor, Selma, AL. • See: AJYB,
11(1909-1910):108.
Bamberger, Louis; b. Baltimore, May 15
1855; d. South Orange, NJ, Mar 111944.
Wickersham Commn.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Banen, Florence Dorfl:nan (Mrs Maurice
Banen);b. Virginia, MN,June 91905.
Superior State Tchrs ColI. • Communal &
civic worker, Virginia, MN; officer Natl
Council ofJewish Women; active work for
crippled children, Little Theatre movement.
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
48
Banever, Gilbert; b. New Haven, June 8
1913.
BFA Yale.· Painter, New Haven. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Bank, Morris; b. Croz, Russia, May 11
1873.
Communal worker, Baltimore; dir Assocd
Jewish Charities. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Banks, Polan (Algernon); b. Norfolk, 1906.
Band, Max (Mordecai); b. Naumestis,
Lithuania, 1900; d. 1974.
Baltimore City ColI. • Author, newspaperman,
novelist. • See: UJE.
To US ca 1940. • Kaiser Friedrich Museum
(Berlin). • Painter; noted for portraits of
Holocaust survivors. • See: UJE; EJ; EJ:19831985.
Banov, Leon; b. Suwalki, July 5 1888; d.
Nov 3 1971.
Bandes, Louis E; see Miller, Louis E.
Bandler, Clarence Garfield; b. Owego, NY,
Nov 6 1880; d. Nov 15 1957.
CCNY, AB, MD Columbia. • Urologist,
NYC; faculty Columbia, NY Post-Grad Med
School; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, Nov 171957,87:1.
Honorary degrees. • Dept store merchant,
philanthropist, Newark; fdr radio station;
Bandler, Maurice Edward; b. Owego, NY,
benefactor Joint Distribution Com, Newark
Apr 21878.
Museum, Inst for Advanced Study (Princeton).
Columbia, Columbia Physicians & Surgeons. •
• Industrial diamond importer, NYc. • See:
• See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 24:116,46:334;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; PAJHS, 37:455-57; WWIAJ,1938.
WWWIA., 2; DAB, 3; NITimes, Mar 12 1944,
38:1.
Bandler, Max; b. Bolechow, Poland, Mar 12
To Charleston, SC 1898.· MD Med ColI of
Sc. • Physician, public health officer,
Charleston, SCi consult US Public Health
Service; officer med socs, B'nai B'rith. • See:
WWIA], 1938; WWWIA., 6.
Banowitch, Morris Mortimer; b. NYC, May
28 1891/1892.
MD LI ColI Hospital, post-grad U Vienna. •
Physician, internist, Brooklyn;·with LI ColI
Hospital. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Bara, Theda (born Theodosia Goodman);
b. Cincinnati, July 201885; d. Los
Angeles, Apr 71955•
U Cincinnati. • Film actress, the "vamp,"
Hollywood, CA. • See:A]YB, 24:117;
WWWIA., 3; NAW:modern; DAB, 5; NITimes,
Apr 81955,21:1.
1878.
Bamberger, Max; b.*; d. Philadelphia, Aug
41910.
Businessman, NYC; active communal charities.
• See: WWIAJ, i 928.
Barach, Alvan Leroy; b. Newcasde, PA, Feb
22 1895; d. Dec 13 1977.
Bandler, Samuel Wyllis (William); b.*; d.
NYC,July 311932.
Gynecologist, NYc. • See: AJYB, 24:117,
CCNY, MD Columbia. • Physician, NYC; a
developer of oxygen tent; faculty Columbia;
author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA., 7; NITimes, Dec 141977, IV 17:4.
Merchant, philanthropist, Philadelphia. • See:
AJYB, 13(1911-1912):135.
Bamberger, Miriam Epsteiti (Mrs Melvin
Bamberger); b. Frankfort, IN.
Civic & communalldr, social worker,
Milwaukee; dir Federated Jewish Charities;
active Natl Council of]ewish Women, County
Fedn ofWornens Clubs, sisterhood. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Bamberger, Mrs Simon; b. ca 1864; d. Salt
Lake City, May 211936.
35:122.
Bandman, Chester Gabriel; b. Birmingham,
AL, May 211886.
BS U PA, post-grad U Berlin, LLB U AL, U
Chicago, U CA. • Mathematician, tchr,
Birmingham, AL, Pittsburgh; education dir
synagog; author in field. • See:A]YB, 24:117;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1938.
Communal worker, Salt Lake City. • See:
AJYB, 38:425.
Bandmann, Daniel Edward; b. Cassel,
Germany, Nov 11840; d. Missoula, Nov
1905.
Barach, Frederica Pisek (Mrs Alvan L
Barach); b. Lake Hopatcong, NJ, Aug 1
1904.
AB Vassar. • Editor, NYC; editor-in-chief
Golden Book Magazine. • See: WWWIA., 3.
Barach, Joseph Hayem (Hayim); b.
Kalvaria, Lithuania, Mar 12 1882; d. Mar
71954.
To US 1888.· MD U Pittsburgh, post-grad
5.
See:JE; UJE;AJYB, 8(1906-1907):224;
WWWIA., 1; NITimes, Nov 25 1905,9:5.
Columbia. • Physician, Pittsburgh; with US
Public Health Service; faculty U Pittsburgh;
officer professional socs; author in field; WWI
service, WWII selective service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; WWWIA., 3; NITimes,
Mar 10 1954,25:5.
Bamberger, Raymond Sidney; b. KY, Oct
291877; d.June 1957.
Bane, Henry; b. Siauliai, Lithuania, May 12
1905.
Barack, Louis Barry; b. Pittsburgh, June 7
1910; d.June 19 1967.
AB Male High School (Louisville). • Air force
officer, major, Washington DC. • See: AJYB,
To Durham, NC 1914.· AB Duke, LLB U
NC. • Lawyer, Durham, NC; investigator
BS U Pittsburgh, MBA Harvard. • Dept store
exec, Chicago. • See: WWWIA., 5.
Bamberger, Ralph; b. Indianapolis, Dec 24
1871.
BA, LLB U IN. • Lawyer, legislator,
Indianapolis. • See: WWIAJ, 1926; WWWIA.,
To US 1863. • Shakespearian actor, rancher,
Missoula; known for portrayal of Shylock. •
32
Baran, Rose (Mrs Julius Baran)
Baran, Rose (Mrs Julius Baran); b. Chicago,
1859?; d. NYC, Apr 18 1951.
Tchr, NYC; specialty: handicapped children;
fdr, pres NY Philanthropic League. • See:
A]YB, 53:523;NYTimes, Apr 191951, 31:5.
Baright, Clarice Margolies (Mrs George F
Baright); b. NYC, ca 1886; d. NYC, Jan
1961.
Civil War veteran, Detroit. • See: A]YB,
37:254.
Barmack, Joseph Ephraim; b. NYC, Sep 20
1910; d. May 301980.
NYU. • Lawyer, municipal judge, communal
charity worker, NYC; supporter civic
improvement. • See: UJE; NYTimes, Jan 9
1961,39:2.
BS CCNY, PhD Columbia. • Psychologist,
educator, researcher, NYC; faculty CCNY;
WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Bar-Dan (Berlin), Meir (Meyer); see Berlin,
Meyer.
LLB John Marshall Law. • Lawyer, Chicago;
WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
BA U Cincinnati, LLB NJ Law, ordained Heb
Union ColI. • Rabbi, Cincinnati, Altoona,
Bayonne; faculty U 'IX. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938; BEOA]; CCARYB.
Barinds, Henrietta; b. ca 1853; d. June 11
1938.
Communal worker, Memphis. • See: A]YB,
Barnard, Harris; b. ca 1856; d. NYC, Apr
291912.
Communal worker, NYc. • See: A]YB,
40:381.
14(1912-1913):127.
Barash, Solomon; b. ca 1856; d. NYC, Sep
17 1934.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: A]YB,
Barish, Thomas; b. Karelitz, Minsk, Sep 15
1897.
Barnard, Harry; b. Pueblo, CO, Sep 5 1906;
d. Aug 26 1982.
To US 1900. • AB, ME Columbia. •
Mechanical engineer, NYC,Jamestown, NY;
faculty Columbia; author in field. • See:
WWIA],1938.
U Denver, PhD U Chicago, post-grad John
Marshall Law. • Biographer, journalist,
Chicago; active Am Civil Liberties Union,
liberal politics. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Baras, Hyman; b.Jerusalem, Feb 1900.
Rabbi, Cherbourg, France, Plymouth, MA;
pres Mizrachi. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Barnard, Bernard;b. Chicago, Apr 16 1887.
Barasch, Nathan Emanuel; b. Stinbieni,
Rumania, May 14 1888; d. Bayonne,
1959.
37:254.
Baratz, David; b. ca 1876; d. NYC, Oct 21
1931.
Yiddish actor, NYc. • See:A]YB, 34:109.
Barbash, Samuel; b. Austria, Jan 29 1884; d.
Adantic City, Nov 14 1946.
To US 1884.· MD Medico Chirurgical ColI
(Philadelphia?). • Physician, heart specialist,
Atlantic City; mem State Bd ofMed
Examiners; med dir Atlantic City Hospital. •
See: A]YB, 49:608; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
Nov 15 1946,24:2.
Barbe, Lizzie T (Mrs Martin Barbe); b.
East Liberty, OH, 1856; d. Chicago, Sep
291943.
Communal worker, Chicago; officer Natl
Council ofJewish Women, United Order of
True Sisters; bdJewish Training School. • See:
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):38-39,46:334.
Barbrow, Abraham; b. Philadelphia, Oct 5
1895.
BS U Pittsburgh, MD Jefferson Med ColI. •
Physician, public school & insurance med
inspector, Pittsburgh. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Barcus, Norman; b. Milwaukee, Dec 23
1905; d.Jan 13 1970.
AB Wayne. • State official, statistician, labor
analyst, economist, Detroit; with MI
Employment Security Commn. • See:
WWWIA,5.
Bardin, Shlomo H; b. Zhitomir, Russia,
Dec 3 1898; d. Thousand Oaks, CA, May
161976.
To US 1939.· Educator, author; a fdr, dir
Brandeis Camp Inst; dir Brandeis Youth
Found.· See:A]YB, 78:538; NYTimes, May 17
1976,32:3.
Barere, Simon; b. Odessa, Sep 1 1896; d.
NYC, Apr 2 1951.
Concert'pianist. • See:A]YB, 53:523;
NYTimes, Apr 3 1951, 1:2.
Baretz, Louis Herbert; b. South Norwalk,
CT, Jan 26 1896; d. 1955.
PhB, MD Yale. • Urologist, Brooklyn; author
in field; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938;
Barison, Moms Everett; b. Jersey City, Oct
191895.
LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, legislator,
Democratic ldr, Jersey City; state pres NJ Fedn
YM & YWHAs; bd Heb Orphan Home; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Barit, A Edward; b. NYC, Aug 30 1888/
1890.
Barnert, Meyer; b. Paterson, July 301881.
EE Columbia. • Engineer, mill mgr,
communal & civic worker, Paterson; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Barnert, Nathan; b. Santomischel, Posen,
Sep 29/30 1838; d. Paterson, Dec 23
1927.
Barkan, Alexander Elias; b. Bayonne, Aug 9
1909.
To US 1848/1849. • Businessman, mfr, public
figure, communalldr, philanthropist, mayor,
Paterson; produced uniforms for Union Army
during Civil War. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
7(1905-1906):39,30:79; WWIA], 1926;
NYTimes, Dec 241927, 15:3.
U Chicago. • Labor ldr; orgr Textile Workers
Union, CIO; dir AFL-CIO Com on Political
Education; WWII service. • See: Fink, 13.
Barnes, Binnie (Gittel) (Mrs Samuel
Joseph); b. London, Mar 25 1908.
Auto mfr exec, Detroit; with Hudson Motor
Car.· See: UJE; WWIA], 1938.
Barkhouse, Julius; b. Germany, 1837; d.
Chicago, Oct 3 1921.
To US ca 1851.· Civil War veteran, banker,
Chicago; earlier distiller, Louisville; fdr
Newsboys Home (Cincinnati). • See: A]YB,
24:100;NYTimes, Oct41921, 15:7.
Barkhouse, Louis; b. Lengsfeld, SachsenWeimar-Eisenach, July 281833; d.
Louisville, May 5 1916.
Communalldr, Louisville; fdr Newsboys
Home; officer Childrens Free Hospital; dir
Jewish Hospital, Heb Relief Assn. • See: A]YB,
7(1905-1906):39, 18(1916-1917):106;
NYTimes, May 61916,11:5.
To Hollywood, CA 1933. • Movie actress,
Beverly Hills. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Barnet, Gates; b. Syracuse, Oct 1 1850.
Communalldr, Albany, NY; officer Heb
Benevolent Soc, B'nai B'rith, synagogs. • See:
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):39.
Barnet, Morris S; b. Bavaria, June 1 1858;
d. Dec 23 1921.
To US 1875. • Leather merchant,
philanthropist, NYC; bd Mt Sinai, Heb Union
ColI.· See:A]YB, 24:100; NYTimes, Dec 25
1921,20:3.
Barne~
Samuel; b. NYC, Nov271890.
Barkin, Seymour; b. NYC, Feb 61910; d.
NYC, Mar 26 1969.
LLB Boston U. • Lawyer, county court judge,
New Bedford, MA; pres Zionist Org Assn; dir
Welfare Soc.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Lawyer, exec, realtor, NYC; active United
Jewish Appeal. • See:A]YB, 71:602; NYTimes,
Mar 28 1969, 50:2.
Barnet, William; b. ca 1852; d. Albany, NY,
Dec 141932.
Barlofsky, Maurice; b. Lowell, MA, Aug 1
1899.
LLB Boston U. • Lawyer, communal worker,
Lowell, MA; officer Zionist Org of Am, B'nai
B'rith; active Republican politics. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Barlow, Adolph; b. ca 1845; d. Detroit, Sep
1934.
Civic & communalldr, Albany, NY. • See:
A]YB, 35:122~
Barnett, Isaac Albert; b. London, May 7
1894.
To US 1904. • BS, MS, PhD U Chicago. •
Mathematician, Cincinnati; faculty
Washington U (St Louis), Harvard, U
Cincinnati. • See: WWIA], 1938.
33
Barnett, Jennie Strauss (Mrs Moses
Barnett); b. Cincinnati, May 141885.
IN U. • Publisher, communalldr,
Indianapolis; mgr INJewish Chronick. • See:
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Barnett, Jonas; b. July 29 1784; d.
Allentown, PA, Aug 311847.
Paymaster, US Navy. • See: BDEA].
Barnett, Kallman Sanford; b. Omaha, May
13 1891.
Fuel merchant, communal worker, Denver;
Baroway, Solomon
Social Service; officer Boy Scouts, B'nai B'rith.
• See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Baron, Edwin William; b. Sioux City, Jan
271907.
LLB U IA. • Lawyer, Sioux City; active
Republican politics. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Baron, Emanuel H; b. Novogradwolynsk,
Russia, Feb 8 1892.
Columbia, AM, PhD candidate Princeton. •
Communal educator, Zionist worker, Yiddish,
Heb & English author, Brooklyn; with Bureau
ofJewish Education,JTS. • See: WWIA],
1928.
Barnstein, Henry; see entry below.
Barnston, Henry; b. Dover, Aug 23 1868; d.
Houston, Dec 1949.
Jews CoIl (London), University CoIl (London),
U London, Montefiore CoIl (Ramsgate), PhD
U Heidelberg. • Rabbi, Houston; officer Social
Service Fedn; bd Public Library; dir Jewish
Welfare Bd; author/lecturer in field. • See:
UJE;A]YB, 5(1903-1904):43 (sub Barnstein);
WWIA], 1926, 1928; NITimes, Dec 13 1949,
31:2.
Baroff, Abraham; b. Nikolaev, Russia, 1870;
d. Torrington, CT, Sep 22 1932.
To US 1890. • Labor ldr, NYC; orgr Waist &
Dressmakers Union; officer ILGWU; active
LaFollette Progressive Party; author in field,
Yiddish stories. • See: UJE; A]YB, 35:122.
Barol, Hugo; b. Germany, Sep 4 1890.
Leather goods mfr, Philadelphia; active Mason.
• See: WWIA], 1928.
Baron, Aaron; b. Joniskis, Lithuania, 1886;
d. NYC, Mar 171953.
To US ca 1904. • Columbia. • Music critic,
NYC; with]ewish Daily News, The Day; WWI
Jewish Legion service. • See:A]YB, 55:454;
NITimes, Mar 181953,31:2.
Baron, Abraham; b. ca 1838; d. St Louis,
Mar281914.
Journalist, St Louis. • See: A]YB, 16(19141915):161.
Baron, Abraham; b. Riga, 1886?; d.
Brooklyn, Dec 1949.
To US 1906. • Trade union orgr, Heb
Immigrant Aid Soc ldr & orgr; active Natl
Labor Com for Palestine, Workmen's Circle. •
See:A]YB, 52:501; NITimes, Dec 8 1949,33:3.
Baron, Bernard; b. Dmitrovka, Russia, July
15 1874.
To Sioux City 1892. • Merchant, communal
worker, Sioux City; dir U IA School of
Religion.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Baron, David; b. St Louis, Apr 25 1894.
St Louis U, Washington U (St Louis). •
Lawyer, communal worker, St Louis. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Baron, Edward Everett; b. Russia, May 24
1890.
To US 1891. • Lewis Inst, LLB Northwestern.
• Lawyer, Sioux City; pres Fedn ofJewish
Baron, Fanny Cohen .(Mrs Henry A Baron);
b. Roxbury, MA, Dec 3 1895; d.
Brooklyn, Apr 16 1963.
Communalldr; natl officer Am Jewish Cong;
alternate delegate UNESCO agencies. • See:
A]YB, 65:431;NITimes, Apr 171963,41:2.
Baron, Harry; b. ca1882; d. Oct 19 1937.
Merchant, deputy sheriff, communal & Zionist
worker, veteran, Chester, PA. • See: A]YB,
40:381.
Baron, Henry; b. Austria.
Playwright, NYc.. See:A]YB, 24:117.
Baron, Herman; b. Lithuania, Oct 1 1892;
d.Jan 271961.
NYU. • Art gallery dir, publisher, author,
biographer, NYC; WWI service. • See:
WWWIA, 4; NITimes, Jan 28 1961, 19: 1.
Baron, Joseph; b. ca 1879; d. Marinette,
WI, Dec 1919.
Rabbi, Marinette, WI.· See:A]YB, 22:164.
Baron, Joseph Louis; b. Vilna, May 27
1894; d. Milwaukee, July 12 1960.
To US 1907. • BA, MA Columbia, PhD U
Chicago; honorary degree. • Reform rabbi,
author, Milwaukee; faculty Milwaukee State
Tchrs ColI; fdr midwestern Jewish
communities. • See: UJE; E]; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; ~,4.
Baron, Murray; b. Brooklyn, June 281908.
LLB Brooklyn Law. • Union official, NYC;
with Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union,
ILGUW; chr Socialist Party. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Baron, Sadi Muriel (Mrs David M Raskind);
b. Philadelphia, Apr 1 1889; d. Aug 1961.
Bryn Mawr, MD Womens Med ColI ofPA. •
Psychiatrist,·NYC; faculty Columbia; active
Queens public health agencies. • See:·BEOA];
NITimes, Aug 14 1961,25:3.
Baron, Salo (Shalom) Wittmayer; b.
Tarnow, Galicia, May 26 1895.
To US 1926/1927. • PhD, Pol Sci Dr,JD U
Vienna, ordainedJTS (Vienna). • Historian,
tchr ofJewish studies, NYC; faculty Columbia,
JTS; officer professional socs; dir Center of
Israel & Jewish Studies; author/editor in field.
• See: UJE; E]; E]:1973-1982; WWIA], 1928;
BEOA]; A]H, 71:493-500.
Baron, Samuel Halevi; b. Gorlice, Galicia,
Oct 17 1900; d. 1971.
To US 1906. • Butler, BHL, ordained Heb
Union ColI, AB IN U, MA U 'IX. • Rabbi,
Leavenworth, Forest Hills, NY; active AntiDefamation League, communal & civic orgs;
military chaplain. • See: WWIA], 1938;
CCARYB.
Baron, Samuel T; b. NYC?, 1892; d. NYC,
Aug211969.
Business exec, NYC; specialty: graphic arts;
active United Jewish Appeal, Am Jewish Com;
benefactor NY School of Printing. • See:
A]YB, 71:602; NITimes, Aug 22 1969,35:2.
Baron, Sydney Stuart; b. NYC, May 30
1920; d. Oct 191980.
BS StJohns. • Public relations & management
consult, NYC; deputy commr city depts; active
philanthropies, Democratic politics, communal
education; author in field. • See:WWWIA, 7.
Baron, Wolff; b. Russia, 1859.
Cantor, Paterson; earlier London, Boston,
NYc.. See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):43.
Baron, Louis Bernhard, Sir; b. Baltimore,
1876; d. Surrey, England, 1934.
Tobacco mfr, communal worker,
philanthropist, US, London. • See: UJE.
Barondess, Barbara; b. Brooklyn, July 1
1910.
Stage & movie actress, Los Angeles; Christian
Scientist. • See: WWIA], 1938 (addenda).
Baron, Maurice Clyde; b. Odessa, Apr 15
1897.
To Chicago 1902. • DDS Loyola. • Dentist,
Chicago; active Jewish Peoples Convalescent
Home, Am Jewish Cong, Boy Scouts.· See:
WWIA],1938.
Barondess, Joseph; b. Kamenetz, Podolsk,
July 3 1867; d. Brooklyn, June 19 1928.
To US 1888. • NYU Law. • Pioneer labor
orgr, communalldr, NYC; a fdr ILGWU, orgr
Heb Actors, Am Jewish Cong; head Order
Sons of Zion; active Socialist Party, Social
Labor Party. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 6(19041905):58-59,24:117, 30:79; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; Fink, 15-16; NITimes, June 20
1928,25:5.
Baron, Max; b. ca 1857; d. NYC, Oct 23
1933.
BIdr, communal worker, NYC. • See: A]YB,
36:278.
Baron, Maximilian George; b. Zhitomir,
Ukraine, Aug 18 1889.
To US 1891. • LLB St Louis U. • Lawyer,
circuit court judge, Zionist ldr, St Louis; mem
Bd of Education, Provisional Exec Com of
World Zionist Org. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938.
Baroway, Solomon; b. Schklov, Mohilev,
Oct 10 1860; d. Mar 1918.
Communal & Zionist ldr, author; orgr Zion
Assn; officer Heb Literary Soc (Baltimore &
Philadelphia); a fdr, mem Lasker Colony (KS).
• See:A]YB, 7(1905-1906):39-40; NITimes,
Mar 81918,11:5.
Barr,]oseph Fischer
Barr, Joseph Fischer; b. Poland, Feb 7
1900; d. Washington DC, June 25 1965.
To US 190411905;· George Washington,
Boston U.· Lawyer, org exec, Washington
DC; exec elir, nad commander Jewish War
Veterans; a fdr Jewish Community Center,
usa; counsel Veterans Adm; WWI service. •
See: A]YB, 67:531; WWIA], 1938; NITimes,
June 26 1965,29:6.
Barrett, Mrs Starr (Esther?); b. 1699?; d.
Charleston, SC?, Jan 9 1820(?).·
To America 1780 from London. • Colonial
woman reputed to have elied at age 100 (?). •
See:BDEA].
Barron, Harry Diad; b. Chicago, Dec 9
1909.
PhB, M Soc Sci U Chicago, Grad School of
Jewish Social Work, post-grad Heb Union
ColI, Columbia. • Social worker, Erie,
Cincinnati, Elizabeth, NYC; faculty Grad
School Social Work (NYC). • See: WWIA],
1938.
Barron, Isaac; b. ca 1848; d. Shreveport,
May 3 1916.
Mem Chamber of Commerce, Shreveport. •
See: AJYB, 18(1916-1917):106.
Barron, Jennie Loitman (Mrs Samuel
Barron Jr); b. Boston, Oct 12 1891; d.
Boston, Mar 281969.
AB, LLB, LLM Boston U; honorary degree. •
Lawyer, municipal & state supreme court
justice, asst atty general, suffragist, Boston;
mem School Com; officer League ofWomen
Voters; bd Brandeis.· See: UJE; E]; WWIA],
1928 (addenda), 1938; BEOA]; NAW:modern;
Barron, Maurice Edward; b. ca 1892; d.
Bristol, RI, Aug 22 1938.
Surgeon, Boston; faculty Tufts. • See: A]YB,
41:418;NYTimes, Aug 23 1938,17:4.
Barron, Moses; b. Lithuania, Nov 8 1883.
BS, MD U MN, post-grad U Vienna. •
Physician, pathologist, Minneapolis; faculty U
MN; officer med socs; author in field; WWI
service. • See: A]YB, 24:117; WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938; BEOA].
Barron, Ted S; b. Flushing, NY, Dec 14
1879.
BS NYU. • Song composer, Flushing; coauthor official Actors Fund song. • See:
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Barsel, Solomon Mordecai; b. Tiberias,
Palestine, Jan 11899; d. Feb 1952.
To US 1916.· PhG Rutgers, BS William &
Mary. • Rabbi, Zionist ldr, Philadelphia;
officer Zionist Org ofAm. • See: WWIA],
1938; NITimes, Feb 16 1952, 13:6.
34
DDS U PA, MD NY Med ColI, post-grad
London. • Plastic surgeon, NYC; faculty
Albert Einstein ColI ofMed; pres Childrens
Med Relief Internad; officer med soc; author in
field; wwn service. • See: WWWIA,8.
Barsky, George; b. NYC, Aug 26 1896.
BS, CE, MA, PhD Columbia. • Consulting
chemist & engineer, NYC; atheist. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Bart, Jan; b. Sambor, Poland, Jan 261919;
d. Brooklyn, Aug 12 1971.
To US 1930. • Entertainer, communal fund
raiser.· See:A]YB, 73:629; NITimes, Aug 14
1971,28:2.
Bartel, Benjamin; b. Brooklyn, Feb 26
1916; d. NYC, Sep 111983.
StJohns. • Lawyer, real estate & alcoholism
consult, philanthropist; bd AmJewish Cong;
active politics. • See: A]YB, 85:412.
Barth, Alan; b. NYC, Oct 21 1906.
PhBYale, Harvard. • Editorial & sports writer,
St Paul; with Minneapolis papers; pres Nad
Boxing Assn. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Barth, Harry; b. ca 1878; d. Aug 25 1937.
Hotel chain pres, communal worker, NYC. •
See:A]YB, 40:381; NITimes, Aug 271937,
19:3.
Barth, Irvin V; b. Columbia, MO, Nov 6
1877; d. before 1938.
AB, AM, LLB U MO, LLB Harvard. •
Lawyer, circuit court judge, St Louis; lecturer
St Louis U; active bar & legal assns. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Barth, Judah Harry; b. Paterson, Mar 9
1902.
LLB NJ Law School. • Lawyer, Hackensack;
pres Heb Inst; active YMHA. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Barthold, Manuel; b. Russia, Sep 91874.
Artist, Paris. • See: A]YB, 6(1904-1905):59.
Barton, Harris; b. ca 1845; d. Pittsburgh,
Mar 171923.
Communal worker, Pittsburgh. • See: A]YB,
25:138.
Bartzoff, Benjamin; b. Buffalo, June 11906.
BS, EE Columbia. • Newspaper exec, Boston;
fdr Nat! Cooking School ColI & Jewish School
Cookery; publisher Young Israel. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Baruc, Edgar Sigmund; b. NYC, Oct 15
1886; d.June 1952.
CCNY, abroad. • Banker, NYC; with
Goldman-Sachs; WWI government service. •
See: WWIA], 1926,1938; NITimes, June 14
1952,15:4.
Barsimson, Jacob; b.*
To America 1654. • One of first Jews in New
Amsterdam; exempted from appearing in court
on the Sabbath. • See: ]E; UJE; E]; PAJHS,
29:39-52; BDEA].
Baruch, Bernard; b.*; d. Brooklyn, May 21
1910.
Justice, Rye, NY; Civil War veteran. • See:
A]YB,12(1910-1911):II1.
Barsky, Arthur Joseph; b. NYC, Dec 7
1899.
Baruch, Bernard Mannes; b. Camden, SC,
Aug 191870; d. NYC, June 201965.
AB CCNY; honorary degrees. • Broker, stock
analyst, speculator, presidential advisor, NYC;
est US atomic energy policy; WWI, WWII
government service; autobiography. • See:
UJE; E] (sub Baruch); A]YB, 24:117, 67:531;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
4; DAB, 7; NITimes, June 21 1965, 1:6.
Baruch, Dorothy Walter (Mrs Herbert M
Baruch); b. San Francisco, Aug 5 1899;d.
Sep 41962.
Bryn Mawr, U Southern CA, BEd, M Ed
Whittier ColI, PhD Claremont ColI. •
Psychologist, educator, Whittier, CA; faculty
nursery school, Broadoaks School of
Education; active Nat! Council ofJewish
Women; author/lecturer/consult in field;
WWII government service. • See: WWIA],
1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 4.
Baruch, Edgar; b. Los Angeles, Oct 20
1879.
BS, MS U CA (Berkeley). • Chemical
engineer, Los Angeles. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938.
Baruch, Edward; b. Reilingen, Germany,
Sep 211877.
To NYC 1896.· Merchant, NYC.· See:
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Baruch, Emanuel; b. NYC, Feb 22 1868.
U Wiirttemburg, Columbia, post-grad U
Munich, U Berlin..• Bacteriologist,
pathologist, NYC; faculty Flower Hospital &
Med ColI; author in field. • See: A]YB,
6(1904-1905):59.
Baruch, Hartwig N (stage name Nathaniel
Hartwig); b. WInnsboro, SC, 1868; d.
Coral Gables, FL, Mar 11953.
Actor, financier, NYc. • See: E] (sub Baruch);
NITimes, Mar 2 1953,23:6.
Baruch, Herman Benjamin; b. Camden,
SC, Apr 28 1872; d. Wyandanch, LI, Mar
15 1953.
BS CCNY, MD Columbia. • Physician,
broker, public servant, diplomat, NYC; pres
Baruch Found. • See: E] (sub Baruch); A]YB,
55:454; WWIA], 1926,1928; WWWIA, 3;
Baruch, Isobel (Isabelle) Wolfe (Mrs Simon
Baruch);b.SC,caI849;d.NYC,Nov
1921.
Descendant of colonial settler, Winnsboro, SC;
honorary officer United Daughters of the
Confederacy; active Daughters of the Am
Revolution. • See: E] (sub Baruch); NITimes,
Nov 25 1921, 15:$.
Baruch, Jacob;b. ca 1861; d. Detroit,Jan 4
1933.
Physician, author, Detroit. • See: A]YB,
35:122.
Baruch, Sailing P Jr; b. Elberon, N],June 7
1904; d. Miami, Feb 1956.
Lafayette ColI. • Broker, NYC; WWII service.
• See: WWIA], 1938;NITimes, Feb 111956,
17:3.
35
Bauer, Solomon H
Baruch, Sailing W; h. Camden, SC, Feb 1
1874;d.June 1962.
Broker, NYC. • See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes,
June 151962,27:3.
Baskin, Leonard; b. New Brunswick, NJ,
1922.
Printmaker, sculptor; faculty Smith
(Northampton, MA). • See: E].
Baruch, Simon; b. Schwersen, Posen, July
291840; d. NYC,June 3 1921.
To US 1855. • SC Med CoIl, MD VAMed
Coll. • Surgeon, SC, NYC; authority on
hydrotherapy; faculty Columbia; officer med
socs; author/editor in field; Confederate Civil
War serVice. • see:]E; UJE; E] (sub Baruch);
A]YB, 6(1904-1905):59-60,24:100; WWWIA,
1;DAB;NITimes,June41921, 13:5.
Baskin, Salem N; b. Chicago, Mar 8 1894;
d.July 1947.
Advertising agent, Chicago; contributing
editor Fairchild Publications; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes, July 5 1947,
11:5.
Baruch, Sydney Norton; b. Mamaroneck,
NY, Mar 14 1890/1895; d. Sep 22 1959.
EE Cooper Union, PhD U CA, U NV, DSc
Stanford, DSc Cambridge U. • Research
engineer, exec, inventor, NYC. • See: WWIA],
1928,1938; BEGA]; WWWIA, 3;NITimes,
Sep 241959,37:2.
Baruth, Ralph Howard; b. NYC, June 2
1888; d. Nov 1947.
Business exec, NYC. • See: WWWIA, 2;
NITimes, Nov 25 1947, 32:4.
Basch, David; b. Rondout, NY, Apr 16
1874.
Research engineer, inventor, Schenectady;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938.
Basch, Hennan; b. Bohemia, Dec 18 1866;
d. Oct 28 1936.
Furrier, Brooklyn; faculty U Prague; fdr Fur
Dressing & Dyers Assn, Employers Fur
Workers Assn. • See: A]YB, 39:588; WWIA],
1928.
Baschein,Jacob; b. ca 1876; d. Oct 91939.
BIdr, communal worker, NYC; orgr Jewish
Actors Union, Forward Assn; active Reb
Sheltering Guardian Soc; \VWI Jewish
Welfare Bd worker.· See:A]YB, 42:476;
NITimes, Oct 10 1939,23:4.
Basel, Alexander; b. Lithuania, Aug 11882;
d.June 111941.
Columbia, U MA, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi,
author, Bronx; an orgr YMHA; chaplain
CountyJail; dir nat! council Boy Scouts. • See:
A]YB, 43:355; WWIA], 1928; NITimes, June
12 1941,23:5.
Bashevis Singer, Isaac; see Singer, Isaac
Bashevis.
Baskin, Herbert K; b. Brooklyn, Dec 29
1907; d. NYC, Oct 271966.
Banker, civic & communalldr; active United
Jewish Appeal, Am Jewish Coni. • See: A]YB,
68:522-23;NITimes, Oct28 1966,31:3.
Baskin, Joseph; b. Biala, Minsk, Oct 20
1880; d. NYC,June 261952.
To NYC 1907. • CoIl de Geneve, U Lausanne,
EE UNancy.· Generalsecy, Workmen's
Circle, NYC; editor Friend;· active Bund. • See:
A]YB, 54:538; Fink, 16-17; WWIA], 1938;
BEGA]; NITimes, June 27 1952,23:2.
Baskin, Samuel; b. Rogachev, July 7 1883/
1884; d. NYC, May 251975.
To US 1904. • Rabbi, Denver, Salt Lake City,
New Brunswick, NJ; active Mizrachi, Union of
Orthodox Rabbis. • See:A]YB, 77:591;
WWIA], 1926;NITimes,May271975, 32:3.
Baskind, Louis; b. ea 1882; d. Aug 241936.
Mfr, communal worker, NYC. • See: A]YB,
39:588.
Bass, Abe Wtlliam; b. Warsaw, Mar 19
1906.
To US 1913. • LLB U IA. • Lawyer, Cedar
Rapids; officer Assocd Philanthropies, B'nai
B'rith, bar assn. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bass (Bezprozvany), Hyman B; b. Vilna,
Nov 271904; d. NYC, Sep 141983.
To US 1922. • Honorary degrees. •
Communal educator, admr, author, NYC; nat!
officer, tchr Workmen's Circle; with Joint
Distribution Com (overseas); adm comJewish
Labor Com; bd Conf for Jewish Culture,
Forward. • See: E]; A]YB, 85:412-13.
Bass, John; b. Vienna, Dec 25 1891.
To NYC 1914. • Sugar co exec, NYC, Puerto
Rico.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Bassein, Leon (pseud=Leon Elbe, Leibe der
Roiter); b. Minsk, Sep 25 1879;d. before
1938.
To US 1904. • Yiddish author, journalist,
translator, NYC; staff The Day; fdr Yiddish
schools. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Basshe, EmJo (Emjo); b. Vilna,Jan 20
1899; d. Oct 1939.
To US 1912. • Columbia, Valparaiso U. •
Playwright; with Provincetown Playhouse; a
fdr, dir The New Playwrights Theatre (NYC).
• See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; NITimes,Oct 29
1939,40:7.
Bassin, Moshe (Max); b. Nivki, Belorussia,
Mar 15 1889; d. Brooklyn,]uly 101963.
To US 1907. • Yiddish poet, anthologist,
NYC.· See:E];A]YB, 65:431; NITimes, July
11 1963,29:1.
Bassinov, Abraham; b;*; d. Quincy, MA,
Feb 3 1920.
Rabbi, Quincy, MA.· See:A]YB, 22:164.
Bassuk, Albert Oliver; b. Brooklyn, Sep 6
1912.
BS StJohns, StJohns Law. • Orgr, pres Hobby
Guild of Am, NYC; editor Gilbert & Sullivan
Quarterly. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Basy, Alexander; b. Moscow, 1883; d.
Brooklyn, Jan 1937.
To US 1906. • Musical & vaudeville
impresario; general mgr Russian Opera Co. •
See: UJE; NITimes, Jan 15 1937,21:3.
Bath, Felix P; b. ca 1855; d. Ft Worth, May
22 1917.
Communal worker, FtWorth.· See:A]YB,
19(1917-1918):264.
Bauch, Solomon Stan; b.Rumania, Sep 7
1883.
To US 1900. • MD LI CoIl Hospital. •
Physician, artist, NYC; specialty: tuberculosis;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEGA].
Bauer,Adolph;b.ca 1864; d.Mobile, Apr
15 1912.
Spanish-Am War veteran, Mobile. • See:
A]YB, 14(1912-1913):127.
Bauer, Benjamin Baumzweiger; b. Odessa,
June 261913; d. Mar 311979.
To US 1930. • EE Pratt, U Cincinnati. •
Broadcasting co exec; general mgr CBS. • See:
WWWIA, 7.
Bauer, Harold Victor; b. New Malden,
England, Apr 28 1873; d. Miami, Mar 12
1951.
To US during WWI. • Pianist, tchr, violinist,
NYC; an orgr Beethoven Assn, Manhattan
School ofMusic. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:117;
WWWIA, 3; DAB, 5;NITimes, Mar 13 1951,
31:1.
Bauer, Lester Louis; b. Schenectady, Oct
101887.
Lake Forest, LLB Northwestern. • Lawyer,
communalldr, Chicago; pres Fedn ofJewish
Reformed & Conservative Temples; officer
Anti-Discrimination Com; editor, publisher
Jewish Standard; WWI government service. •
See: WWIA], 1938; BEGA].
Bauer, Marion Eugenie; b. Walla Walla,
Aug 15 1887; d.South Hadley, MA, Aug
91955.
Honorary degree. • Musician, composer,
NYC; faculty Juilliard, NYU; editor, critic
Musical Ldr; active professional socs. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 3;
NAW:modern; NITimes, Aug 111955, 21:3.
Bauer,Moncis;b.ea1832;d.Cineinnari,
Apr 121920.
Municipal worker, Cincinnati. • See: A]YB,
22:164.
Bauer, Samllel; b. ea 1870; d. Cleveland,
July 171945.
Rabbi, Cleveland. • See: A]YB, 48:484.
Bauer, Sol A; b. Cleveland, Mar 11 1898.
Civil engineer, Cleveland. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Bauer, Solomon H; b. Poland, Jan 1 1863;
d. Chicago, Aug 81913.
.
Rabbi, Chicago. • See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):43,
16(1914-1915):161.
36
Baum, Abraham
Baum, Abraham; b.*; d. Augusta, GA, July
121915.
Rabbi, Augusta, GA. • See: A]YB, 18(19161917):106.
Baum, Albert Gustavus; b. NYC, Nov 25
1903.
BS CCNY, Columbia, MHL, ordained Jewish
Inst of Religion. • Rabbi, Alexandria, LA;
officer LA State Conf Social Welfare; active
Joint Distribution Com, B'nai B'rith. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Baum, Ceil Carl; b. Green Bay, "WI, June 1
1890.
Merchant, Green Bay, "WI; active Masons,
B'nai B'rith. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Baum, Esther; b. Tiefenthal, Germany, Oct
71830; d. Philadelphia, June 291914.
To US 1852. • Dressmaker, communal &
philanthropic worker, Philadelphia; active
United Heb Charities, Jewish Foster Home. •
See:A]YB, 7(1905-1906):40, 16(19141915):162.
Baum, Felix; b. Schroda, Germany, Feb 20
1883; d. Jan 1958.
To US 1924. • U Berlin, MD U HeidelberglU
Leipzig? • Physician, Newark; med dir Natl
Jewish Hospital; Am correspondentAerztliche
Sammelblaetter; author in field; WWI Prussian
army service. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Jan 91958,33:2.
B~um, Harry; b. Cracow, July 111882; d.
June 61959.
To US 1883.· BS CCNY, EE Columbia.·
Engineer, consult, NYC; faculty CCNY;
advisor Bd of Higher Education; WWI service.
• See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 3;
Baum, Isidor; b. Poland, Nov 7 1892; d. Apr
1966.
To US 1900. • Paper mfr, NYC; bd United
Home for Aged Heb, synagog.· See:
WWWL4., 4; NYTimes, Apr 12 1966,35:3.
Baum, Joseph; b. NYC, Dec 17 1869; d.
Woodmere, LI, Apr 1948.
BS NYU, MD Columbia. • Physician, Far
Rockaway; med inspector, NYC Health Dept.
• See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Apr 10 1948,
13:6.
Baum, Leo; b. Osann on the Mosel,
Germany,Apr 141865.
Ice cream mfr, Cleveland; officer trade assn. •
See: WWIA], 1928.
Baum, Mark; b. Sanok, Galicia, Jan 2 1903.
To US 1919. • CCNY, Natl Academy of
Design.· Artist, NYc.. See: WWIA], 1938.
Baum, Max; b. ca 1842; d. Uniontown, PA,
July 101912.
Merchant, Uniontown, PA. • See:A]YB,
15(1913-1914):269.
Baum, MichaelJ; b.Jackson, TN, Mar 1
1881.
Businessman, Denver; dir NatlJewish
Hospital. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Baum, Michael T; b.*
Editor, Paterson. • See:A]YB, 24:117.
Baum, Mildred Adelsdorf (Mrs D Solomon
Baum); b. Norfolk, May 18 1866.
Communal, civic & culturalldr, Norfolk;
officer Norfolk Soc Arts, Travelers Aid, Natl
Council ofjewish Women.· See: WWIA],
1938.
Baum, Millicent; b. NYC, ca 1863; d. NYC,
Mar241943.
Public school tchr, principal, NYC; advisor to
mayor; officer professional assn. • See: A]YB,
45:381; NYTimes, Mar 25 1943,21:1.
Baum, Morton; b. NYC, Dec 28 1905; d.
NYC, Feb 1968.
BA Columbia, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
alderman, culturalldr, NYC; mem Lincoln
Center Bd; co-fdr Center ofMusic & Drama;
officer synagog; active Republican politics. •
See: BEOA]; NYTimes, Feb 8 1968,43:3.
Baum, Morton Jacob; b. Philadelphia, Oct
27 1897; d. Aug 1 1963.
AB UPA.· Clothing mfr, Rochester, NY; dir
Baden Street Settlement; WWII government
service. • See: WWWL4., 4; NYTimes, Aug 2
1963,27:3.
Baum, Shepherd (Shephard) Z
(Zwetschken); b. Memphis, Sep 201903;
d. NYC, July 21 1977.
Ordained Yeshiva ColI, LLB Albany Law. •
Rabbi, communal admr, lawyer, Albany, NY;
natl officer B'nai Zion; natl dir Am Jewish
Cong; chief supervisor NY kosher law
enforcement; WWII chaplain. • See: A]YB,
79:367; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, July 25 1977,
24:4.
Baum, Solomon; b. Sebes, Hungary, Sep 13
1868; d. NYC, Apr 21 1932.
Budapest Conservatory. • Cantor, rabbi,
Brooklyn, NYc. • See:A]YB, 5(19031904):44,34:110.
Baum, Vicki (Hedwig) (Mrs Richard Lert);
b. Vienna, Jan 241888; d. Hollywood,
CA,Aug291960.
To US 1931. • Vienna Conservatory. •
Novelist, Berlin, NYC, Los Angeles; earlier
harpist; autobiography. • See: UJE; E];
WWWIA, 4; DAB, 6; NYTimes, Aug 30 1960,
29:1.
Bauman, Corinne Bernheimer (Mrs Alvin L
Bauman); b. St Louis, Oct 61882.
Monticello ColI. • Communal & civic worker,
St Louis; officer Natl Council ofjewish
Women; bd League ofWomen Voters. • See:
WWIA], 1926,1938.
Bauman, Jacob; b. Zagarow, Poland, 1870;
d. Los Angeles, Nov 23 1940.
To US 1907/1908. • Rabbi, Los Angeles;
active Free Burial Soc, Home for Aged, Free
Loan Assn, Heb Talmudical Academy. • See:
A]YB, 43:355; WWIA], 1938.
Bauman, Louis; b. NYC, 1880; d. New
Rochelle, 1954.
MD Columbia, post-grad Berlin. • Physician,
biochemist, NYC; authority: diabetes; faculty
Columbia; officer med soc; author/researcher
in field. • See: A]YB, 24:117; NYTimes, Nov 2
1954,27:2.
Bauman, Selig; b. ca 1857; d. Oct 21936.
Communal worker, Brownsville, TX. • See:
A]YB, 39:589.
Baumann, C Ludwig; b. NYC, Jan 2 1886;
d. NYC, Jan 1956.
Merchant, NYC; dir trade assn; active United
Jewish Appeal; WWI & WWII government
service. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Jan 8
1956,87:1.
Baumann, Emil Jacob; b. NYC, Feb 51891.
BS CCNY, PhD Yale. • Physiological chemist,
NYC; with Montefiore Hospital; author in
field; WWI service. • See: A]YB, 24:117;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
Baumann,J P; b.*; d. Glen Falls, NY, Apr
1916.
Civil War veteran, Glen Falls, NY. • See:
A]YB, 18(1916-1917):106.
Baumann, Sidney J; b. ca 1871; d. Feb 5
1936.
Merchant, communal worker, NYc. • See:
A]YB, 38:425.
Baumfeld, Maurice; b. ca 1868; d. NYC,
Mar 1913.
.
Theatremgr, NYc.. See:A]YB, 15(19131914):269; NYTimes, Mar 5 1913, 17:4.
Baumgarden, Bernard; b.*; d. Chicago, Aug
201915.
Philanthropist, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
18(1916-1917):106.
Baumgardt, David; b. Erfurt, Germany, Apr
20 1890; d. Long Beach, NY, July 21
1963.
To US 1939. • Philosopher, author, Zionist;
faculty U Berlin; consult Library of Cong;
author in field. • See: E]; A]YB, 65:431;
NYTimes,]uly 22 1963,23:4.
Baumgartel, Elise J; b. Berlin, 1892.
To US 1945.· Egyptologist, Chicago; faculty
Oxford U, Oriental Inst; author in field. • See:
E].
Bauman, Edgar Harold; b. NYC, Jan 4
1899.
Commercial banker, NYC; active synagog. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bauman, Hyman; b. ca 1862; d. NYC, Oct
15 1934.
Merchant, communal worker, NYc. • See:
A]YB,37:254.
Baumgarten, David L; b. Montgomery, AL;
d. NYC, July 13 1923.
Congressman, civic worker, Cincinnati; then
pres US & China Steamship Co, NYc. • See:
A]YB, 26:153; NYTimes, July 141923,11:6.
Baumgarten, Julius; b. ca 1835; d.
Washington DC, May 30 1915.
37
Designer of seal of the Confederacy. • See:
A]YB, 17(1915-1916):218.
Baumgarten, Selig; b. Silzheim, Hannover,
1804; d. ca 1879.
To Baltimore 1852. • Seal engraver,
government contractor, Baltimore. • See:
PA]HS, 26:248.
Baumgarten, Yetta Rose; b. Cincinnati,
Aug 22 1869.
Settlement worker, tenement inspector,
probation officer, Pittsburgh. • See: A]YB,
7(1905-1906):40.
Baumgard, Isidor; b. Pesth, Hungary, Mar
291860.
To Chicago 1871.· Mfr, communal worker,
author, Chicago; an orgr AssocdJewish
Charities; officer Home for Jewish Friendless
& Working Girls, Jewish Orphans Home,
Jewish Home Finding Soc. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Baumrind, Harold; b. NYC, Apr 13 1911.
Ordained Yeshiva ColI. • Rabbi, cantor,
businessman, NYC, Maspeth, NY; officer
Zionist Org of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bavli (Rashgolski), Hillel; b. Pilvishki,
Lithuania, Apr 10 1893; d. NYC, July
1961.
To US 1912. • BS Canisius, MA Columbia. •
Heb poet, literary critic, NYC; faculty JTS
Tchrs Inst. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 64:492;
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, July 7 1961,25:3.
Baxte, Michael Posner; b. Russia, 1890.
Musician, NYc. • See: A]YB, 24: 117.
Bayar, Herman G; b.*; d.June 41942.
Rabbi, Fairfield, CT. • See:A]YB, 44:335.
Bayer, Samuel; b. ca 1861; d. Deal, N],July
181936.
Cotton converter, communalldr, NYC; pres
Yeshiva ColI.· See:A]YB, 39:589.
Bayersdorfer, Sydney Harry; b.
Philadelphia, Oct 19 1888.
Merchant, Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bayersdorfer, William; b. ca 1836; d.
Philadelphia, Mar 201916.
Merchant, Philadelphia. • See: A]YB, 18(19161917):106.
Bayes, Nora (born Dora Goldberg); b.
Joliet, IL?, 1880?; d. Brooklyn, Mar 19
1928.
Vaudeville & musical comedy actress, cocomposer of popular songs; contributor to
communal & childrens causes. • See: UJE;
A]YB, 24:117; NAW; NYTimes, Mar 20 1928,
27:3.
Baylinson, Abraham S; b. Moscow, Jan 6
1882; d. NYC, May 6 1950.
To US 1892.· Artist, NYC; faculty Art
Students League; supervisor WPA; active Soc
of Independent Artists. • See: UJE; A]YB,
24:117,52:501; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, May
7 1950, 106:5.
Beck, Joseph Clar
Bayuk, Ford Meyer; b. Philadelphia, Apr 29
1903.
Tobacco dealer, broker, Philadelphia. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Communalldr, Springfield, MA; pres Jewish
Civic League; natl dir Heb Immigrant Aid Soc;
active communal charities. • See: WWIA],
1928.
Bayuk, Harold Mann; b. Philadelphia, Dec
2 1901.
Wharton. • Tobacco dealer, broker,
Philadelphia.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Bearman, Abraham Nathaniel; b.
Tauroggen, Lithuania, Dec 81873.
U MN. • Communal worker, Minneapolis;
pres Jewish Family Welfare Bd; officerJewish
Sheltering House, synagog. • See: WWIA],
1926.
Bayuk, Samuel; b. Russia, 1870; d. Nov 11
1954.
Tobacco co exec, Philadelphia. • See:
WWWIA, 3;NYTimes, Nov 13 1954,15:5.
Bazelon, David L; b. Superior, WI, 1909.
Lawyer, US asst atty general, court of appeals
judge, Chicago, Washington DC; specialty:
relationship between law & psychiatry. • See:
E].
Beacher, Lawrence Lester; b. Czeme,
Czechoslovakia, Aug 181905.
To US 1921. • Dr of Optometry PA State ColI
of Optometry. • Optometrist, NYC; faculty PA
State ColI of Optometry; author in field. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Beame, Abraham David; b. London, 1906.
To US ca 1906.· CCNY.· Mayor,
Comptroller, CPA, NYC; faculty Rutgers;
active Democratic politics. • See: E]: 19731982.
Bean, Louis H; b. Russia, Mar 29 1896.
To US 1906. • AB U Rochester, MBA
Harvard. • Agricultural economist,
Washington DC; with Dept ofAgriculture,
Agricultural Adjustment Adm; author in field.
• See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Bear, Alexander; b. Marion, VA, 1841; d.
Richmond, 1924.
MD U MD.· Physician, civic ldr, mayor,
legislator, Norfolk, NE, then Richmond;
regent U NE; Civil War service. • See: UJE.
Bear, Benjamin; b. Hohebach,
Wiirttemburg, Nov 3 1853.
To US 1867. • Retail clothing & furnishings
businessman, Decorah, IA; pres Decorah
Hospital; active Red Cross. • See: WWIA],
1928, 1938; BEOA].
Bear, Harry; b. Richmond, Nov 20 1890; d.
July 301950.
Richmond ColI, DDS Med ColI of VA;
honorary degree. • Dentist, Richmond; faculty,
dean Med ColI of VA; officer professional orgs,
B'nai B'rith; author in field. • See: UJE;
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3.
Bear, Joseph; b. Richmond, June 17 1889.
MD Med ColI ofVA. • Obstetrician,
Richmond; faculty Med ColI ofVA; author in
field; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bear, Joseph Ainslie; b. Louisville, May 27
1878; d. July 13 1955.
Banker, NYC. • See: WWWIA, 3; NYTimes,
July 141955,23:3.
Bearg, Benjamin; b. Kletzk, Poland, Dec 20
1867.
Bearman, Leo Edward; b. St Louis, Nov 29
1902.
LLB Vanderbilt.· Lawyer, communal worker,
Memphis; officer B'nai B'rith; bd Old Folks
Home; active Natl Fedn of Temple
Brotherhoods. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bearman, Wtlliam W; b. Providence, Oct
12 1889.
AB, LLB Boston U. • Lawyer, communal
worker, Providence, NYC, Los Angeles; asst
city atty, Los Angeles; bd Loyola; active
Republican politics, synagog, Non-Sectarian
Orphanage; author in field. • See: WWIA],
1928,1938.
Beatty, Clyde R; b. Bainbridge, OH, June
101903; d. Ventura, CA,July 191965.
Noted animal trainer, circus owner. • See:
BEOA];DAB, 7; NYTimes, July 20 1965,33:3.
Beaumont, Louis Dudley (family name
Schoenberg); b. Dayton, OH, Apr 26
1857; d. NYC, Oct 11942.
Dept store merchant, philanthropist; co-fdr
May Dept Stores; honorary pres NatlJewish
Hospital; benefactor Western Reserve; WWI
Red Cross service. • See:A]YB, 45:381;
NYTimes, Oct 2 1942,25:1.
Beber, Meyer; b. Minsk, Dec 27 1899.
To US 1904. • BS, PhD, MD U NE. •
Biochemist, physician, Omaha; faculty U NE;
authorin field. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Beber, Sam; b. Minsk, Sep 27 1901; d.
Chicago, Aug 251976.
To US 1906/1908. • LLB Creighton.·
Lawyer, natl communalldr, philanthropist,
Omaha; a fdr Aleph Zadik Aleph; natlldr B'nai
B'rith; natl bdJoint Defense Appeal;
benefactor Heb U.· See:A]YB, 78:538;
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Aug 28 1976,24:4.
Bechhoefer, Charles; b. Woodbury, PA,Jan
11864; d.Jan 25 1932.
LLD U MI. • District court judge, US
Commr, communal worker, Minneapolis. •
See:A]YB, 34:110; WWIA], 1926,1928.
Beck, Jacob; b. Cleveland, Mar 18 1886.
Mfr, communal worker, East St Louis, IL;
earlier with US Bureau of Animal Industry;
pres public library; officer B'nai B'rith. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Beck, Joseph Clar; b. Prague, Sep 26 1870.
To US 1884. • MD U IL.· Plastic surgeon,
otolaryngologist, Chicago; faculty U IL; mem
Peoples Church; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Beck, Martin
38
Beck, Martin; b. Czechoslovakia, July 30
1867/1869; d. NYC, Nov 161940.
To US 1887. • Conservatory of Dramatic Arts
professional orgs. • See: WWWIA, 4; NITimes,
June 5 1963,41:3.
(Vienna). • Theatrical producer, theatre bldr,
vaudeville impresario, NYC. • See: AJYB,
24:118,43:355; WWlAJ, 1926, 1938; DAB, 2;
NYTimes, Nov 17 1940, 49:1.
Becker, Jacob S; b. Poland, Jan 14 1882; d.
NYC, Sep 1960.
BS Yale, MIT. • Industrialist, philanthropist;
natl officer Am Technion Soc; dir Palestine
Economic Corporation; active Am Jewish
Com; WWI service. • See: AJYB, 66:572;
NYTimes, Feb 22 1964,21:1.
To US ca 1885. • Realtor, financier, NYC;
orgr Meridian Securities Corp. • See: WWIAJ,
1928; NYTimes, Sep 20 1960, 39:1.
Beckman, Nathan (N) Henry; b. Furth, Oct
1 1860; d. Aug 30 1940.
Beck, Morey M; b. ca 1901; d. Dec 181938.
Lawyer, communal worker, Jersey City. • See:
AJYB, 41:418; NYTimes, Dec 19 1938,23:4.
Beck, Morris; b. Fiirth, Jan 26 1864.
Legislator, communal worker, Jamestown,
NO; WWIJewish War Relief Campaign
officer, Liberty Loan & Red Cross fundraiser.
• See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Beck, Rudolph; b. ca 1869; d. Chicago, Mar
281913.
Surgeon, Chicago; faculty Chicago CoIl of
Dental Surgery.· See:AJYB, 15(19131914):269.
Beck, Samuel Jacob; b. Tecuciu, Rumania,
July 19 1896.
To US 1903.· AB Harvard, MA, PhD
Columbia. • Psychologist, orthopsychiatrist,
Chicago; earlier journalist; author/editor in
field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Beckelman, Moses W; b. NYC, Aug 12
1906; d. NYC, Dec 10 1955.
BS CCNY, post-grad Columbia; Grad School
for Jewish Social Work, NY School of Social
Work. • Social worker, NYC; with Joint
Distribution Com; active UNRRA, refugee
work; editor in field; WWIIJoint Distribution
Com & OSS service. • See: EJ; AJYB, 58:475;
WWIAJ, 1938;NYTimes, Dec 111955,88:3.
Becker, Abraham G; b. Warsaw, OH, Sep
211857; d. Chicago, May 14 1925.
Banker, investment broker, communalldr,
philanthropist, Chicago; a fdr Assocd Jewish
Charities; bd Heb Union CoIl; benefactor Art
lost. • See: UJE; EJ (sub Becker); AJYB,
24:118; PAJHS, 31:250-52; NYTimes, May 15
1925,19:5.
Becker, Benjamin Vogel; b. Warsaw, IN,
June 201871; d. Feb 5 1955.
Lawyer, Chicago; orgr Bank Internatl
Settlement (Baden-Baden); WWI Red Cross
service.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 3.
Becker, Ferdinand; b. Bavaria, July 9 1851.
Rabbi, Philadelphia; earlier Keokuk, Wabash,
Peoria, Pine Bluff.· See:AJYB, 5(19031904):44.
Becker, Harry; b. Chicago, Mar 4 1904.
Becker, James H; b. Chicago, Dec 11 1893/
1894; d. Chicago, Oct 191970.
AB Cornell. • Investment banker, communal
ldr, Chicago; officer Jewish Welfare Fund;
non-Zionist memJewish Agency; dir Joint
Distribution Com; active Am Jewish Com, war
relief work; WWI service. • See: UJE; EJ (sub
Becker);AJYB, 24:117, 72:539; WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Oct 21 1970,50:1.
Becker, Julius; b. Gottesberg, Germany, ca
1882; d. NYC, Apr 30 1945.
To US 1941. • Journalist, editor; fdr, honorary
pres Foreign Press Assn; officer professional
soc; League on'{ations reporter. • See: AJYB,
47:518.
Becker, Levi; b. Bialystok, Nov 15 1894.
To US 1907.· LLB U AL.· Lawyer,
merchant, communal & civic worker,
Birmingham & Bessemer, AL; active YMCA,
Red Cross, Louis N Levi Memorial Hospital;
WWI communal welfare worker. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Becker, Martin; b. ca 1851; d. Chicago, July
61935.
Civic worker, Chicago. • See:AJYB, 38:425.
Becker, Maurice; b. Nizhni-Novgorod, Jan
41889;d.1975.
To US 1892. • Artist, NYC; a fdr The Masses;
WWI conscientious objector. • See: AJYB,
24:118; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 8; NYTimes, Sep 3 1975, 40:5.
Becker, Samuel; b. Milwaukee, Mar 16
1903.
AB U WI, LLB, JSD Harvard. • Lawyer,
government counsel, Milwaukee; faculty
Tulane.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Becket, Samuel P; b. Zed, Russia, 1882; d.
Hartford, Oct 28 1910.
To US ca 1892. • Baron de Hirsch
Agricultural School. • Orgr, Fedn ofJewish
Farmers in Am, Hartford, Ellington, CT;
bought CT farmland for Jewish farmers. • See:
UJE; AJYB, 13(1911-1912):136.
Beckhardt, Moses; b. NYC, Feb 17 1876; d.
Bronx, Apr 141940.
LLB JohnMarshall Law. • Lawyer, author,
Chicago. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
BA CCNY, Columbia. • Rabbi, public school
tchr, NYC, Bronx.•, See: AJYB, 42:476;
NYTimes, Apr 15 1940, 17:4.
Becker, Isador Gross; b. Philadelphia, Feb
251881.
Beckler, Charles Lyon; b. Rochester, NY,
July 23 1909.
Insurance agent, Philadelphia; WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bach of Oratory, LLB Cumberland U. •
Lawyer, legislator, Waterloo, lA. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Becker, Isidor Schultz; b. NYC, May 19
1897; d.June 21963.
AB CCNY. • Radio & television exec, NYC;
with CBS, Columbia Artists; active
Beckman, Harold Edward; b. Cincinnati,
Aug 12 1892; d. NYC, Feb 1964.
To Cincinnati 1880. • Clothing mfr,
communal worker, philanthropist, Cincinnati;
natl officer Union of Am Heb Congregations.
• See:AJYB, 43:355; WWIAJ, 1926,1938;
BEOAJ.
Beckman, Theodore N; b. Dzigovka,
Russia, Sep 3 1895; d. Apr 201973.
To Columbus, OH 1914.· BSc, AM, PhD
OH State. • Economist; Columbus, OH;
faculty OH State; with Dept of Commerce;
active trade orgs, Hillel; author in field; WWII
WWII service. • See: WWlAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Apr 22
1973,54:6.
Beckmann, Max; b.Leipzig, Feb 121884; d.
NYC, Dec 27 1950.
To US 1947. • Noted modern artist; faculty
Washington U (St Louis); with Brooklyn
Museum. • See: AJYB, 53:523; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, Dec 281950,25:1.
Bedacht, Max; b. Munich, 1885; d. July
1972.
To NYC 1908. • Communist Party ldr;
general secy Internatl Workers Order; editor
New Order; later poultry farmer. • See: EJ;
NYTimes, July 5 1972,42:3.
Beeber, Samuel; b. Worcester, Mar 31
1885.
AB, MA Brown. • Public school science tchr,
asst principal, communal worker, Worcester. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Beer, Edith/Cecilia Hellman (Mrs George
Louis Beer); b. New Orleans, 1882; d.
July 1952.
Volunteer social worker, NYC; pres Eiseman
Day Nursery; officer Hudson Guild
Settlement, Assn of Day Nurseries; dir Italian
Welfare League.· See: WWlA], 1938;
BEOAJ; NYTimes, July 27 1952,57:1.
Beer, Edwin; b. NYC, Mar 28 1876; d.
NYC, Aug 13 1938.
AB, MD Columbia, post-grad abroad. •
Urologist, surgeon, NYC; specialty: bladder
tumors; pioneer in diagnostic & therapeutic
methods; pres Mt Sinai Med Bd; author in
field; WWI service. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:118,
41:418; WWlAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;NYTimes,
Aug 15 1938, 15:4.
Beer, George Louis; b. Staten Island, July
261872; d. NYC, Mar 15 1920.
AB, AM, LLB? Columbia. • Tobacco
importer, historian, Anglophile, publicist,
NYC; specialty: British colonial economic
policy; advisor Paris Peace Conf; dir Jewish
Protectory & Aid Soc; author in field. • See:
UJE; EJ; AJYB, 22:164; PAJHS, 28:258-61;
WWWIA, 1; DAB; NYTimes, Mar 161920,9:4.
39
Beer, Hofmann Richard; b. Vienna, July 11
1866; d. NYC, Sep 261945.
To NYC 1939. • U Vienna. • Noted Austrian
poet, playwright, art collector, Vienna. • See:
UJE; E]; A]YB, 48:484; NYTimes, Sep 271945,
21:3.
Beer, Isaac; b. ca 1918; d. St Louis, Mar 28
1915.
Civil War veteran, St Louis. • See: A]YB,
17(1915-1916):218.
Beer, Max; b. Tarnobrzeg, Galicia, 1864; d.
1949.
In NYC 1899-1901. • London School of
Economics. • German socialist, journalist,
NYC, England; staff ]E; author in field;
autobiography. • See: UJE; E].
Beer, Max; b. Austria; 1886?; d. NYC, Oct
1965.
To US 1940. • Journalist, information officer,
author, Geneva, NYC; with League of
Nations, UN, World Jewish Cong; officer
Internad League of Human Rights. • See:
A]YB, 67:532; NYTimes, Oct 28 1965,43:1.
Beer, Morris Abel; b. NYC, July 171887; d.
NYC, Feb 71936.
BS CCNY, AM Columbia. • Poet, author,
public school & CCNY tchr, NYc. • See:
A]YB, 38:425; WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Beer, Sophia Walter (Mrs); b. ca 1845; d.
NYC, Jan 161935.
Communalldr, philanthropist, NYc. • See:
A]YB, 37:254.
Beery, Edwin Milton; b. ca 1872; d. Jan 30
1939.
Ophthalmologist, surgeon, Brooklyn. • See:
A]YB, 41:418;NYTimes,]an 311939, 21:5.
Begun, William; b. Lahishan, Poland, Dec
221908.
To US 1914.· BBANortheastern.·
Accountant, insurance broker, statistician, tchr,
communal worker, Gardner, MA; officer
fraternal orgs.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Behar, Nissirn Abraham; b. Jerusalem, Jan!
Feb 1848; d. NYC,Jan 11931.
To US 1901. • Alliance Israelite Universelle. •
Fdr modern Heb education, communal orgr;
fdr Nad Liberal Immigration League; a fdr
Fedn ofJewish Orgs; ldr fight against
immigration restriction. • See: ]E; UJE; E};
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):40,24:118,33:125;
WWIA],1926.
Behelfer, Louis; b. Brooklyn, Jan 9 1907.
CCNY. • Businessman, Labor Zionist worker,
NYC; nat! officer Hechalutz Org of Am; exec
secy Hapoel Sport Org of Am; officer Workers
Sports League of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Behr, Louis A; b. Bavaria, May 201868; d.
Dec 23 1933.
To US 1883. • Dept store merchant,
philanthropist, Pittsburgh; nad officer trade
org. • See: A]YB, 36:278; WWIA], 1926.
Bekker, Paul
Behrend, Bernard Arthur; b. Villeneuve,
Switzerland, May 9 1875; d. Mar 25
1932.
To US 1898. • CE U Berlin. • Electrical
engineer, engineering physicist, Brookline,
MA; designed generators, Niagara Falls. • See:
A]YB, 24:118; DAB, 1.
Behrman, Samuel Nathaniel (S N); b.
Worcester, June 91893; d. Sep 1973.
Clark, AB Harvard, MA Columbia; honorary
degree. • Playwright, biographer, novelist,
NYC; autobiography. • See: UJE; E]; WWIA],
1928, 1938; BEGA]; WWWIA, 6; NYTimes,
Sep 10 1973, 38:1.
Behrend, Ernst Richard; b. Coeslin,
Germany, Mar 29 1869; d. Erie, Sep 22
1940.
To US 1896. • Honorary degree. • Paper mfr,
yacht owner, inventor, Erie; a fdr Nat!
Industrial ConfBd. • See: WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, Sep 23 1940, 17:5.
Beier, Samuel K; b. NYC, Sep 22 1900.
CCNY, LLB NYU. • Lawyer, NYC; active
Republican politics, communal education, Am
Jewish Cong, Union of Orthodox
Congregations. • See: BEGA].
Behrend, Jeanne (Mrs Alexander
Kelberine); b. Philadelphia, 1911.
Curtis. • Concert pianist, composer; faculty
Curtis. • See: UJE.
Behrend, Moses; b. Philadelphia, June 6
1877.
MD U PA. • Physician, Philadelphia; faculty
Jefferson Med ColI; pres med soc; author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEGA].
Behrendt, Henry; b. ca 1869; d. Feb 19
1939.
Civic worker, sheriff, Detroit. • See: A]YB,
41:418.
Behrendt, Milton Aubrey; b. Ovid, MI, May
241898.
LLB Detroit CoIl of Law. • Lawyer, common
pleas court judge, Detroit. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Behrendt, Walter Curt; b. Metz, Dec 16
1884; d. Norwich, vr, Apr 261945.
To US 1934. • Dr Eng Technische
Hochschule·(Dresden). • Architect, regional
planner, architectural historian, critic,
Hannover; faculty Dartmouth; author in field;
WWI German army service; Protestant. • See:
WWWIA, 2; DAB, 3; NYTimes, Apr 271945,
19:3.
Behrens, Herman Albert; b. Hamburg, Sep
291883; d. Mar 13 1945.
To US 1889. • Insurance exec, Chicago;
Christian Scientist. • See: WWWIA, 2.
Behrens, Manfred I Jr; b. NYC, July 31
1904; d. NYC, Mar 24 1961.
Management consult, NYC; specialty:
retailing; advisor government agencies, Federal
Reserve; trustee Jewish Bd of Guardians, Fedn
ofJewish Philanthropies. • See:A]YB, 63:558;
NYTimes, Mar 25 1961,25:4.
Behrman, Abraham Sidney; b. Covington,
KY, Dec 15 1892.
Chemist; Chicago; with Internad Filter Co;
Episcopalian. • See: WWIA], 1938;
Behrman, Martin; b. NYC, 1864; d. New
Orleans,]an 12 1926.
Public official, mayor, New Orleans; mem Bd
of Education; pres State Bd ofAssessors,
League of Am Municipalities; active
Democratic Party. • See: UJE; E}j A]YB,
24:118,28:150; WWWIA, 1.
Beierfeld, Isidore; b. Baltimore, Nov 6
1897.
Baltimore City ColI, Johns Hopkins, LLB U
MD. • Social worker, MD legislator, Yonkers;
exec dir Jewish Community Center; officer
Nad Assn ofJewish Center Execs, other
professional orgs. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Beigler, Sydney Karl; b. Posen, Sep 25
1900.
To US 1909. • AB, MD U MI, post-grad U
Berlin. • Surgeon, Detroit; author in field;
Bellis, (Menahem) Mendel; b. ca 1874; d.
Saratoga Springs, NY, July 7 1934.
To US 1920. • Defendant in Russian ritual
murder trial, NYc. .• See:. UJE (sub Beilis
Case); E]; A]YB, 37:254.
Beirnel, Jacob; b. ca 1880; d. NYC, Nov 17
1944.
To US 1914.· Royal Academy of Arts (Berlin).
it Cantor, NYC, Philadelphia; author onJewish
musical topics. • See: A]YB, 47:518; NYTimes,
Nov 181944,13:2.
Bein, Albert (pseud=Charles Walt); b.
EJshinev, 1902;d.1963.
To US ca 1909. • Author, novelist; theatre
mgr, producer, playwright, NYC. • See: UJE;
NYTimes, May41963, 25:3.
Bein, Royal Hamilton; b. Chicago, Nov 3
1897.
BS U PA. • Investment counsellor,
businessman, Mansfield, OH. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Bein, William; b. Monor, Hungary, Sep 21
1899; d. NYC, Dec 121968.
Communal & civic worker; fdr Nad Parkinson
Found; financial admr Com to Rescue Italian
Art; dir Joint Distribution Com; trustee Sanger
Research Bureau. • See: A]YB, 70:519.
Beitman, Mrs Joseph; b. ca 1870; d.
Birmingham, AL,Jan 5 1933.
Philanthropic ldr, Birmingham, AL. • See:
A]YB, 35:122.
Bekker, David (Ben Menachem, Aba
Shoshanna); b. Vilna, May 11897.
To US 1920. • Artist; engraver, coin designer,
author, Chicago. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bekker,Paul;b.Berlin, 1882; d. NYC, Mar
1937.
To US 1930s. • Violinist, musicologist,
impresario, critic, Berlin; with New Yorker
40
Belais, David
Stattszeitung; authorlbiographer in field. • See:
UJE; NITimes, Mar 8 1937, 19:5.
Belais, David; b. NYC, July 21862; d. NYC,
June 51933.
CCNY. • Jeweler, inventor ofwhite gold; a fdr
Humane Soc of NY, free clinic for animals;
officer trade assn. • See: UJE;A]YB, 35:122;
WWIA], 1928; NITimes,]une 71933,21:4.
Belais, Henry; b.ca 1859; d.June 11940.
Mfr, Sephardic ldr, NYC. • See:A]YB, 42:476;
NITimes,]une 3 1940, 15:4.
Belais, Solomon; b. ca 1827; d. NYC, May
211911.
Expert in precious stones, NYC. • See: A]YB,
13(1911-1912):138.
Belarsky, Sidor; b. Russia, Feb 23 1900; d.
Manhasset, June 7 1975.
To US 1930. • Opera singer, tchr; faculty ]TS,
UUT, Brigham Young.· See:A]YB, 77:592;
NITimes,]une 81975,55:3.
Belasco, David; b. San Francisco, July 25
1853/1858; d. May 141931.
Lincoln ColI. • Theatrical producer,
playwright, NYC; pioneer in electric stage
lighting; "The Girl of the Golden West." •
See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):60,
24:118,33:125; WWIA], 1926, 1928;
WWWIA, 1; DAB, 1; NITimes, May 15 1931,
1:3.
Belber, Aaron Selig; b. Harlau, Rumania,
Jan 271877; d. Feb 15 1936.
To US 1888.· Bag & trunkmfr, philanthropic
worker, Philadelphia. • See: A]YB, 38:425;
WWIA], 1928.
Belber, Henry A; b. ca 1876; d.
Philadelphia, June 17 1934.
Mfr, communal worker, Philadelphia. • See:
A]YB, 36:278.
Belber, Marcus Yoseph; b.Jassy, Sep 11
1871; d. Adantic City, Jan 11939.
To Philadelphia 1883. • DDS U PA. • Dental
surgeon, Philadelphia; pres Fedn of Rumanian
Jews; officer Franklin Free Dispensary; active
relieffor Rumanian]ews. • See: A]YB, 41 :418;
WWIA], 1938; BEGA]; NITimes, Jan 5 1939,
23:5.
Beldoch, Albert I; b. Brooklyn, Apr 15
1901; d. Great Neck, Nov61978.
Mfr, philanthropist, NYC; Fire Commr,
Hewlitt Bay; officer Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies; active Boys Scouts, United
Cerebral Palsy, Anti-Defamation League. 8
See: A]YB, 80:362; NITimes, Nov 9 1978, IV
19:6.
Beldock, George J; b. Bielk, Poland, Jan 8
1904; d. Sea Cliff, NY, Mar 15 1970.
State supreme court judge, NYC; mem NYC
Council against Discrimination. • See: A]YB,
72:539; NYTimes, Mar 16 1970,43:1.
Belfer, Maurice; b.*; d. 1978.
Business exec, philanthropist; benefactor Heb
U, Yeshiva U, Anti-Defamation League. • See:
A]YB, 80:362.
Belford, Jacob; b. NYC, Aug 18 1898.
LLB, LLM NYU. • Lawyer, New Haven. •
See: WWIA]; 1928,1938.
NYC; with Exhibitors Film Exchange; pres
Hollywood Pictures Corp. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Belkin, Samuel; b. Swislocz, Poland, Dec 12
1911; d. NYC, Apr 18 1976.
To US 1929. • PhD Brown; honorary degrees.
• Rabbi, scholar, educational admr; authority:
] ewish law & Hellenistic literature; faculty,
pres Yeshiva Coll, RIETS; author in field. •
See: UJE; E];A]YB, 78:538; WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA, 7; NITimes, Apr 19 1976,30:4.
Bellow, Saul; b. Lachine, Quebec, 1915.
U Chicago, Northwestern. • Novelist, Nobel
laureate; faculty U Chicago. • See: E];
E]:1973-1982.
Bell, Nahum; b. ca 1877; d. Dec 7 1938.
Rabbi, Philadelphia. • See: A]YB, 41 :418.
Bellanca, DorothyJacobs (Mrs August
Bellanca); b. Zemel, Latvia, Aug 101894;
d. NYC, Aug 16 1946.
To US 1900. • Labor ldr, NYC; mem state
commns on employment discrimination;
officer Amalgamated Clothing Workers;
advisor ILO; an orgr, officer Am Labor Party.
• See:A]YB, 49:608; Fink, 21; NAW; DAB, 4;
NITimes, Aug 17 1946, 13:3.
Bellarina, Bella (Mrs Chaim Schneyer
Hamerow); b. Warsaw, July 1896; d.
NYC, Feb 11969.
Actress, NYC; with Yiddish Art Theatre. • See:
A]YB, 71:602;NITimes,Feb21969, 72:3.
Beller, Abraham Jacob; b. NYC, Feb 7
1886; d. Philadelphia, Jan 1960.
BS CCNY, MD Columbia. • Surgeon, NYC;
faculty Cornell; pres med soc; author in field. •
See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEGA]; NITimes,
Jan 16 1960,21:2.
Beller, Ida F (Mrs AbrahamJ Beller); b.
NYC, Mar 51896; d. Dec 1944.
BA Hunter, MA NYU, NY School of Social
Work. • Social worker, NYC; pres United
Parents Assn; with Red Cross, Veterans
Bureau, Mt Sinai. • See: BEGA]; NITimes, Jan
11945,21:2.
Beller, Mrs John D; b.*; d. Apr 16 1938.
Social worker, Worcester.· See:A]YB, 40:381.
Bellin, Jacob Harold; b. Derby, CT,July 31
1893; d. Feb 1956.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, businessman, pianist,
accompianist, Ansonia, CT, New Haven. •
See: WWIA], 1926, 1938; NITimes, Feb 5
1956,86:3.
Bellis, Leon Robert; b. Elizavetgrad, Mar
25 1910; d. Apr 51972.
To US 1923. • U PA. • Wholesale jeweler,
diamond appraiser, New Orleans, then
Chicago; officer professional socs; WWII
service. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Bellison,Simon(Simeon);b.Moscow,
1882/1884; d. NYC, May 41953.
To US 1921. • Moscow Conservatory. •
Clarinettist; mem Moscow Symphony, St
Petersburg Symphony, NY Philharmonic; fdr
Jewish Folk Music Soc. 8 See: UJE; A]YB,
55:454; NITimes, May 5 1953,29:3.
Bellman, Jack; b. Kiev, Sep 11 1890.
To US 1908. 8 Motion picture distributor,
Belmont, August; b. Alzey, Hesse, Dec 8
1816; d. NYC, Nov 24 1890.
Banker, diplomat, art collector, NYC; pres Am
Jockey Club; active Democratic politics; Civil
War Union supporter. • See:]E; UJE; E];
DAB; NITimes, Nov 25 1890, 1:7.
Belmont, August; b. NYC, Feb 18 1853; d.
Dec 101924.
AB Harvard. • Banker, public transportation
financier, NYc. • See: E] (sub Belmont,
August); WWWIA, 1; NITimes, Dec 12 1924,
21:4.
Belmont, IraJean; b. Kovno, May 15 1884;
d. Oct 1964.
Cooper Union. • Artist, art expert & dealer,
NYc.. See: WWIA], 1928;NITimes, Oct23
1964,39:1.
Belmont, Morgan; b. Hempstead, LI, Mar
191892; d. Sep 1953.
AB Harvard. • Investment banker, NYC;
WWI & WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, Sep 191953, 15:3.
Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry; b. NYC,
Nov 12 1858; d.June 1908.
US Naval Academy. • Capitalist, banker,
publisher, NYC; active Democratic politics;
naval service. • See: WWJ¥IA, 1; NITimes,
June 111908, 7:3.
Belmont, Perry; b. NYC, Dec 28 1850; d.
May 251947.
AB Harvard, U Berlin, LLB Columbia. •
Congressman, lawyer, diplomat, author,
Newport; Spanish-Am War & WWI service. •
See: E] (sub Belmont, August); WWWIA, 2;
NITimes, May 261947,1:5.
Belous, Charles; b. Bessarabia, Feb 41907;
d. July 1966.
To NYC 1914. 8 AB, LLB Columbia.·
Lawyer, political activist, LI City; officer bar
assn; active Fusion Party, Am Labor Party,
Progressive Party. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NITimes, July 15 1966,31:3.
Beloussoff, Evsei; b. Moscow, Dec 28 1881;
d. NYC, Dec 11945.
To US 1923. • Imperial Conservatory
(Moscow). • Concert cellist, tchr, NYC; faculty
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (Kharkov). •
See:A]YB, 48:484; WWIA], 1926,1928,1938;
NITimes, Dec 3 1945,21:5.
Belov, Joel; b. Ekaterinoslav, OctlDec 18
1894.
To US 1911. • Ekaterinoslav Royal
Conservatory ofMusic. • Violinist, composer,
author, Philadelphia; mem Philadelphia
Symphony, NY Philharmonic; faculty Curtis. •
See: WWIA], 1938; BEGA].
41
Belov, Samuel; b. Ekaterinoslav, 1884.
Violist, Rochester, NY; mem Philadelphia
Symphony, KilbolIrn Quartet; faculty Eastman
School ofMusic; dir Hochstein Memorial
Music School. • See: BEOAJ.
Belskie, Abram (Abraham Belsky); b.
London, 1907; d.July 1958.
To US 1929. • Glasgow School of Art. •
Sculptor, Closter, NJ. • See: UJE; NITimes,
July 91958,27:5.
Belsky, Israel H; b. ca 1872; d. Brooklyn,
Dec 111934.
Cotton converter, communal worker,
philanthropist, Brooklyn. • See:AJYB, 37:254.
Belzer, Max W; b. 1889?; d. Bridgeport,
CT, Apr 2 1951.
Dentist, communal worker; pres Zionist Labor
Council.· See:AJYB, 53:523; NITimes, Apr 3
1951,27:3.
Benacerraf, Baruj; b. Caracas, 1920.
To US 1939. • Columbia, MD Med School of
VA. • Physician, Nobel laureate; head Natl
Inst ofAllergy & Infectious Diseases; faculty
Harvard; bd Weizmann Inst. • See: EJ:19731982.
Ben-Ami, Jacob Shieren (Shiereu?); b.
Minsk, Dec 23 1890; d.July 22 1977.
To US 1912. • Yiddish & English actor & dir,
NYC; co-fdr Odessa Jewish theatre, Yiddish
Art Theatre. • See: UJE;EJ;AJYB, 24:118,
79:367; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; NITimes,
July 23 1977,22:2.
Ben-Ami, Yitshaq; b. Tel Aviv, June 11
1913; d. NYC, Dec 311984.
To US 1939.· Heb U. • Businessman, Zionist
ldr; mem Irgun; co-fdr Am Friends for a Jewish
Palestine; exec dir Am League for a Free
Palestine; WWII service. • See:AJYB, 86:437.
Benardete, Mair Jose; b. Turkey, ca 1895.
To US 1910.· Philologist, NYC; faculty
Hunter; author in field & on Sephardic Jewry.
• See: EJ.
Ben-Ari, Raikin; b. Kiev, 1898?; d. Moscow,
Jan 2 1968.
To US 1926. • Actor, dir, NYC; a fdr Moscow
Heb theatre; a dir Am Natl Theatre. • See:
AJYB, 70:519; NITimes, Jan 91968,32:3.
Benas, Sol; b. ca 1838; d. San Francisco,
Dec 3 1919.
Court Crier, US District Court, San Francisco.
• See:AJYB, 22:164.
Ben-Asher, Solomon; b. Kovno, Dec 23
.
1894; d. Apr 1949.
To Jersey City 1905. • BS CCNY, MD NYU.
• Cardiologist, Zionist worker, Jersey City. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Apr 28
1949,31:4.
Benathen, Morris B; b. Deliaticz, Russia,
May 15 1908; d. NYC, Aug 20 1966.
To US 1921. • Communal educator, author;
withJewish Educational Com (NYC); supt Bd
ofJewish Education (St Louis). • See: A]YB,
68:523; NITimes, Aug 211966, 92:7.
Benedek, Therese F
Benatzky, Ralph; b. Moravske-Budejovice,
1884; d. Oct 1957.
To US 1938.·· Composer, film score writer,
Zurich. • See: EJ; NITimes, Oct 181957,23:2.
Ben Avi, Ithamar (lttamar) (Ben-zion ben
Judah Perlman); b. Jerusalem, 1884; d.
East Orange, NJ, Apr 181943.
In US by WWI. • Journalist, author, editor,
Hebraist, Zionist ldr. • See: UJE; AJYB,
45:381; NITimes, Apr 19 1943, 19:3.
Bencowitz, Isaac; b. Unetcha, Russia, Feb
101896.
To US 1913. • BS U Chicago, MA, PhD
Columbia. • Chemist, Gulf, TX; asst
Rockefeller Inst; author in field; WWI service.
Bendann, Daniel; b. ca 1835; d. Baltimore,
Dec61914.
Photographer, Baltimore. • See:AJYB,
17(1915-1916):218.
Bendann, Laurence; b. ca 1873; d.
Baltimore, Mar 261938.
Art connoisseur, Baltimore; specialty: prints. •
See:AJYB, 40:381; NITimes, Mar 281938,
15:5.
Bendel, William Louis; b. Patterson, LA,
Nov261895.
MD Tulane. • Surgeon, Monroe, LA; faculty
Tulane; pres Twin City Baseball Assn; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bendell, Herman; b. Albany, NY, 1843; d.
Albany, NY, Nov 141932.
MD Albany Med ColI, U Heidelberg. •
Ophthalmologist, government & consular
official, Supt of Indian Affairs (AZ territory);
officer med socs; Civil War Union & natl
guard service. • See: UJE; AJYB, 35:122.
Bendell, Joseph Lewi; b. Albany, NY, Apr
191880.
MD Albany Med ColI. • Surgeon, Albany, NY.
Bender, Albert Maurice; b. Dublin, June 18
1866; d. San Francisco, Mar 4 1941.
To US 1881. • Honorary degrees. • Public
Library Commr, insurance broker, communal,
civic & culturalldr, San Francisco; active art
patron. • See:AJYB, 43:355-56; WWIAJ,
1938; WWWIA, 1; NITimes, Mar 5 1941, 21:2.
Bender, Lauretta; b. Butte, 1897.
Research psychiatrist; specialty: childhood
schizophrenia, genetics, treatment; author in
field. • See: EJ.
Bender, Morris Boris; b. Russia, June 8
1905; d.Jan 23 1983.
To US 1914. • BS, MD U PA. • Neurologist,
NYC; faculty Columbia, Mt Sinai; officer med
socs; author in field; WWII service. • See:
WWWIA., 8.
Bender, Rose I (Mrs Oscar G Bender); b.
Philadelphia, Dec 22 1894; d.
Philadelphia, Nov 4 1964.
Communalldr, philanthropist, Philadelphia;
natlldr Hadassah; exec dir Philadelphia Zionist
Org. • See: AJYB, 66:572; NITimes, Nov 5
1964,45:5.
Benderly, Samson; b. Safed, Mar 31 1876;
d. Godeffroy, NY, July 9 1944.
To US 1898. • BA Syrian Protestant CoIl (Am
U of Beirut), MD Johns Hopkins. • Noted
communal educator, innovator, Baltimore,
NYC; 1st dir Bureau ofJewish Education;
author in field. • See': UJE; EJ; AJYB, 7(19051906):40,24:118,47:518; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,
1938; NITimes, July 10 1944, 15:6.
Bendheim, Nanette Felsenthal; b. NYC,
Feb 261887; d. NYC, Nov 20 1968.
Business exec, Orthodox communalldr, NYC;
bd Manhattan Day School; active Mizrachi,
Womens League of Yeshiva U.· See:A]YB,
70:519; NITimes, Nov 241968,87:2.
Bendheim, Siegfried; b. Bensheim,
Germany, July 2 1890; d. Miami Beach,
Mar21960.
To US 1914. • Industrialist, philanthropist;
pres Natl Soc for Heb Day Schools; officer
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. •
See:AJYB, 62:449; NITimes, Mar 3 1960,29:2.
~endit,
Sigmund L; b. ca 1855; d. NYC,
Apr 181913.
Merchant, NYc. • See: AJYB, 15(19131914):269.
Benditzky, Leon; b. Russia, Sep 61891.
To US 1920. • Petrograd Imperial
Conservatory. • Pianist, accompanist, tchr,
Chicago. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bendix, Max; b. Detroit, Mar 28 1866; d.
Chicago, Dec 6 1945.
Cincinnati Conservatory ofMusic. • Concert
violinist, conductor, composer, tchr, NYC; asst
conductor Theodore Thomas Orchestra. •
See: UJE;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):60,24:118,
48:484; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; WWWIA, 2;
NITimes, Dec 71945,22:3.
Bendix, Reinhard; b. Berlin, 1916.
To US ca 1933. • Sociologist; faculty U CA
(Berkeley); author in field. • See: EJ.
Bendove, Raphael A; b. Triduba, Podolia,
Mar 25 1893/1895; d. Sep 1951.
To NYC 1916. • Tchrs CoIl (Jerusalem), Am
CoIl (Beirut), MD Albany Med CoIl, post-grad
Johns Hopkins. • Physician, Zionist ldr,
Denver, then NYC; faculty NY Post-Grad, LI
CoIl Hospital; pres CO Zionist Org; author in
field & on Jewish topics. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938;NITimes, Sep 221951,17:5.
Benedek, Martin Henry; b. Budapest, Feb
15 1904; d. Mar 26 1978.
To US 1908. • Industrialist, NYC, Palm
Beach; a fdr Albert Einstein CoIl ofMed; pres
Benedek Found. • See: WWWIA., 7.
Benedek, Therese F; b. Eger, Hungary; d.
Oct 1977.
To US early 1930s. • Psychoanalyst,
psychiatrist; staff Chicago Inst for
Psychoanalysis; author in field. • See: EJ;
EJ:1983-1985; NITimes, Oct 20 1977,26:4.
42 .
Benedict, Abraham
Benedict, Ahr~am; b. Lapeer, MI, ca 1868;
d. NYC, Mar 4 1943.
Lawyer, NYC; active bar assns, advocate
admission ofwomen to bar assn. • See: A]YB,
45:381; NITimes, Mar 5 1943, 17:3.
Benedict, CHarry; b. Pittsburgh, Sep 24
1876.
BS Cornell; honorary degree. • Metallurgist,
Lake Linden, MI;officer professional soc; bd
MI ColI ofMines & Metal Engineers. • See:
editor Southern Zionis.t Review; editor Jewish
Monitor. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; NITimes,
Jan 111952,21:4.
Bengis, Robert Oliver; b. New Haven, May
21890.
PhB, PhD Yale. • Research chemist,
Washington DC, New Haven; with Bureau of
Chemistry, Yale; author in field. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Benedict, George; b. Sheffield, England,
Feb 251887.
U London. • Rabbi, author, poet, Roanoke,
VA; earlier Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Ben-Horan (Ben Horin), Eliahu; b. Balta,
Russia, July 5 1902; d. NYC, Sep 5 1966.
To US 1940. ·Journalist, Zionist ldr; with
Reconstructionist, Israel Bonds Org; active
World Zionist Org. • See:A]YB, 68:523;
NITimes, Sep 61966,47:3.
Benedict,]oseph; b. ca 1833; d. Lake
Minden, MI, Dec 23 1917.
Civil War veteran, Lake Minden, MI. • See:
A]YB, 20(1918-1919):227.
Ben-Horin, Meir; b. Konigsberg, 1918.
Communal educator, Boston, then
Philadelphia; faculty Heb Tchrs ColI, Dropsie;
author in field. • See: E].
Benedix, Isaac; b. Holland; d. Savannah,
May 311804.
Merchant, postmaster, Savannah, Charleston,
SC. • See: BDEA].
Benioff, Hugo; b. Los Angeles, Sep 14
1899; d. Mendocino, CA, Feb 291968.
AB Pomona ColI, PhD Cal Tech. •
Seismologist; faculty Cal Tech; advisor US
military.· See: E]; WWU1IA, 5; NITimes, Mar
21968,29:3.
Benenson, Benjaniin; b. Borischoff, Minsk,
July41880; d.Jan 261938.
To NYC 1899. • BIdr, realtor, civic &
commUnal worker, philanthropist, NYC;
officer Bronx Hospital; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: A]YB, 40:381; WWIA],
1926, 1938; NYTimes, Jan 27 1938,21:5.
Benenson, Isidot'; b. Borisov, Minsk, July 7
1877; d. NYC, Feb 201946.
To US 1900. • Bldr, realtor, NYC; pioneered
large-scale apartment houses. • See: A]YB,
48:484; WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Fteb 211946,
21:4.
Benequit, I A; b. ca 1866; d. NYC, Apr 10
1934.
Yiddish journalist, NYc. • See: A]YB, 36:278.
Benesch, Aaron G; b. St Louis,]an 19 1893;
d.Aug 1966.
Journalist, St Louis; with St Louis Star Times. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NITimes, Aug 17 1966,
36:4.
Benjamin IT (born Israel]oseph Benjamin);
b. Falticeni, Moldavia, 1818; d. London,
May 31864.
Am & world traveler, author. • See: ]E; UJE;
E].
Benjamin, Abraham (A) David; b. NYC,
July 21898.
LLB Fordham.· Lawyer, communalldr,
NYC; pres Big Brother & Big Sister Assn;
officer Bureau ofJewish Social Service; active
Republican politics. • See: WWIA], 1928,
1938.
Benjamin, Adolph (pseud=lsh Yemeni); b.
Lithuania, 1848; d. NYC, Dec 3 1902.
To NYC ca 1882. • Rabbi, author, NYC; fdr
Jewish Free Sewing & Religious School; active
crusader against missionaries & apostates. •
See: UJE;A]YB, 5(1903-1904):215.
Benjamin, Alfred; b. ca 1859; d. Kansas
City, July 18 1923.
Philanthropist, humanitarian, Kansas City. •
See:A]YB, 26:153.
Benesch, Alfred Abraham; b. Cleveland,
Mar71879.
AB, AM, LLB Harvard; honorary degrees. •
Lawyer, civic ldr, communal worker,
Cleveland, then Columbus, OH; mem City
Council, Bd of Education, OH State Dir of
Commerce. • See: UJE; E]; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 6.
Benjamin, Alfred; b. Dobbs Ferry, NY, July
171895.
AB Williams. • Investment banker, NYC; with
Lazard Freres; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Beneson, Benjamin; b. Minsk, July 4 1880;
d.Jan 1938.
BIdr, realtor, communalldr, NYC; active Fedn
for Jewish Philanthropies. • See: WWIA],
1938; NYTimes, Jan 27 1938,21:5.
Benjamin, Blanche Sternberger; b.
Maysville, SC, May 151901.
Bryn Mawr, Wellesley CoIl. • Philanthropist,
communalworker,culturalldr, Cireensboro,
NC, New Orleans. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Benfield, Bernard; b. NYC, 1861.
Engineer, San Francisco. • See:A]YB, 24:118.
Benjamin, David; b. ca 1858; d. Kansas
City, May 71933.
Businessman, communalldr, Kansas City. •
See:A]YB,35:122.
Bengis, Abraham; b. Vilna, Mar 13 1897; d.
Jan 1952.
To US 1908. • CCNY. • Rabbi, Ft Worth; fdr,
Benjamin, DavidJoel; b. Kansas City, Apr
13 1917; d. Mar 11967.
BA Yale, Harvard... Pulp & paper co exec, San
Francisco; officer Mt Zion Hospital; wwn
Benjamin, David S; b. Springfield, IL, Apr 3
1877.
Exec, Springfield, IL. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Benjamin, Edward Bernard; b. New
Orleans; Nov 181897; d. Mar 16 1980.
AB Harvard; honorary degree. • Capitalist,
business exec, banker, civic, communal &
culturalldr, author, New Orleans; co-fdr,
officer Childrens Hospital (Cireensboro, NC);
officer Jewish Charity & Educational Fedn,
Touro Infirmary; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWlA, 7.
Benjamin, Erich; b. Berlin, Mar 23 1880; d.
Baltimore, Apr 22 1943.
To US ca 1937. • Psychiatrist, Munich,
Baltimore; faculty U Munich, Johns Hopkins.
• See:A]YB, 45:381.
Benjamin, Eugene Simeon; b.
Leavenworth, Jan 211862/1863; d.June
22 1941.
Exec, communal philanthropist, NYC; a fdr
Natl Conf ofJewish Charities; pres, managing
dir Baron de Hirsch Fund, Woodbine Land
Improvement Co; officer Jewish Agricultural
Soc.· See: UJE;A]YB, 7(1905-1906):40-41,
24:118,43:356; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 1; NITimes, June 22 1941,
32:5.
Benjamin, Harriet; b. ca 1854; d. NYC, Dec
41933.
Tchr, NYc. • See: A]YB, 36:278.
Benjamin, Harry L; b. ca 1860; d. Kansas
City, Apr 24 1923.
Civic ldr, philanthropist, Kansas City. • See:
A]YB, 26:153.
Benjamin, Henrietta Israel (Mrs); b. ca
1862; d. Boston, Nov 211931.
Communal worker, Boston. • See: A]YB,
34:110.
Benjamin, Henry; b. NYC, Mar 2 1893; d.
NYC, Oct 1945.
Retail exec, NYC; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, Joint Distribution Com. II See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Oct 28 1945,44:2.
Benjamin, Henry J; b. ca 1858; d. Aug 19
1939.
Violinist, Cincinnati; with Cincinnati
Symphony. • See:A]YB, 42:476.
Benjamin, Judah Philip; b. St Croix, VI,
Aug 6 1811; d. Paris, May 6 1884.
Yale... US senator, Confederate cabinet mem,
lawyer, statesman, sugar planter; refused
Supreme Court appointment; practice in
England after Civil War.· See:]E; UJE; E];
A]YB, 2(1900-1901):517; PA]HS, 12:63-85,
38:153-171; DAB; NITimes, May 8 1884, 1:6.
Benjamin, Julien Emil (E); b. Cincinnati,
July 291889; d. Nov 1972.
43
Bercovici, Konrad
BA U MI, MD U Cincinnati.- Physician,
Cincinnati; faculty Cincinnati ColI ofMed; dir
Assocd Charities, United Jewish Social
Agencies. It See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;
NITimes, Dec 1 1972,42:4.
Benjamin, Louis; b. London, Nov 8 1883.
Newspaper publisher, Erie; publisher DispatchHerald. It See: WWIAJ, 1938; "WWWIA, 1.
Benjamin, Marcus; b. ca 1857; d.
Washington DC, Nov 1932.
Editor, encyclopedist, Washington DC.
AJYB,35:122.
It
See:
Benjamin (Benjamins), Myer; b. Hungary,
ca 1733; d. Newport, Nov 201776.
Translator, Newport; his name may have been
Benjamin Myer. It See: RDEAJ.
Benjamin, Raphael; b. London, June 19
1846; d. NYC, Nov 15 1906.
Jews Free School, BA U London, MA U
Melbourne, Dr Jewish Law for Australia. It
Rabbi, poet, musician, Brooklyn, earlier
Cincinnati; bd Heb Union ColI; active Charity
Org Soc. It See: UJE; AJYB, 5(1903-1904):44,
8(1906-1907):44; PAJHS, 17:214-17;
"WWWIA, 1; NITimes, Nov 16 1906, 9:6.
Benjamin, Robert Morris; b. NYC, Apr 26
1896; d. NYC,Jan 171966.
AB, LLB Harvard. It Lawyer, public official,
NYC; chr State Bd of Regents; officer Public
EducationAssn, bar assns; bd Am Bar Found;
active bar assn; WWII government service. It
See:AJYB, 68:523; "WWWIA, 4; NITimes,Jan
181966,34:1.
Benjamin, Samuel; b. Jerusalem, Sep 12
1893/141894.
AB Brown,JD NYU, ordainedJTS. It Rabbi,
Cleveland, Jacksonville, FL, Chicago,
Brooklyn; mem Tel Aviv Municipal Council;
active Jewish Center. It See: WWIAJ, 1926;
REGAJ; see entry for Bension, Samuel.
Benjaminson (Benjaminsohn), Abraham L;
b. Minsk, 1884.
To US 1892. It Heb author, circumcisor, NYC.
It See: AJYB, 6(1904-1905):60-61; Eisenstadt,
19.
BenJehudah (Yehuda), Eliezer (originally
Perlman); b. Luzhky, Lithuania, 1857; d.
Jerusalem, Dec 1922.
In US during WWI. It Pioneer developer of
modern Heb, lexicographer, Palestine. It See:
UJE;EJ;NITimes, Dec 181922, 17:5.
Benkowitz, lcik; b. Lithuania, Aug 1 1853;
d. Chelsea, MA,June 1963.
In US before 1914. It Rabbi. It See:AJYB,
65:431.
Ben-Meir, Moshe S; b. Bialystok,Oct 26
1900; d. NYC,Jan 17 1959.
To'US 1940. It Educator, Heb poet, author;
faculty Yeshiva U. It See:AJYB, 61:415;
NYTimes, Jan 19 1959,27:4.
Benmosche, Herman; b. Cairo, Egypt, Jan
181858.
Rabbi, Norfolk, earlier London.
5(1903-1904):44.
It
See: AJYB,
Benmosche, Moses; b. London, Dec 5
1883; d. NYC, Sep 4/5 1951.
MD Med ColI of VA, post-grad England. It
Surgeon, cancer researcher, poet, NYC; active
city politics; author in field. It See: AJYB,
54:538; WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 3;NITimes,
Sep 61951,31:1.
Benn, Ben; b. Ukraine, Dec 27 1884.
To US 1895. It NatlAcademyofDesign. It
Artist, NYC. It See:AJYB, 24:118; WWIAJ,
1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 8.
Bennett, Harris; b.*; d. Duluth, Oct 3 1923.
Communal worker, Duluth. It See:AJYB,
26:153.
Bennett, Max A; b. Botosani, Rumania, Dec
1618,82.
To US 1900. It Insurance agent, broker, Erie;
officer Heb Inst; dir J ewish Welfare Bd. It See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Benny, Jack (born Kubelsky); b. Waukegan,
IL, Feb 141894; d. Beverly Hills, Dec 26
1974.
Stage, radio & screen comedian,
philanthropist; a fdr Am Israel Cdtural Found;
WWI service. It See: UJE; !lJYB, 76:511;
WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 6; NITimes, Dec 27
1974, 1:2.
Benoliel, Solomon David; b. NYC, June 1
1873/1874; d. Nov 23/30 1932.
BS CCNY, EE, AM Columbia. • Consult
electrical & mechanical engineer, chemist,
Niagara Falls, Merien, PA; author/lecturer in
field. - See: AJYB, 6(1904-1905):61,24:118,
35:122; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; REGAJ;
WWWIA, 1.
Benquiat, Vital; b. ca 1859; d. Mar 171937.
Art expert, oriental rug, textile & jewelry
dealer, NYC. • See:AJYB, 39:589; NITimes,
Mar 181937,25:1.
Bensadon,Joseph;b.NYC, 1819; d. Nevv
Orleans, 1871.
MD U Charleston. • Physician, New Orleans;
encouraged Judah Touro to found infirmary;
Mexican War & Civil War Confederate
service. • See: UJE.
Bensinger, Benjamin Edvvard; b. Louisville,
Jan 4 1868; d. Chicago, Nov 27 1935.
Mfr, communal worker, Chicago; pres Assocd
Jewish Charities. • See:AJYB, 24:119, 38:425;
WWIAJ, 1928; WWWIA, 1.
Bensinger, Benjamin Edvvard; b. Chicago,
Dec 61905; d.Jan 19 1979.
PhB Yale. • Corp exec, Chicago; trustee Jewish
Fedn; active civic, charitable, cultural &
business instns. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Bension, Samuel; b. Jerusalem, Sep 12
1894.
To US 1903, Palestine 1935.· AB Brown,JD
NYU, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi, Haifa, earlier
Cleveland,]acksonville, FL, NYC, Chicago;
pres Am-Palestine Bank (Tel Aviv); mem
Municipal Council (Tel Aviv & Haifa). • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; see entry for Benjamin, Samuel.
Benson, Emanuel Mervyn; b. NYC, Oct 22
1904; d.June 11971.
BA Dartmouth, MA Columbia. • Art educator,
Philadelphia, NYC; with Museum of Art; dean
Museum ColI; researcher NYU; author in
field. It See: WWWIA, 5.
Bensvvanger, William Edvvard; b. NYC, Feb
22 1892; d. Jan 15 1972.
Businessman, professional athletic team exec,
Pittsburgh; earlier in insurance business; pres
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh Baseball Club; dir
Natl League; WWI service. • See: EJ:19731982; "WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Jan 17 1972,
34:4.
Benter, Charles; b. NYC, Apr 29 1887; d.
Dec 1964,.
Honorary degree. • Band ldr, composer,
Washington DC; fdr US Navy School of
Music; naval service.. • See: WWWIA, 8;
NITimes, Dec 5 1964, 31:2.
Benzer, Seymour; b. NY, 1921.
Purdue. • Molecular biologist; specialty:
genetic analysis; faculty Purdue. • See: EJ.
Ben-Zion (Weinman); b. Ukraine, 1897.
To US 1920. • Painter, etcher; noted for
unconventional handling of biblical themes;
with WPA. • See: EJ.
Benzion, Benedict; b. Gomostapolye, Kiev,
1839; d. US, ca 1915.
To US 1887. It MD U Wiirzburg. • Christian
missionary to Jews, physician, Heb author,
Yiddish translator; convert from Judaism. •
See: UJE.
Beranger, Clara (Mrs Albert B Beranger,
Mrs Williain de Mille); b. Baltimore, Jan
141886; d. Sep 10 1956.
AB Goucher. • Screenplay writer, NYC, Los
Angeles; faculty U Southern CA. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; WWWIA, 3;
NITimes, Sep 12 1956,37:2.
Berch, Rose Jean Chmelnitsky (Mrs
Samuel H Berch); b. Wtnnipeg, May 1
1892.
To US 1891 (?).• Communal worker, Los
Angeles; officer Natl Council ofJewish
Women, Heb Sheltering Home for Aged. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Berch, Samuel Harry; b. Russia, Dec 10
1888; d. Oct 29 1951.
To US 1918. - Dairy co exec, Los Angeles. •
See: WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Oct 30 1951, 29:3.
Bercovici, Konrad; b. BrailalGalati,
Rumania, JunelJuly 22 1882; d. Dec
1961.
To US 1908/1916. • Author, screenwriter,
musician, composer, charity investigator,
Morristown, NJ; special interest gypsy music &
stories. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:119; WWIAJ,
1926,1928,1938; REGAJ; WWWIA, 4;
NITimes, Dec 28 1961,27:1.
44
Berdichevsky, Leo
Berdichevsky, Leo; b. Kherson, Nov 12
1886.
BA Petrograd Imperial Conservatory. •
Pianist, popularizer of Heb music, NYC. • See:
WWIA], 1926,1928.
Berdon, David; b. Jan 17 1894/1895; d.
NYC, Mar 20 1969.
BCS NYU. • Accountant, philanthropist; a fdr
Albert Einstein ColI ofMed, FeOO ofJewish
Philanthropies; active Am Jewish Com. • See:
A]YB, 71 :602; WWIA.], 1938; NITimes, Mar
23 1969,93:1.
Bereano, Philip L; b. Ploesti, Rumania,
Nov 161878; d. May 1949.
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Physician, NYC;
specialty: diseases of gastro-intestinal tract; fdr
Jewish Home for Convalescents. • See:
WWIA], 1926; NITimes, May 23 1949,23:5.
Berell, Elias; b. Austria, June 25 1891.
Kansas City School of Law. • Lawyer, Kansas
City; active Am Legion, communal charities,
Democratic politics. • See: BEOA].
Berenberg, David Paul; b. Brooklyn, Mar
171890.
BA CCNY, post-grad Columbia. • Tchr,
writer, poet, Brooklyn; faculty Rand School;
editorial staff Am Labor Year Book. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Berenson, Arthur; b. Boston, Oct 1 1879; d.
NYC, Aug 11 1944.
LLB Boston U.· Lawyer, Boston, NYC;
WWI enlistment bd service. • See: A]YB,
47:518; WWIA.], 1938; NITimes, Aug 13 1944,
35:2.
Berenson, Bernard (Bernhard); b.
Baltramentz, Lithuania, June 26 1865; d.
Florence, Oct 61959.
To US ca 1875.• AB Harvard; honorary
degrees. • Art historian, connoisseur, critic,
Florence; specialty: Italian Renaissance art;
benefactor Harvard; author in field. • See: ]E;
UJE; E]; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):61, 24: 119;
WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 3; DAB, 6; NITimes,
Oct81959, 1:3.
Berenson, Senda; b. Biturmansk, Lithuania,
Mar 19 1868; d. Santa Barbara, CA, Feb
161954.
To Boston 1875. • Boston Conservatory,
Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, Smith,
Royal Central Inst of Gymnastics (Stockholm).
• Sportswoman, educator; assocd with Smith;
opposed womens intercoll competition. • See:
E]:1983-1985; DAB, 5.
Berg, Aaron W; b. NYC, July 4 1903; d.
Mar 1978.
AB, LLB Columbia.· Lawyer, communalldr,
NYC; officer Jewish Vacation Assn, FeOO
Settlement; dir Boys Athletic League; active
bar assn. • See: WWIA.], 1938; BEOA];
NITimes, Mar 17 1978, II 2:1.
Berg, Abram S Jr; b. Philadelphia, Sep 7
1902; d.Jenkintown, PA,Jan 16 1972.
Industrialist, communalldr, Philadelphia;
officer Heb Immigrant Aid Soc; natl bd Jewish
Welfare Bd, Am Jewish Com; dir FeOO of
Jewish Agencies. • See:A]YB, 74:554.
Berg, Albert Ashton; b. NYC, Aug 10 1872;
d. NYC, July 1 1950.
AB CCNY, MD Columbia. • Surgeon, book
collector, philanthropist, NYC; specialty:
stomach; benefactor NY Public Library (Berg
Collection).· See: UJE;A]YB, 24:119, 53:523;
WWIA.], 1928,1938; WWWIA, 3; NITimes,
July 2 1950,24:3.
Berg, Benjamin Nathan; b. NYC, Dec 8
1897.
AB CCNY, MD Columbia. • Physician, NYC;
faculty Columbia; author in field. • See:
WWIA.], 1938.
.
Berg, Bernard; b. London, Mar 26 1894.
DMD Tufts. • Dentist, Boston; faculty Tufts;
WWI service. • See: WWIA.], 1938.
Berg, Charles F; b. San Francisco, July 14
1871; d. Portland, OR, Sep 8 1932.
Merchant, civic & communalldr, Portland,
OR; pres trade assns. • See:A]YB, 35:122;
WWIA.],1928.
Berg, Eva S (Mrs Reuben Berg); b. NYC,
Oct 15 1891; d. Ramat Aviv, Nov 13
1964.
Pratt. • Communal worker, hotel owner,
Stanfordville, NY; a fdr Pioneer Women. •
See: A]YB, 66:572; NITimes, Nov 19 1964,
39:6.
Berg, Forrest T; b. San Francisco, Jan 5
1901.
Merchant, communal worker, Portland, OR;
dir Chamber of Commerce. • See: WWIA.],
1938.
Berg, Gertrude; b. Savannah, ca 1858; b.
Oct 201938.
Communal & civic clubwoman, Philadelphia,
NYC; natl officer Natl Council ofJewish
Women; pres Young Womens Union; officer
"Home of Delight." • See:A]YB, 7(19051906):41,41:419.
Berg, Gertrude Edelstein (Mrs Louis/
Lewis Berg); b. NYC, Oct 3 1899; d.
NYC, Sep 141966.
Columbia. • Radio, screen & television actress,
scriptwriter, dir; creator & star "The
Goldbergs." • See: UJE; A]YB, 68:523;
WWIA.], 1938; WWWIA, 4;NAW:modern;
DAB, 8;NITimes, Sep 15 1966,43:3.
Berg, Harold C; b. Saginaw, MI, May 3
1900.
Composer, Los Angeles. • See: WWIA.], 1928.
Berg, Henry W; b. Austria, Dec 25 1859; d.
NYC, Dec 22 1938.
To US 1865. • AB CCNY, MD Columbia. •
Physician, neurologist,NYC; author in field. •
See: UJE;A]YB, 41:419; WWIA.], 1926, 1928;
NITimes, Dec 23 1938, 19:1.
Berg, Jacob D; b. Brezin, Poland, Dec 26
1888; d. NYC,June 17 1963.
To US 1914.· BIdr, communalldr; pres
Sholem Aleichem Folk Inst; bd Yiddish Inst;
mem world council Cong for Jewish Culture. •
See:A]YB, 65:431; NITimes,June 19 1963,
37:5.
Berg, Julius Simon; b. NYC, July 12 1835/
July 15 1895; d.July 201938.
NYU. • Lawyer, legislator, NYC; active
Internatl Peace Movement, veterans affairs,
Boy Scouts; WWI service. • See: A]YB,
41:419; WWIA.], 1926,1938.
Berg, Leon; b. ca 1867; d. Dayton, OH, Oct
191933.
Theatrical press agent, author. • See: A]YB,
36:278.
Berg, Louis; b. London, June 19 1900/
1901; d. Oct 11972.
To NYC 190411905. • AB Columbia, MD
Jefferson Med ColI, post-grad U Berlin, U
Vienna. • Psychiatrist, NYC; with NY Dept of
Correction; author in field, fiction. • See:
WWIA], 1938;BEOA]; WWWIA, 5.
Berg, Morris (Moe); b. NYC, Mar 2 1902;
d.May 1972.
AB Princeton, LLB Columbia. • Professional
baseball player, lawyer, linguist, Newark; mem
WWII government service. • See: E]:19731982; BEOA]; NYTimes, June 1 1972,46:1.
Berg, Nettie L (Mrs); b. 1887?; d. NYC,
July 25 1967.
Educator, communal worker; specialty: audiovisual education; active professional orgs;
author in field. • See: A]YB, 69:605; NITimes,
July271967,35:3.
Berg, Paul; b. NYC, 1926.
PA State, PhD Western Reserve. • Biochemist,
Nobel laureate; faculty Stanford. • See:
E]:1973-1982.
Berg, Simon; b. Kiev, Jan 6 1872.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, Brooklyn; specialty: real
estate; dir communal orgs. • See: WWIA],
1926.
Berg, Sol I; b. ca 1869; d. Ysleta, TX, May
1935.
Merchant, mayor, Ysleta, TX.· See:A]YB,
37:254.
Berg, William Nathan; b. Hungary, Sep 22
1881.
BS, PhD Columbia. • Biochemist, NYC;
specialty: foods; dir Berg Biological
Laboratory; author in field; WWI service. •
See:A]YB, 24:119; WWIA], 1928.
Bergad, MaxM; b. Russia, Mar 291901.
BS Harvard, LLB U Pittsburgh. • Lawyer,
Greensburg, PA; officer B'nai B'rith. • See:
BEOA].
Bergen, Emil; b. NYC, Jan 261912; d. Palo
Alto, Oct 311974.
Communal worker & fundraiser; active Am
Jewish Com, Joint Distribution Com. • See:
A]YB, 76:511; NYI'imes, Nov 11974,42:2.
Berger, Adolph; b. Hungary, Dec 12 1882;
d. NYC, Apr 1961.
To NYC 1903. • DDS NY ColI of Dentistry. •
45
Oral surgeon, NYC; faculty Columbia; author/
lecturer in field. • See: WWL4.J, 1926, 1928,
1938; NYTimes, Apr 16 1961,86:6.
Berger, Arthur Victor; b. NYC, 1912.
Harvard, Paris. • Composer, critic, author;
with NY Herald Tribune; faculty Brandeis. •
See:EJ:1973-1982.
Berger, Benjamin; b. Hraboce, Hungary,
June 17 1884.
To NYC 1885.· CCNY,MDLICoIl
Hospital. • Physician, NYC; specialty: urology,
dermatology; active communal affairs. • See:
WWL4.J, 1926, 1938.
Berger, Die L; b. Galatz, Rumania, Nov 8/9
1884.
Brown, 42nd Street CoIl of Dentistry (NYC). •
Dentist, Zionist & communalldr, Providence;
staff Am Jewish Cong; regionaVstate officer
Zionist Org of Am; officer professional soc. •
See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; BEOAJ.
Berger,Jacob Israel; b. Rawa, Poland, Apr
3 1888.
To US 192 7. • Rabbi, kashruth supervisor,
Cleveland; officer Rabbinical Council. • See:
WWL4.J,1938.
Berger, Joseph; b. Austria, Sep 17 1864.
Communal & civic worker, St Louis; officer
Childs Welfare Bureau, Community Center. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Berger, Louis; b. NYC, May 16 1894; d.
Brooklyn, Mar 1970.
CCNY, MD NYU. • Physician, surgeon,
Brooklyn; faculty LI CoIl Hospital, Downstate
Med Center; pres med soc. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; NYTimes, Mar 291970, 72:8.
Berger, Louis L; b. Detroit, May 281880.
Retail exec, Buffalo; mem State Planning Bd;
local, natl officer business orgs; dir Jewish
Hospital. • See: WWL4.J, 1928, 1938.
Berger, Marcy Irwin; b. Holyoke, MA, Feb
271877; d. Vero Beach, FL, Feb 23
1951.
U Chicago. • Mfr, dairy farmer, cattle dealer,
Chicago; natl seey United Jewish Campaign;
active comunal charities; WWI natl guard
service. • See:AJYB, 53:523; WWL4.J, 1938;
NYTimes, Feb 25 1951,85:1.
Berger, Maurice Wibert; b. Riverdale, NY,
July 51906; d.July 251968.
B Litt Rutgers, Yale Law. • Merchant, art
collector & donor,. Milwaukee, NYC; with
Gimbels; officer business assns, Milwaukee Art
Center; WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes,July27 1968,27:1.
Bergson, eBen
BEOAJ; WWWIA., 3; DAB, 6; NYTimes, Feb 9
1959,29:1.
Berger, Morroe; b. NYC,June 251917; d.
Apr 71981.
BSS CCNY, MA, PhD Columbia. •
Sociologist, consult, author, editor, translator,
Princeton; faculty Princeton U; WWII service.
• See: WWWIA., 7,8.
Berger, Nathan Hale; b. Brooklyn, July 14
1889; d. Oct 1968.
AB, LLB NYU. • Lawyer, banker, Newark; NJ
delegate Conf ofJewish Charities. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 8;NYTimes, Nov 1
1968,47:1.
Berger, Samuel; b. Poland, ca 1857; d.
NYC, Apr 181923.
To US ca 1882.· Dir NYC piers & parks
public concerts. • See:AJYB, 26:153; NYTimes,
Apr 19 1923, 19:4.
Berger, Samuel A; b. Pilten, Kurland, Nov
21877.
To US 1894.· Tea & brewing businessman,
realtor, communal & Zionist worker, NYc. •
See: WWL4.J, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Berger, Samuel A; b. Czechoslovakia, Sep
291882; d. NYC,Jan 1972.
CCNY, NY Law. • Lawyer, public servant, art
collector, NYC; mem State Insurance Bd;
active Republican politics; WWII service. • Se:
WWIAJ, 1926; NYTimes, Feb 11972,40:3.
Berger, Samuel David; b. Gloversville, NY,
Dec 61911; d. Feb 16 1980.
PhB U WI, post-grad U WI, London School
of Economics. • Foreign service officer,
London, Tokyo, New Zealand; with State
Dept; WWII service. • See: WWWIA., 7.
Berger, Samuel Sylvester; b. Kisdobra,
Hungary, Apr 14 1884; d. Cleveland, Sep
1956.
To Cleveland 1895. • MD Western Reserve,
post-grad Europe. • Gastroenterologist,
Cleveland; author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Sep 201956,33:4.
Berger, Victor Luitpold; b. NiederRehbach, Austria, Feb 28 1860; d.
Milwaukee, Aug 71929.
To Milwaukee 1878/1880. • U Budapest, U
Vienna. • Congressman, Socialist ldr,
journalist, Sunday school tchr, Milwaukee; a
fdr Am Socialist Party; editor Milwaukee
Leader; opposed US entry into WWI. • See:
UJE; EJ; AJYB, 32:153; WWIAJ, 1928; Fink,
21-22; WWWIA., 1; DAB, 1; NYTimes, Aug 8
1929,25:1.
Berger, Max; b. ca 1874; d. Middletown,
NY,June 10 1935.
Philanthropist, Middletown, NY. • See: AJYB,
37:254.
Bergida, Adolf; b. Hungary, ca 1866; d.
Jersey City, May 11939.
To US ca 1885. • Butter & egg merchant,
communal worker, Brooklyn; pres United
Jewish Aid Soc; fdr synagog. • See: AJYB,
41:419; NYTimes, May 2 1939,23:4.
Berger, Meyer M (Mike); b. NYC, Sep 1
1898; d. NYC, Feb 8 1959.
Newspaperman, Pulitzer Prize winner, author,
NYC; staff NYTimes; WWI service, WWII
London correspondent. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
Bergida, Jerome Jacob; b. Brooklyn, Feb 18
1907; d. Mar 111974.
MD LI CoIl Hospital, post-grad Columbia. •
Otolaryngologist, Brooklyn; popular author in
field; WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Bergler, Edmund; b. Austria, July 20 1899;
d. NYC, Feb 61962.
To US 1938.· MD UVienna.•
Psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, theoretician, NYC;
with NY Psychoanalytic Inst; earlier with
Freud Clinic (Vienna); author in field. • See:
WWWIA,4;NYTimes,Feb7 i962, 37:2.
Bergman, Bernard Aaron; b. Chillicothe,
July 8 1894; d. Apr 11 1980.
BA OH State, post-grad U Poitiers. • Writer,
publicity agent, journalist, NYC; with
Philadelphia Bulktin, Jewish Exponent; WWI,
WWII service. • See: WWL4.J, 1926, 1928;
WWWIA, 7,8.
Bergman, Isaac; b.*; d. Astoria, OR, June
141911.
Mayor, Astoria, OR. • See: AJYB, 13(19111912):138.
Bergman, Moise; b. Shreveport, Nov 10
1877; d. San Diego, 1948.
BH, ordained Heb Union ColI, BA U
Cincinnati. • Rabbi, social worker, Grand
Rapids, New Orleans, San Diego. • See: AJYB,
5(1903-1904):44,6(1904-1905):214; CCARYB.
Bergman, Simon; b. Riga, Oct 26 1869; d.
May 101939.
Exec, civic & communal worker, Rye, NY,
NYC; with Lily Tulip Cup; pres Sydenham
Hospital; active Am Jewish Com. • See:AJYB,
41:419; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, May 11
1939,25:3.
Bergman, Walter James; b. NYC, Jan 14
1904; d. Sep 111972.
Wharton; honorary degree. • Exec, NYC; with
Lily Tulip Cup; natl trustee Natl Conf of
Christians &Jews; officer Am Jewish Com. •
See: WWWIA., 5; NYTimes, Sep 13 1972, 50:2.
Bergmann, Max; b. Fiirth, Feb 12 1886; d.
NYC, Nov71944.
To US·1933/1934. • U Munich, PhD U
Berlin. • Chemist, Berlin, NYC; specialty:
leather, proteins; faculty Rockefeller Inst;
WWII government research. • See: E); DAB,
3; NYTimes, Nov 8 1944, 17:5.
Bergner, Elisabeth; b. Vienna, Aug 22
1897/1900.
Vienna Cqnservatory. • Stage actress, Berlin,
London, NYC. • See: UJE; EJi WWIAJ, 1938.
Bergson, Abram; b. Baltimore, 1914.
Economist, Sovietologist, government advisor;
faculty Columbia, Harvard; author in field. •
See:BJ.
Bergson, Bette; b. Kansas City, Nov 13
1919; d. NYC, Mar 21964.
Journalist, communal & civic worker; orgr,
exec dir Com to Save Middle East from
Communism; consult War Refugee Bd,
Nuremberg trials. • See: AJYB, 66:572;
NYTimes, Mar 4 1964, 34:6.
Bergson, C Ben; b. Rutland, VI', Apr 18
1896.
Fabric mfr, jobber, inventor, Kansas City;
46
Bergson, Simon
active Am Legion, communal affairs, bowling
& golf orgs. • See: BEOA].
Bergson, Simon; b. ca 1860; d. Boston, Mar
1922.
Communal worker, Boston. • See: A]YB,
25:138.
Berick, Morris; b. Pawtucket, Apr 191903.
NYU, Boston U Law. • Lawyer, city coroner,
Pawtucket. • See: U7WIA], 1938.
Berk, Fred (Fritz Berger); b. Vienna, Jan 25
1911; d. NYC, Feb 261980.
To US 1941.· Dancer, tchr, folkdance
consult, NYC, Israel; author in field. • See:
A]YB, 82:362-63.
Berk, Viola Greenhut (Mrs S Bernard
Berk); b. Cleveland, Sep 211897; d. Apr
25 1977.
Case Western, BA Stetson U. • Broadcasting
exec, Akron; earlier Texas, Dayton. • See:
WWWlA,7.
Berke, Mark; b. London, Dec 61914; d.
Sep 1971.
BA London U. • Hospital lidmr, San
Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia; author in
field. • See: WWWIA, 6; NITimes, Sep 19
1971,67:1.
Berke, Nathan Ramon; b. Detroit, July 23
1907.
U MI, LLB Detroit ColI of Law. • Lawyer,
communalldr, Detroit; active Jewish Welfare
Fedn, Jewish Community Center. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Berkelhammer, Irving; b. NYC, Aug 11
1904; d. Apr 1969.
LLB NYU.• Lawyer, NYC; active Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies, United Jewish Appeal,
Young Mens Bd of Trade, professional assns. •
See: Wf¥IA], 1938; NITimes, May 1 1969,
47:5.
Berkey, Benjamin; b. Podolsk,Jan 11911;
d. Dec 16 1984.
BBA CCNY. • Photographic co exec; active
City ColI Fund, Baruch ColI Fund. • See:
WWWL4,8.
Berkley, Maurice; b. ca 1864; d. Kansas
City, May 13 1933.
Businessman, philanthropist, Kansas City. •
See:A]YB,35:122.
Berkman, Aaron; b~ Hartford, May 23 1900.
Hartford Art School, Boston Museum of Fine
Arts. • Painter, etcher, critic, NYC; faculty NY
School of Fine & Industrial Art. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Berkman, Alexander;b. Vilna, Nov 21
1870; d. Nice, June 28 1936.
To US 1887/1888. • Revolutionary, anarchist,
author, Russia, US; friend of Emma Goldman;
attempted to assassinate Henry Clay Frick;
deported to Russia (1919); autobiography. •
See: UJE; E]; WWWIA, 4; DAB, 2.
Berkman, Bertha Jerusalimsky (Mrs Henry
Berkman); b. Suwalki,Aug 101885.
To US 1888. • Communalldr, Chicago; mgr
Heb Inst; natl bd Hadassah; active Bd ofJewish
Eduation, Jewish Charities, Natl Council of
Jewish Women. • See: WWIA], 1938.
languages; faculty U WI; author in field; WWI
service. • See: UJE; A]YB, 47:518; WWIA],
1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; NITimes,Jan 19
1945,19:5.
Berkman, Lena Bella; b. ca 1849; d. June 23
1939.
Communal worker, Charleston, sc. • See:
A]YB, 42:476.
'
Berkowitz, Isaac Dob; see Berkowitz,
Yitzhak Dov.
Berkman, Theodore; b. Brooklyn, Jan 8
1907.
LLB StJohns.· Lawyer, Jamaica, NY; active
Am Jewish Cong, Allied Civic Assn. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Berko, Geza; b.*
Newspaper editor, NYC.· See:A]YB, 24:119.
Berkowitz, Joseph Judah; b. Jassy, July 8
1897;d.~C, 1951/1952.
To NYC 1903.· BS CCNY, MD Cornell.·
Obstetrician, gynecologist, NYC; WWI Jewish
Welfare Bd service, wwn service. • See:
wWIA], 1938; NITimes, Jan 2 1952,25:2.
Berkowitz, Julius; b. Tauroggen~ Aug 8
1869.
Civic & communal worker, New Bedford, MA;
dir Morris Plan Bank. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Berkowitz,Abrahmm;b.~C,SepI2/13
1887.
Lawyer, asst county district atty, Philadelphia;
specialty: inheritance taxes; active AntiDefamation League, B'nai B'rith. • See:
WWIA], 1926,1928,1938.
Berkowitz, Ahrmm; b. Brooklyn, Apr 15
1892; d. May 1973.
Northeastern, LLB Boston U; honorary
degree. • Lawyer, Boston; active Combined
Jewish Philanthropies, Brandeis, Am Technion
Soc; WWI service. • See: WWWL4, 5.
Berkowitz, David Sandler; b. Pittsburgh,
Aug 201913; d. May 71983.
AB, AM, PhD Harvard. • Historian; faculty
Brandeis; bd Waltham Family Services; active
cultUral orgs; author in field. • See: WWWIA,
8.
Berkowitz, Eugene Bertrmm; b. Kansas
City, Apr 24 1889.
Mfr, communal & philanthropic worker,
Kansas City; pres Berkowitz Envelope Co. •
See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Berkowitz, Henry; b. Pittsburgh, Mar 18
1857; d. Atlantic City, Feb 71924.
Cornell, ordained, BHL Heb Union ColI, BL
U Cincinnati; honorary degree. • Reform
rabbi, author, Philadelphia; fdr Jewish
Chautauqua; a fdr Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies; officer Central Conf of Am
Rabbis. • See: JE; UJE; E]; A]YB, 5(19031904):44-45,24:119,26:153,448-58; PA]HS,
31:252-53;WWWIA, 1; DAB; NYTimes, Feb 8
1924,19:5.
Berkowitz, Henry Joseph; b. Philadelphia,
Nov 271894; d. Portland, OR, Mar 1
1949.
AB U Cincinnati, ordainedHeb Union ColI,
post-grad U MI, U Chicago; honorary degree.
• Rabbi, Detroit, Kansas City, Portland, OR;
bd Heb Union ColI; active Central Conf ofAm
Rabbis; fighter for tolerance. • See: A]YB,
51:519; WWIA], 1926, 1938;NYTimes, Mar 2
1949,25:2.
Berkowitz, Hyman Chonon (H Chonon); b.
Slutsk,Jan 271895; d. Madison,WI,Jan
1945.
To US 1907.· AB, AM, PhD Cornell.·
Philologist, Madison, 'WI; specialty: Romance
Berkowitz, Louis I; b. ~C, Feb 15 1921;
d. Roslyn Hgts,~, May 191980.
Social worker, psychologist, consult,
Cleveland, NYC; faculty CCNY; with East
End Neighborhood Houses, Educational
Alliance; officer professional orgs; author in
field. • See:A]YB, 82:363.
Berkowitz, Max Edward; b. Kansas City,
Feb 71889; d. MountVemon,~, Apr
15 1958.
U PA.· Sales exec, biographer, NYC; bd
Jewish Chautauqua; honorary bd Natl Fedn of
Temple Brotherhoods.· See:A]YB, 60:354;
NYTimes, Apr 161958, 33:1.
Berkowitz, Mortimer; b. NYC, May 1 1887;
d. Oct 26 1966.
Publisher, advertising exec, NYC; with The Am
Weekly, The Comic Weekly. • See: WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, Oct 27 1966, 47:3.
Berkowitz, Smmuel; b. ca 1862; d. Nov 5
1930.
Merchant, communal worker, Philadelphia;
orgr, officer B'rith Sholom. • See: A]YB,
33:125.
Berkowitz, SmmueISimpson;h. Riga, Dec
22 1885; d.June 1963.
To US 1886. • BA Cornell, MA Columbia. •
Publicschool principal, Jamaica, NY,
Brooklyn; WWII government service. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, June 5 1963,41:3.
Berkowitz, Walter J; b. Kansas City, Feb 11
1892; d. Mar 22 1966.
BS Harvard. • Envelope & machine mfr, civic
& communal worker, Kansas City; an orgr
Social Hygiene Soc; WWI service. • See:
Berkowitz, WilliamJ; b. Pittsburgh, Oct 18
1860.
BA Central High School (Pittsburgh). •
Communalldr, Kansas City; officer United
Jewish Charities; delegate Union of Am Heb
Congregations, Natl Conf ofJewish Charities;
active business assns, synagog. • See:A]YB,
7(1905-1906):41.
Berkowitz, Wolf; b.*; d. reported Oct 22
1937.
47
Bennan, Benjamin Frank
Communal worker, Los Angeles. • See: A]YB,
40:382.
with revolutionary movement in Russia; author
in field. • See: UJE.
Communal worker, NYc. • See: A]YB,
13(1911-1912):138.
Berkowitz, Yitzhak Dov (Isaac Dob); b.
Slutsk, 1885; d. Israel, Mar 1967.
In US 1913-1928, to Palestine 1928. • Yiddish
novelist, editor, playwright, translator, NYC. •
See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 24:119; NITimes, Mar 30
1967,45:2.
Berlin, Irving (born Israel Baline); b.
Kirghizia, Russia, May 111888.
To NYC 1893. • Noted popular songwriter;
"God Bless America"; WWI service. • See:
U]E; E]; A]YB, 24:119; Eisenstadt, 25;
WWIA],-l926, 1928, 1938;BEOA].
Berliner, Henry Adler; b. Washington DC,
Dec 13 1895; d. May 1970.
Cornell, MIT, BS Harvard. • Engineering
exec, aeronautical engineer; WWI & WWII
service. • See: E] (sub Berliner, Emile).
Berkson, Isaac Baer; b. NYC, Dec 23 1891;
d. NYC, Mar 10 1975.
BA CCNY, MA, PhD Columbia. • Communal
educator, philosopher, NYC, Palestine; facUlty
Jewish Inst of Religion, CCNY; supervisor
Bureau ofJewish Education; dir Central Jewish
Inst. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 77:592; WWIA],
1926, 1928, 1938; NITimes, Mar 13 1975,
42:4.
Berlin, Lewis; b~ Lithuania, Sep 121879.
To US 1891. • MD ColI of Physicians &
Surgeons (Baltimore). • Surgeon, Norfolk; dir
Memorial Hospital; officer Zionist Org of Am.
• See: WWIA], 1938.
Berkson, Libbie Suchoff (Mrs Isaac B
Berkson); b. Lubtz, Russia, Nov 171891.
To US 1903. • AB Hunter, MA Columbia. •
Camp dir, public school tchr, NYC; dir League
ofJewish Youth, Camp Modin for Girls
(Canaan, ME); active Hadassah. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Berkson, Maurice; b. Rock Island, IL, Jan
15 1880.
LLB Lake Forest U. • Lawyer, Chicago. • See:
Berl, Ernst; b. Freudenthal, Austria,July 7
1877; d. Pittsburgh, Feb 16 1946.
To US 1933.· Chern E Technical U (Vienna),
PhD U Zurich. • Research chemist,
Pittsburgh; faculty U Darmstadt, Carnegie
Tech; WWI Austrian government service. •
See:A]YB, 48:484-85; WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA, 2; NITimes, Feb 17 1946,44:3.
Berla, Amzi; b. ca 1858; d. South Orange,
N],]uly 161933.
Communal worker, South Orange, NJ.· See:
A]YB, 36:278.
Berlack, Harris; b. Philadelphia, July 18
1898; d. NYC, Dec 3 1968.
BS, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, communalldr,
NYC; nat! council Joint Distribution Com; bd
Am Jewish Com; active civic affairs (Ossining,
NY); WWI service. • See: A]YB, 70:519;
WWWIA.,5;NITimes,Dec5 1968,47:3.
Berley, Alexander; b. Orechov, Russia, July
301906.
To NYC 1907.· LLB Brooklyn Law.·
Lawyer, legislator, NYC; mem school bd; bd
Heb Free Bureau Soc; active Republican
politics. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Berliant, Samuel; b. Russia, June 12 1905;
d.]ackson Hgts, NY,Jan 261972.
To US 1905. • Rabbi; nat! pres Rabbinical
Council of Am; active Jewish Welfarebd, Boy
& Girl Scouts. • See:A]YB, 74:554;NITimes,
Jan 27 1972,40:3.
Berlin, Fanny (born Berlinerblau); b~ St
Petersburg, 1852; d. Roxbury,"MA, 1921.
To Boston 1870. • MD U Zurich, New
England Hospital for Women & Children. •
Pioneer woman surgeon, linguist;· associated
Berlin, Louis; b. Nemeroff, Russia, Apr 15
1884; d. Chicago, Nov 1964.
Editor,publisher, Chicago; fdr Chicago
Sentinel; bd Mt Sinai; active synagog. • See:
A]YB, 66:572.
Berlin, Mendel; b. ca 1860; d.Brookline,
MA, Apr 10 1934.
Talmudic scholar, Brookline, MA. • See:
A]YB, 36:278.
Berlin, Meyer (Bar-Dan, Meir); b.
Volozhin, Poland, Apr 25 1880/1881; d.
Jerusalem, Apr 17 1949.
To NYC 1913, to Palestine 1933. • U Berlin. •
Rabbi, Mizrachi & Zionist ldr, NYC; editor
Haibri; pres Am Mizrachi, World Mizrachi,
RIETS; officer Zionist World Exec Com;
WWI Am Central Relief Com officer, active
Joint Distribution Com. • See: UJE; E] (~ub
Bar-Ilan, Meir);A]YB, 24:119, 51:519;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; NITimes, Apr 18
1949,25:4.
Berlin, Samuel N; b. ca 1859; d. Brooklyn,
Feb 1921.
Communal worker, philanthropist, Brooklyn. •
See:A]YB,23:131.
Berlin, Sarah N(Mrs Samuel Berlin); h. ca
1856; d. Brooklyn, Dec 29 1938.
Communal worker, Brooklyn; a fdr Brooklyn
Heb Home, YMHA. • See: A]YB, 41 :419;
NITimes, Dec 301938,15:1.
Berliner, Adolph; b. ca 1842; d. St Louis,
Nov 1915.
Civil War veteran, StLouis.· See:A]YB,
18(1916-1917):106.
Berliner, Charles A; b. ca 1858; d. San
Francisco, Dec 1918.
Municipal worker, San Francisco. • See: A]YB,
21:204.
Berliner, Emile; b. Wolfenbiittel, Germany,
May 20 1851; d. Washington DC, Aug 3
1929.
To US 1870.· Microphone & gramophone
inventor; fdr Soc for the Prevention of
Sickness; supporter Heb U. • See: ]E; UJE; E];
A]YB, 6(1904-1905):61,24:119,32:153;
WWIA], 1926, 1928; WWWIA, 1; DAB, 1;
NITimes, Aug 4 1929, 24:4.
Berliner, Henry;b.ca 1845; d.NYC,June
1911.
Berliner, Julius Frederick Thomas; b. Santa
Cruz, Tenerife,]uly 161902.
Chemical engineer, Wilmington, DE; with
Dupont Co. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Berliner, Milton Lionel; b. NYC, Jan 15
1895.
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Ophthalmologist,
NYC; faculty Cornell. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Berliner, Solomon; b.*; d. NYC, Sep 24
1918.
Civil War veteran, NYC.· See:A]YB, 21:204.
Berliner, Solomon; b.NYC, Oct 6 1856; d.
Nov 1910.
Public official, US consul, Tenerife, Canary
Islands. • See: A]YB, 6(1904-1905):62,
13(1911-1912):136; NITimes, Nov 15 1910,
11:4.
Berlinger, Joseph; b. Gerinany, 1870; d.
Hollywood, FL,Jan 41951.
To US ca 1882. • Textile mfr, St Louis, NYC,
Paterson; pres NY Guild for Jewish Blind;
active charities. • See: A]YB, 53:523; NITimes,
Jan 5 1951,21:4, correction Jan 71951,78:4.
Berlinger, Joseph M; b. NYC, Jan 16 1888.
Columbia, post-grad Europe. • Architect,
NYC; designed churches, synagogs. • See:
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Berliss, Arthur David; b. Chicago, Oct 28
1874.
Mfr, exec, Chicago, NYC; active synagogs. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Berlove, IraJay; b. Rochester, NY,Apr 15
1898.
BS, MD Syracuse U, DDS U Buffalo, M Surg
U Vienna. • Surgeon, NYC; faculty Columbia,
NYU; author in field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Berlow, Charles; b. Boston, July 171897.
B Chern Eng Northeastern.· Chemist,
inventor, patent holder, Woonsocket, RI;
author in field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Berman, Aaron; b. Radomisil, Russia, Apr
23 1873/1874; d. Philadelphia, June
1947.
To Philadelphia 1890. • Realtor, banker,
communal worker, philanthropist,
Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; NITimes, June 241947,23:4.
Berman, Aaron; b. ca 1889; d. Sep 81939.
Realtor, communal worker, Hartford. • See:
A]YB, 42:476.
Berman, Benjamin Frank; b. Cincinnati,
Mar 211903; d. Dec 1966.
U P A, U Cincinnati, Cincinnati Conservatory
ofMusic, Cincinnati Art Academy. • Mfr,
48
Bennan, Benjamin Louis
legislator, Cincinnati; active prison reform,
prison labor, trade assns. • See: WWIA], 1938;
PA Academy of Fine Arts. • Artist,
Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928.
BEOA]; WWWIA, 4.
Berman, Benjamin Louis; b. Lewiston, ME,
Nov251892.
Berman, Harry S; b. Baltimore, ca 1890; d.
Detroit, Feb 16 1944.
LLB Boston U. • Lawyer, state atty, county
probate judge, Lewiston, ME. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Physician; mem Hoover Commn to
Czechoslovakia; author in field; WWI service.
• See:A]YB, 46:334; NYTimes, Feb 18 1944,
17:5.
Berman, Benjamin N; b~ ca 1867; d.
Philadelphia, Oct 20 1930.
Novelist, Brooklyn.· See:A]YB, 24:119.
Grandmaster, B'rith Sholom, communal
worker, Philadelphia. • See:A]YB, 33:125.
Berman, David; b. Bialystok, Jan 11900; d.
Bayonne, Aug 1959.
Berman,Henry;b.~C,
1884.
Benilan, Hyman; b. Liverpool, Jan 81892;
d. NYC,Jan 1971.
Berman, Morton Mayer; b. Baltimore, Aug
23 1899.
ToJerusalem 1957.· BA Yale, ordained,
MHL Jewish Inst of Religion, post-grad
abroad. • Reform rabbi, communal exec, NYC,
Chicago; with Free Synagogue, Jewish Natl
Fund, Zionist Org of Am, Am Jewish Cong;
wwn chaplain. • See: E}; WWIA], 1928,
1938; REOA].
Berman, Moses; b. ca 1864; d. Los Angeles,
Nov 2 1931.
Rabbi, Los Angeles. • See: A]YB, 34: 11 O.
Berman, Myron Philip; b. ~C, Nov 24
1916; d. ~C, Aug 111977.
To Bayonne 1906.· Cornell, LLB NYU.•
Lawyer, county judge, Bayonne; mem Bd of
Education; pres Zionist Org of Am, bar assn;
active Heb Home for Orphans. • See: WWIA],
1938; NYTimes, Aug 25 1959,31:5.
To US 1906. • NYU. • Insurance broker,
author, NYC; ldr Ethical Culture; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
NYU. • Paper co exec, communal worker; bd
Heb Union ColI.· See:A]YB, 79:367;
WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Aug 13 1977,22:6.
Berman, Jacob Harrison; b. Portland, ME,
Sep 11886; d. Portland, ME, Oct 1953.
Berman, Oscar; b. Salant, Lithuania, Dec
23 1876; d. Cincinnati, Dec 11951.
Berman, David Victor; b. Lewiston, ME,
Apr261900.
LLB Boston U. • Lawyer, state atty, US
Commr, Portland, ME; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1938;NYTimes, Oct211953, 30:6.
AB Bowdoin, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
corporation counsel, Lewiston, ME; officer
Zionist Org of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Berman, Jacob Kohn; b. Evansville, IN, Oct
241896.
To US 1893. • Apparel & textile mfr,
communal & Zionist ldr, Cincinnati; natl
officer trade assns; chr NatlJoint Com on
Prison Labor; natl dir Reb Immigrant Aid Soc;
bd Heb Union ColI.· See:A]YB, 54:538;
WWIA], 1926,1928,1938; REOA]; WWWIA,
3;NYTimes, Dec 3 1951,31:5.
Berman, Elias; b. ca 1862; d. Portland, OR,
Jan 201910.
Rabbi, Portland, OR.· See:A]YB, 12(1910-
AB U IN, MD Jefferson Med ColI. • Surgeon,
Indianapolis; faculty IN U. • See: WWIA],
1938.
1911):110.
Berman, Jeremiah Joseph; b. NYC, Feb 21
1902; d. ~C, Jan 1955.
Berman, Etta Massell (Mrs Jacob Berman);
b. Lithuania, Jan 10 1884.
To US 1887. • State Normal ColI (Athens,
GA). • Tchr, Anniston, AL; pres Sisterhood. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
BS CCNY, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi, Rochester,
NY, NYC; officer Zionist Org of Am; active
Mizrachi, NY Bd of Rabbis. • See: A]YB,
57:605; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Jan 61955,
27:3. '
Berman, Eugene; b. Russia, Nov41899; d.
Dec 141972.
Berman, Joseph; b. Radimishe1, Russia,
Mar261886.
To US 1937.· Painter, designer, NYC; ldr
Neo-RomanticMovement.· See: WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, Dec 15 1972, 52:4.
To US 1898. • Real estate & insurance broker,
Wilmington, DE; officer Zionist Org of Am;
dir Heb Free Loan Assn. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Berman, Gus; b. Baltimore, Dec 15 1898.
Berman, Louis; b. ~C, Mar 15 1893; d.
NYC, May 16 1946.
VMI, U VA. • Merchant, Montgomery, AL. •
See: WWIA], 1928.
Berman, Harold; b. Kovno, Apr 14 1879; d.
Great Neck, May 301949.
NYU.• Newspaper & magazine editor,Jersey
City; with]ewish Forum, Jewish Tribune; active
Central Relief Com (NYC). • See: A]YB,
51:519; WWIA], 1926; NYTimes, May31
1949,23:4.
CCNY, BS, MD Columbia, post-grad abroad.
• Endocrinologist, author, NYC; specialty:
gland functions; faculty Columbia; fdr
professional soc. • See: UJE; A]YB, 49:608;
WWIA], 1928, 1938; REOA]; WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, May 17 1946, 21: 1.
Berman', Harry; b. Boston, ca 1902; d.
Prestwick, Scotland, Aug 27 1944.
Mineralogist, consult, Boston; curator Harvard
Minerologist Museum; author in field; wwn
wartime researcher. • See: A ]YB, 47:518-19.
Berman, Matthew; b. Chelsea, MA, Aug 30
1899; d. Los Angeles, Mar 23 1968.
BS MA State Agricultural ColI. • Insurance
salesman, Holyoke, MA; officer B'nai B'rith,
Zionist Org of Am; active synagog, Jewish War
Relief Drive. • See: WWIA], 1928,1938.
B~rman, Harry Grosten; b. Philadelphia,
June 11900.
Berman, Philip Grossman; b. Lawrence,
MA, Feb 12 1900; d. Sep 18 1968.
MD Tufts. • Ophthalmologist,
otorhinolaryngologist, Lowell, MA; military
service.· See: WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 5.
Berman, Robert; b. Quincy, MA, June 9
1897; d. Washington DC, 1938.
BS, MA, PhD Columbia. • Labor economist,
government consult, Washington DC; faculty
U IL; with WPA; author/editor in field; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; NYTimes,
June 3 1938,21:5.
Berman, Robert; b. ca 1898; d. May 30
1938.
Economist, author, professor, Bethesda. • See:
A]YB, 40:382.
Berman, S L; b. *
Berman, Louis; b. London, Mar 211903.
To US 1905. • AB, MA U MN, PhD U CA. •
Astrophysicist, San Francisco; faculty Carleton
ColI; author in field. • See: UJE; E]; WWIA],
1938.
Berman, Harry Bernard; b. North Adams,
MA, May 17 1895.
Berman, Pandro S; b. Pittsburgh, Mar 28
1905.
Movie producer, dir; with RKO, MGM. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938; REOA].
Lawyer, communalldr, Los Angeles; bd U
Judaism, JTS, Fedn Council of Greater Los
Angeles; active communal education. • See:
A]YB, 70:519; NYTimes, Mar 251968,41:3.
Judge, Washington DC.· See:A]YB, 24:119.
Berman, Samuel; b. Pinsk,Jan 3 1892.
To NYC 1907. • Insurance agent,
businessman, NYC; officer Zionist Org of Am;
active YM & YWHA.. See: WWIA], 1938.
Berman, Samuel O;-h. ca 1882; d. Oct 8
1938.
Publisher, Pharos Tribune, Logansport, IN. •
See:A]YB, 41:419.
Berman, Saul; b. Grodno, Apr 30 1886.
Berman, Morris; b. Kuzmin, Russia, Feb 10
1875; d. Rochester,~, May 28 1943.
To US 1921. • Rabbi, Rochester, NY; earlier
communalldr in Poland. • See: A]YB, 45:381;
WWIA],1938.
To Hartford 1888. • LLB Yale. • Lawyer,
Hartford; mem Bd of Education; officer
United Jewish Charities. • See: WWIA], 1938;
REOA].
49
Bernheim, Bertram Moses
Berman, Saul; b. Bobraisk, Minsk, Mar-18
1899.
Cooper Union, Nad Academy of Design,
Beaux Arts, Art Students League. • Artist,
watercolorist, Brooklyn. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1928.
Bemays, Edward L; b. Vienna, Nov 22
1891.
To US 1892. • BS Cornell. • Public relations
expert, NYC; WWI government service. • See:
UJE; E] (sub Bernays); WWIA], 1928, 1938;
BEOA].
To US ca 1936. • U Freiberg, U Vienna. •
Psychoanalyst, educator, San Francisco;
communalorgrAustria;pupilofFreud;active
German & Austrian Zionist youth movements.
• See: UJE; E].
Berman, William; b. Savannah, Oct 2 1893.
AB, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, Boston; nad
officer Jewish War Veterans; active veterans
assns; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bemays, Ely; b. ca 1860; d. NYC, Oct 8
1923.
Merchant, philanthropist, communal worker,
NYC.· See:A]YB, 26:153; NYTimes, Oct 9
1923,21:5.
Bernhard, Dorothy Lehman; b. NYC, Apr
221903; d. NYC, Mar 61969.
Wellesley ColI. • Child care, civic &
communalldr, social worker, NYC; officer
Child Welfare League, Jewish Child Care
Assn.· See:A]YB, 71:602; WWWIA, 5;
NITimes, Mar 7 1969, 34:1.
Berman, William Barry; b. Minneapolis,
May251905.
BS U MN. • Fur & wool dealer, Sacramento;
officer B'nai B'rith, synagog; dir United Jewish
Welfare Fund. • See: WWIA], 1938.
.Bermann, Isidor Samuel; b. Germany,
1845.
Physician, Washington DC. • See: A]YB,
24:119.
Bermann, Richard Arnold (pseud=Arnold
HoellriegeO;b.Vienna, 1883; d. Saratoga
Springs, NY, Sep 51939.
To US 193K • Austrian author, journalist; dir
Am Guild for German Cultural Freedom
(NYC); WWI war correspondent. • See: UJE;
E]; A]YB, 42:476; NITimes, Sep 6 1939,23:1.
Bem, Howard Leonard; b. Flushing, NY,
Sep 81924.
Hotel exec, communal worker, Sullivan
County, NY; WWII service. • See: WWWIA,
7.
Bem, Paul; b. Wandsbeck, Germany, Dec 3
1889; d. 1932.
To US 1898. • Am Academy of Dramatic Arts.
• Motion picture writer, dir, Beverly Hills;
with MGM. • See: WWWIA, 1.
Bemard,Bamey;b.caI877;d.NYC,Mar
211924.
Actor, NYC.· See:A]YB, 24:119, 26:153;
NYTimes, Mar 22 1924, 15:6.
Bemard, Harold Baruch; b. NYC, Oct !6
1893.
ME Stevens Inst. • Engineer, oil co exec,
Tulsa; author/inventor in field. • See: WWIA],
1926,1928.
Bemard, Sam (Samuel) (born Bamett); b.
Birmingham, England, July 161863; d.
May 171927.
To US 1868.· Vaudeville & musical comedy
comedian, US, England; officer Jewish
Theatrical Guild. • See: UJE; A]YB, 6(19041905):62,30:79; WWIA], 1926; WWWIA, 1;
NITimes, May 191927, 27:3.
Bemays, Augustus Charles; b. Highland,
IL, Oct 13 1854; d. St Louis, May 22
1907.
BA McKendree ColI (Lebanon, IL), MD U
Heidelberg. • Surgeon, St Louis; pioneer in
asepsis; faculty St Louis ColI of Physicians &
Surgeons, Marion Sims ColI; active horse
racing; author in field. • See: WWWIA, 1;
DAB; NITimes, May 23 1907, 9:6.
Bembach,William;b.Bronx, 1911;d. 1982.
Advertising exec, creative ldr of advertising
industry; WWII service. • See: E]; E]:19831985.
Bembaum, Harry Leon; b. Austria, July 5
1889.
To US 1902. • Retail merchant, hospital admr,
Philadelphia; earlier merchant in Litde Rock,
Vancouver, Seatde, Springfield, OH,
Cincinnati, Chicago. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bemd, Aaron Blum; b. Macon, GA, Dec 22
1894.
AB U GA, BL Columbia. • Merchant, editor,
publicity agent, Macon, GA; editor Macon
Telegraph. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bemd, Julius D; b. 1830; d. Pittsburgh,
Nov 301892.
Merchant, philanthropist, Pittsburgh;
benefactor Heb Union ColI; active Humane
Soc, Gusky Orphanage. • See: ]E.
Bemd, Laurence Joseph; b. East Carroll
Parish, LA, Aug 30 1885.
BS Mercer U. • Merchant, Macon, GA; officer
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bemd-Cohen, Max; b. Macon, GA, May 7
1899.
AB, LLB Columbia, abroad. • Painter,
Westchester, PA, Montezuma, GA.· See:
WWIA],1938.
Beme, Joseph M; b. Cleveland, June 5
1887.
LLB Western Reserve. • Lawyer, communal
worker, Cleveland; pres Jewish Welfare Fedn;
active Chamber of Commerce. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Bemey, Albert; b. Baltimore, ca 1878; d.
Baltimore, Mar 20 1940.
Business exec, Baltimore; active communal &
civic affairs, Am Jewish Com; bd Sinai
Hospital.· See:A]YB, 42:476; BEOA].
Bemey, Louis; b. Baltimore, Dec 311875;
d. Baltimore, Jan 19 1940.
Merchant, Baltimore; officerJewish Childrens
Soc.· See:A]YB, 42:476; WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Bernfeld, Seymour S; b. NYC, Mar 31
1909.
Fordham, LLB Fordham.· Lawyer, NYC;
with Dept of the Interior (Billings, MT). • See:
BEOA].
Bemfeld, Siegfried; b. Lvov, 1892; d. 1953.
Bernhard,Georg;b.BerIin, 1875;d.NYC,
Feb 10 1944.
To US 1941. • Editor, political economist,
Reichstag mem; faculty Berlin
Handelshochschule; deputy mem Jewish
Agency; advisor German League for Human
Rights.· See:A]YB, 46:334-35; NITimes, Feb
11 1944, 19:3.
Bernhard, Joseph; b. Philadelphia, Mar 7
1889; d. NYC, July 1954.
Motion picture exec & producer, NYC; earlier
realtor Philadelphia; with Warner Brothers;
WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 3; NITimes,
July 161954,21:4.
Bernhard, RichardJacques; b. NYC, June 5
1893; d. NYC, Jan 271961.
Yale. • Banker, business & communal exec,
NYC; a fdr, officer Fedn Employment &
Guidance Service, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See:A]YB, 63:558; WWWIA,
4; NYTimes, Jan 28 1961, 19:3.
Bernhardt, Joshua; b. Wmdau, Latvia, Sep
211893.
To US 1899.· AB U Rochester, PhD Johns
Hopkins. • Economist, NYC, Washington
DC; specialty: sugar, tariffs, statistics; author in
field.· See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
Bernhardt, Maurice; b. ca 1830; d. Chicago,
June 13 1933•
. Civil War veteran, Chicago.· See:A]YB,
35:122.
Bernhardt, Maurice; b. NYC, June 28 1899;
d. LI, Apr 261974"
State supreme court justice, communalldr,
philanthropist, Brooklyn; pres Pride ofJudea
Childrens Services; officer Am Jewish Cong;
active Liberal Party, ORT. • See: A]YB,
76:511; NITimes, Apr 27 1974,34:1.
Bernheim, Abram C; b. NYC, Feb 1 1866;
d. NYC,July 241895.
Columbia, U Berlin. • Lawyer, broker,
philanthropist, author, NYC; benefactor
Columbia, University Setdement; active
tenement improvement. • See:]E.
Bernheim, Bemard; b. ca 1850/1851; d.
Atlantic City, July 311925.
Civic & communal worker, distiller, Louisville.
• See:A]YB, 28:150; NITimes, Aug 11925,
11:5.
Bernheim, Bertram Moses; b. Paducah, Feb
15 1880; d. Baltimore, Nov 28 1958.
AB, MD Johns Hopkins, post-grad Europe. •
50
Bernheim, Eli H
Surgeon, Baltimore; active professional socs;
author in field; WWI service. • See: A]YB,
24:119; WW1A], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Nov 291958,21:3.
Bernheim, Eli H; b. NYC, ca 1870; d. NYC,
Apr 31943.
Banker, philanthropist; fdr lecture hall, public
library, Mobile; life trustee Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, NYC.· See:A]YB, 45:381;
NITimes, Apr 4 1943, 40:7.
Bernheim, George B; b. NYC, Aug 23
1880; d. Casey Key, FL, Mar 1968.
BS Columbia. • Fancy leather mfr, Hoboken;
pres Mt Sinai, NYC. • See: A]YB, 70:519;
WWIA], 1928, 1938; REOA]; NITimes, Mar 4
1968,37:3.
Bernheim, Henry; b. Hechingen, Bavaria;
d. Cincinnati,June 111917.
To Cincinnati after Civil War. • Distiller,
communal worker, Cincinnati; active B'nai
B'rith.· See:A]YB, 20(1918-1919):227;
NITimes, June 13 1917, 13:4.
Bernheim, Henry J; b. NYC, May 211871;
d. NYC, Nov 1946.
Businessman, tobacco merchant, communal
ldr, NYC; benefactor Educational Alliance
camp; mem J ewish Welfare Bd. • See:
WWIA], 1938;NITimes, Nov291946, 25:5.
Bernheim, Ida Wise (Mrs); b. ca 1854; d.
Cincinnati, Dec 12 1932.
Communal worker, Cincinnati. • See: A]YB,
35:122.
Bernheim, Isaac Wolfe; b. Schmieheim,
Baden, Nov 4 1848; d. Santa Monica, Apr
11945.
To US 1867. • Distiller, philanthropist; antiZionist, author, Louisville; orgr YMHA;
officer Union of Am Heb Congregations;
benefactor Jewish Hospital, Heb Union ColI,
nature reserve; autobiography. • See: UJE; E];
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):41-42,24:120,47:519;
WWIA], 1926,1928,1938; BEOA].
Bernheim, Julien Rex; b. Santa Cruz, CA,
Mar 13 1879.
US army dental surgeon, Washington DC. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernheimer, Adolph L; b. ca 1867; d. Los
Angeles, Mar 18 1944.
To US 1911. • Art collector, authority on
oriental art. • See:A]YB, 46:335; NITimes,
Mar 20 1944, 17:2.
Bernheimer, Bertha Stem (Mrs); b. ca
1873; d. Dec 18 1937.
Communal worker, Kansas City. • See: A]YB,
40:382.
Bernheimer, Charles Leopold; b. Ulm,
Germany, July 18 1864; d. NYC, July 1
1944.
To US 1881. • Thudichums ColI (Geneva).•
Businessman, merchant, explorer, arbitration
expert, mill owner, author, NYC; active
municipal politics. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
,24:120,47:519; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 2; NITimes, July 2 1944,
19:3.
Bemheimer, Charles Seligman; b.
Philadelphia, Nov 13 1868; d. Brooklyn,
Nov91960.
PhB, PhD UPA. • Communal social worker &
exec, NYC; with Jewish Publication Soc, Heb
Educational Soc, Jewish Nat! Fund; author
pioneer study of Russian Jewish immigrants,
memoirs. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 7(19051906):42,24:120,63:558; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938;BEOA]; WWWIA, 5;NITi~s, Nov 10
1960,47:4.
Bernheimer, Clara S (Mrs); b.*; d. NYC,
Oct 13 1932.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: A]YB,
35:122.
Bernheimer, Earle Jerome; b. Kansas City,
Dec 11897.
U MI. • Investment broker, Kansas City. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernheimer, Gustav; b. ca 1850; d. Kansas
City, Dec 13 1932.
Civic ldr, Kansas City. • See:A]YB, 35:122.
Bemheimer, IE; b. ca 1856; d. Kansas
City, Oct 24 1918.
Civic & communal worker, Kansas City.· See:
A]YB, 21:204.
Bernheimer, Jacob; b. ca1863; d. Port
Gibson, MS,June 271911.
Financier, Port Gibson, MS. • See: A]YB,
13(1911-1912):138.
Bernheimer, Jerome H; b. ca 1858; d. Sep 7
1937.
Communal & philanthropic worker, Kansas
City. • See: A]YB, 40:382.
Bernheimer, L Benno; b. Terre Haute,
Nov 181896.
U MI, MD U IL, post-grad U Vienna. •
Otolaryngologist, Chicago; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernheimer, Leo Gabe; b. Philadelphia,
May 191876.
AB Central High School (Philadelphia), BS,
LLB U PA. • Lawyer, Philadelphia; active
YM-YWHA. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernheimer, Louis G; b.ca 1894; d. NYC,
Jan 10 1930.
WWI aviator, a\lthor, NYC; winner
Distinguished Service Cross. • See: A]YB,
32:153.
Bernheimer, Marcus; b. Liberty, ,MS, Mar 1
1847; d. St Louis, Mar 7 1912.
GA Military Inst. • Communal & politicalldr,
St Louis; nat! pres Nat! Conf ofJewish
Charities; officer United Heb Relief Assn;
Civil War Confederate service. • See: A]YB,
7(1905-1906):42, 14(1912-1913):126.
Bernheimer, Myron; b. ca 1862; d.
Baltimore, July 2 1933.
Merchant, Baltimore.· See:A]YB, 36:278.
Bernie, Ben (Anzelevitz); b. NYC, May 30
1891lBayonne, May 31 1893; d. Los
Angeles, Oct 20 1943.
CCNY, Cooper Inst. • Orchestra ldr,
vaudeville violinist & J;llonologist, NYC; orgr
Ben Bernie Orchestra. • See:A]YB, 46:335;
WW1A], 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 2;
NITimes, Oct 21 1943,27:1.
Bemkopf, Max Eisman; b. Providence, Nov
151895.
AB Dartmouth, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
Boston; active Assocd Jewish Philanthropies,
Jewish Child Welfare Assn; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bemon, Maurice; b. Cleveland, Aug 24
1885; d. Cleveland, Mar 23 1954.
LLB Western Reserve. • Lawyer, civic ldr,
legislator, municipal & common pleas judge,
Clevel:md; mem City Council, State Bd of Bar
Examiners; bd Mt Sinai, Welfare Assn for
Jewish Children. • See: A]YB, 56:568;
WWIA],1926,1938;NITimes,Mar241954,
27:1.
Berns, Charles; b. Lomza, Russia, Mar 13
1902.
'
To Cleveland 1906. • AB Western Reserve,
MD IN U. • Surgeon, Cleveland; faculty St
Vincents Charity Hospital; military service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Berns, Charles A; b. NYC, Aug 8 1901; d.
Palm Springs, CA, Feb 201971.
Business exec, communal fundraiser; a fdr
Albert Einstein ColI ofMed; officer Lebanon
Hospital; active Brandeis, United Jewish
Appeal, Anti-Defamation League, Joint
Distribution Com:. • See: A]YB, 73:629;
NITimes, Feb 211971, 65:1.
Bernson, Edith Jane Simons (Dolly) (Mrs
Bob Bernson); b. Bridgewater, MA, Mar
23 1897.
Aviator, race competitor, business exec,
Cambridge, MA. • See: UJE; WW1A], 1938.
Bernstein, Aaron D; b. Chicago, Dec 28
1886.
Furniture merchant, Chicago. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Bernstein, Abraham; b. Russia, ca 1880; d.
June 211937.
To US ca 1889. • Synagog dir; communal
worker, NYC; earlier clothing mfr; exec dir
Institutional Synagogue. • See: A]YB, 39:589;
NITimes,June 23 1937,25:2.
Bernstein, Abraham; b. San Francisco, Oct
25 1902.
AB, MD U CA (Berkeley), post-grad
Columbia, Harvard. • Obstetrician,
gynecologist, San Francisco; faculty U CA;
Bernstein, Albert E; b. Russia, Nov 25
1882.
To US 1883.· MD Detroit ColI ofMed. •
Obstetrician, Detroit; staff Detroit ColI of
Med. • See: WWIA], 1938.
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Bernstein, Isadore
Bernstein, Alexander A; b. Zuromin,
Poland, Feb 22 1880; d. NYC, Feb 9
1971.
active United Jewish Appeal. • See: A]YB,
59:474; NYTimes, June 1 1957, 17:6.
To NYC 1891. • Business exec, actor,
songwriter, philanthropist; officer Heb Free
Loan Soc; benefactor Haym Solomon Home;
active United Jewish Appeal. • See: A]YB,
73:629; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Feb 11 1971,
48:1.
Bernstein, Bernard; b. NYC, Dec 91893; d.
NYC,Jan 1958.
AB Columbia. • Textile mfg exec, NYC; a fdr
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies; officer Soc for
the Advancement ofJudaism; active industry
arbitration. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
NYTimes,Jan23 1958,21:5.
Bernstein, Aline (born Hazel Frankau)
(Mrs Theodore Bernstein); b. NYC, Dec
22 1880; d. NYC, Sep 71955.
Bernstein, Charles; b. Carlisle, NY, Dec 21
1872; d. June 13 1942.
NY School ofApplied Design. • Stage &
costume designer, novelist, author, NYC; with
Neighborhood Playhouse, Theatre Guild; pres
Costume Inst ofMetropolitan Museum of Art.
• See: UJE; WWWIA, 3; NAW':modern; DAB,
5; NYTimes, Sep 8 1955, 31:1.
MD Albany Med ColI. • Neurologist, Rome,
NY; specialty: progressive rehabilitation
programs; supt State Custodial Asylum; author
in field. • See: A]YB, 24:120; WWIA], 1926,
1928, 1938; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, June 14
1942,46:3.
Thatcher Coll, Chicago Coll of Pharmacy. •
Civil engineer, railroad exec, mayor,
communal worker, Shreveport. • See: A]YB,
34:110; WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Bernstein, Fred; b. Chicago, Jan 18 1882.
U MI, LLB John Marshall Law. • Lawyer,
Chicago; pres B'nai B'rith; active Am Jewish
Cong, Hillel. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernstein, Gedalia; b. ca 1857; d. Chelsea,
MA,Jan 61936.
Pioneer settler, communal worker, Chelsea,
MA.· See:A]YB, 38:425.
Bernstein, Gerson; b. ca 1837; d. Chicago,
Mar 91908.
Rabbi, Chicago.· See:A]YB, 10(19081909):129.
Bernstein, Allen Milton; b. NYC, Nov 23
1881; d. NYC, June 1951.
. Bernstein, David; b.Utica, Apr 211882; d.
NYC, Nov 101945.
Bernstein, Gerson J; b. 1904; d. Far
Rockaway, Nov 14 1965.
AB Harvard. • Musician, composer, investment
counsellor, author, NYC; pres Bernstein
Macaulay, Inc. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
June 19 1951,29:2.
Motion picture exec, a developer of sound
pictures; with Loews, MGM; active Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; charities. • See: A]YB,
48:485; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes,
Nov 111945, 42:3.
Mfr, philanthropist; a fdr Albert Einstein Coll
ofMed, Yeshiva U; officer Heb Inst of LI. •
See:A]YB, 67:532; NYTimes, Nov15 1965,
37:4.
Bernstein, Arnold; b. ca 1874; d. Dec 21
1937.
Mayor, Monroe, LA. • See:A]YB, 40:382.
Bernstein, David Brandon; b. NYC, Mar 20
1897.
Bernstein, Arnold; b. Breslau, 1888/1890;
d.Mar 1971.
Cornell, LLB U Southern CA. • Lawyer, Los
Angeles; officer B'nai B'rith; WWI service,
decorated. • See: WWIA], 1938.
To NYC 1939. • German shipbuilder; est
Palestine Shipping Co; WWI German serVice,
decorated. • See: UJE; E]; NYTimes, Mar 9
1971,41:1.
.
Bernstein, Doris Glixon (Mrs Gottfried D
Bernstein); b. Peoria, Nov 211884.
Bernstein, Asher; b. Kapule, Russia, Mar
15 1885.
To US 1902. • MD NYU.• Physician, Middle
Village, LI. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernstein, Benjamin Abram; b. Posvol,
Lithuania, May 201881.
To US ca 1891. • Baltimore City Coll, AB
Johns'Hopkins, PhD U CA.· Mathematician,
Berkeley; faculty U CA (Berkeley); author in
field. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:120; WWIA],
1926, 1928,1938;BEOA].
Bernstein, Benjamin Maurice; b. Brooklyn,
Apr 23 1893; d. Brooklyn, Jan 1964.
MD NYU. • Gastroenterologist,
roentgenologist, Brooklyn; author/editor in
field; WWI service, WWII US Public Health
Service reserve. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Jan 20 1964,43:2.
Bernstein, Bernard; b. Russia, Sep 12 1836.
Rabbi, Chicago. • See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):45.
Bernstein, Bernard; b. Warsaw, 1861; d.
NYC,Aug 1922.
To US ca 1891. • Yiddish actor & noted
comedian, Russia, Galicia, NYC. • See: A]YB,
6(1904-1905):62, 25: 13 8; NYTimes, Aug 31
1922,15:5.
Bernstein, Bernard;b. 1879?;d.Far
Rockaway, NY, May 311957.
Mfr, philanthropist, NYC; a fdr Albert
Einstein Coll ofMed; trustee Yeshiva COlli
Social & communal worker, Chicago; fdr,
officer Blind Service Assn; active Natl Council
ofJewish Women.· See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Bernstein, Edna Levy (Mrs Milton Louis
Bernstein); b. NYC, Jan 6 1884.
Art Students League. • Painter, sculptor, Lake
Placid, NY, NYC; pres Room Registry for
Jewish Girls & Women. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bernstein, EdwardJoy; b. Baltimore, Aug
261863; d. Mar 301939.
PhG MD Coll of Pharmacy, U MD, Johns
Hopkins, MD U Vienna, post-grad Paris,
London. • Surgeon, ophthalmologist,
laryngologist, Detroit; earlier faculty U MD;
WWI service. • See: A]YB, 41 :419; WWIA],
1926, 1928, 1938.
.Bernstein, Elias; b. NYC, Sep 3 1889; d.
NYC, June 1950.
LLB, LLD NY Law. • Lawyer, Staten Island;
mem School Bd; officer bar assn; active
Democratic politics, Jewish Community
Center, Boy Scouts. • See: WWIA], 1928;
BEOA]; NYTimes, June 10 1950, 17:2.
Bernstein, Emil; b. Winsen Luhe,
Germany, Aug 241869.
To US 1885. • Clothing merchant, business
exec, Jacksonville, FL; chr Bd of Health; WWI
Jewish Welfare Bd service.· See: WWIA],
1928.
Bernstein, Ernest Ralph; b. Baton Rouge,
Oct 231870; d. Shreveport, May41932.
Bernstein, Gottfried D; b. Chicago, May 28
1878.
Broker, Chicago; officer district B'nai B'rith;
active Blind Service Assn, communal affairs. •
See:BEOA].
Bernstein, Henri Leon Gustave Charles; b.
Paris, June 201876; d. Paris, Nov 1953.
In US 1940-1946. • U Paris, Cambridge U. •
Playwright, theatre dir, producer; attacked
anti-Semitism; WWI FrenchlBritish service. •
See: UJE; NYTimes, Nov 28 1953, 15:1.
Bernstein, Herman; b. NeustadtSchirwindt, Lithuania, Sep 211876; d.
Sheffield, MA, A.ug 1935.
To US 1893.· Journalist, editor, diplomat;fdr
Der Tog; editor Am Heb; discoverer of WillyNicky correspondence; WWI investigator, war
correspondent. • See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB,
6(1904-1905):62,24:120,38:425; WWIA],
1926,1928; BEOA]; WWWIA, 1; DAB, 1;
NYTimes, Sep 11935, 18:1.
Bernstein, Hillel; b. Russia, 1896; d. Apr
1977.
To US ca 1898. • Novelist, journalist, satirist,
NYC; staff NY Evening Sun, Chicago Tribune;
WWI service. • See: UJE; NYTimes, Apr 7
1977,15:1.
Bernstein, Hirsch (Bernstein, Zvi Hirschi
Hirsh); b. Vladislavov, Suwalki, Mar 25
1846; d. Tannersville, NY, Aug 11907.
To US 1870. • Yiddish & Reb editor,
publisher, journalist, NYC; fdr The Post; patron
Yiddish theatre. • See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB,
10(1908-1909):127; Eisenstadt, 20-22;
NYTimes, Aug 2 1907, 7:6.
Bernstein, Isadore; b. Austria, Nov 26
1877; d. Hollywood, Oct 1944.
To US as infant. • Motion picture exec, film
pioneer, author, Universal City, CA; earlier
suptJewish Boys Inst (NYC); officer synagog.
• 'See: WWIA], 1928; NYTimes, Oct 201944,
20:2.
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Bernstein, J Sidney
Bernstein,J Sidney; b. Russia, ca 1874; d.
NYC, Dec 9 1943.
To NYC 1900. • Lawyer, NY supreme court
judge; bd Jewish Memorial Hospital. • See:
AJYB, 46:335; NYTimes, Dec 10 1943,27:1.
Bernstein, Louis; b. NYC, Mar 13 1876; d.
Feb 1962.
CCNY. • Music publisher, NYC; officer
professional orgs. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938;
WWWlA., 4; NYTimes, Feb 16 1962,29:2.
Bernstein, Jack; b. Chicago, May 12 1901.
BS Armour Inst. • Civil engineer, designer,
construction supt, Chicago. • See: WWIAJ,
1926.
Bernstein, Louis; b. New Albany, IN, Nov
15 1882; d. Baltimore, Oct 241922.
AB U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI. •
Rabbi, Baltimore, earlier StJoseph, MO; dir
Jewish Educational Alliance. • See: AJYB,
25:138; WWWlA., I;NYTimes, Nov 11922,
19:6.
Bernstein, Jacob A; b. Poland, July 271885.
LLB NYU. • Municipal judge, Mt Vernon,
NY.• See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Bernstein, Jacob Lawrence; b. Paterson,
May 181902; d.Jan 91970.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, author, Fair Lawn, NJ;
editor in field. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Bernstein, James; b. Nesin, Russia, May 18
1875; d. Brooklyn, June 28 1959.
To US 1891. • Physician, social worker;
European orgr, dir Heb Immigrant Aid Soc;
active refugee resettlement. • See: AJYB,
61:415; NYTimes, June 30 1959, 31:5.
Bernstein, June Ullman (Mrs Philip
Bernstein); b. New Haven, June 9 1898.
NH Normal School. • Public school tchr, civic
& communal worker, New Haven; officer Natl
Council of]ewish Women, United Order of
True Sisters.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bernstein,Joel; b. Chicago, Jan 91921; d.
Jan 11980.
BA, MA, PhD U Chicago. • Economist,
government official; faculty DePaul; dir aid
missions; WWII service. • See: WWWIA., 7.
Bernstein, John L; b. Nezhin, Russia, Mar
5 1873; d. Danbury, CT, Aug 22 1952.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, communalldr, NYC; a
fdr, pres Heb Immigrant Aid Soc; active Am
Jewish Com.· See:AJYB, 24:120, 55:454;
WWIAJ, 1926; 1928; NYTimes, Aug 23 1952,
13:4.
Bernstein, Joseph Ooe); b. NYC, Nov 1877.
Pugilist. • See: JE.
Bernstein, Joseph E; b. ca 1865; d. Elberon,
NJ, Oct 111934.
Merchant, banker, philanthropist, Jersey City.
• See:AJYB, 37:254; NYTimes, Oct 13 1934,
14:2.
Bernstein, Judah Dov; b. Kovno, 1863.
To US 1893. • Hebraist, talmudist,
mathematician, author; a fdr, head RIETS;
active Union of Orthodox Rabbis. • See:
Eisenstadt, 20; Gottlieb, 306.
Bernstein, Leo; b. Russia, July 12 1911; d.
NYC, Apr 2 1973.
Zionist org exec; with Israel Bond Org,
Development Corp for Israel. • See: AJYB,
75:653; NYTimes, Apr 3 1973,46:5.
Bernstein, Leonard; b. Lawrence, MA,
1918.
Harvard. • Noted composer, conductor; "West
Side Story," "Candide"; with NY
Philharmonic. • See: EJ; EJ: 1973-1982.
Bernstein, Ludwig Behr; b. Mitau,
Lithuania, May 41870/1875; d. Los
Angeles, Dec 271944.
To US 1892. • MA, PhD Columbia.·
Communal social work exec, sociologist; with
Heb Sheltering Guardian Orphan Asylum
(Pleasantville, NY), Bureau ofJewish Social
Research, FeOO ofJewish Philanthropies
(Pittsburgh); author/lecturer in field. • See:
UJE; EJ; AJYB, 7(1905-1906):42-43,24:120,
47:519; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Dec 28 1944, 19:1.
Bernstein, Maurice; b. NYC, Mar 17 1903.
AB Reed, MA Columbia, School ofJewish
Social Work. • Social worker, communal &
civic worker, NYC; with Heb Orphan Asylum;
editor in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bernstein, Michael; b. Russia, 1867.
Architect, NYC. • See:AJYB, 24:120.
Bernstein, Michael; b. 1915; d. NYC, Dec
291980.
Semiticist, rabbi, NYC; faculty RIETS,
Yeshiva U. • See:AJYB, 82:363.
Bernstein, Michel; b. ca 1858; d.
Shreveport, Aug 1923.
Civic worker, Shreveport. • See:AJYB, 26:153.
Bernstein, Mordecai; b. 1905?; d. NYC, Apr
211966.
To US 1948. • Secy-general Yiddish Socialist
Farband, author, NYC; editor Der Wecker. •
See:AJYB, 68:523; NYTimes, Apr 22 1966,
41:1.
Bernstein, Morris; b. Usda, Russia?, 1883;
d. NYC, Oct 141971.
To US 1888. • Philanthropist, business exec,
NYC; a fdr Albert Einstein CoIl of Med;
benefactor JTS, Beth Israel Hospital. • See:
AJYB, 73:629;NYTimes, Oct 151971,44:4.
Bernstein, Moses Lev; b. Minsk, 1869.
Rabbi, talmudist, Hebraist, author, Elizabeth. •
See: Eisenstadt, 20; Gottlieb, 311.
Bernstein; Mrs Isaac; b.*; d. Sep 271936.
Communal worker, Lowell, MA. • See: AJYB,
39:589.
Bernstein, Mrs Solomon; b. ca 1848; d.
NYC, Dec 101933.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: AJYB,
36:278.
Bernstein, Nathan; b. Louisville, July 1
1871; d. before 1938.
BL, ML Dartmouth, U Chicago. • Tchr,
journalist, Omaha; editorial writer Omaha Bee;
active Republican politics. • See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Bernstein, Pearl (Mrs Louis W Mack); b.
NYC, Sep 2 1904.
AB Barnard. • Civic worker, public official, .
NYC; with League of Women Voters, Bd of
Higher Education; natl officer Jr Hadassah;
officer Bd of Estimate & Appointment. • See:
UJE; WWIAJ, 1938.
0
Bernstein, Philip; b. ca 1827; d. Wtnnfield,
LA, July 71911.
Civil War Confederate veteran, Winnfield,
LA.· See:AJYB, 14(1912-1913):123.
Bernstein, Philip Sidney; b. Rochester, NY,
June 25/29 1901; d. Rochester, NY, Dec
3 1985.
AB Syracuse U, ordained, MHLJewish Inst of
Religion, Heb U, Cambridge U. • Rabbi,
Rochester, NY; pres Central Conf of Am
Rabbis; WWII with Jewish Welfare Bd. • See:
UJE; EJ;AJYB, 87:436; WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ.
Bernstein, Ralph; b. Columbia, P A, Apr 12
1877; d. Philadelphia, Nov 1948.
MD U PA, MD Hahnemann Med ColI. •
Dermatologist, Philadelphia; faculty
Hahnemann Med CoIl; author in field; WWI
draft bd med examiner. • See: WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938; NYTimes, Nov 20 1948, 13:5.
Bernstein, Rebecca Thurman (Mrs Israel
Bernstein); b. Boston, Apr 141896.
LLB, LLM Boston U. • Lawyer, Portland,
ME;onatl dir Natl Council ofJewish Women;
officer ME Birth Control League; dir
Community Chest, Am Red Cross. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Bernstein, Samuel; b.*; d. Philadelphia,
June 291934.
Merchant, communal worker, Philadelphia. •
See:AJYB,36:278.
Bernstein, Samuel; b. Russia, July 251861.
Rabbi, Ansonia, CT; earlier Pottsville, CT. •
See: AJYB, 5(1903 -1904):45.
Bernstein, Samuel; b. ca 1863; d. NYC, July
241933.
Real estate dealer, communal worker, NYC. •
See:AJYB,36:278.
Bernstein, Samuel; b. ca 1871; d. Oct 5
1938.
Court interpreter, justice of the peace, Passaic.
• See:AJYB, 41:419.
Bernstein, Samuel Sri b.*; d. Kingston, NY,
July 261935.
Banker, merchant, civic & communal worker,
Kingston, NY.• See:AJYB, 38:425.
Bernstein, Samuel E; b. Kovno, Mar 19
1869; d. Miami, Mar 171951.
To US ca 1882. • Silver exec, philanthropist,
Brooklyn, NYC; fdr synagog, family charitable
trust. • See: AJYB, 53:523; NYTimes, Mar 18
1951,89:1.
53
Bernstein, SamuelJ; b.*; d. Los Angeles,
Apr 2 1935.
Otolaryngologist, communal worker,
Brooklyn. • See: AJYB, 37:254.
Bernstein, SamuelJ; b. Russia, 1893; d.
Newton, MA, Apr 1969.
To US 1910. • Business exec, Zionist &
communal worker, Boston. • See: BEGAJ;
NITimes, May 1 1969, 47:2.
Bernstein, Saul; b. Posvol, Lithuania, 1872;
d. Baltimore, June 7 1905.
To US 1888. • MD Inst (Baltimore), Art
Students League. • Painter, Baltimore; used
Jewish subjects. • See: UJE; AJYB, 6(19041905):62, 7(1905-1906):218.
Bernstein, Saul Kaye; b. Nashville, July 24
1885.
LLB U MI. • Lawyer, Oklahoma City; state
chr United Jewish Campaign; pres B'nai B'rith.
Bernstein, Sidney A; b. NYC, Sep 12 1904.
AB Columbia, MD LI ColI Hospital, post-grad
research Vienna. • Orthopedic surgeon,
Brooklyn; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Bernstein, Simon; b. ca 1831; d. WInthrop,
MA, Feb 201916.
Rabbi, Winthrop, MA. • See: AJYB, 18(19161917):106.
Bernstein, Simon Gerson; b. Jacobstadt,
Latvia, Aug 15 1882/1884; d. NYC, Dec
171962.
To NYC 1921/1922. • PhD U Berne. • Heb &
Yiddish author, Zionist ldr, NYC; natl exec
com Am Jewish Cong; dir Palestine Bureau
ewish Agency); secy World Zionist Exec
(Berlin, Copenhagen); exec com Zionist Org of
Am; editor Dos Yiddishe Folk. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 65:431; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938.
a
Bernstein, Solon S; b. NYC, Oct 19 1896;
d.July 1953.
AB CCNY, BS, MD Columbia. • Physician,
NYC; faculty Beth Israel Hospital Training
School for Nurses; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ,1938;NYTimes,]uly121953,65:3.
Bernstein, Theodore Menline; b. NYC,
Nov 171904; d.June 271979.
AB, B Litt Columbia. • Editor, journalist,
NYC; with NYTimes; faculty Columbia. • See:
WWWIA, 7.
Bernstein, Theresa F (Mrs William
Meyerowitz); b. Philadelphia, 1903.
Impressionist painter, NYC; officer
professional soc. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:120;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938.
Bettelheim, Edwin Summer Jr
Children; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Inst. • See: JE; UJE; EJ; NYTimes, Apr 3 1888,
5:2.
Bernstein, Zion de Frece; b. NYC, June 4
1883; d. Apr 1937.
Clothing merchant, NYC; officer B'nai B'rith;
active professional org, communal fundraising.
• See:AJYB, 39:589; WWIAJ, 1926;NITimes,
Apr 10 1937, 19:4.
Bessie, Alvah Cecil; b. NYC, June 4 1904.
BA Columbia. • Writer, book & drama editor,
translator, Brooklyn; with Daily Eagle. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Bernstein, ZviHirsch; see Bernstein,
Hirsch.
Besuner, Pearl; b. Cincinnati, Nov 41906.
U Cincinnati, Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music,Juilliard. • Opera singer, NYC; with
Metropolitan Opera.· See: BEGAJ.
Bernton, Harry Saul; b. Kurland, Jan 15
1884.
AB, MD Harvard. • Hygienist, bacteriologist,
Washington DC; specialty: allergy; with NY
government, Veterans Adm, US Public Health
Service; faculty George Washington; officer
med soc; author in field; WWI service. • See:
AJYB, 24:120; WWWIA, 7.
Bethe, lIans Albrecht; b. Strasbourg, 1906.
To US 1935.· U Frankfurt, U Munich.•
Nuclear physicist, Nobel laureate, presidential
advisor; faculty U Frankfurt, Cornell; dir
Theoretical Physics Lab (Los Alamos). • See:
EJ:1973-1982.
Berol, Alfred C; b. NYC, Oct 5 1892; d.
June 141974.
AB Harvard. • Pencil mfr, NYC. • See:
WWWIA, 6;NYTimes,]une 171974,47:2.
Berolzheimer, Edwin Michael; b. NYC, Jan
161887; d. Mar 15 1949.
Harvard. • Pencil mfr, NYC; officer Mt Sinai
School of Nursing; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEGAJ; WWWIA, 2;
Berovits, Eliezer; b. Oradea, Transylvania,
1900.
To US 1950. • Ordained Hildesheimer
Rabbinical Seminary. • Rabbi, modern
Orthodox theologian, Zionist, Chicago, earlier
Boston; faculty Heb Theological Seminary;
author in field. • See: EJ.
Berrick, Solon; b.*; d. NYC,Jan 1918.
Asst corporation counsel, NYC. • See: AJYB,
20(1918-1919):227.
Bertman, Bernard; b. Philadelphia, Sep 17
1896.
LLB Temple U. • Municipal judge, Camden,
NJ; pres Fedn ofJewish Charities, YMHA;
active natl United Palestine Appeal,
Republican politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938.
Bertman, Irving; b. Boston, Sep 241895.
LLB Northeastern. • Lawyer, Boston; officer
B'nai B'rith; active YMHA, Zionist orgs. • See:
WWIAJ,1926.
Besdin, MauriceJ; b. Poland, 1913; d.
NYC, Apr 8 1882.
To US 1921. • Rabbi, scholarly author,
Scranton, Kew Garden, NY; faculty Yeshiva U.
• See: AJYB, 84:329-30.
Bernstein, William; b. ca 1862; d. Aug 17
1939.
Merchant, communal worker, Brooklyn. • See:
AJYB, 42:477; NYTimes, Aug 19 1939, 15:3.
Bespalow, Marguerite Ruppa (Mrs Eugene
Bespalow); b. Milwaukee, Aug 27 1902.
Communal worker, Memphis; pres Hadassah;
active B'nai B'rith,]ewish Ladies Aid Soc. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bernstein, William Walter; b. Hartford,
June 30 1898.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, police court judge,
Hartford; dir Heb Womens Home for
Bessels, Emil; b. Heidelberg, June 2 1847;
d. Stuttgart, Mar 301888.
U Heidelberg. • German physician, arctic
explorer, naturalist; editorial worker US Naval
Bettan, Israel; b. Kovno, Jan 16 1889; d.
Cincinnati, Aug 51957.
To US 1907. • Ordained, DD Heb Union
ColI, AB U Cincinnati. • Rabbi, scholar,
Charleston, W VA, Cincinnati; faculty Heb
Union ColI; active Central Conf of Am Rabbis;
author in field & popular]ewish studies; WWI
chaplain. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 24:120,
60:354; WWlAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEGAJ;
NITimes, Aug 61957,27:3.
Bettauer, Hugo; b. Vienna, 1872; d.
Vienna, 1925.
To US in youth, returned to Germany, to US
ca WWI. • ] ournalist, novelist, NYC, Vienna;
with Hearst papers. • See: EJ.
Bettelheim, Albert (Aaron) Siegfried; b.
Galgoc, Hungary, Apr 4 1830; d. at sea,
Aug211890.
To US 1867. • Rabbi, Hebraist, physician,
editor, art critic, author, San Francisco,
Baltimore; co-editor Jewish Times & Gbseroer;
orgr teaching of Heb to Christian clergy. •
See: JE; UJE; EJ.
Bettelheim, BernardJean; b. Pozsony,
Hungary, 1811;d. US, 1869.
To US 1854. • Protestant ColI of Debreczin,
MD U Padua. • Christian convert, missionary,
physician, noted linguist; Civil War service. •
See: UJE.
Bettelheim, Bruno; b. Vienna, 1903.
To US 1939. • Psychologist, educator, analyst
of racial prejudice & anti-Semitism; pioneered
treatment of emotionally disturbed children;
faculty U Chicago; author in field & popular. •
See:EJ.
Bettelheim, Cyd; b. Hungary.
Resident dir, Temple Emanu-EI Sisterhood,
NYC; dir Recreation Rooms. • See: AJYB,
7(1905-1906):43.
Bettelheim, Edwin S; b. Albany, NY, 1865;
d. NYC,]an 1938.
Owner, publisher, Dramatic News & Times,
NYC; theatre tour mgr. • See:AJYB, 24:120;
NITimes,]an 161938, II 8:7.
Bettelheim, Edwin Summer Jr; b. NYC,
Apr 111887; d.July 1959.
54
Bettelheim, Felix Albert
BS Columbia, LLB,LLM, AB, AM George
Washington, Command & General Staff
School. • Military org exec; with Military
Order of World Wars; WWI & WWII
service; Episcopalian. - See: WWWIA, 3.
Civic & communal worker, St Louis; fdr,
officer Natl Council ofJewish Women; officer
League ofWomen Voters; dir MO Assn for
Criminal Justice. - See: A]YB, 58:475;
WWIA], 1926, 1938; BEOA]j NYTimes, Aug
20 1955, 17:4.
Bettelheim, Felix Albert; b. Galgoc,
Hungary, Sep 2 1861; d. Baltimore, Apr
41890.
To US 1867. - BA U CA, MD San Francisco
Med CoIl. - Physician; fdr, dir hospital in
Panama; author in field. - See: ]Ej UJEj E]
(sub Bettelheim, Albert Siegfried).
Bettman, Ralph Boerne; b. Chicago, Mar
13 1889.
AB Williams ColI, MD Johns Hopkins, postgrad abroad. - Surgeon, Chicago; faculty Rush
Med ColI; WWI service. - See: WWIA], 1938.
Bettelheim, Samuel; h. Pressburg,
Hungary,]an 19 1873; d. Budapest,
1942..
To US 1923. - Pioneer Zionist & Mizrachi
ldr, journalist, prolific author, NYC; fdr, pres
Fedn of HungarianJews of Am. - See: E]j
WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Bettman, Adalhert G; h. Eugene, OR, Mar
281883.
MD OR Med School. -Physician, plastic
surgeon, Portland, OR; active med socs; author
in field. - See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA].
Bettman, Alfred; b. Cincinnati, Aug 26
1873;d. Altoona, PA, Jan 211945.
AB, AM, LLB Harvard, post-grad U Berlin. Lawyer, public official, city planner,
Cincinnati; mem City Planning Commn,
Regional Planning Commn; advisor Natl
Municipal League; consult TVA. - See: UJEj
A]YB, 7(1905-1906):43,24:120,47:519;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]j WWWIA,
2; DAB, 3; NYTimes, Jan 23 1945, 19:2.
Bettman, Gilbert; b. Cincinnati, Oct 31
1881; d. Cincinnati,]uly 171942.
AB, AM, LLB Harvard. - State supreme court
justice, state atty general, lawyer, vice-mayor,
Cincinnati; dean YMCA Law School; active
local/natl Am Legion, Republican politics;
WWI service. - See: UJEj A]YB, 24:120,
45:381; WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA]j
WWWIA,2;NYTimes,JulyI81942, 13:1.
Bettman (Bettmann), Henry Wald; h.
Cincinnati, Jan 14 1868; d. Cincinnati,
Dec 61935.
BA U Cincinnati, MD OH Med ColI, postgrad abroad. - Physician, internist, Cincinnati;
a fdr University School; faculty U Cincinnati;
pres med soc; author in field.- See: UJEj
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):63, 38:425; WWIA],
1926,1928; BEOA].
Bettman, Irvin; h. Cincinnati, Dec 4 1878.
Clothing merchant, communal & civic ldr, St
Louis; officer Jewish Hospital, Bd of Childrens
Guardian, Chamber of Commerce, F eOO of
Jewish Charities. - See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938.
Bettman,Jefferson;h.Cincinnati, 1858;d.
Rome, Italy, ca 1915.
MD OH Med ColI, post-grad abroad. Physician, otolaryngologist, Chicago, NYC;
author in field. - See: UJE.
Bettman, Meta Pollak (Mrs Irvin Bettman);
h. Cincinnati, Apr 19 1880; d. St Louis,
Aug 181955.
Bettmann,.Ahraham; b. Welhhausen,
Germany, Jan 26 1806; d. Cincinnati, Jan
141901.
To US 1848. - MD U Munich. - Noted
obstetrician, Cincinnati. - See: UJEj PA]HS,
23:105-116.
Bettmann (Bettman), Bernhard; b.
Weidnitz, Bavaria, Aug 2 1834; d.
Cincinnati, June 18 1915.
.
To Cincinnati 1850. - Public official, civic &
communalldr, Collector of Internal Revenue,
poet, Cincinnati; a fdr Heb Union CoIl; pres
United Jewish Charities; exec bd Union of Am
Heb Congregations; active Republican politics.
• See:UJEj A]YB, 6(1904-1905):62-63,
18(1916-1917):106; WWWIA, 1.
Betz, Isidor; h. Riga, Sep 24 1884; d. before
1938.
MD LI ColI Hospital, post-grad U Vienna. Physician, Brooklyn. - See: WWIA], 1928.
Beuder, Seymour; h.*; d. NYC, Oct 13
1912.
Detective, NYC; with Pinkertons; fdr detective
agency. - See: A]YB, 15(1913-1914):269;
Bey, l\lurat; b. ca 1884; d. Beacon, NY, July
81936.
Secyto Sultan of Turkey, NYc. - See:A]YB,
39:589.
Bial, Rudolf; h. Hahelschwerdt, Silesia, Aug
26 1834; d. NYC, Nov 13 1881.
Violinist, conductor, composer, concert agent,
NYc. - See: ]E.
Bialik, Manoah L; h. Poland, Apr 201902;
d. Brooklyn, Oct 5 1962.
To US 1928. • Heb educator, textbook author;
dean Flatbush Yeshivah; active Religious
Zionists of Am. - See: A]YB, 65:431; NYTimes.,
Oct 7 1962, 82:5~
Bialostotzky, BenjaminJ; h. Pumpenai,
Lithuania, June 15 1892/1893; d. NYC,
Sep 221962.
To US 1911. - Yiddish poet, journalist, NYC;
editorial staff Forward. - See: EJj AJYB,
65:431-32; NYTimes, Sep 23 1962,86:6.
Bihen, Joseph Henry; h. Oct 271900; d.
Aug 1975.
BS U PA. - Editor, publisher, Rochester, NY;
publisher Am Heb, Jewish Times (Philadelphia),
Jewish Ledger (Rochester, NY). -See: WWIA],
1938; NYTimes, Aug 291975,30:2.
Biherman, Edward; h.· Philadelphia, Oct 23
1904.
U PA, PAAcademy of Fine Arts. • Painter,
radio lecturer on art, Hollywood, CA. - See:
WWIA],1938.
Biberman, Herbert J; h. Philadelphia, Mar
41900; d. NYC, June 30 1971.
U PA, MA Yale. - Screen & play writer, dir;
with Theatre Guild; one of the blacklisted
"Hollywood 10"; "Salt of the Earth." - See:
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, July 11971, 50:4.
Biberman, Jacob M; b. Russia, 1884.
To US 1893. - Clothing co. exec, Philadelphia;
with L'Aiglon Apparel. - See: WWWIA, 7.
Bick, Edgar Milton; b. NYC, Apr ~ 1902.
AB,AM, MD Columbia. - Orthopedic
surgeon, NYC; author in field. • See: WWIA],
1938; BEOA].
Bick, Isaac; b. ca 1868; d. Providence, Dec
61932.
Rabbi, Providence. - See:A]YB, 35:122.
Bick, Louis R; b. Brooklyn, 1883?; d.
Brooklyn, Nov 2 1950.
Lawyer, commr of immigration, US atty,
special US commr; active Jewish charities. •
See: A]YB, 53:523; NYTimes, Nov 3 1950,
27:4.
Bick, Schoel; b. Mollv, Russia, Mar 11885.
To US 1927. • Rabbi, Heb author, Russia,
NYC, Brooklyn. - See: WWIA], 1938.
Bickel, Alexander Mordecai; b. Bucharest,
Dec 171924; d. Nov 71974.
To US ca 1938. - BS CCNY, LLB Harvard;
honQrary degree. - Constitutional law
authority, consult, New Haven; faculty Yale;
author in field; WWII service. -See: E]:19731982; WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Nov 81974,42:1.
Bickel, Shlomo; b.Uscienczko, Galicia,
June 81896; d. NYC, Sep 3 1969.
To US 1939. - LLD State U Czernowitz. Yiddish essayist, Labor Zionist, literary critic,
author; with Der Tog, Yiddish Inst; WWI
Austrian service. - See: E]j A]YB, 71:602;
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Sep 4 1969, 47:2.
Bickerman (Bickermann), EllasJoseph; b.
Kishinev, July 1 1897; d. Tel Aviv, Aug
311981.
AB, PhD U Petrograd, PhD U Berlin, diplome
Paris. • Historian, expert on Hellenistic
period, Maccabees; faculty New School, U of
Judaism (Los Angeles), U CO,JTS; author in
field. - See: UJE; E]j E]:1973-1982; E]:19831985;A]YB, 83:352; WWWIA, 8.
Biderman, Issac (Itche) W;b. Grabowicz,
Poland, 1892.
To US 1912. it Yiddish writer, bookseller,
housepainter, Cinciruiati, NYC. - See: UJE.
Biderman, Israel Mordecai; b. Wlodawek,
Poland, Nov 281911; d.NYC, Apr 19
1973.
To US 1949. - Educator, Heb & Yiddish
author; active Jewish Natl Fund, Natl Council
on Heb Education, Labor Zionist movement,
55
World Fedn of Polish Jews. - See:A]YB,
75:653; NITimes, Apr 20 1973,36:3.
Bidney, David; b. Ukraine, Sep 20 1908.
To Toronto 1913. - AB, MA U Toronto, PhD
Yale. - Anthropologist, philosopher; faculty U
IN; author in both fields. • See: E]; WWIA],
1938.
Bieber, Hugo; b. Berlin, Sep 13 1883; d.
NYC, Sep 301950.
To US 1930s. - Genilan literature historian,
research scholar, lecturer, author, editor,
Berlin, NYc. - See: E]; A]YB, 53:523;
NITimes, Oct 2 1950,23:3. .
Bieber, Joseph; b. Hungary, Feb 8 1878.
MD Columbia. - Physician, NYC; pres med
bd Peoples Hospital. - See: WWIA], 1928.
Bieber, Margarete; b. Schoenau, West
Prussia, 1879; d. Feb 1978.
To NYC 1930s. - Archaeologist; specialty:
classical & Hellenistic art; faculty U Giessen,
Columbia; author in field. - See: E]; E]:19731982; NITimes, Feb 28 1978, 36:4.
Bieber, Sidney; b. Washington DC, May 24
1874; d.June 91938.
Fire marshal, realtor, Washington DC; active
Republican politics. - See:A]YB, 40:382;
WWWIA,5.
Bieber, William; b. ca 1842; d. Brooklyn,
Dec 111923.
Mfr, communal worker, Brooklyn. • See:
A]YB,26:153.
Bieberstein, Szymon Z; b. Wloclawek,
Poland, Apr 11894; d. NYC, Mar 17
1960.
To US 1941. - Business exec; advisor Joint
Distribution Com, AmJewish Com; active
Jewish evacuation from WWII Poland. • See:
Bilder, Nathaniel
Bien, Herman M; b. Naumburg, Germany
1831; d. Birmingham, ALlVicksburg, Apr
221895.
To US 1854. • Rabbi, Heb school fdr, San
Francisco; legislator, orgr school, NV;
playwright; also lived in Port Henry, NY,
Chicago,Vicksburg. - See: UJE; E] (sub Bien,
Julius); PA]HS, 5:207-09.
Bien, Julius; b. Naumburg, Germany, Sep
271826; d. NYC, Dec 211909.
To NYC ca 1848/1850. - Academy of Fine
Arts (Cassel). • Lithographer, noted
cartographer, NYC; pres nat! B'nai B'rith,
professional org; dir Heb Technical Inst, Heb
Orphan Asylum. - See: ]E; UJE; E]; A]YB,
6(1904-1905):63, 12(1910-1911):110; 24:121;
WWWIA, 1; DAB; NITimes, Dec.22 1909,
11:5.
Bien, Morris; b. NYC, Apr 17 1859; d.
Takoma Park, MD,July 281932.
PhB U CA (Berkeley), LLB George
Washington, LLM Nat! U. - Civil engineer,
topographer, lawyer, Washington DC; with
US Geological Survey, General Land Office,
Bureau of Reclamation; officer professional
soc. - See: UJE;A]YB, 6(1904-1905):63-64,
24:121; WWIA], 1926,1928; WWWIA, 1.
Bienenfeld, Abel Morris; b. Sal1 Francisco,
Jan 211873.
Engineer, San Francisco; active railroad
construction; Spanish-Am War service. - See:
A]YB, 6(1904-1905):64; 24:121.
Bienenfeld, Bernard; b. NYC, Dec 111861.
PhB, CE U CA (Berkeley). - Consult engineer,
San Francisco; active asphalt & railroad
construction, petroleum exploration. - See:
A]YB, 6(1904-1905):64.
Biederman, Simon; b. ca 1828; d. Brooklyn,
May291914.
Merchant, Brooklyn. - See: A]YB, 16(19141915):162.
Bienenfeld, Emma Wainess (Mrs Jesse
Bienenfeld); b. NYC,Jan 15 1892.
NYTraining School for Tchrs, Columbia,
NYU. - Public school tchr, Syracuse,
Brooklyn; nat! bd Womens League of United
Synagogue; active Visiting Nurses Soc,
Childrens Bureau, Hadassah, Nat! Council of
Jewish Women.- See: WWIA], 1938.
Biederman, Solomon J; b. Warsaw, July 4
1905; d. NYC, Dec 3 1966.
To US 1920. • Lawyer, realtor, Zionist ldr;
nat! officer Zionist Org of Am; bdJewish Nat!
Fund. - See:A]YB, 68:523; NITimes, Dec 5 .
1966,45:3.
Bienenfeld, Jesse; b. NYC, May 6 1891; d.
Brooklyn, June 1945.
BS NYU, ordainedJTS. - Rabbi, Syracuse,
Brooklyn; active nat! United Synagogue ofAm.
- See:A]YB, 48:485; WWIA], 1928 (addenda),
1938; NITimes, June 181945,19:5.
Biel, Joseph; b. Bialystok, Oct 27 1891.
To US 1906. - Art Students League, France. Painter, photographer, NYC. - See: WWIA],
1938.
Bienenstok, Montefiore; b. St Louis, June
251873.
Harvard. - Social work exec, journalist,
novelist, essayist, St Louis; with secyJewish
Charitable & Educational Union, Free
Employment Bureau; editor The Owl. - See:
A]YB, 62:449.
Bieley, Louis S; b. Russia, July 12 1889.
To NYC 1906.· NYU. - Journalist, drama
editor, NYC; business mgr ]e71Jish Daily Ne71Js,
]e71Jish Morning Journal; officer Free
Synagogue. - See: WWIA], 1938; BEGA].
Bieley, Solomon; b. ca 1854; d. July 22
1934.
Representative of Yiddish newspapers in
western states, Dover, NJ. - See:A]YB, 37:254.
Bienstock, Abraham Lawrence; b. NYC,
Dec 301904; d. Nov 141980.
CCNY, LLB NYU. - Lawyer, NYC; bd
University Settlement Soc; active cultural orgs.
• See:WWWIA, 8.
Bienstock, David Paul; b. NYC, June 27
1943; d. July 24 1973.
BA CCNY,MA NYU. - Museum curator, film
dir, NYC; with Whitney Museum. - See:
WWWIA, 6; NITimes, July 28 1973, 26:4.
Bienstock, Samuel; b. Russia, ca 1873; d.
Sunnyside, Queens, Oct 271937.
To US ca 1893.- Druggist, Hartford; mem
School Bd; officer trade assn. - See: A]YB,
40:382; NITimes, Oct 29 1937,21:3.
Bierhoff, Frederic; b. NYC, Mar 61868; d.
Blue Hill, ME, July 31 1937.
CCNY, MD Columbia, post-grad U Berlin. Urologist, surgeon, NYC; author in field;
WWI & nat! guard service. - See: A]YB,
40:382; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
Bierman, Charles R; b. Chutesht,
Bessarabia, Feb 1 1879/Feb 15 1880.
To US 1906. - Real estate & clothing
businessman, candy mfr, Zionist worker,
Chicago; officer Jewish Nat! Fund. - See:
WWIA], 1938; BEGA].
Bierman, Samuel D; b. Radamyczla,
Austria, Apr 24 1896.
To US 1900. - BS CCNY,JD,JSD NYU,
post-grad Columbia. - Lawyer, NYC. - See:
WWIA],1938.
Bierman, William; b. NYC, Dec 10 1893.
AB, MD Columbia. - Physician, NYC;
specialty: physical therapy; author in field. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bijur, Abraham; b. ca 1873; d. May 11922.
Columbia. - Tobacco merchant, communal
worker, NYC; officer trade assns. • See: A]YB,
24:100; NITimes, May 2 1922, 19:6.
Bijur, Nathan; b. NYC, June 11862; d.
NYC,July 81930.
PhB, LLB, PhD Columbia. - Lawyer, state
supreme court judge, communalldr, NYC;
specialty: corporate law, Jewish immigration;
mem State Prison Commn; a fdr Am Jewish
Com, Nat! Conf ofJewish Charities; pres NY
Conf of Charities; active Republican politics. See: UJE; E];A]YB, 6(1904-1905):65,24:121,
32:153; WWIA], 1926,1928; WWWIA, 1;
NITimes,July91930,23:4.
Bikerman, Jacob Joseph; b. Odessa, 1898.
To US 1946. - U St Petersburg. - Physical
chemist, laboratory dir; with MIT; author in
field. - See: E].
A]YB,7(1905-1906):43.
Bienenstok, Sarah (Mrs Charles
Bienenstok); b. Germany, July 2 1852.
Communalldr, St Louis; pres Sisterhood for
Personal Service; bd Sabbath School; dir
United Jewish Charities. - See:A]YB, 7(19051906):43.
Bilavsky, Glicka; b. Gechline, Poland, Jan
23 1884; d. NYC, Apr 41964.
To US 1921. - Yiddish actress, lecturer; a fdr
Hadassah; active Mizrachi, Am Jewish Congo See:A]YB, 66:572.
Bilder, Nathaniel; b. NYC, May 11881.
Kent Call of Law, LLB Lake Forest U.Lawyer, Newark; active YM-YWHA,
56
Bilder, Zerlina Hirsh (Mrs Nathaniel Bilder)
communal philanthropy; WWI fundraiser. •
See: WU7IA], 1926, 1938; BEOAJ.
Bilder, Zerlina Hirsh (Mrs Nathaniel
Bilder); b. Chicago, Nov 18 1888; d. Jan
1952.
.PhB U Chicago. • Peace activist, East Orange,
NJ; active communal philanthropies; WWI
ambulance driver.· See: BEOAJ; NITimes,Jan
211952, 15:1.
Bildersee, Adele; b. NYC, Sep 4 1883; d.
Nov 1971.
AB Hunter, AM, PhD Columbia. • Public &
religious school educator, author, Brooklyn;
faculty Hunter;·dean Brooklyn ColI. • See:
UJE;E];A]YB, 24:121; WU7IA], 1926,1928,
1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Nov 20
1971,34:4.
Bildersee, Barnett; b. NYC, Apr 61911; d.
Sep 21984.
B Litt Columbia. • Newspaperman, public
relations exec; editor PM, NY Star, AP; head
Bildersee Public Relations; WWII government
Bilgray, Albert Theodore; b. Austria, Sep
141910.
To US 1920. • PhB U Chicago, ordained Heb
Union CoIL • Rabbi, author, Springfield, OH,
Tucson; faculty U AZ. • See: WU7IA], 1938.
Billig, MaxJ; b. Grodek, Poland, Oct 10
1910; d. NYC, Jan 17 1974.
To US 1941. • Business exec, philanthropist,
NYC; active United Jewish Appeal, Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies, Israel Bonds. • See:
A]YB, 76:512; NITimes, Jan 181974,36:4.
Billikopf, Jacob; b. Vilna, June 11883; d.
Philadelphia, Dec 311950.
To US late 1890s.· Richmond ColI, PhB U
Chicago, NY School of Philanthropy;
honorary degree. • Innovative social worker &
fundraiser, welfare ldr; with communal &
unemployment agencies (Cincinnati,
Milwaukee, Kansas City, Philadelphia, NYC);
pres Natl Conf ofJewish Social Service;
contributor Nation, Survey; active labor
relations, refugee aid. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
7(1905-1906):44,24:121,53:523; WU7IA],
1926,1928,1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; DAB,
4; NITimes, Jan 11951,17:3.
Billikopf, Ruth Marshall (Mrs); b. ca 1897;
d. Philadelphia, Aug 8 1936.
Social worker, NYC. • See:A]YB, 39:589.
Billstein, Emma L; b. ca 1854; d. Baltimore,
Dec 201914.
Physician, educator, Baltimore. • See: AJYB,
17(1915-1916):218.
Bimberg, Bernard K; b.*; d. NYC, June 28
1934.
Theatre bldr, operator, NYc. • See: A]YB,
36:278.
Bimberg, Edward; b. NYC, Nov 9 1887; d.
May91937.
Vaudevillian, NYC.· See:AJYB, 39:589;
NITimes, May 10 1937,19:3.
Bimko, Fishel (Fischel); b. Kielce, Poland,
Jan 15 1890; d. Apr 1965.
To NYC 1921. • Yiddish playwright, novelist,
short story author, NYc. • See: UJE; E];
WU7IA], 1928; NITimes, Apr 10 1965,30:1.
Binder, Abraham Wolf, b. NYC, Jan 9/13
1895; d. Oct 10 1966.
Music School Settlement, Columbia, B Mus
NY ColI ofMusic. • Composer, music dir,
NYC; fdr Hadassah Choral Union; faculty
Jewish Inst of Religion-Heb Union ColI; music
dir Free Synagogue. • See: UJE; E]; AJYB,
68:523; WU7IA], 1928, 1938; BEOA];
NITimes, Oct 11 1966, 47: 1.
Binder, Ella (Mrs); b.*; d. reported July 15
1938.
Communal worker, Roxbury, MA. • See:
A]YB,41:419.
Binder, Herman A; b. Nizhi Novgorod,
Russia, Oct 10 1882.
To US 1885. • Carnegie Tech, U CA. •
Insurance agent, Los Angeles; officer B'nai
B'rith. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Binder, Jacob; b. Kreslavka, Russia, Dec 18
1886.
To Boston 1906. • Artist, portraitist, Boston. •
See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
AB, MD Harvard. • Psychiatrist, Cambridge,
MA; officer professional socs; consult govt
agencies, World Health Org; author in field &
popular science, biography. • See: WWWIA, 7;
Binion, (Dr) Samuel Augustus; b.*; d. Jan
1914.
To US 1878.· Johns Hopkins, Columbia,
abroad. • Philologist, linguist, Egyptologist,
NYC; interested in mental languages. • See:
Eisenstadt, 20-21; NITimes, Jan 10 1914,9:6.
Binkowitz, Barnett; b. NYC, Nov 141899.
CCNY, BS Columbia, MD LI ColI HospitaL •
Cardiologist, Brooklyn; author/lecturer in
field. • See: WU7IA], 1928, 1938.
Bin-Nun, Dov; b. KIintzi, Russia, Jan 7
1910; d. Apr 271968.
To US 1929.· AB Chapman ColI, MANYU,
PhD U Southern CA. • Heb language &
literature specialist, Los Angeles; faculty U
Judaism, Heb Union ColI-Jewish Inst of
Religion; officer professional socs; WWII
Binsky, Aaron Isidor; b. Russia, Mar 10
1883.
To NYC 1885. • Merchant tailor, insurance
agent, bookkeeper, NYC; officer trade assn.·
See: WU7IA], 1938.
Binder, Robert Deber; b. Baltimore, Jan 7
1884.
LLB UVA.· Lawyer, communal & civic
worker, Newport News, VA; officer Heb
Burial Soc, B'rith Abraham; active Am Jewish
Com; WWI service. • See: WU7IA], 1938.
Binstock, Louis; b.*; d. Feb 22 1974.
BA, LLB U'IN, ordained Heb Union CoIL •
Rabbi, author, Baltimore, New Orleans,
Chicago; earlier lawyer; active civil liberties. •
See: WU7IA], 1938; CCARYB.
Binder, Shalom; b. ca 1860; d. NYC, Mar 2
1936.
Hazzan, Heb scholar, communal worker,
NYc. • See:A]YB, 38:425.
Binswanger, Augustus; b. ca 1844; d.
Chicago, Mar 13 1934.
Lawyer, Chicago; specialty: commercial &
corporate law. • See: AJYB, 36:278.
Bing, Alexander Max; b. NYC, June 22
1878.
AB CCNY; MA, LLB Columbia. • Realtor,
lawyer, author, NYC; promoter of low cost
housing; WWI government service. • See:
UJE; WU7IA], 1938.
Binswanger, Hyman P; b. ca 1851; d. July 2
1938.
Mineral & ore dealer, communal worker,
Philadelphia. • See: AJYB, 41 :419; NITimes,
July41938,13:5.
Bing, Benjamin; b. Urbana, IL, Aug 27
1867.
BS, MS U IL. • Chemist, Urbana, IL. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Bing, Herman; b. Frankfurt, Mar 30 1889.
To Hollywood, CA 1925. • Vaudeville & stage
actor, singer, asst dir, Hollywood, CA. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Bing, Louis S Jr; b. Cleveland, Mar 17
1899.
AB Harvard. • Business exec, communal Idr,
Cleveland; pres J ewish Welfare Fedn; active
business orgs.· See: WU7IA], 1938; BEOA].
Bing, Siegfried; b. Bavaria, Feb 23 1885.
To US 1903.· Merchant, Lexington, KY;
active Bd of Commerce. • See: WU7IA], 1938.
Binger; Carl A L; b. Long Branch, Nj, Aug
261889; d. Mar 1976.
Binswanger, Isidore; b. Wallerstein,
Bavaria, 1820;d.EUc~ond, 1890.
To US 1841. • Businessman, communalldr,
Richmond, earlier Philadelphia; officer Heb
Education Soc; bd Maimonides ColI; active
Jewish immigrant aid. • See: UJE; EJ.
Binswanger, Milton S; b. EUc~ond, Dec
25 1878.
Business exec, Memphis; active civic &
communal causes. • See: WU7IA], 1928, 1938;
BEOA].
Biow;Milton H; b. NYC, July 241892; d.
Feb 11976.
Honorary degree. • Advertising exec,
philanthropist; mem Eisenhower Com on Govt
Employment Policy; a fdr United Jewish
Appeal, Natl Conf of Christians & Jews. • See:
AJYB, 78:539; WWWIA, 6; NITimes, Feb 3
1976,34:4.
Birenbaum, Abe; b.*; d. NYC,Jan 111976.
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Mfr, civic & communalldr; mem Bd of
Education; officer synagog; bd JTS; active
United Synagogue of Am. • See: AJYB, 78:539;
Birk, BenjaminJ; b. Michigan City, IN, ca
1895; d. Thiensville, WI,June 281947.
Physician, Milwaukee; WWI & wwn service.
• See:AJYB, 50:513; NYTimes,June 301947,
19:1.
Birkenstein, George; b. Aug 271899.
Exec, mfr in nonferous metals, Chicago. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Birnbaum, Amalie (Mrs Arthur Radwaner);
b. Osterode, East Prussia, Aug 241885.
To Chicago 1912. • Violinist, Chicago; with
Womens Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic;
faculty Chicago Musical ColI School ofMusic,
Block School Music. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Birnbaum, Martin; b. Miskolcz, Hungary,
May 101878; d.July 1970.
To US 1883/1884. • AB CCNY, AM, LLB
Columbia, Natl Conservatory Music; honorary
degree. • Author, art critic & exhibit designer,
dealer, NYC; US Commr of Fine Arts for US
atinternatl exhibits.· See:AJYB, i4:121;
WWIAJ, 1938;BEOAJ; WWWIA, 5;NYTimes,
July241970,31:1.
Birnbaum, Max H; b. ca 1864; d.
Philadelphia, July 22 1933.
Bldr, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB, 36:278.
Birnbaum, Nathan; b. NYC, July 141907;
d. Dec 91975.
BA CCNY, MA, PhD Columbia. • Chemist,
government cOllsult; mem Natl Com on
Radiation Protection; faculty CCNY; wwn
service. • See: WWWIA, 6,7; NYTimes, Dec 11
1975,48:4.
Birnbaum, Philip; b. Kielce, Poland, 1904.
To US 1923.· Author, translator, Heb tchr,
prayer book annotator. • See: EJ.
Biro, Lajos; b. Heves, Hungary, 1880.
Novelist, playwright, screen writer, London,
US; WWI Austria-Hungarian service & war
correspondent. • See: UJE.
Birstein, Bernard; b. Brest-Litovsk, Apr 15
1892; d. NYC,July 91959.
To US 1911. • Rabbi, NYC; exec secy
Assembly of Heb Orthodox Rabbis. • See:
AJYB, 62:449; NYTimes, July 101959,25:3.
Bisgyer, Gustave; b. Brooklyn, Apr 25
1901; d.Jan 1967.
AB NYU, post-grad Columbia. • Social
worker, NYC, Baltimore; exec dir Jewish
Educational Alliance; officer professional socs.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Jan 41967,
43:2.
Bisgyer, Maurice; b. Brooklyn, Aug 28
1897; d. Aug 12 1973.
AB, MA NYU; honorary degree. • Refugee aid
ldr, government consult, communal admr,
author, Washington DC; exec secy B'nai
B'rith; active juvenile delinquent work. • See:
Blaine, Arthur M
EJ:1973-1982;AJYB, 75:653; WWIAJ, 1938;
WWWIA, 6; NYTimes, Aug 13 1973,32:3.
Hearst papers. • See:A]YB, 38:425; WWIAJ,
1928.
Bishkow, Isadore Edward; b. Binghampton,
NY, Oct 20 1887.
MD U IL. • Surgeon, Chicago; faculty
Chicago Med School. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Black, Louis; b. ca 1844; d. Cleveland, Jan
12 1919.
Civil War veteran, communal worker,
philanthropist, Cleveland. • See: AJYB, 21 :204.
Bisno, Abraham; b. Belaya Tserkov, Russia,
1866; d. Chicago, Dec 11929.
To US 1881. • Labor ldr, factory inspector,
realtor, Chicago; a fdr Workingmens
Educational Soc; officer Cloakmakets Union,
ILGWU; opposed Protocol of Peace. • See:
Fink, 25.
Black, Max; b. Baku, Russia, 1909.
Philosopher; specialty: language, mathematics;
faculty U IL, Cornell; author/editor in field. •
See:EJ.
Bisno, Julius; b. Memphis, Apr 201911.
PhB Creighton, post-grad U Chicago. • Exec
secy Aleph Zadik Aleph, Omaha. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Bitker, Bruno Voltaire; b. Milwaukee, Feb
5 1898; d. Apr 121984.
LLB Cornell. • Lawyer, public servant,
Milwaukee; mem US Natl Commn for
UNESCO, Pres Commn for Observance of
Human Rights Year; active bar assns. • See:
WWWIA,8.
Bitker, Jacob L; b. Ukraine, Nov 211874;
d. Milwaukee, Dec 41945.
To US 1884. • Merchant, communal, Zionist
& civic ldr, Milwaukee; a fdr business orgs;
state pres Keren Hayesod. • See: AJYB,
48:485; NYTimes, Dec 6 1945,27:4.
Bittelman, Alexander; b. Odessa, 1890.
To NYC 1912. • Communist ldr, journalist,
NYC, Chicago; editor Der Kampf; contributor
Daily Worker; memoir. • See: EJ.
Bitterman, Louis; b. ca 1867; d. NYC, Oct
13 1942.
Rabbi, NYC.· See:AJYB, 45:381; NYTimes,
Oct 141942, 25:1.
Blachschleger, Eugene; b. Cincinnati, July
211903; d. 1965.
BA U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union ColI,
MA U Richmond. • Rabbi, Montgomery, AL;
pres Jewish Fedn; bd AL Transient Bureau. •
See:WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; CCARYB.
Black, Algernon David; b. NYC, Nov 19
1900.
AB Harvard, post-grad Columbia, U CO. •
Ethical culture ldr, tchr, NYC; active
settlement houses. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOA].
Black, Eli M; b. Apr 91921; d. NYC, Feb 3
1975.
Business exec, communalldr, NYC; with
United Brands; dir Palestine Economic Corp;
bd Saturday Review, AmJewish Com; active
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Jewish
Museum. • See:AJYB, 77:592; WWWIA, 6;
NYTimes, Feb 41975, 1:3.
Black, Herman; b. Milwaukee, July 12
1867; d. Cleveland, Nov 9 1935.
Editor, publisher, communal worker,
philanthropist, Milwaukee then Chicago; with
Black, Maxwell L; b. Russia, May 5/15
1896.
To US 1915.· LLB Northeastern. • Lawyer,
public admr, Zionist worker, Detroit; orgr
Detroit Emergency Relief Assn; active
Kashruth support. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEOAJ.
Black, Morris; b. Russia, Mar 141886.
Business exec, Bethlehem, PA; officer B'nai
B'rith; dir Community Chest, Chamber of
Commerce, Boy Scouts. • See: BEOAJ.
Black, Morris Alfred; b. Toledo, May 31
1868.
BA Harvard. • Clothing mfr, Cleveland; officer
business orgs; active civic affairs. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Blackey, Eileen; b. Blackpool, England,Jan
141902; d. Pinehurst, NC, Sep 181979.
To US as child. • Educator, social worker,
communalldr; staff Federal Emergency Relief,
FL State Welfare Dept, UNRRA; dean U CA
Grad School of SocialWelfare; a fdr several
schools of social work; author in field. • See:
AJYB,81:364.
Blackman, Elinor; b. Brooklyn, ca 1892; d.
Brooklyn, July 15 1942.
Social worker; asst exec dir Jewish Social
Service Assn. • See: A]YB, 45:381; NYTimes,
July 161942,19:5.
Blackstone, Abraham Jacob; b. Charkow,
Oct 61890.
To US 1911. • CE U IL. • Civil engineer,
construction exec, inventor, Detroit. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Blackstone, Milton; b. NYC, Nov 27 1894.
NY ColI ofMusic, Brooklyn Inst of Arts. •
Violist, Toronto; mem NY symphonies,
Toronto Symphony.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Blahd, Moses Emmett; b. Cleveland, Mar
281883; d. Tucson, Feb 27/281940.
Cornell, MD Western Reserve, abroad. •
Surgeon, Cleveland; specialty: stomach; author
in field; military service. • See:AJYB, 42:477;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 1.
Blai, Boris; b. Russia, July 241890.
Kiev Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Imperial
Academy of Fine Arts (Leningrad), Beaux Arts
(Paris); honorary degree. • Sculptor,
Philadelphia; fdr, dean Temple U School of
Fine Arts. • See:A]YB, 24:121; WWWIA, 8.
Blaine, Arthur M; b. Taurogen, Lithuania,
June 18 1901; d. NYC,June 1966.
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Blanck, Alexander Peter
To US 1906. • CCNY, ]TS, LLB NYU. •
Lawyer, special asst state atty general; with NY
Public Housing Adm; a fdr Young Israel; pres
Jewish Civic League; active Democratic
politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, June
29 1966,47:2.
Blanck, Alexander Peter; h. Odessa, Oct 20
1900; d. Nov 1956.
To US 1915. • LLB NYU, post-grad
Columbia. • Lawyer, NYC; specialty:
corporate orgn & commercial arbitration;
active Am CivilLiberties Union; author in
field.• See: WWlAJ, 1938; NITimes, Nov 23
1956,27:1.
Blanck, Jacoh Nathaniel; h. Boston, Nov 10
, 1906; d. Dec 23 1974.
Honorary degree. • Bibliographer, author,
editor, Chestnut Hill, MA; rare book editor
Publishers Weekly, Antiquarian Bookman. • See:
WWWIA, 6; NITimes, Dec 25 1974, 40:6.
Blank, Abe H; h. Galatz, Rumania, July 27
1879.
To US 1887. • Business exec, motion picture
theatre owner, Des Moines, Omaha; with
Paramount Pictures; exec bd YMCA, Boy
Scouts,]oint Distribution Com. • See:
WWWIA,6.
Blank, Harry Gordon; h. Kiev, Sep 41877.
To US 1889.· Merchant, communalldr, Los
Angeles; officer Jewish Natl Fund, Heb Free
Loan, Heb Sheltering Home, Mt Sinai Home.
Blank, Irvin Haas; h. Mt Carmel, IL, Feh
201902.
CE, MS, PhD U Cincinnati. • Research fellow,
Harvard Med School, Boston. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Blank, Joseph; h. Philadelphia, June 18
1889.
BS School of Pedagogy, AB U PA, Temple U,
LLB Temple U. • Lawyer, Philadelphia; active
synagog. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Blank, Leon; h. Kishinev, 1868; d. NYC,
Sep 81934.
To US 1886. • Critically acclaimed Yiddish
actor, Brooklyn, NYC. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:121,37:254; NITimes, Sep 9 1934, 34:3.
Blank, Samuel Leih (Loeb); b. Dunayevitz,
~aine, 1892!1893;d. 1962.
To US 1922. • Heb novelist, short story
writer, Philadelphia. • See: UJE; E].
Blank, Sheldon Haas; b. Mt Carmel, IL,
1896.
Ordained Heb Union ColI, AB, AMU
Cincinnati, PhD U ] ena. • Rabbi, biblical
scholar, Cincinnati; faculty Heb Union CoIl;
author in field. • See: UJE; E].
To US 1901. • Realtor, communal worker,
NYC, Brooklyn; bd]ewish Center. • See:
WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Blasenstein,]oseph E; h. NYC, ca 1896; d.
NYC, Apr 3 1947.
Physician, pediatrician, NYC; specialty:
infectious diseases; with Public Health Dept. •
See:AJYB, 49:608; NYTimes, Apr41947, 23:4.
Blass,]acoh Lewis; h.Jm 191900; d.June
1966.
PhG Brooklyn CoIl, DDS NYU. • Dentist,
periodontist, consult, NYC; facility NYC CoIl
of Dentistry; author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEGA]; NITimes,]une 171966,45:3.
Blass, Julian Gus; h. ca 1877; d. Paris, Aug
91939.
Merchant, Civic worker, Little Rock. • See:
AJYB, 42:477; NITimes, Aug 12 1939,13:6.
Blatman, Saul; h. NYC, Dec 61918.
BA Brown, MD Duke. • Medical educator,
pediatrician; faculty NYU, Mt Sinai,
Dartmouth; WWII service. • See: WWWIA., 8.
Blatt, Burton; h. Bronx, May 23 1927; d.
Jan 201985.
BS NYU, MA Columbia, Ed D PA State;
honorary degree. • Educator; specialty: special
education; faculty, dean Syracuse U; consult
government; officer professional socs; author
in field. • See: WWWL4, 8.
Blatt, Joseph; b. Hungary, Dec 161878; d.
Oklahoma City, Aug 6 1946.
BHL, ordained Heb Union CoIl, BA U
Cincinnati. • Rabbi, Columbus, GA,
Oklahoma City (40 years). • See:AJYB,
5(1903-1904):45; 49:608.
Blatt, William Mosher; h. Orange, NJ, Apr
29 1876; d. Jan 1958.
Harvard, LLB Boston U, Harvard; honorary
degree. • Lawyer, playwright, author, Boston;
specialty: medical jurisprudence; active law
socs; author in field; WWI & "WWII
government service. • See: WWIA], 1928,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWL4, 5; NYTimes, Jan 31
1958,21:2.
Blatteis, Simon Risefeld; h. Teichen,
Austria, Mar 271876; d. Miami Beach,
June 11 1968.
To US 1882. • Columbia, MD Bellevue. •
Physician, pathologist, Brooklyn; faculty LI
CoIl Hospital; officer med socs. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;BEOAJ; WWWL4,
5;NITimes,]une 13 1968,47:3.
Blau, Bruno; b. West Prussia, 1881; d.
Germany, 1954.
To US after WWII. • German lawyer,
sociologist; editor, dir history & historical
demography of]ews; author in field. • See: E].
Blankfort, Michael; b. NYC, 1907; d. Los
Angeles, July 13 1982.
Screenwriter, novelist, author, philanthropist,
Los Angeles; bd professional orgs; "WWII
service.· See:A]YB, 84:330.
Blau, Daniel Bowman; b. Dayton, OH, Feh
21894.
LLB Cincinnati. • Lawyer, Dayton, OH;
trustee public library. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Blankstein, Louis; h. Lodz, Nov 25 1883.
Blau, Joel; h. Ahaujszanton, Hungary, 1878;
d. London, 1927.
To US 1905. • AB U Cincinnati, ordained
Heb Union ColI. • Rabbi, essayist, NYC,
London; faculty Jewish Inst of Religion. • See:
UJE;AJYB,24:121.
Blau, Joseph Leon; h. 1909.
Columbia. • Educator, historian of ideas,
NYC; facility Columbia; officer Conf of]ewish
Social Studies; author in field. • See: EJ.
Blau, Julius; b.*
Rabbi, Charleston, SC. • See: A]YB, 7(19051906):119.
Blau, Peter Michael; h. Vienna, 1918.
PhD Columbia. • Sociologist; specialty: group
structures; faculty U Chicago, Columbia; pres
professional soc; prolific author!editor in field.
• See: EJ:1973-1982.
Blau, William; h. Hungary, Oct 9 1869; d.
NYC, Oct 8 1941.
To US 1886.· Municipal judge, NYC.· See:
AJYB, 44:335; NITimes, Oct 91941,23:3.
Blauner, Isidore; h.*; d. NYC, Sep 13 1932.
Communal worker, NYC. • See: AJYB,
35:122.
Blauner, Julius; h. ca 1874; d. NYC, Sep 24
1933.
Merchant, communal worker, NYC. • See:
A]YB, 36:278.
Blaustein, David; h. Lida, Vtlna, May 5
1866; d. Cold Springs, NY, Aug 261912.
To US 1886. • Harvard, AM Brown. •
Communal educator & exec, rabbi; pres Soc of
] ewish Social Workers of NY; faculty NY
School of Philanthropy; supt Educational
Alliance (NYC); dir Chicago Heb Inst; active
Zionist affairs. • See: ]E; UJE; E}; AJYB,
7(1905-1906):44, 15(1913-1914):269;
Eisenstadt, 17-18; DAB; NITimes, Aug 28
1912,9:5.
Blaustein, Henrietta G; b. Riga, Jan 16
1871; d. Baltimore, Dec 81965.
To US 1885. • Philanthropist, Baltimore; cofdr Louis & Henrietta Blaustein Found;
benefactor Sinai Hospital, Assocd]ewish
Charities, Baltimore Museum ofArt. • See:
AJYB, 67:532; NITimes, Dec 9 1965,47:2.
Blaustein, Jacoh; h. Baltimore, Sep 30 1892;
d. Nov 151970.
Baltimore Polytech, MD Inst, Lehigh;
honorary degrees. • Oil co & business exec,
civic & natl communalldr, philanthropist,
Baltimore; natl pres Am] ewish Com; bd Am
Friends of Reb U; WWII government service.
• Se: EJ (sub Blaustein); A]YB, 72:547-57;
WWIA], 1928,1938; BEOA]; WWWIA., 5;
NITimes, Nov 161970,40:1.
Blaustein, Louis; h. Russia, Jan 20 1869; d.
Atlantic City,]uly 271937.
To US 1888. • Oil co exec, philanthropist,
Baltimore; innovator, developer high-test
gasoline. • See: UJE; E] (sub Blaustein); A]YB,
40:382; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA., 1; NITimes,
]uly281937,19:1.
59
Bloch, Charles Julian
Blaustein, Miriam U (Mrs David
Blaustein); b. Norfolk, June 16 1883.
Palestine. • See:AJYB, 24:100; NYTimes, Apr
26 1922, 19:5.
Bloch, Adolph; b. NYC, Aug 30 1873; d.
NYC, Sep 1948.
Volunteer social worker, Zionist ldr, author,
Norfolk; nat! exec bd Hadassah; active Red
Cross. • See: WWIAJ, 1926.
Blindman, Frank Samuel; b. Podolia, Nov
181889.
Blechman, Ann B; b.*; d. Chevy Chase,
MD, June 28 1976.
To Minneapolis 1912. • Merchant,
Minneapolis; active Talmud Torah, synagog. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
CCNY, PhB St Francis Xavier, LLB
Columbia. • Lawyer, realtor, NYC; interested
tenement legislation. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Sep 8 1948, 29:5.
Communal social worker, Washington DC;
exec officer Jewish Social Service Agency;
active Brandeis, Hillcrest Childrens Center. •
See: AJYB, 78:539.
Blechman, Nathan; b. Riga, Feb 15 1883; d.
Jan 1952.
CCNY, JTS, Columbia, MA, PhD NYU. •
Rabbi, author, Houston; officer TX Zionist
Assn; WWI] ewish Welfare Bd service. • See:
AJYB, 24:121; WWIAJ, 1926; NYTimes, Jan 10
1952,29:2.
Bleeden, Joseph; b. ca 1858; d. Muscatine,
IA, Apr 111916.
Rabbi, Muscatine, IA. • See:AJYB, 19(19171918):264.
Bleibtreu, Jacob; b. Frankfurt, Sep 30 1886;
d. Dec 1976.
Blitman, Charles Howard; b. Nassau, NY,
Oct 10 1893; d. NYC, July 18 1977.
CE Rensselaer Polytech. • Business exec,
engineer, bldr, communal fundraiser,
philanthropist, Brooklyn; WWI service. • See:
AJYB, 79:367; WWIAJ, 1938; BEQAJ;
NYTimes, July 20 1977, II 2:1.
BS CCNY, MD Creighton. • Pediatrician,
Woodmere, LI, Far Rockaway, NY. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Aug 11961, 31:4.
Bloch, Benjamin C; b. Chicago, July 29
1890; d. NYC, Nov 27 1977.
Blitz, Samuel; b. Lemberg, June 15 1888; d.
NYC, May 1977.
To NYC 1890.· Columbia.· Communal &
Zionist exec, NYC; exec officer United Jewish
Appeal. • See:AJYB, 79:367; WWIAJ, 1926,
1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, May 8 1977,20:3.
Bleich, Arthur M; b. Rockford, OH, Dec 18
1891.
Blitzer, Moses D; b. NYC, 1890?; d. NYC,
May151967.
Adelbert ColI, BA, LLB Western Reserve,
Columbia. • Businessman, communal
fundraiser, Cambridge, OH. • See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Business exec, philanthropist; bd United Jewish
Appeal, Central Synagogue; trustee Menorah
Home & Hospital for Aged & Infirm. • See:
AJYB, 69:605;NYTimes, May 171967,47:4.
Bleich, Hans Heinrich; b. Vienna, Mar 24
1909; d. Feb 9 1985.
Blitzstein, Marc; b. Philadelphia, Mar 2
1905; d. Martinique,Jan 22 1964.
To US 1945. • CE Technical U (Vienna). •
Civil engineer, NYC; faculty Columbia. • See:
U PA, Curtis, abroad. • Opera composer,
pianist, NYC; used political & proletarian
themes. • See: UJE; EJ; EJ:1973-1982; AJYB,
66:572-73; WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 4; DAB,
7.
LLB NY Law. • Lawyer, NYC asst corp
counsel,Jamaica, LI.· See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Sep 16 1969,47:2.
Blitzstein, Rosalie M; b. ca 1887; d. Dec 25
1936;
Physician, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB, 39:589.
Bleich, Judah; b. Tarnopol, Austria, 1901;
d. Tel Aviv, May 311961.
Bloch, Abraham (Abe); b. Cincinnati, Aug
281844; d. Mar 3/Apr 25 1914.
To US 1920. • Yiddish actor, NYC; with
Yiddish Art Theatre. • See: AJYB, 63:558;
NYTimes, June 1 1961, 35:2.
Merchant, clothing mfr, communal worker,
Cincinnati; dir Jewish Orphan Asylum. • See:
AJYB, 16(1914-1915):162; PAJHS, 23:191.
Bleyer, Julius Mount; b. Pilsen, Austria,
Mar 16 1859; d. NYC, Apr 3 1915.
Bloch, Abraham Philip; b. Polangen,
Kurland, Apr 23 1908.
To US 1868. • U Prague, MD Bellevue;
honorary degree. • Physician, throat specialist,
NYC; consult Metropolitan Opera; officer
professional soc. • See: AJYB, 17(19151916):219; WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Apr 5 1915,
To US 1924. • Ordained Yeshiva CoIVRIETS,
BA, JD NYU. • Lawyer, NYC; active Boy
Scouts; author/lecturer on Jewish topics & in
field.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
11:5.
Bloch,Adolph;b. ca 1870; d.Mobile, Feb
261917.
Communal worker, Mobile. • See: AJYB,
Bliden, Flora (Mrs I Bliden); b. ca 1847; d.
Brooklyn, Apr 251922.
To US 1922.· Communal worker,Jerusalem;
in US to collect funds for orphan asylum in
Bloch, Alexander; b. Selma, AL, July 11
1881.
Blitz, Daniel; b. NYC, July 161907; d.July
1961.
Blitzer, Henry (Harry Green); b. NYC, Apr
11892.
CCNY, NYU. • State & screen actor, mgr,
Los Angeles. • See: BEOA].
Bleich, Isidor; b. NYC, Nov 26 1902; d. Sep
1969.
St Louis Art School. • Painter, critic, poetry
anthologist, LaWrence, KS; faculty U KS. •
See: WWIA], 1938; WWWIA,4.
Columbia. • Violin recitalist, conductor,
composer, concertmaster, NYC, Hillsdale, NY.
• See:AJYB, 24:121; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; WWWIA, 1.
To US 1909. • Stockbroker, NYC; governor
NY State Exchange; active Am Jewish Com,
Fedn ofJewish Charities; WWI service, wwn
military instructor. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Dec 6 1976,
36:4.
WWWIA,8.
Bloch, Albert; b. St Louis, Aug 2 1882; d.
Dec 91961.
19(1917-1918):264.
B Arch Cornell. • Architect, NYC; active Free
Synagogue; WWI service. • See: A]YB,
79:367; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Nov 281977,
34:5.
Bloch, Bertram; b. NYC.
Playwright, Washington DC. • See: A]YB,
24:121.
Bloch, Blanche (Mrs Alexander Bloch); b.
NYC, Dec 20 1890.
Academy ofthe Visitation (Mobile), Columbia,
abroad. • Pianist, conductor, librettist, tchr,
Hillsdale, NY; active Democrat politics; author
in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bloch, Chaim Isaac (Hayyim Isaac ben
Hanokh Zundel Ha-Kohen); b. Plunge,
Lithuania, Sep 14 1864/0ct 6 1867; d.
Jersey City, Mar 181948.
To US 1922/1923.· Rabbi, talmudic scholar,
author, Jersey City; honorary pres Union of
Orthodox Rabbis; wwn Va'ad ha-Hazalah
ldr. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 50:513; WWIAJ,
1926, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Mar 19 1948,
24:2.
Bloch, Chayim; b. Nagy-Boscko, Hungary,
1881.
To US 1939. • Author, used Eastern European
Jewish life & legends; later anti-Semite; WWI
Austrian army service. • See: UJE.
Bloch, Charles Edward; b. Cincinnati, Dec
221861; d. NYC, Sep 21940.
Jewish book publisher & seller, communalldr,
Chicago, NYC; earlier printer; mgr Chicago
Israelite; co-fdr Refirm Advocate, Free
Synagogue; pres Jewish !nst of Religion. • See:
UJE; EJ (sub Bloch);AJYB, 24:121,
43:350,381-84; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938;
BEOAJ; NYTimes, Sep 3 1940, 17:4.
Bloch, Charles Julian; b. Baton Rouge, Oct
101893; d. Aug 271974.
LA State, AB U GA, Mercer Law; honorary
degree. • Prominent GA lawyer, Macon; head
Bd of Regents U GA; officer bar assns; active
synagog, philanthropy, Democratic politics;
anthor/editor in field.· See: WWWIA, 6;
NYTimes, Aug 301974,32:3.
60
Bloch, Claude Charles
Bloch, Claude Charles; b. Woodbury, KY,
July 12 1878; d. Washington DC, Oct 6
1967.
US Naval Academy, Ogden ColI (KY). •
Admiral, Judge Advocate General, US Navy;
Spanish-Am War, Boxer Rebellion, WWI
service, retired during WWII. • See: UJE; EJ;
DAB, 8; NITimes, Oct 7 1967, 29:1.
Bloch, Clement; b. Szaky, Russia, Nov 17
1865.
To US 1890.· MD UKonigsberg.·
Physician, NYC; with Bd of Health. • See:
AJYB, 6(1904-1905):65.
Bloch, Edward; b. 1816; d. 1881.
Printer, publisher, Albany, NY, Cincinnati;
publisher Am Israelite. • See: EJ (sub Bloch).
Bloch, Edward; b. ca 1829; d. Cincinnati,
Mar221906.
Publisher, Cincinnati. • See: AJYB, 8(19061907):225.
Bloch, Elijah Meir; b. Telsiai, Russia, 1894;
d. Cleveland, Jan 22 1955.
To US 1941. • Talmudic & rabbinics scholar,
Russia, Cleveland; faculty Rabbinical ColI of
Telshe, later Cleveland; active Agudath Israel
of Am, World Agudath Israel; author in field. •
See:EJ;AJYB, 57:605;NITimes,Jan241955,
23:5.
Plains), Democratic politics. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; NITimes, July 27 1970,27:5.
U Chicago. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Bloch, Herbert; b. Berlin, 1911.
Merchant, communal worker, Philadelphia;
pres Orphans Guardians; officer Fedn of
Jewish Charities.· See: WWIAJ,1926, 1938.
Bloch, Louis; b. Philadelphia, Nov 22 1874.
To US ca 1939. • Classical scholar; faculty
Harvard; officer professional soc; author/editor
in field. • See: EJ:1973-1982.
Bloch, Herman W;b. Buffalo, Feb 22 1874;
d. NYC, June 9 1970.
Business exec, communal welfare ldr; chr
European Childrens Aid; trustee Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; dir Nat! Refugee
Service; active Jewish Childrens Clearing
Bureau; author on child care. • See:AJYB,
72:539; NITimes, June 10 1970,47:3.
Bloch, Jacob; b. Bohemia, Aug 26 1848; d.
Portland, OR, May 3 1916.
MA U Prague; honorary degree. • Rabbi,
Spokane; earlier AR, CA, OR. • See: AJYB,
5(1903-1904):45,6(1904-1905):215,18(1961917):106.
Bloch, Jesse A; b.*; d.Jan 17 1951.
Tobacco mfr, Wheeling, WVA; with Mail
Pouch. • See: WWWIA, 3.
Bloch, Gotthelf; b. ca 1838; d. Toledo, Sep
181909.
Legislator, IN. • See: AJYB, 12(1910-
To Cleveland 1864. • LLB IA State. • Lawyer,
legislator, court of record judge, Cleveland. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes, Aug 161946,
21:5.
Bloch, Joshua; b. Dorbian, Lithuania, Dec
9/101890; d. Queens, Sep 261957.
To US 1907. • Heb Union Coll,JTS, Dropsie,
U Cincinnati, Columbia, Union Theological
Seminary, MA, PhD NYU. • Reform rabbi,
librarian, bibliographer; faculty NYU; head
NY Public LibraryJewish Division & helped it
develop a major Jewish collection. • See: UJE;
EJ;AJYB, 24:121, 60:354; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938; BEOAJ; PAJHS, 47:216-22;
NITimes, Sep 271957,19:5.
Bloch, Julius; b. Kehl, Baden, May 12 1888;
d. Aug 22 1966.
To US 1893.· PAMuseum & School of
Industrial Art, PAAcademy of Fine Arts. •
Artist, Philadelphia; faculty PA Academy of
Fine Arts; WWI service. • See: WWWIA, 4;
NITimes, Aug 241966,51:4.
1911):109.
Bloch, Konrad;b. 1912.
Bloch, Harry Edwin; b. Brooklyn, July 25
1894.
NYU Law. • Lawyer, Union City, N]; active
Jewish War Veterans, Jewish Community
Center, Republican politics. • See: BEOAJ.
Bloch, Henry; b. NYC, Apr 211883; d.
Bronxville, July 1970.
LLB Col:umbia. • Lawyer, Scarsdale, NYC;
mem State Real Estate Bd; officer real estate
assns; active Community Church {White
CCNY, NYU Law. • Lawyer, legislator, NYC;
minority ldr NY Assembly; active Democratic
Party politics. • See: UJE;AJYB, 32:153;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; NITimes, Dec 6 1929,
27:1.
Bloch, Max; b. Vilna, June 21886; d.
Smithtown, LI, Dec 1952.
Bloch, Max; b. ca 1890; d. Dusseldorf, Aug
191930.
Bloch, Joseph C; b. Hungary, Oct 24 1860;
d. Cleveland, Aug 141946.
PhD U Leipzig. • Atomic physicist, Nobel
laureate, Palo Alto, Zurich; faculty Stanford;
author in field.· See: EJ; EJ:1983-1985;
WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 8.
Bloch, Maurice; b. NYC, Apr 261891; d.
NYC, Dec 5 1929.
To US ca 1848. • Musician, violinist, guitarist,
music publisher, music store owner, Mobile;
faculty Spring Hill ColI; orgr band, chorus. •
To US 1916, 1938.· Honorary degree. •
Noted composer, San Francisco, Agate Beach,
OR; fdr Cleveland Inst ofMusic; dir San
Francisco Conservatory; lecturer on
metaphysics U Geneva. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB,
24:121,62:449; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 3; DAB, 6; NITimes, July
16 1959,27:1.
Bloch, Felix; b. Zurich, Oct 23 1905; d. Sep
101983.
1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 3; NITimes,June 13
1951,29:4.
Bloch, Joseph; b. Wachenheim, Germany,
July 101826; d. Mobile, July 121903.
See:AJHQ,53:70-75.
To US 1938, to Germany 1949, to West
Germany 1960. • Philosopher; faculty U
Leipzig, U Tubingen; author in field. • See:
UJE; EJ; EJ:1973-1982 (necrology).
U CA (Berkeley). • Corp exec, San Francisco;
with Crown Zellerbach; dir Mt Zion Hospital;
active Chamber of Commerce. • See: WWIAJ,
To US 1904.· BSc, CE Cooper Union,
Brooklyn Polytech, CCNY. • Civil engineer,
Brooklyn, NYC; with Bd of Water Supply. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NITimes, Dec 30
1952,19:5.
Bloch, Emest; b. Geneva, July 24 1880; d.
Portland, OR, July 15 1959.
Bloch, Emst; b. Ludwigshafen, Germany,
1885; d. 1977.
Bloch, Louis; b. San Francisco, Aug 91875;
d.June 1951.
To US 1936. • Technichal High School
(Munich), PhD Columbia. • Biochemist,
Nobel laureate; specialty: cholesterol; faculty
Columbia, U Chicago, Harvard; consult US
Public Health Service; author/editor in field. •
Tenor, NYC; with Metropolitan Opera. • See:
AJYB, 33:125.
Bloch, Monroe Percy; b. NYC, June 2
1894; d. May 1970.
AB Yale, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, NYC; bd
Hamilton-Madison House; WWI service. •
See: WWWIA, 5; NITimes, May 2 1970,33:5.
Bloch, Morris; see Bloch, Maurice.
Bloch, Paul; b.*
Newspaper publisher, NYc. • See: AJYB,
24:121.
Bloch, Philip; b. ca 1859; d. NYC, Oct 24
1914.
Chief clerk, Bd ofMagistrates, NYC. • See:
AJYB, 17(1915-1916):219.
Bloch, Robert Gustav; b. Nuremberg, Mar
3 1894; d. Apr 1975.
To US 1923. • MD U Munich. • Physician,
Chicago, NYC; faculty U IL, U Chicago,
Columbia; author in field; WWI German army
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 6;
NITimes, Apr 26 1975, 30:6.
Bloch, Samuel; b. ca 1876; d. Youngstown,
July 18 1932.
Rabbi, Youngstown.· See:AJYB, 35:122.
Bloch, Samuel S; b. ca 1850; d. Oct 2 1937.
See:EJ.
Mfr, tobacco firm head, civic worker,
Wheeling, WVA • See:AJYB, 40:382;
NITimes, Oct 3 1937, II 8:3".
Bloch, Leon; b. Neustadt, Poland, Mar 20
1879.
Bloch, Solomon Daniel; b. Camden, AL,
1855; d. Mobile, Mar 171924.
To US 1883. • AB U Chicago, MD Rush. •
Physician, gastroenterologist, Chicago; faculty
Publisher, legislator, mayor, county commr,
Block, Paul
61
Camden; editor, publisher Wikox Progress,
Camden News. • See: UJE; A]YB, 26:153.
Block, Abram L; b. ca 1865; d. June 21
1937.
Pioneer merchant, civic & communal worker,
Buffalo. ·See:A]YB, 39:589.
Block, Adolph; b. NYC,Jan 291906; d.
NYC, Aug 20 1978.
Beaux Arts (NYC, France). • Sculptor, NYC;
officer professional socs. • See: UJE; WWIA],
1926,1928, 1938; BEGA]; WWWIA, 7.
Block, Alexander; b. Kovno, Apr 301866.
To US 1887.· MD NYU.• Physician,
Denver; earlier Waco, Pueblo, CO, San Diego;
active Zionist orgs, Jewish Consumptives
Relief Soc. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Block, Anita Cahn (Mrs S John Block); b.
NYC, 1882; d. Dec 13 1967.
BA Barnard. • Tchr, lecturer, author, Socialist,
NYC; co-fdr NY Call; specialty: dramalecturer; author in field. • See: UJE; NYTimes,
Dec 13 1967,47:1.
Block, Arthur Joseph; b. Buffalo,Jan 28
1885.
Co'rnell. • Jewelry merchant, civic ldr, Buffalo;
mem City Planning Commn; officer Chamber
of Commerce; active Taxpayers League. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEGA].
Block, Benjamin; b. ca 1845; d.
Philadelphia, June 26 1922.
Rabbi, Philadelphia.· See:A]YB, 25:138.
Block, DavidJulian; b. ca 1875; d.
WUllletka, Apr 81939.
Chemical lab dir, Chicago; developer
numerous chemical processes. • See: A]YB,
41:419; NYTimes, Apr 91939, ill 6:7.
Block,ED1anueIJ;b.CU1cUunari,A1ay22
1880; d. A1ar 1939.
Steel mfr, Chicago. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Mar 61939, 15:5.
Block, Eugene Benjamin; b. Oakland, CA,
June 12 1890.
Journalist, news editor, San Francisco; with
Call Bulletin; fdr Jewish Journal; active Boy
Scouts. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Block, Frank Benton; b. Philadelphia, June
201890.
MD U PA. • Surgeon, gynecologist,
Philadelphia; author in field; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Block, Gordon A; b. Philadelphia, Apr 21
1885.
Lawyer, Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Block, Henry; b. Kovno, A1ar 111875; d.
Duhellen, NJ,Jan 22 1938.
To US 1896.· Art Students League, NY
School of Industrial Art. • Painter, wood
engraver, owner engraving & printing cos,
NYC, Dunellen, NJ. • See: A]YB, 40:382;
WWIA], 1938; BEGA]; NITimes, Jan 241938,
23:4.
Block, Henry David; b. NYC, Feb 22 1920;
d. Oct 6 1978.
BS, BCE CCNY, PhD IA State. •
Mathematician, engineer, Ithaca; faculty
Cornell; author in field. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Block, Herbert Lawrence (Herblock); b.
Chicago, 1909.
Newspaper political & editorial cartoonist,
Pulitizer prize winner, Chicago, Washington
DC; with Washington Post. • See: E].
Block, HerD1an Bernhardt; b.
Crawfordsville, IN, Aug 41904; d. Oct
261980.
U WI. • Exec, Fairfield, CT; WWII service. •
See: WWWIA., 7.
Block, HerD1an W; b. Buffalo, Feb 22 1872/
1874; d. NYC,June 91970.
Businessman, communalldr, NYC; a fdr Fedn
ofJewish Philanthropies; dir Natl Refugee
Service; active Jewish Child Care Assn; author
on child care.· See:A]YB, 72:539; WWIA],
1926,1928,1938; BEGA]; NYTimes, June 10
1970,47:3.
Block, Isaac; b. ca 1840; d. Chicago, July 10
1912.
Communal worker, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
15(1913-1914):269.
Block, Isaac; b. AD1ericus, GA, Sep 25 1860.
Merchant, Macon, GA, NYc. • See: BEGA].
Block, Isidore Aaron; b.*; d. Seattle, Jan 19
1917.
Talmudist, Seattle. • See: A]YB, 19(19171918):264.
Block, Israel I; b.*; d. Denver, Oct 1 1944.
Rabbi, Heb tchr, Denver.· See:A]YB, 47:519.
Block, Jacob; b. ca 1853; d. Philadelphia,
Oct 311923.
Surgeon, professor of philosophy, Kansas City.
• See:A]YB, 26:153.
Block,John; b. NYC, Dec 121879; d. NYC,
1968/1969.
Cooper Union. • Exec, NYC; officer business
assns, synagog; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, J oint Distribution Com. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Jan 3 1969,24:5.
Block, Joseph; b. ca 1831; d. Chicago, Dec
61914.
Ironmfr, Chicago.· See:A]YB, 17(19151916):219.
Block, Joseph L; b. Chicago, Oct 6 1902.
Cornell. • Steel mfr, communal philanthropist,
Chicago; exec Inland Steel; officer Jewish
Charities.· See: WWIA], 1926, 1938.
Block, Leon; b. CU1cUunari, July 18 1859.
LLB Cincinnati ColI Law School. • Lawyer,
communalldr, Kansas City; officer B'nai
B'rith, synagog, bar assn. • See: A]YB, 7(19051906):44.
Block, Leon; b. Waco, A1ar 211892.
MD U CO. • Ophthalmologist,
otorhinolaryngologist, Denver; WWI service.
• See: WWIA], 1938.
Block, Leopold E; b. CU1cU1nari, Jan 13
1869; d. Nov 11 1952.
Steel mfr, civic & philanthropic worker,
Chicago; exec Inland Steel; dir Michael Reese
Hospital. • See: WWIA], 1938; WWWIA., 3;
NYTimes, Nov 13 1952,31:1.
Block, Lester Harwood; b. Buffalo, Sep 14
1906.
AB U VA, LLB U GA, post-grad Yale. •
Lawyer, NYC then Buffalo; natl pres Alpha
Epsilon Pi. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Block, Louis; b. ca 1870; d. Davenport,
June 3 1935.
Lawyer, author, authority on freemasonry,
Davenport. • See:A]YB, 37:254.
Block, Louis James; b. BoheD1ia, Sep 10
1851; d. Dec 81927.
AB, AM, PhD Washington U (St Louis). •
Tchr of philosophy, educator, poet, Chicago;
author in field. • See: A]YB, 24:122; WWIA],
1926; WWWIA., 1.
Block, A1arvin Avram; b. Buffalo, Jan 11
1903.
BS, MD U Buffalo, post-grad abroad. •
Physician, Buffalo; faculty U Buffalo. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Block, A1ax E; b. Aug 5 1872.
Insurance agent, Greensboro, NC. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Block, A1ax Harry; b. Seattle, Aug 15 1901;
d. Seattle, June 5 1959.
Business exec, natl communalldr, Seattle; natl
officer Am Jewish Com, United Service for
New Americans, Joint Defense Appeal,
Council ofJewish Fedns & Welfare Funds;
officer trade assns. ·See:A]YB, 61:415;
WWIA],1938.
Block, A1elvin A; b. NYC, May 28 1908; d.
A1ar 111963.
BS U PA. • Pharmaceutical exec, Jersey City,
NYC; chr Joint Defense Appeal; natl council
Anti-Defamation League; WWII service. •
See: WWWIA., 4; NYTimes, Mar 12 1963,7:5.
Block, A1orris; b. Kingston, NY, Nov 6
1862; d. Kingston, NY, ~ov 1926.
Public official, Kingston, NY; alderman,
mayor, county supervisor. • See: UJE; A]YB,
6(1904-1905):65.
Block, A1yer J; b. Baltimore, 1844; d.
Baltimore, Nov 6 1928.
Orphans court judge, Baltimore; supervisor
Harbor Ed; active synagog; Civil War service.
• See: UJE; A]YB, 31:92.
Block, Nathan F; b. ca 1844; d. Louisville,
Jan 11917.
Communal worker, Louisville. • See: A]YB,
19(1917-1918):264.
Block, Paul; b. ElD1ira, NY, Nov 2 1877; d.
NYC, June 22 1941.
Cornell; honorary degrees. • Newspaper chain
publisher, advertising exec, philanthropist,
Block, Philip D Jr
NYC; chr Emergency Appeal ofFedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; benefactor Yale;
supporter AlfLandon. • See: UJE; AJYB,
43:356; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 1;
DAB, 3; NYTimes, June 23 1941,17:1.
Block, Philip D Jr; b. Chicago, June 25
1906; d. May 281981.
BS Yale. • Business exec, Chicago; pres United
Charities; bdJewish Fedn; active civic &
communal philanthropies. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Block, Philip Dee; b. Feh 161871; d.June
291942.
Steel mfr, Chicago; pres Inland Steel. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; REOAJ; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes,
July 11942, 25:5.
Block, Ralph; h. ca 1890; d. Wheaton, MD,
1973/1974.
U MI. • Motion picture writer, critic &
producer, NYC; a fdr Screen Writers Guild;
WWII government service. • See: AJYB,
24:122; NYTimes, Jan 3 1974, 38:3.
Block, Rudolph; see Lessing, Bruno.
Block, S Frank; h. Louisville, Aug 18 1879;
d. Louisville, Dec 41942.
Merchant, communalldr, Louisville; officer
Jewish Hospital Assn, B'nai B'rith; active
Louisville Health Council. • See:AJYB,
45:382; WWIAJ, 1928.
Block, SJoOO; h. Cleveland, Mar 171880;
d.May 1955.
AB, MA Columbia, NYU Law, Columbia Law.
• Lawyer, Socialist Patty ldr, counsel for
unions, NYC; co-fdr NY Call; author in field. •
See: UJE; AJYB, 24:122 (sub Bloch); WWIAJ,
1938; NYTimes, June 1 1955,33:1.
Block,SannueIWesthenner;h.StJoseph,
Feh 14 1911; d. Oct 28 1970.
AB Yale, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, Chicago;
trustee Michael Reese Hospital; WWII service.
• See: WWWIA, 5.
Block, Siegfried; h. Berne, Sep 22.1882; d.
Oct 1955.
To US 1883. • Cornell, MD LI ColI Hospital,
MA Columbia, abroad. • Physician, Brooklyn;
specialty: mental & nervous diseases; faculty LI
ColI Hospital; pres med socs. • See:AJYB,
24:122; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
Blodnick, Morris; b. NYC, May 1 1894.
AB CCNY, NYU, Fordham. • Public school
tchr, principal, Brooklyn; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Blondell, Joan (Mrs Dick Powell); h. NYC,
1909.
Movie actress, Hollywood, CA; as child in
vaudeville.· S~e: UJE.
Blondhenn, Adolphe W; h. Balthnore, Oct
161888.
MD Inst, PAAcademy of Fine Arts. • Painter,
etcher, New Hope, PA; WWI service. • See:
AJYB, 24:122; WWlAJ, 1938.
62
Blondhenn, David Snnon; h. Balthnore,
Aug 25 1884; d. Baltin}.ore, Mar 19 1934.
413, PhD Johns Hopkins, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes (Paris). • Romance langague
philologist, author, Baltimore; specialty: Old
French, medieval]udeo-Romance; faculty
Johns Hopkins; WWI exec secyJewish
Welfare Bd. • See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 24:122,
36:278; WWIAJ, 1928.
Bloom, Aaron Samuel; h. Springfield, MA,
Sep 191906.
Boston U. • Advertising agent, Boston; orgr
Advertising Guild; active Natl Council of
JewishJrs. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bloom, Allan; h. Providence, Jan 71900.
Brown, PA School of Social Work. • Social
worker, Indianapolis; exec dir Jewish Fedn
(Dallas); officerJewish Community Center
Assn; consult Natl Youth Adm. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Bloom, Benjamin Sannuel; h. 1913.
PA State, U Chicago. • Educator; specialty:
educational assessment; faculty U Chicago;
advisor government, Natl Educational
Laboratories; officer professional soc. • See:
EJ.
Bloom, Charles Jannes; h. New Orleans,
Oct 23 1886.
MD Tulane. • Pediatrician, New Orleans;
faculty Tulane; author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Bloom, David; h. Warsaw, Oct 211892.
U Freiburg, MD U Berne. • Physician,
dermatologist, NYC; faculty NYU; author in
field. • See: REOAJ.
Bloom, Edward; h. Russia, Aug 101867.
To US as youth. • Silk mfr, patent holder,
communal worker; Paterson, NYC. • See:
BEOAJ.
Bloom, Henry M; h. NYC, Sep 18 1870.
White goods & clothing mfr, Ghicago. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Bloom, Herhert Ivan; h. Brooklyn, Dec 27
1899; d. Kingston, NY,Jan 18 1966.
AB, PhD Columbia, post-grad Sorbonne,
ordained, MHL Jewish Inst of Religion. •
Rabbi, author, Kingston, NY; officer Natl
Prison Chaplain Bd; active Central Conf of Am
Rabbis, Zionist Org of Am. • See: AJYB,
68:523-24; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,]an 19
1966,38:1.
.
Bloom, Herman Irving (pseud=Harmon
Bellanny); h. Springfield, MA, Oct 14
1908.
Northeastern, Northwestern. • Author, editor,
sports journalist, exec, Springfield, MA. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; REOAJ.
BA Columbia, BD, ordainedHeb Union ColI,
PhD Columbia. • Rabbi, NYC; advocated
closer relations between Jews & Liberal nonJews. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
NYTimes, Jan 111956, 31:4.
Bloom, Jacoh; h. New Orleans, Nov 27
1868.
Tulane. • Rice mills operator, civic ldr, New
Orleans; commr Public Belt Railroad, Huey
Long Bridge. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bloom, Julius; h. Brooklyn, Sep 23 1912; d.
July 51984.
BA Rutgers, post-grad NYU; honorary degree.
• Performing arts admr, consult, author,
Brooklyn; exec dir Carnegie Hall; pres
Brooklyn Music School; officer professional
socs. • See: WWWIA, 8:
Bloom, Julius Harry; b. Bialystok, Nov 19
1893.
To US 1905. • Merchant, communal worker,
Greenville, SCi officer Zionist Org of Am. •
See: WWIAJ, 1926,1938.
Bloom, Maurice Joshua; b. Minsk, June 22
1902; d. Bronx, July 13 1965.
To US 1902l1912? • AB U Pittsburgh, MHL,
ordained Jewish Inst of Religion. • Rabbi,
Newburgh, Bronx; fdt Empire State Zionist
Region; officer Central Conf of Am Rabbis,
Assn of Reformed Rabbis; bd Synagogue
Council of Am, Jewish Natl Fund. • See:
AJYB, 67:532; WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,July
141965,37:3.
Bloom, Max: Sannuel; h. Chicago, Aug 2
1907; d. Dec 291983.
BA U Chicago. • Wholesale candy & tobacco
distributor, Chicago; active trade orgs,
CombinedJewishAppeal.· See: WWWIA, 8.
Bloom, Melvin Harold; h. Des Moines, Jan
101925; d. Dec 91974.
MD U lA. • Surgeon, Iowa City; faculty U IA;
WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Bloom, Meyer; h. Luhtz, Russia, Dec 11
1903.
To US 1912. • BS U Pittsburgh, MD NYU/
Bellevue. • Physician, Johnstown, PA; bd
Jewish Social Center; editor in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; REOAJ.
Bloom, Morris; b. Philadelphia, Aug 19
1891.
Lawyer, communal worker, Atlantic City; fdr
synagog; pres YMHA, Jewish Community
Center. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Bloom, Moses; h. ca 1838; d. Paducah, KY,
Sep 31910.
Major, Paducah, KY. • See: AJYB, 13(19111912):135.
Bloom, Hyman; h. near Riga, 1913.
To Boston 1920. • Painter; used Jewish
religious themes. • See: EJ.
Bloom, Moses E; h. ca 1855; d.June 5
1939.
Artist, designer, Cleveland. • See: AJYB,
41:419.
Bloom, Irving Mortttner; h. Bellaire, OH,
Aug 10 1889; d. Jan 1956.
Bloom, Philip Stein; h. La Crosse, WI, Nov
161898.
63
Underwear mfr, Chicago.· See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Bloom, Rube; b. NYC, Apr 241902; d.
NYC, Mar 1976.
Song composer, recording artist, Brooklyn. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Mar 311976,
44:3.
Bloom, Simeon; b. *; d. Omaha, Dec 6 1909.
Lawyer, soldier, communal worker, Omaha. •
See:AJYB,12(1910-1911):110.
Bloom, Sol; b. Pekin, IL, Mar 9 1870; d.
Bethesda, Mar 71949.
Honorary degree. • Congressman, politician,
businessman, real estate operator, showman,
music publisher, Chicago, San Francisco,
NYC; delegate UN charter writing, UNRRA;
active refugee affairs, Democratic politics,
foreign affairs; autobiography. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 51:519; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 2; DAB, 4; NYTimes, Mar 8 1949,
1:6.
Bloom, William; b. ca 1861; d. Boston, Dec
1938.
Communal worker, wholesale wool co owner,
Boston. • See: AJYB, 41 :419; NYTimes, Dec 16
1938,26:1.
Bloom, William; b. NYC, May 25 1880; d.
. NYC, Nov 1943.
Columbia. • Clothing designer, NYC; author
in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Nov
241943,21:2.
Bloomberg, Julius; b. Candau, Russia, Apr
12 1886.
To US 1889. • AB, LLB Western Reserve. •
Lawyer, realtor, Cleveland; pres Montefiore
Home.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bloomberg, Maxwell Hillel; b. Rovna,
Russia, Feb 24 1899; d. Oct 9 1968.
MD Tufts. • Orthopedic surgeon, East
Orange, NJ; WWII service. • See: WWWIA,
5; NYTimes, Oct 12 1968,37:4.
Bloomberg, Samuel; b. Maynard, MA, Apr
91899.
LLB Northeastern. • Lawyer, master in
chancery, Pittsfield, MA. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bloomberg, Sol L; b. Yorkville, SC, July 29
1858.
UVALaw. • Lawyer, Richmond; pres Bd of
Public Interest, Carnegie Library, synagog. •
See: WWIAj, 1928 (addenda).
Bloomenthal, Sidney; b. Chicago, Oct 22
1905~
BS, MS, 'PhD U Chicago. • Physicist,
Philadelphia; researcher War Dept; author in
field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOA].
Bloomfield, Arthur Leonard; b. Baltimore,
May 301888.
AB, MD Johns Hopkins. • Physician,
Baltimore, San Francisco; faculty Johns
Hopkins, Stanford; author in field. • See:
A]YB, 24:122; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA,8.
Bluestein, David M
Bloomfield, Daniel; b. NYC, July 4 1890; d.
Sep 161963.
Boston School for Social Work, AB Harvard,
LLB Boston; honorary degrees. • Lawyer,
industrial relations specialist, Boston; fdr
Boston Music School Settlement; ac;l.mr trade
orgs; dir MA Soc for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children; author in field; ~ service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; fVWWIA,4;
NYTimes, Sep 18 1963,39:3.
Bloomfield, Fannie·Zeisler; see Zeisler,
Fannie Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Gerald Milton; b. NYC, Dec 4
1905; d. Sep 1975.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, civic worker, NYC;
officer Council of Temples & Synagogues, bar
assns. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Sep 11
1975,44:1.
Bloomfield, Leonard; b. Chicago, Apr 1
1887; d. Apr 181949.
BA Harvard, post-grad U WI, Germany, PhD
U Chicago. • Linguist, New Haven; faculty
Yale, OH State, U Chicago; fdr Linguistic Soc
of Am; author in field. • See: EJ; WWWIA, 2;
DAB, 4; NYTimes, Apr 19 1949, 25:1.
Bloomfield, Maurice; b. Bielitz, Austria,
Feb 23 1855; d. San Francisco, June 13
1928.
To US 1867.· U Chicago, MAFurman U,
Yale, PhD Johns Hopkins, post-grad abroad;
honorary degrees. • Sanskrit expert,
Orientalist, Baltimore; authority on Hindu
literature & philosophy; faculty Johns
Hopkins; officer professional soc; author in
field. • See: JE; UJE; EJ; AJYB, 6(19041905):65-66,24:122,30:79; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928,1938; WWWIA, 1; DAB; NYTimes, June
141928,27:5.
Bloomfield, Meyer; b. Bucharest; Feb 11
1878; d. NYC, Mar 12 1938.
AB CCNY, AB Harvard, LLB Boston. •
Vocational industrial relations specialist,
lawyer, social welfare ldr, NYC; advisor
governments, corporations, students; authorl
publisher in field; ~ Shipping Bd service. •
See: UJE; AJYB, 7(1905-1906):44-45,40:382;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,1938; WWWIA, 1; DAB,
2; NYTimes, Mar 15 1938,23:3.
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fanny; see Zeisler,
Fannie Bloomfield.
Bloomgarden, Hyman; b. Chicago, Nov 19
1887; d. July 1951.
LLB NYU. • Lawyer, Brooklyn; officer Heb
Free Loan Assn; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, July 12 1951,25:6.
Bloomgarden, Yehoash Solomon (pen
name=Yehoash); b. Vierzbolano
(Wirballen), Lithuania, Mar/Apr 1870/
1871/1872; d. NYC, Jan 10 1927.
To US ca 1890/1892. • Noted Yiddish poet,
translator, NYC, Denver; translated Bible,
Hiawatha. • See: UJE; EJ (sub Yehoash); AJYB,
6(1904-1905):66,24:122,29:117; WWIAJ,
1926.
Bloomingdale, Alfred S; b. NYC, Apr 15
1916; d. Aug 23 1982.
Brown. • Corp exec, Broadway & Hollywood
producer; bd Brown; active Diners Club. • See:
WWWIA,8.
Bloomingdale, Charles Jr (pseud=Karl); b.
Philadelphia, Mar 161868; d. Feb 24
1942.
AB U PA. • Journalist, advertising exec,
novelist; owner, publisher Footlights;
contributor newspapers, magazines. • See:
UJE;A]YB, 6(1904-1905):66; WWWIA, 2;
NYTimes, Feb 25 1942, 19:3.
Bloomingdale, Emanuel Watson; b. Rome,
NY, Nov 25 1852; d. NYC, Feb 6 1928.
LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, dept store
merchant, NYC; mem NY Bridge & Tunnel
Coinmn; active Republican politics, Soc for
Reformation ofJuvenile Delinquents. • See:
UJE (sub Bloomingdale); E] (sub
Bloomingdale); A]YB, 6(1904-1905):66,
24:122, 30:79; WWIA], 1926; WWWIA, 1;
NYTimes, Feb 7 1928,27:5.
Bloomingdale, Hiram C; b. NYC, 1877?; d.
NYC, Mar 1953.
Dept store exec, philanthropist, NYC; active
communal orgs. • See:A]YB, 24:122, 55:454;
Bloomingdale, Joseph Bernhardt; b. NYC,
Dec 22 1842; d. NYC, Nov 211904.
Dept store merchant, NYC; fdr, pres Heb
Technical Inst; a fdr Barnard. • See: UJE (sub
Bloomingdale); EJ (sub Bloomingdale); AJYB,
6(1904-1905):66, 7(1905-1906):217; NYTimes,
Nov 23 1904,9:2.
Bloomingdale, Lyman Gustavus; b. NYC,
Feb 111841; d. Elberon, NJ, Oct 1905.
Merchant, philanthropist, patron of arts, NYC;
active Jewish fraternal orders; Civil War Union
service. • See: UJE (sub Bloomingdale); EJ
(sub Bloomingdale); AJYB, 6(1904-1905):67,
8(1906-1907):224; NYTimes, Oct 141905, 9:6.
Bloomingdale,SamueIJoseph;b.NYC,
June 17 1863/1873; d. NYC, MaylO
1968.
BS Columbia. • Dept store exec, NYC; active
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies, Am Jewish
Com, Montefiore Hospital, Metropolitan
Museum ofArt. • See: UJE; EJ (sub
Bloomingdale);A]YB, 24:122, 70:519;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
5; NYTimes, May 111968, 35:1.
Blotner, Harry; b. Merrimac, MA, Mar 18
1901.
MA Harvard, MD Tufts. • Physician, Boston;
faculty Harvard; • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Blout, Isaac L; b. Weiterode, Hesse, Jan 15
1837; d.Washington DC, Oct 241916.
Communalldr, Washington DC; pres synagog,
United Heb Charities; officer B'nai B'rith,
Daughters ofIsrael. • See: AJYB, 7(19051906):45, 19(1917-1918):264.
Bluestein, David M; b. NYC, Sep 30 1898;
d. Bronxville, Mar 5 1969.
Lawyer, NYC; active United Jewish Appeal,
64
Bluestein, Herman
Jewish Center, Yeshiva U. • See: AJYB,
71:602; NYTimes, Mar 6 1969,43:1.
relations. • See: UJE; AJYB, 42:477; NYTimes,
May 3 1940,21:4.
Philadelphia, NYC; with Little Theatre
movement. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938.
Bluestein, Hennan; b. Chicago, Aug 6
1916; d. Apr 5 1970.
Blum, Albert Herbert; b. Baltimore, June
251900.
Blum, Henry Nathan; b. Baton Rouge, Dec
221876.
Physician, Chicago; faculty Chicago Med
School; author in field; wwn service. • See:
Baltimore City ColI, BAJohns Hopkins, LLB
U MD. • &st state atty, domestic relations
judge, Baltimore; active lacrosse, handball. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
BA LSU, MD Tulane, post-grad abroad. •
Ophthalmologist, New Orleans; faculty
Tulane. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
WWWlA,6.
Bluestein, Saul; b. ca 1886; d. May 2 1939.
Merchant, civic & communal worker,
Memphis.· See:AJYB, 41:419.
Blum, Alexander Aladar; b. Budapest
(Cincinnati?), Feb 71889.
To US 1900. • Cincinnati Art Academy, Natl
Bluestone, Ephraim Michael; b. NYC, Dec
261891; d. NYC,July 11979.
Academy of Design. • Etcher, painter, Rye,
NY, NYC. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:122; WWIAJ,
1928,1938; WWWIA, 8.
BS, MD Columbia. • Physician, hospital admr,
consult, communalldr, NYC; a fdr School of
Administrative Med (Columbia); dir
Montefiore Hospital; faculty NYU: examiner
Municipal Civil Service of NY; officer
professional orgs; author/editor in field; \VWI
service.· See:AJYB, 81:364-65; WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, July 3 1973, IV 13:2.
Bluestone, Joseph Isaac; b. Kalvaria,
Lithuania, Feb 22 1859/1860; d.
Brooklyn, Nov 2 1934.
To US 1879/1880.· MD NYU. • Physician,
Zionist ldr, Hebraist, NYC; fdr United
Zionists; orgr Machzike Talmud Torah; officer
Fedn of Am Zionists, Mizrachi, Sons of Zion;
editor, publisher Shulamith. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 37:254; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928; PAJHS,
35:53-64.
Bluesto~e,
Myron Jacques; b. NYC,]an 25
Blum, Berta (Mrs); b. ca 1861; d. Brooklyn,
Nov 23 1934.
Communal worker, Brooklyn. • See: AJYB,
Bluhm, Solomon; b. Brooklyn, Feb 91894.
BA CCNY, MA Columbia, post-grad
Columbia, NYU, Western Reserve.· Editor,
communal & synagog exec, social worker,
author, NYC; editor Jewish Social Service
Quarterly; active professional orgs; \VWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Blum, Edward Charles; b. NYC, Feb 24
1863; d. Brooklyn, Nov 201946.
Dept store exec, civic & culturalldr, communal
worker, NYC; pres Municipal Art Commn;
mem NY Probation Commn. • See: UJE;
AJYB, 49:608; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; WWWIA,2;NITimes,Nov22 1946,
23:1.
Blum, Edward Isaac; b. Paris, Sep 24 1876;
d. NYC, Mar 26 1944.
CCNY, Columbia, Beaux Arts (Paris). •
Architect, NYC. • See: AJYB, 46:335; WWIAJ,
1926, 1928; NITimes, Mar 28 1944, 19:6.
Blum, Elias; b. Eisdorf, Hungary, Feb 22
1881.
To US 1891. • New England Conservatory,
Grand Ducal School ofMusic (Weimar). •
Tenor soloist, organist, Grinnell, !A; faculty
Grinnell ColI; officer professional soc. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA,6.
Blum, Eliezer (pseud=B AlkvitlAlquit); b.
Chelm, Poland, Dec 19 1895/1896; d.
1963.
Rabbi, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB, 7(19051906):120.
To NYC 1914. • Yiddish poet, short story
writer, factory worker, NYC; mem In Zikh
group; contributor Jewish Morning Journal. •
See: EJ; WWIAJ, 1938.
Blum, Abraham; b. Gutzenheim, Alsace,
1843; d. NYC, Aug 1921.
Blum, Gustav; b. NYC, Oct 211887; d.July
1963.
To US 1868. • Rabbi, police chaplain, Dayton,
OH, Galveston, Augusta, Los Angeles, NYC;
supt Lebanon Hospital; fdr Reform synagog in
Bronx.· See:AJYB, 24:101; PAJHS, 29:15556; NITimes, Aug 7 1921, 22:5.
Columbia, CCNY, NY Training School for
Tchrs. • Theatrical producer, playwright,
lecturer, public school tchr, NYC. • See:
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NITimes,
Aug 11963,27:3.
Blum, Abram; b. ca 1848; d. Oct 26 1937.
Blum, Harry; b.*; d. Oct 3 1971.
Distillery exec, Chicago. • See: WWWIA, 5.
Blum, A; b.*
Mayor, communal worker, Nutley, NJ;
Franco-Prussian War French service. • See:
AJYB, 40:382.
Blum, Albert; b. NYC, 1870; d. May 1
1940.
Sorbonne. • Dye industry developer, exec,
industrialist, NYC; fdr General Assn of
Alsatians-Lorrainers of Am; officer trade assn;
bd French Hospital; benefactor French
universities; active promoter French-US
LLB De Paul. • Lawyer, Chicago; specialty:
credit law; author in field. • See: WWIAJ,
1926, 1928, 1938.
Blum, Jacques Loeb; b. Ogontz, PA, May
181895; d. 1947.
Dept store exec, Pittsburgh; dir Jewish Family
Welfare. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, May
3 1947, 17:5.
37:254.
1904.
Public relations counsel, NYC; with
Manischewitz, then motion picture & stage
cos.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Blum, Henry S; b. Hungary, Jan 17/19
1884.
Blum, Harry H; b. NYC, ca 1878; d. Dec 6
1966.
Retail clothier, watch collector, Chicago;
benefactor Art Inst, Michael Reese Hospital. •
See: WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, Dec 8 1966, 47:1.
Blum, Helen Abrahams (Mrs Alexander A
Blum); b. Philadelphia, Aug 17 1886.
Philadelphia School of Design, PA Academy of
Fine Arts. • Artist, scene designer,
Blum, Joseph Klee; b. NYC, Aug 141888;
d. White Plains, July 1961.
ME Stevens Inst... Consult mechanical
engineer, NYC; specialty: combustion &
power. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NYTimes,
July 26 1961, 31 :3.
Blum, Leon; b. Alsace, 1837; d. Galveston,
1906.
To US ca 1854. • Merchant, wholesale cotton
importer, dry goods exporter, philanthropist,
Galveston; chr Bd of Public Works. • See:
UJE.
Blum, Max L; b. Darmstadt, Gennany,
June 22 1865.
To Pittsburgh 1886. • Dept store exec,
Pittsburgh; active communal philanthropies. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Blum, Mrs Gabriel; b. ca 1870; d.
Philadelphia,July 25 1933.
Communal worker, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB,
36:278.
Blum, RichardJulius; b. Pittsburgh, Feb 7
1901.
U PA. • Dept store exec, communal & civic
worker, Pittsburgh; with Gimbels. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Blum, Richard L Sr; b. NYC, Mar 30 1892;
d. Brooklyn, May 1950.
Merchant, NYC; active Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, May 211950,104:5.
Blum, Robert; b. San Francisco, Mar 12
1911; d. Cold Spring Harbor, NY,July 9
1965.
AB, PhD U CA (Berkeley). • Asia expert,
diplomat, San Francisco; pres Asia Found;
admr Marshall Plan (France); mem US natl
commn UNESCO; wwn government
service. • See:AJYB, 67:532; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes,July 101965,25:3.
Blum, Robert Frederic(k); b. Cincinnati,
July 91857; d. NYC,June 1903.
McMicken Art School, Academy of Fine Arts
(philadelphia). • Artist, illustrator, decorator,
muralist, NYC. • See: UJE; WWWIA, 1;
65
Blum, Sam; b. Donaldsonville, LA, Mar 29
1860.
Communal & philanthropic ldr, New 'Orleans;
pres Touro Infirmary, YMHA, B'nai B'rith;
officer Heb Rest Cemetery. • See: AJYB,
7(1905-1906):45.
Blum, Samuel; b. Bielsk, Poland, July 4
1892.
To NYC 1909. • BS Cornell, MA USC. •
Journalist, NYC; with Jewish Morning Journal;
earlier with US Bureau of Entomology; WWI
service. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Blum, Sanford; b. San Francisco, Aug 12
1873.
AB, MD, MS U CA (Berkeley), post-grad
abroad. • Pediatrician, consult, San Francisco;
faculty San Francisco Polyclinic & Post-Grad
School; author in field. • See: WWlAJ, 1926,
1928.
Blum, SidneyJulius; b. Chicago, Feb 15
1882; d. Nov 1938.
Commission merchant, Chicago. • See:
WWlAJ, 1938;NYTimes, Nov261938, 15:1.
Blumenberg, Leopold
LLB Syracuse U. • Lawyer, childrens court
judge, Little Falls, NY; mem Bd of Education;
active Boy Scouts; WWI service. • See:
WWlAJ,1938.
Blumberg, Baruch Samuel; b. NYC, 1925.
Union ColI, MD Columbia, PhD Oxford U. •
Physician, Nobel laureate; developed test for
hepatitus virus in blood; with Inst for Cancer
Research; faculty U PA; author/editor in field.
• See: EJ:1973-1982.
AJYB,21:204.
Blumberg, Benjamin; b. Terre Haute, Apr
221889.
AB DePauw, JD U Chicago. • Lawyer,
businessman, author, Terre Haute. • See:
Blumberg, Max; b.*; d. Nov91938.
Lumber dealer, communal & philanthropic
worker, Zionist, Brooklyn. • See: AJYB,
41:419; NYTimes, Nov 10 1938,27:3.
Blumberg, George; b. Brooklyn, Apr 29
1903; d. NYC, Jan 1960.
NYU. • Insurance broker, business exec, oil
firm owner, legislator, Brooklyn; officer Jewish
Chronic Disease Hospital; active Republican
politics. • See: WWlAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Jan 19
1960, 35:1.
Blumberg, Harry; b. NYC, 1902; d. Ann
Arbor, Apr 281983.
Tchr of medieval philosophy, Heb; faculty
Hunter, Tel Aviv U; author/editor in field. •
See: AJYB, 85:413.
Blum, Sylv~ H; b. Bellaire, OH, Aug 9
1887.
'Wharton. • Merchant, Bellaire, OH; dir
Chamber of Commerce; trustee Sinking Fund;
bd Salvation Army; active Anti-Defamation
League. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Blumberg, Harry S; b. Chicago, Apr 28
1897.
Crane. • Metallurgist, Jersey City; WWI naval
inspector. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Blumauer, Joseph; b. ca 1827; d. Portland,
OR, Nov 141916.
To Portland, OR 1850. • Pioneer, Portland,
OR.· See:AJYB, 19(1917-1918):264.
Blumauer, Simon; b. Berolzheim, Bavaria,
Mar21822.
'Wholesale merchant, communal & civic ldr,
Portland, OR; orgr, pres synagog, Heb
Benevolent Soc, Portland Library. • See:
AJYB, 7(1905-1906):45-6.
Blumberg, Albert Emanuel; b. Baltimore,
Aug 101906.
AB Johns Hopkins, MA Yale, PhD U Vienna.
• Philosopher, Baltimore; faculty Johns
Hopkins; bd YMCA; authorin field. • See:
WWlAJ,1938.
Blumberg, Arnold Maurice; b. Philadelphia,
July 161893.
LLB U PA. • Lawyer, legislator, Philadelphia;
active communal charities. • See: WWlAJ,
1938.
Blumberg, Arnold R; b. Utica, June 10
1896.
Blumberg, Lester; b. ca 1876; d. Brooklyn,
Mar 151919.
Spanish-Am War veteran, Brooklyn. • See:
WWlAJ, 1926.
Blum, Solomon; b. Baltimore, 1883.
Economist, colI professor, Berkeley, CA. • See:
AJYB, 24:123.
Blum, Theodor(e); b. Vienna, Sep 25 1883;
d.July 1962.
To US 1904. • DDS, MD U PA, MD U
Vienna, post-grad Vienna, Berlin. • Physician,
dentist, oral surgeon, NYC; author in field. •
See:AJYB, 24:123; WWlAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
Blumberg, Leo; b. Wtlmington, DE, July 22
1894.
BS, BS, ME, EE U DE, Purdue, PhD
candidate Temple U. • Mechanical engineer,
Wilmington, DE; faculty U DE; WWI service.
• See: WWlAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Blumberg, Henry; b. Zhagory, Russia, May
13 1886.
To US 1891.· AB, AM Columbia, PhD U
Gottingen, abroad. • Mathematician, Columbus, OH; faculty U NE, U IL, OH State;
author ifi field. • See: AJYB, 24:123; WWlAJ,
1926,1928,1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 7.
Blumberg, Henry; b. Waukegan, IL, Aug
241902.
BS, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer, Chicago; officer
Young Mens Jewish Council for Boys Clubs;
active Democratic politics. • See: WWlAJ,
1938.
Blumberg, Hyman; b. ca 1869; d. Dothan,
AL, Oct 1934.
.Merchant, Dothan, AL. • See:AJYB, 37:254.
Blumberg, Hyman; b. Legum, Lithuania,
Nov 251885; d. NYC, Oct 171968.
To US 1890. • Labor ldr; officer Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, Am Labor Party; advisor
internatl delegation, US Army; active NRA. •
See:AJYB, 70:519; Fink, 28; WWWIA, 5.
Blumberg, Jacob; b. NYC, Dec 31 1893.
MD Albany Med ColI. • Neurologist,
Elizabeth; with State Dept of Labor; WWI
service. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Blumberg, Jacque; b. ca 1886; d. July 3
1939.
Violist, Kansas City; with Kansas City
Philharmonic. • See:AJYB, 42:477.
Blumberg, Max; b. Kovno, Apr 15 1887.
To US 1901. • Business exec, communal
worker, philanthropist, Brooklyn; pres Pride of
Judah Orphan Home; officer Beth Moses
Hospital. • See: WWlAJ, 1928, 1938.
Blumberg, Nathan; b. Philadelphia, May 25
1887.
MD Jefferson Med ColI. • Physician,
Philadelphia; faculty Temple U. • See:
WWlAJ,1938.
Blumberg, NathanJ; b.*; d.July 241960.
Motion picture exec, Los Angeles; pres
Universal Pictures. • See: WWWIA, 4;
Blumberg, Rebecca S; b. Russia, Aug 8
1886.
Social welfare worker, Birmingham, AL;
officer YWHA, Daughters ofIsrael; bd Fedn of
Jewish Charities. • See: WWlAJ, 1928.
Blumberg, Samuel; b. NYC, June 6 1883; d.
NYC, July 1966.
AB CCNY, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, NYC;
counsel employers assns; active JTS, synagog. •
See: WWlAJ, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, July 15
1966,31:1.
Blumberg, Wtlliam L;b. NYC, 1876; d.
Cedarhurst, LI, Mar 1938.
Hardware merchant, public official, niayor,
Cedarhurst, LI; active charities, religious orgs,
civic improvement. • See: UJE; AJYB, 40:382;
Blume, Joseph S; b. NYC, May 20 1887; d.
Mar 1949.
Insurance exec, NYC; mem NY Housing
Commn; active politics. • See: WWlAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Mar 26 1949, 17:6.
Blume, Peter; b. Smargon, Russia, Oct 27
1906.
To NYC 1911. • Educational Alliance, Beaux
Arts, Art Students League. • Artist, painter,
muralist, Gaylordsville, CT; with Federal Art
Project. • See: EJ; WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Blumenberg, Leopold; b. Brandenburg, Sep
28 1827; d. Baltimore, Aug 12 1876.
To US 1854. • Businessman, Baltimore; orgr
MD Volunteer Regiment; pres Natl
Schuetzen-Verein ofAm; active synagog;
Prussian military service, Civil War. Union
service. • See: JE; UJE; EJ.
66
Blumenberg, Louis
Blumenberg, Louis; b. Baltimore, ca 1858;
d. NYC, Feb 1916.
Concert cellist, NYC; pres Musical Courier. •
See: AJYB, 6(1904-1905):67; NYTimes, Feb 24
1916,13:7.
Blumenberg, Marc A; b. Baltimore, May 21
1851; d. Paris, Mar 271913.
Loyola Coli (Baltimore). • Noted music critic,
editor, NYC; editor-in-chief Musical Courier. •
See: JE; U]E; AJYB, 6(1904-1905):67,
15(1913-1914):269; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes,
Mar281913,15:5.
Blumenfeld, David Bernard; b. Brooklyn,
Oct 181898.
MD LI Coli Hospital. • Obstetrician,
gynecologist, Woodhaven, NY. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Blumenfeld, Frances (Mrs Moses
Blumenfeld); b. NYC, June 14 1893.
Communalldr, Memphis; pres Jewish Ladies
Aid Soc, Hadassah. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Blumenstiel, Monroe Alpiner; b.
Rochester, NY, Feb 19 1896.
Blumenthal, George; b. NYC, ca 1863; d.
NYC,July 23 1943.
BS U Rochester, Chemical Warfare School
(Edgewood Arsenal, MD). • Army officer,
insurance businessman, Rochester, NY; with
cce, Freehold,.NJ; WWI service.· See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Theatrical & operatic producer, promoter,
mgr, NYC; asst to Oscar Hammerstein. • See:
AJYB, 46:335; NYTimes, July 28 1943, 15:3.
Blumenstock, Mort; b. NYC, Dec 26 1900;
d.July 1956.
To US 1910. • Statistician, vocational analyst,
NYC, Grand Rapids, MI; active YWCA. • See:
AJYB, 24:123; WWWIA, 1.
Columbia. • Advertising mgr, title writer,
editor, motion picture dir, NYC; with
Universal Pictures, Natl Pictures, Columbia
Pictures.· See: WWIAJ,·1938; NYTimes,July
191956,27:5.
Blumenthal, A Pam; b. NYC, Sep 231904;
d.Jan 1953.
Wharton. • Motion picture producer, exec,
NYC; specialty: advertising films. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Jan 28
1953,27:2.
Blumenthal, Aaron; b. ca 1869; d.
Philadelphia, Oct 91933.
Blumenfeld, Israel I; b. Ostrow, Poland,
May 10 1915; d. Los Angeles, Mar 27
1962.
Mfr, philanthropist, Philadelphia. • See: AJYB,
36:279.
To US 1952. • Communal official; officer
General Fedn of Labor (Israel); active
Liberated Jews in Germany, Survivors of
Concentration Camps. • See: AJYB, 64:492;
Blumenthal, Aaron; b. Montreal, Feb 7
1908.
To US 1928.· AB McGill, ordainedJTS.·
Rabbi, St Albans, vr, Bay Shore, LI. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Blumenfeld, Leonard M; b. *; d. Shreveport,
Jan 111918.
Blumenthal, Alfred C; b. San Rafael, CA,
Dec 291890; d. Beverly Hills, July 1957.
Lieutenant, US Army, Shreveport. • See:
AJYB, 20(1918-1919):227.
U CA (Berkeley). • Theatrical promoter,
broker, NYC; associated with Ziegfeld
Enterprises. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;NYTimes,
July311957,23:3.
Blumenfeld, Meyer; b. Kielce, Poland, Dec
.161905; d. Queens, Mat 251980.
To US 1927. • Rabbi, author, Newark; officer
Am Fedn of Polish Jews, Union of Orthodox
Rabbis.· See:AJYB, 82:363.
Blumenfeld, Ralph David; b. Watertown,
WI, Apr 7 1864; d. July 1948.
To Britain ca 1900. • British journalist,
linotype machine seller, London; editor Daily
Express; active Zionist, opposer ofantiSemitism. • See: U]E; EJ; AJYB, 24:123;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes,July 181948,53:1.
Blumenfeld (Blumenfield), Samuel M; b.
Letichev, Russia, Sep 13 1901; d.
Brooklyn, 1972.
To US 1921. • BS CCNY, MA Columbia,
MHL, ordained Jewish Inst of Religion;
honorary degree. • Natl communalldr, Heb
educator, Chicago; natl officer Histadruth
Ivrith; pres Coli ofJewish Studies, Soc for the
Advancement ofHeb Culture; officer Am
Jewish Cong, Avukah; active Union of Am Heb
Congregations, Central Conf of Am Rabbis. •
See:EJ;AJYB, 74:554; WWIAJ, 1938;BEOAJ;
WWWIA, 5; NITimes, Mar 2 1972,42:1.
Blumenstiel, Alexander; b. ca 1843; d.
London, June 151905.
Lawyer, music critic, art collector, NYC;
author in field, on music. • See: AJYB, 7(19051906):218; NYTimes, June 17 1905, 9:5.
Blumenthal, Gustave Adolph; b. Mulhouse,
Alsace, Oct 12 1867.
Blumenthal, Hart; b. Philadelphia, May 25
1859; d. Philadelphia, Feb 3 1941.
Merchant, communal worker, book collector,
Lincoln authority, Clinton, IA, Philadelphia;
bd Natl Farm School, Jewish Publication Soc.
• See:AJYB, 43:356,385-390; WWIAJ, 1926,
1938; NYTimes, Feb 41941, 21:6.
Blumenthal, Helen Berkman (Mrs Stanley
M Blumenthal); b. Seattle, Sep 15 1892.
Activist on behalf of blind, Seattle; with Natl
Council ofJewish Women, Natl Fedn of
Temple Sisterhoods. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Blumenthal, Hugo; b. NYC, 1862; d. NYC,
Aug81943.
Banker, philanthropist, NYC; officer Mt Sinai,
Mt Sinai School of Nursing. • See: AJYB,
46:335;NYTimes, Aug 10 1943,19:1.
Blumenthal, Irving; b. NYC, Mar 2 1878; d.
NYC, Mar 1946.
NYU. • Meat packer, art collector, NYc. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Mar 141946,
25:5.
Blumenthal, Jeannette; b. ca 1862; d.
reported Aug 51938.
Blumenthal, Benjamin; b. ca 1847; d.
Rockaway Park, Aug 27 1921.
Pioneer settler in West, Seattle; mem
Daughters of the Am Revolution. • See: AJYB,
41:419.
Realtor, NYC; pres synagog, Mt Carmel
Cemetery Assn. • See: AJYB, 24: 101; NYTimes,
Aug 291921,11:5.
Blumenthal, Joseph; b. Munich, Dec 1
1834; d. NYC, Mar 2 1901.
Blumenthal, Charles; b. Orissa, Vitebsk,
Aug91874.
Rabbi, regional Zionist ldr, Waco. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Blumenthal, Florence Meyer (Mrs George
Blumenthal); b. Los Angeles, 1875; d.
Paris, Sep 1930.
Philanthropist, art patron, NYC, France;
benefactor Mt Sinai, Metropolitan Museum of
Art, Childrens Hospital (Paris). • See:U]E;
NYTimes, Sep 22 1930, 19:4.
To US ca 1839. • Businessman, legislator,
Commr of Taxes, NYC; a fdrJTS, anti-Tweed
Ring; pres synagog, YMHA; active B'nai B'rith.
• See:JE; U]E;EJ;AJYB, 3(1901-1902):187;
PAJHS, 10:175-76.
Blumenthal, Joseph; b. NYC, Oct 4 1897.
Cornell. • Printer, type designer, hand press
owner; fdr Spiral Press (NYC). • See: EJ;
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Blumenthal, Joseph W; b. ca 1866; d.
Pittsburgh, Oct 20 1923.
Communal worker, Pittsburgh. • See: AJYB,
Blumenthal, Fred Ralph; b. Boston, Sep 28
1894.
26:153.
DMD Harvard. • Orthodontist, Boston; officer
med assn; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938.
Blumenthal, L Roy; b. NYC, June 91908;
d. NYC, Oct 1975.
Public relations counselor, NYC; with Am
Jewish Cong, J ewish Welfare Bd, Am Jewish
Blumenthal, George; b. Fra.nk{urt, Apr 7
1858; d. NYC, June 26 1941.
Com, United Jewish Appeal, Anti-Defamation
League; advisor West German government. •
See:AJYB, 77:592; NYTimes, Oct 2 1975,38:4.
To NYC 1882. • Banker, NYC, Paris; partner
Lazard Freres; pres Metropolitan Museum of
Art; helped stabilize franc post-WWI. • See:
U]E;BJ; AJYB, 24:123,43:356; WWIAJ, 1926,
1928, 1938; BEOAJ; WWWIA, 1; NITimes,
June271941,17:1.
Blumenthal, Leonard Mascot; b. Athens,
GA, Feb 27 190111902.
BS GA Tech, MS U Chicago, PhD Johns
Hopkins. • Mathematician, Columbia, MO;
67
faculty U MO. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Blumenthal, Louis HIE; b. NYC, Dec 19
1893; d. San Francisco, Apr 241959.
Social work exec, San Francisco; mem CA
Youth Authority; fdr, exec dir Jewish
Community Center; consult Natl Park Service,
Natl Conf on Juvenile Delinquency; author in
field. • See:A]YB, 61:415; NYTimes, Apr 26
1959,86:8.
Blumenthal, Louis N; b. Navasota, TX, Oct
301893.
LLBJohnMarshall Law.· Lawyer, asststate
atty, Chicago; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Blumenthal, Mark; b. Altenstadt on mer,
Bavaria, July 111831; d. NYC,Jan 1921.
To US 1839. • Central High School \
(Philadelphia), MD Columbia, abroad. •
Physician, NYC; known for work with deaf; a
fdr YMHA; officer med socs, Sabbath
Observance Soc; Civil War service. • See: ]E;
UJE; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):67-68; NYTimes, Jan
12 1921,15:5.
Blumenthal, Maurice B; b. NYC, 1870; d.
NYC, Mar 1948.
CCNY, NYU. • Lawyer, political activist,
counsel to sheriffs office, NYC; general
counsel Free Sons ofIsrael; active
Metropolitan Assn of Reform Jewish
Congregations, Tammany, protection of
widows & orphans insurance benefits. • See:
UJE;A]YB, 6(1904-1905):68; WWIA], 1928,
1938; NYTimes, Mar 10 1948,28:2.
Blumenthal, Morton Harry; b. Altoona, PA,
Apr 61895; d. Apr 1954.
Columbia; honorary degree. • Stockbroker;
NYC; a fdr Atlantic U; officer NY Real Estate
Securities Exchange; active Am Jewish Congo •
See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA]; NYTimes,
Apr 11 1954, 87:2.
Blumenthal, Moses; b. ca 1829; d. NYC,
Apr 161915.
Rabbi,NYC.· See:A]YB, 17(1915-1916):219.
Blumenthal, Moses Lawrence; b.
Wllmington, DE, July 13 1879; d. May
1955.
PAMuseum & School ofIndustrial Art. •
Illustrator, author, Elkins Park, PA; faculty
Graphic Sketch Club; active philanthropies,
civic affairs. • See:A]YB, 74:123; WWIA],
1926, 1928; NYTimes, May 29 1955,45:1.
Blumenthal, Myron Stuyvesant; b. NYC,
Feb 141893; d.July 1957.
BA Cornell. • Journ'lllist, NYC; fdr Universal
Trade Press Syndicate; active synagog; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, July 7
1957,60:8.
Blumenthal, Philip Lee; b. Owensboro, KY,
June 91889.
BS U KY, MA, PhD Yale, post-grad U Berlin.
• Chemist, Lexington, KY, Buffalo; author in
field; WWI service. • See: A]YB, 24:123;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
Blumenthal, Ralph Harry; b. Pittsburgh,
Mar 91909.
Bober, Sam Henry
AB U Cincinnati, MAD TN, ordained Heb
Union ColI. • Rabbi, Kn~xville. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Boas, Belle; b. Providence, Jan 2 1884; d.
NYC, Dec 1953.
MA Columbia Tchrs ColI. • Professor of fine
Blumenthal, Reuben Richard; b.
Philadelphia, Nov 5 1904.
arts, NYC; faculty Columbia Tchrs ColI. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Dec 25 1953,
21:4.
BS, MS, PhD U PA. • Research physiologist,
chemist, New Brunswick; author in field. • See:
WWIA],1938;BEOA].
Boas, Emil Leopold; b. Goerlitz, Germany,
Nov 15 1854; d. NYC, May 3 1912.
Blumenthal, Sidney; b. NYC, June 17 1863;
d.Jan 51948.
Exec, NYC; honorary dir Educational Alliance.
• See: WWWL4, 2; NYTimes, Jan 6 1948,24:2.
Blumenthal, Solomon; b. ca 1823; d.
Brooklyn, Feb 18 1916.
Civil War veteran, Brooklyn.· See:A]YB,
18(1916-1917):106.
Blumenthal, Walter; b. ca 1873; d. Nov 1
1937.
Packing firm head, NYC; ldr ·trade assns. • See:
A]YB, 40:382; NYTimes, Nov 3 1937,24:3.
Blumenthal, Walter Hart; b. Clinton, IA,
Feb 91883.
BSE U PA, U Heidelberg, BPh U Halle. •
Author, editor, rare book dealer, poet, NYC;
assoc editor Am Heb; literary editor UJE. • See:
UJE;A]YB, 24:123; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA].
Blumenthal, Werner Michael; b.
Oranienburg, Germany, 1926.
To Shanghai during 1930s, to US 1947. •
Economist, industrialist, ambassador; faculty
Princeton; mem US-Internatl tariff
negotiations; US representative to UN
Commn of Intematl Commodity Trade. • See:
E]; E]:1973-1982.
Blumenthal, William Raphael; h.
Cleveland, July 29 1890.
BS OH U, MA Harvard. • Social service exec,
Detroit; natl exec dir Natl Home for Jewish
Children; regional dir United Palestine Appeal.
• See: WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA].
Blumgart, Herrman Ludwig; b. Newark,
July 19 1895; d. Mar 211977.
SB, MD Harvard; honorary degree. •
Physician, Cambridge, MA; faculty Harvard;
officer med soc; editor in field; WWII service.
• See:WWIA],J938; WWWIA, 7;NYTimes,
Mar 22 1977,40:3.
Blumgart, Leonard; b. NYC, Oct 191880;
d. Mar 1959.
MD Columbia, post-grad abroad. •
Psychiatrist, NYC; med bd Hastings Hospital;
WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1938;
NYTimes, Mar 21 1959,21:4.
Blustein, Herman; b. Chicago, Aug 61916;
d. Apr 5 1970.
MD U IL. • Physician, neuropsychiatrist,
Chicago; with Veterans Adm hospitals; author
in field; "WWII service. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Blyn, Isaac; b. ca 1832; d. NYC, June 27
1915.
Pioneer shoe mfr, NYC. • See: A]YB,
18(1916-1917):106.
To US 1873. • Resident dir & general mgr,
Hamburg-American Line, NYC; after Titanic
he led in providing life boats with safety
features. • See: A]YB, 14(1912-1913):127;
WWWL4, 1; DAB; NYTimes, May 4 1912, 13:1.
Boas, Ernst (Ernest) Philip; b. Worcester,
Feb 4 1891; d. NYC, Mar 9 1955.
BS, MA, MD Columbia. • Physician, med dir,
NYC; advocate compulsory health insurance;
author in field; WWI service. • See: A]YB,
24:123,57:605; WWIA], 1926,1928, 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes, Mar 10 1955,
27:1.
Boas, Franz; b. Minden, Germany, July 9
1858; d. NYC, Dec 21 1942.
To NYC 1886/1887. • U Heidelberg, U
Berlin, PhD U Kiel; honorary degrees. •
Pioneer anthropologist, trained many students;
faculty Columbia; special interest: Pacific
Northwest; active refugee aid, anti-racism;
author in field. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 6(19051906):68-69,24:123,45:382; WWIA], 1926,
1928,1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 2; DAB, 3;
NYTimes, Dec 22 1942,25:1.
Boas, George; b. Providence, Aug 28 1891;
d. Baltimore, Mar 71980.
AB, AM Brown, AM Harvard, Columbia, PhD
U CA; honorary degrees. • Philosopher,
historian, author, translator, Baltimore;
specialty: aesthetics; faculty Johns Hopkins. •
See:UJE;E];A]YB, 24:123; WWIA], 1926,
1925, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 7.
Boas, Judah; b. ca 1836; d. San Francisco,
July 1915.
Financier, San Francisco. • See: A]YB,
18(1916-1917):106.
Boas, Ra,lph Philip; b. Providence, May 22
1887; d. Attleboro, MA, Dec 51945.
AB, AM Brown, U Chicago, AM Harvard. •
Englishliterature scholar, author; faculty
Whitman ColI, Reed, Mt Holyoke, Wheaton;
school dir Springfield, MA. • See: UJE; A]YB,
24:123,48:485; WWIA],1926, 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; NYTimes, Dec 81945,17:3.
Boasberg, Al; b. ca 1892; d.June 18 1937.
Author "radio gags," Hollywood, CA. • See:
AJYB, 39:589; NYTimes, June 191937,17:1.
Boasberg, Emanuel; b .. ca 1865; d. Buffalo,
June 21 1937.
Philanthropist, civic & communal worker,
Buffalo. • See: A]YB, 39:589; NYTimes, June
231937,25:6.
Bober, Sam Henry; b. Borzova, Ukraine,
Nov 141891; d.Jan 71973.
To US 1906. • MI State, SD State, Harvard;
honorary degree. • Government official; with
Dept of Agriculture, Farm Credit Bureau,
68
Bobrow, Jacob
Federal Land Bank (Omaha); officer
agricultural soc; active politics. • See:
Boder, David Pablo; b. Libau, Nov 9 1886;
d. Dec 181961.
WWWIA,5.
To US 1926. • Tchrs ColI (Vilna), PsychoNeurological Inst (St Petersburg), AM U
Chicago, PhD Northwestern. • Psychologist,
Los Angeles; faculty UCLA; active work &
research with Displaced Persons; author in
field; WWI Russian army service.. • See:
Bobrow, Jacob; b. ca 1880; d. Oct 15 1935.
Importer & wholesale fur dealer,
philanthropist, NYC. • See:AJYB, 38:426.
Bochner, Salomon; b. Cracow, Aug 20
1899; d. May 2 1982.
WWWlA,4.
To US 1933. • PhD Berlin. • Mathematician;
faculty U Munich, Princeton, Rice; author in
field. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Bodin, Harry Sabbath; b. Russia, Oct 11
1899.
Bochroch, Max H; b. Wdmington, DE, Mar
171861; d. Nov 281932.
Jefferson Med ColI. • Physician, neurologist,
Philadelphia;'faculty Temple U. • See: A]YB,
24:123,35:122; WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Bockstein, Edna (Mrs Robert G Cohn); b.
Brooklyn, Jan 11910.
Hunter, Columbia, New School, Juilliard. •
Pianist, tchr, composer, Jamaica, NY. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Bodansky, Aaron; b. Elizabethgrad, May 25
1887; d. Mar 1960.
BS, PhD Cornell. • Research biochemist,
NYC; with Hospital for Joint Diseases; author
in field. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
Bodansky, Meyer; b. Elizavetgrad, Aug 30
1896; d. GaIveston, June 141941.
Bogen, Joseph; b. Breslau, Oct 121842; d.
TexarkanaIFt Worth, Dec 16 1918.
Rabbi, IA, MS, TX,Jackson, TN. • See:A]YB,
5(1903-1904):45,21:204.
Bogen, Jules Irwin; b. NYC, Sep 191903;
d. May 171963.
BS, MA, PhD Columbia. • Financial journalist,
technical advisor, NYC; with Journal of
Commerce; faculty NYU; author in field. • See:
WWU1IA, 4; NYTimes, May 18 1963,27:1.
To US 1907.· AB, LLB Columbia.· Lawyer,
NYC; specialty: trial; an editor Am Heb. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOAJ.
Bogin, M~ell; b. Brooklyn, Dec 26 1901.
Boehm, Abraham; b. ca 1841; d. Mt
Vernon, NY,July 1912.
Bogorad, Lawrence; b. Tashkent, Russia,
1921.
Realtor, introduced gas engines to Europe. •
See:A]YB, 15(1913-1914):269; NYTimes, July
41912, 7:6.
To US as infant. • BS, PhD U Chicago, postgrad Rockefeller Inst. • Biologist, botanist,
DNA researcher; faculty U Chicago, Harvard;
pres Am Assn for the Advancement of Science.
• See: E]:1985-1987.
Boehm, Julian Victor; b. Chicago, Aug 10
1877.
Insurance broker, communal & civic Idr,
magician, Atlanta; pres Community Chest,
Fedn ofJewish Charities; officer Humane Soc,
Chamber of Commerce, Tuberculosis Assn,
professional & magic assns; WWI fundraiser. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Boehn,Solomon;b. ca 1840; d. NYC, June
181927.
Civil War veteran, NYc.. See:A]YB, 30:79.
BS, MD Yale. • Pediatrician, Bridgeport, CT;
Boguslawski, Moissaye; b. Chicago, Nov 1
1887; d. Chicago, Aug 301944.
Honorary degree. • Pianist, tchr, music
therapist, Kansas City, Chicago; with Kansas
City Conservatory, Bush Conservatory
(Chicago), Chicago ColI ,ofMusic; author/
editor/lecturer in field. • See:A]YB, 47:519;
WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, Aug 31
1944,17:4.
Bohm, David; b. Philadelphia, 1917.
To US 1907. • BA Cornell, MA U TX, PhD
Cornell, MD U Chicago. • Pathologist,
chemist, Galveston; faculty U TX; author in
field; military service. • See: A]YB, 43:356;
WWIA], 1928, 1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, June
151941,36:8.
Bogart, Neil; b. Brooklyn, Feb 3 1943; d.
May81982.
U CA • Physicist, US, England; specialty:
quantum mechanics; faculty U London. • See:
Brooklyn ColI. • Record co exec, motion
picture producer, Los Angeles; with
Casablanca Records; active communal
charities. it See: WWWlA, 8.
E].
Bodansky, Oscar; b. Elizabethgrad, Aug 21
1901; d. Aug 21 1977.
Bogdanove, AI; b. Minsk, Sep 21888; d.
Dunbarton, NH, Aug 23 1946.
To US 1907. • AB, MA, PhD Columbia, MD
U Chicago. • Physician, biochemist, cancer
researcher, consult, NYC; with NYU/Bellevue,
Sloan-Kettering; author/editor in field; WWII
service.· See: WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 7;
NYTimes, Aug 23 1977,28:1.
To US 1900. • Columbia, Natl Academy of
Design. • Painter, muralist, NYC; faculty
CCNY. • See:A]YB, 24:124,49:608; WWIA],
1938; NYTimes, Aug 25 1946,45:2.
Bodanzky, Artur; b. Vienna, Dec 161877;
d. NYC, Nov 23 1939.
Brooklyn Polytech, DDS ColI of Dental &
Oral Surgery. • Dentist, Brooklyn; lecturer in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938.
To US 1915.· Vienna Conservatory.·
Conductor, London, Vienna, NYC; specialty:
Wagner; with Metropolitan Opera; fdr Soc of
Friends ofMusic (NYC). • See: UJE; A]YB,
24:123; WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; DAB, 2;
NYTimes, Nov 24 1939, 1:2.
Bodenheim,M~ell;b.HermanviUe,MS,
May 26 1892/1893/1894/1895; d. NYC,
Feb71954.
Poet, novelist, critic, NYC; used slum life
subjects; protested persecution ofJews. • See:
UJE; E]; A]YB, 24:123; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; WWWIA, 3; DAB, 5.
Bodenheimer, Jacob Mahne; b. Shreveport,
lan281883.
AB LA State, MD Tulane. • Surgeon,
bacteriologist, obstetrician, Shreveport; mem
City Bd of Health; editor/author in field;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bogdonoff, Meyer Myron; b. Brooklyn, Oct
141895.
Bogen, Boris David; b. Moscow, July 25
1869; d. Arcadia, CA,June 291929.
To US 1890s. • Master of Pedagogy, Dr of
Pedagogy NYU. • Social worker; principal
Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School
(Woodbine, NJ); with United Jewish Charities
(Cincinnati), Conf ofJewish Charities; author
work on communal philanthropies; WWI with
Joint Distribution Com. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
7(1905-1906):46,24:124,32:153; WWIA],
1926, 1928.
Bogen, Emil; b. NYC, Sep 81896; d. Sep 19
1962.
AB, MS, MD U Cincinnati. • Pathologist, Los
Angeles; officer med soc; author in field; WWI
& WWII service.· See: WWIA], 1938;
WWWlA,4.
Bohr, Raymond H; b. 1911?; d. NYC, Dec
151968.
Business exec; a fdr Albert Einstein ColI of
Med, Heb U; active United Jewish Appeal,
YMHA (Bergen County). • See: A]YB, 70:520;
Bohrod, Aaron; b. Chicago, Nov 21 1907.
Crane, Chicago Art Inst, Art Students League.
• Painter, Chicago; portrayals of city life. •
See: UJE; WWIA], 1938.
Bojarsky, E H; b. ca 1866; d. Los Angeles,
Feb 241932.
Communal & civic worker, Los Angeles. • See:
A]YB, 34:110.
Bokser, Ben Zion; b. LubomllLubomb,
Poland,July41907; d. NYC, Jan 31
1984.
To US 1920.· CCNY, PhD Columbia,
ordained JTS; honorary degree. • Conservative
rabbi, scholar, author, Forest Hills, NY; co-fdr,
dir Center for Study of Ethics (Queens ColI);
faculty JTS; editor radio programs. • See: UJE;
E];A]YB, 86:437; WWIA], 1938.
Boley, Henry Benjamin; b. Brooklyn, May
15 1894; d. Oct 1967.
MD Jefferson Med ColI. • Physician,
obstetrician, Brooklyn; author in field; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Oct 25
1967,47:1.
69
Bolm, Adolph Rudolphovich; b. St
Petersburg, 1884; d. Hollywood, CA, Apr
1951.
To NYC 1914/1916.· Ballet dancer, dir, tchr,
NYC, Chicago, Hollywood, CA, San
Francisco; fdr Bolm Ballet Intime. • See: EJ;
NYTimes, Apr 17 1951,29:2.
Bolotow, Nathan Abraham; b. Providence,
Apr231894.
MD Tufts, post-grad U PA. •
Otolaryngologist, Pawtucket, Providence; dir
Jewish Community Center; WWI service. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bolotowsky, llya; b. St Petersburg, July 1
1907; d. Nov 22 1981.
To US 1923. • ColI of StJoseph
(Constantinople), French ColI, Nad Academy
of Design, U WY. • Artist; faculty SUNY
(New Paltz); officer professional soc; WWII
service; WWII service. • See: WWWIA., 8.
Bolten, Seymour R; b. NYC,]uly 171921;
d. Washington DC,]une 61985.
NYU, Harvard. • Public servant, government
consult; mem CIA; authority on drug trade;
active Presidential Commn on Holocaust. •
See:AJYB, 87:437.
Boman, Albert Elijah; b. Ogden, UT, Jan
23 1881.
BS UT Agricultural ColI. • Agricultural
extension worker, educator, Laramie; faculty U
WY.• See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bomeisler, Evelyn; b. ca 1830; d.
Philadelphia,]une 141917.
20(1918-1919):227.
Bomze, Henry Daniel; b. NYC, Apr 30
1906; d. Aug 271974.
Publisher, editor, NYC; specialty: turf journals.
• See: WWWIA., 6; NYTimes, Aug 28 1974,
34:5.
Bomze, NuchimlNahum; b. Sasow, Galicia,
Aug 1906/1907; d. NYC,May 13 1954.
To Os 1948. • Yiddish poet; WWII Russian
army service. • See: EJ; AJYB, 56:568.
Bomzon, Samuel M; b. NYC, Jan 6 1891; d.
NYC, Oct 1943.
Businessman, banker, NYc.. See: WWIAJ,
1926; NYTimes, Oct 241943,45:1.
Bonart,]oseph; b. ca 1857; d. Galveston,
Apr 1936.
Merchant, communal worker, Galveston. •
See: AJYB, 38:426.
Bonart; Sam; b. New Orleans, ca 1869; d.
New Orleans, Dec 3 1942.
Merchant, civic recreation ldr, New Orleans;
mem Playground Comrnn; pres YMHA; donor
playground.• See:AJYB, 45:382.
Bonchek, Samuel; b. Poland?, 1890; d.
NYC, Apr 29 1974.
To US 1906. '. Labor Zionist ldr; natl pres
Labor Zionist Alliance; honorary chr Jewish
Natl Fund; helped unify Labor Zionist Org of
Am-Poale Zion & Am Habonim Assoc with
Boochever, Stephen Paul
Farband. • See: AJYB, 76:512; NYTimes, May 2
1974,50:5:
Bondi (Bondy), August; b. Vienna, 1833; d.
St Louis, 1907.
To US ca 1848. • Pioneer abolitionist, KS
settler, adventUrer, Salina, KS; memJohn
BroWns forces; Civil War service; memoir. •
See: UJE; EJ.
Bondi, Hart Emanuel; b. Salina, KS, Mar 4
1873; d. before 1938.
KS Wesleyan, Salina Normal Business ColI. •
Exec, banker, Galesburg,IL; officer Chamber
of Commerce. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Bondi, Jonas (ben Abraham); b. Dresden,
July 9 1804; d. NYC, Mar 11 1874.
To US 1859. • PhD U Prague. • Rabbi,
newspaper editor, NYC; editor Heb Leader;
active communal charities. • See: JE; UJE; EJ;
NYTimes, Mar 12 1874,2:3.
Bondi, Solomon; b. ca 1841; d. St Louis,
July 71911.
Communal worker, St Louis. • See: AJYB,
14(1912-1913):123.
Bondy, Curt; b. Hamburg, 1894.
In US 1933-1950. • Psychologist; specialty:
youth, youth in Germany; faculty U Hamburg,
William & Mary; active European refugee
rescue work; author in field. • See: EJ.
Bondy, Edmund R; b. Cleveland, ca 1876;
d. Cleveland, Oct 11 1946.
Physician; WWI service. • See: AJYB, 49:609.
Bondy,]oseph; b. Syracuse, Sep 13 1864; d.
Syracuse, Dec 1945.
AB, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, legislator,
military officer, volunteer patriotic worker,
Syracuse; authority on constitutional law; orgr
Am Legion, Reserve Officers Assn, ROTC;
WWIservice.· See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes,Dec221945,19:4.
Bondy, Max; b. Hamburg, 1893; d. Apr
1951.
.
To US 1939. • Progressive educator, language
tchr, Germany, Switzerland, New England; fdr
Windsor School. • See: EJ; NYTimes, Apr 18
1951,31:3.
Bondy,\\'llliam;b.NYC, 1871;d.Mar
1964.
AB, AM, PhD, LLB Columbia; honorary
degrees. • Lawyer, US district court judge,
NYC; mem State Bd of Regents; active politics.
• See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 4;
Bonheur, Lucien L;b. France, ca 1864; d.
Great Neck, Aug 1918.
To US ca 1883. • U Paris. • Legislator,
dramatic mgr, commn merchant, NYC; fdr
French theatre in NYC; active NY Republican
& Progressive parties, patron of French
culture.· See:AJYB, 21:204; NYTimes, Aug 15
1918,11:5.
Boni, Albert; b. NYC, Oct 211892; d.]uly
301981.
Cornell, Harvard. • Publisher, editor, NYC; an
orgr Washington Square Players; developed
Modern Library; expert on literature of
photography. • See: WWIAJ,1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 8; NYTimes, Aug 1 1981, 14:3.
Boni, Charles]r; b. Newark; d. Feb 1969.
Publisher, NYC; officer Albert & Charles
Boni, Inc. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Feb
15 1969,27:1.
Bonner, Adolph; b. Bucharest, May 19
1874; d. Miami Beach, Apr 1951.
MD U IL, post-grad abroad.· Gynecologist,
Brooklyn; faculty LI ColI Hospital; GrecoTurkish War service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938;NYTimes,Apr211951,17:5.
Bonnheim, Albert; b. HiIdesheim,
Germany, Nov 121855; d. Sacramento,
Dec 241916.
To US 1872.· Civic & communalldr,
Sacramento; donor scholarships; active
synagog, Heb Benevolent Assn, Am Red Cross,
Soc for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
• See:AJYB, 7(1905-1906):46, 19(19171918):264; WWWIA,1.
Bonnheim, Benjamin Aaron; b.
Gemuenden, Hessen-Nassau, July 9
1845; d. Cincinnati, Dec 191909.
MD Columbus Med ColI (Columbus, OR). •
Rabbi, Columbus, OH, Wheeling, Atlanta,
Winnipeg, Las Vegas, NM. • See: AJYB,
7(1905-1906):46, 12(1910-1911):110.
Bonoff, Zelly Adam; b. Elisavetgrad, Aug 2
1880.
To New Haven 1895. • MD Yale, post-grad U
Vienna, U Berlin. • Otolaryngologist, New
Haven; Joint Distribution Com service in
Poland; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bonus, Ben; b. Horodenko, Poland, Nov 9
1920; d. Miami, Apr 6 1984.
To US 1939. • Theatrical personality; fdr
Yiddish Mobile Theatre, Farband Players. •
See:AJYB, 86:437.
Bonwit, Max; b. Rodenberg, Hanover, Dec
61854.
Businessman, Baltimore; pres Bonwit Lennon
& Co.· See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Bonwit, Paul]; b. ca 1867; d. Dec 1939.
Merchant, communal worker, NYC. • See:
AJYB, 42:477; NYTimes, Dec 111939,23:1.
Boochever, George; b. Libau, Oct 24 1884;
d. Feb 1969.
To NYC 1885. • LLB Albany Law, post-grad
Columbia, U Geneva. • Lawyer, businessman,
Brooklyn, NYC, Paris; specialty: internatllaw;
fdr Chamber of Commerce; active Fedn of
Jewish Charities, local politics. • See: WWIAJ,
1938;BEOAJ;NYTimes, Feb 151969,86:6.
Boochever, Stephen Paul; b. NYC, Mar 7
1909; d. May 1983.
Wesleyan U, U Geneva, U Munich, Academy
of Internatl Law (The Hague). • Public
official, exec, NYC; exec secy Dept of
Correction. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes,
May 25 1983, 24:6.
Booke, Samuel Lewis
Booke, Samuel Lewis; b. London, Jan 30
1901.
70
Bookman, Samuel; b. NYC, Dec 111869.
CCNY, AB, PhD Columbia, LLB NY Law;
honorary degrees. • Lawyer, authority on
internatllaw, Hartford; faculty Yale; active natl
Am Civil Liberties Union; author in field. •
See: UJE; A]YB, 24:124; WWIA], 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; DAB, 5; NYTimes, July
231951, 17:3.
Columbia, MA, PhD U Berlin, NYU Law. •
Physiological chemist, NYC; with Mt Sinai;
author in field. • See: A]YB, 24: 124; WWIA],
Borchardt, Frederick W; b. Berlin, Sep 22
1901; d. NYC, Apr 15 1956.
Editor, business exec, NYC; mgr Med Credit
Service; editor Whos Who In Colored Am. • See:
Welfare worker; active Jewish Restitution
Successor Org, United, Am Fedn ofJews from
Central Europe, Heb Immigrant Aid Soc. •
See: A]YB, 58:475; NYTimes, Apr 16 1956,
27:4.
WWIA],1938.
To US 1926. • BS U Manitoba. • Insurance
actuary & exec, Winston-Salem, NC. • See:
WWlA],1938.
1926,1928,1938;BEOA].
Bookstaber, Philip David; b. NYC, Feb 12
1892; d. Harrisburg, May 201964.
BS CCNY, MA Columbia, NY School of
Social Service, PhD U Cincinnati, ordained
Heb Union ColI; honorary degree. • Social
worker, rabbi, author, Harrisburg; mem PA
Civil Liberties Commn; natl, internatlldr Boy
Scouts. • See: UJE; A]YB, 66:573; WWIA],
1926, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, May 21 1964,
35:5.
Bookstaver, Barnet Seymour; b. Chemoi,
Russia,July41888; d.June 1951.
To US 1892. • MD NYU. • Gynecologist,
obstetrician, NYC; dir Health Dept (Teaneck,
NJ); a fdr Jewish Community Center; WWI
Red Cross service. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, June 27 1951,29:5.
Bookstaver, Joseph D; b. Russia, Dec 27
1883; d. before 1938.
CCNY. • Insurance broker, communal worker,
NYC; officer trade assn; trustee Jewish
Probation Soc. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Bookstein, Isadore; b. Albany, NY, Feb 12
1891; d. May 1973.
LLB Albany Law. • Lawyer, county judge,
communalldr, Albany, NY; an orgrHeb Free
School; pres synagog; active Republican
politics. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, May 91973,50:3.
Boorstein, Samuel William; b. Stara
Ushitza, Podolia, Dec 28 1885; d. Mar
1967.
To US 1902.· MD NYU.• Orthopedist;
NYC; faculty Fordham; author in field. • See:
WWlA], 1938; NYTimes, Mar 301967,45:3.
Boorstin, Daniel}; b. Atlartta, 1914.
Historian; specialty: US history; faculty U
Chicago; dir Natl Museum of History; head
Library of Cong; author/editor in field. • See:
E]; E]:1973-1982.
Booth, Benjamin H; b. Vilna, Sep 261903.
To US 1905.· LLB NYU.• Lawyer, NYC;
active East FlatbustJewishCenter. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOA].
Merchant, civic ldr, Indianapolis; mem
Planning Commn, Zoning Bd; state chr Natl
Recovery Adm; officer Jewish Welfare Fund,
United Jewish Appeal, Chamber ofCommerce.
• See: UJE; E]; WWIA], 1938; BEOAj.
Boris, Joseph J; b. Philadelphia, Jan 21
1888.
Borisoff, MichelP; b. Russia.
Violinist, NYC. • See:A]YB, 24:124.
Borden, Harold; b. Russia, May 4 1897.
Borissoff, Josef; b. Kertch, Crimea, Feb 17
1889.
To Hartford 1904. • LLB NYU. • Lawyer,
Hartford; mem Bd of Alderman; trustee United
Jewish Charities. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Petrograd Conservatory. • Violinist, composer,
instructor, Russia, NYC. • See:A]YB, 24:124;
WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Bordon, Abraham Samuel; b. Russia, Oct 7
1891.
Borkon, Louis YalelYale Louis; b. Sirotino,
Vitebsk, July 4 1894.
To Hartford 1898. • LLB Cornell. • Lawyer,
common pleas judge, communal worker,
Hartford; mem Bd of Alderman. • See:
To US 1907;· UPA.· Publisher, editor,
communal worker, Pittsburgh; with]ewish
Indicator, Brooklyn Jewish Voice; used many
pseudonyms. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWIA], 1938.
BEOA].
Borenstein, Julius; b. Anopol, Russia, Sep
251889; d. NYC, Dec291975.
To US 1910.· Real estate exec, communalldr;
officer Workmen's Circle, Conf for Jewish
Culture, Jewish Labor Com; active Yiddish
Inst, Sholem Aleichem'Folk Inst. • See: A]YB,
77:592; NYTimes, Dec 30 1975,28:2.
Borenstein, Morris; b. ca 1842; d. NYC,
July 71923.
Major, NYC.· See:A]YB, 26:153.
Boretz, Mary E (Mrs Henry Friedman); b.
NYC, Mar 5 1892; d. NYC, Aug 28 1949.
Communal, civic & social worker, child care
authority; exec dir Foster Home Bureau
(NYC).• See:A]YB, 52:501; NYTimes, Aug 30
1949,27:1.
Born, Berthe Well (Mrs Isaac Bom);.b.
Rockport, IN, Dec 1 1873.
Purdue. • Communal worker, Indianapolis;
pres State Temple Sisterhoods, Natl Council
ofJewish Women; exec com Natl Fedn of
Temple Sisterhoods;.active League of Women
Voters, Girl Scouts. • See: WWIA], 1926,
1938.
Born, Edgar R; b. Chicago, Jan 15 1886.
Armour Inst, U Chicago.· Exec, communal
worker, Chicago; dir Assocd Jewish Charities.
• See: WWIA], 1928.
Bomstein, Hyman; b. Lodz, July 15 1881.
To US 1912. • Silk mfr, communal worker,
Paterson; officer Independent United Jersey
Verein; bd Lodzer Sick & Benevolent Assn. •
Borg, Cecelia (Mrs Simon Borg); b. ca
1854; d. NYC,July 291905.
See:BEOA].
Communal worker, NYC; a fdr Barnard; pres
Ladies Auxiliary Montefiore Home; officer
Sisterhood of Personal Service; active Music
School Settlement. • See: A]YB, 7(1905-
Bomstein, Hyman; b. Chicago, Sep 3 1891.
BS Armour Inst, LLB John Marshall Law. •
Chemical engineer, Moline, IL; officer TriCityJewish Charities; WWI service. • See:
1906):219;NYTimes,July311905,7:5.
WWIA],1938.
Borg, Madeleine (Mrs Sidney C Borg); b.
NYC, July 311878; d.Jan 91956.
Columbia. • Social welfare worker, NYC;
officer Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies; dir
Child Welfare League; active juvenile
delinquency prevention. • See: UJE; A]YB,
58:475; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
NYTimes, Jan 10 1956,31:1.
Bomstein, Saul H; b. NYC, Mar 29 1891.
Music publisher, NYC; dir Columbia Pictures
Corp; assocd with Irving Berlin. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Bomstein, Sol; b. ca 1896; d. Philadelphia,
1967. '
Cigar co exec, industry ldr, NYC, Pittsburgh,
Chicago, Philadelphia. • See: WWWIA, 4;
Boraisha, Menahem (family name
Goldberg); b. Brest-Litovsk, 1888; d.
NYC, Feb 121949;
Borg, Sidney Cecil; b. NYC, 1874; d. NYC,
Jan 91934.
NYTimes,June21967,46:7.
To US 1915. • Noted Yiddish poet, journalist,
NYC; with Congress Weekly, The Day, Joint;
Russian army service. • See: E]; A]YB, 51 :51920; NYTimes, Feb 13 1949, 76:2.
BS, PhD Yale. • Financier, civic & communal
ldr, NYC; WWI Mayors Defense Com & Am
Red Cross service. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:124,
36:279; NYTimes, Jan 10 1934,21:1.
Bomstein, Yetta Libby Frieden (Mrs Harry
Bomstein); b. Waynesboro, PA; d. Dec 8
1968.
Borchard, Edwht Montefiore; b. NYC, Oct
171884; d. Hamden, CT,July 22 1951.
Borinstein, Louis J; b. Indianapolis, Dec 29
1881; d. 1972.
William & Mary. • Artist, art tchr, Norfolk;
officer professional socs; tchr Heb Academy,
Jewish Community Center. • See: WWWIA, 5.
71
Borochov, Ber (Borochow, Dov Ber);b.
Zolotonoshi, Ukraine; d. Kiev, 1917.
In US during 1914-1917. • Poale Zion
theoretician, Yiddish philologist, author; a fdr
World Confedn of Poale Zion; .active Am
Jewish Congo • See: UJE.
Borodin (Gruzenberg), Michael; b.
Yanowitski, Vitebsk, 1884; d. 1953.
To US 1906, to Russia 1918.· Russian
communist ldr & statesman; editor Moscow
News; dir Progressive Preparatory School
(Chicago); active Socialist Party. • See: UJE;
NITimes, Sep 3 1953,21:1.
Boudin, Anna P (Mrs Louis B Boudin)
Borowsky, SamuelJ; b. Russia, Sep 11
1895; d.Jerusalem, Apr 241966.
To US 1908. • Communal educator, Hebraist,
Zionist ldr; general secy Nat! Council for
Jewish Education; pres Natl Young Judea,
Histadruth Ivrith; officer professional orgs;
author/editor in field. • See:AJYB, 68:524;
NITimes, Apr 25 1966,31:4.
Borsook, Henry; b.London, 1897.
Biochemist; faculty U Toronto, Cal Tech;
officer professional soc; author in field &
popular; WWII government service. • See: EJ.
Borodulin, Lazar; b. Genitchesk, Crimea,
Apr 111879.
To US 1907.· Journalist, science popularizer,
Brooklyn; staff Day. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Bottin, David; b. Kiev, Sep 23 1884.
To US 1893. • U PA, Gratz, LLB U PA. •
Lawyer, Philadelphia; dir B'nai B'rith Home
for Friendless Children; active B'rith Shalom. •
See: WWlAJ, 1928, 1938.
Boroff, David; b. NYC, Mar 281917; d.
NYC, May 15 1965.
English literature scholar, author, consult,
NYC; faculty NYU; drama critic Am]udaism.
• See:AJYB,67:532; NITimes, May 161965,
88:5.
Bortman, Mark; b. Boston, June 28 1896; d.
1967.
Suffolk Law School, Boston U, MIT. • Plastics
mfr, Boston; nat! dir Nat! Conf of Christians &
Jews; officer Am Jewish Historical Soc; author
of histories; WWII service.· See: WWWIA, 4.
Borofsky, Samuel Hyman; b. Wolkovyski,
Lithuania, Apr 10/30 1865.
To Boston 1879. • Lawyer, legislator, civic ldr,
author, songwriter, Boston; mem Common
Council; sponsor Sabbath Bill, welfare bills;
activeFedn of Am Zionists, communal
charities. • See: UJE; AJYB, 6(1904-1905):69;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ.
Boruchoff, Ber; b. Vilna, Jan 20 1873; d.
Apr 51939.
To US 1905. • Rabbi, author, Malden, MA;
active Am Jewish Cong, Orthodox Rabbis of
Am,Mizrachi.· See:AJYB, 41:419; WWIAJ,
1928, 1938; NITi1~es, Apr 61939,25:1.
Borovsky, Maxwell Philip; b. Sioux Falls,
SO, Aug 291896; d. Nov 291964.
BS, U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI. •
Pediatrician, Chicago; faculty Chicago Med
School; officer med soc; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 4.
Borow, Benjamin; b. Bethlehem, PA, Feb
141894.
Fargo ColI, MD U PA. • Physician, Bound
Brook, NJ; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Borow, Henry; b; Fargo, NO, June 10 1905;
d. Sep 1956.
BA Central High School (philadelphia),
George Washington, MD U AR. •
Pediatrician, Bound Brook, NJ. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; NITimes, Sep 10 1956,27:5.
Borow, Maurice; b. Fargo,June 11902.
MD Temple U. • Gynecologist, Bound Brook,
NJ. • See: WWlAJ, 1938.
Borowitz, Sidney; b. NYC, 1919.
MA, PhD NYU. • Physicist, university official;
faculty, dean, chancellor NYU; author in field.
• See: E]:1973-1982.
Borowsky, Frederick Gordon; h. Atco, NJ,
Sep 2 1906; d. Boston,June 241961.
Business exec, communalldr & fundraiser; nat!
council Joint Distribution Com; officer Fedn
ofJewish Agencies; bd Albert Einstein CoHof
Med; active United Jewish Appeal. • See:
AJYB, 63:558; NITimes, June 25 1961,31:6.
Boruchoff, Raphael Philip;. b. Gorzd,
Lithuania, Mar 25 1895.
To Malden, MA 1905.· LLB Boston U. •
Lawyer, communal & civic worker, Malden,
MA; mem City Council; pres YMHA; officer
Heb School; trustee Malden Hospital. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Borushak, Isaac L; b. ca 1864; d.
Minneapolis, June 25 1934.
Communal worker, Minneapolis. • See: AJYB,
36:279.
Boruszak, Meyer; b. ca 1845; d. Milwaukee,
Jan 21917.
Rabbi, Milwaukee. • See: AJYB, 19(19171918):264.
Boschwitz, Carl; b. ca 1877; d.July 12
1937.
Securities dealer, philanthropic worker, NYc.
• See:AJYB, 40:382; NITimes, July 13 1937,
20:3.
Boshwitz, Max; b. Kolmar, Prussia, Nov 15
1849; d. before 1938.
Poet, commurial worker, Memphis; active
settlement ofJewish refugees. • See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Boskoff, Alvin; b. NYC, 1927.
Sociologist, theoretician; faculty Emory;
authorleditor in field. • See: EJ.
Bosniak, Jacob; b. Gorodetz, Russia, Dec 1
1887; d. Brooklyn, Aug 25 1963.
To US 1903/1905. • RIETS, BS NYU, MA
Columbia, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi, author,
Brooklyn; delegate first Am Jewish Cong; dir
Jewish Conciliation Bd; US Marine Hospital
chaplain.· See:AJYB, 65:432; WWIAJ, 1926,
1938; BEOAJ; NITimes, Aug 26 1963,27:4.
Botein, Bernard; b. NYC, May 6 1900; d.
NYC, Feb 31974.
CCNY, LLB 'Brooklyn Law; honorary degrees.
• Lawyer, state supreme court judge, court &
bail reformer, NYC; reorgr Family Court; pres
Metropolitan Council of Synagogues; author in
field. • See: EJ:1973-1982;AJYB, 76:512;
WWWIA, 6; NITimes, Feb 4 1974, 32:1,
correction Feb 16 1974, 33:7.
Bothman, Louis; b. St Louis, Nov 16 1893;
d.Jan 1949.
BS U Chicago, MD Rush Med ColI, post-grad
U IL, U Chicago, U Vienna. •
Ophthalmologist, Chicago; editor in field;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; NITimes,
Jan 20 1949,27:2.
Botkin, Benjamin Albert; b. Boston, Feb 7
1901; d.July 301975.
AB Harvard, MA Columbia, PhD U NE;
honorary degree. • Writer, folklorist, Norman,
OK.; faculty OK U.· See: UJE; WWIAJ, 1926,
1938; WWWIA, 6; NITimes, July 31 1975,
30:2.
Botkin, Henry Albert; b. Boston, Apr 5
1896; d. Mar 41983.
MA Normal Art School, Art Students League.
• Artist, illustrator, NYC; officer professional
socs.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 8.
Botkowsky, Samuel; b. ca 1821; d. NYC,
Nov 3 1911.
Rabbi, NYC.· See:AJYB, 14(1912-1913):125.
Bottigheimer, Seymour G; b. Fredericks
Hall, VA.
BHL, ordained Heb Union ColI, BA U
Cincinnati. • Rabbi, Natchez; earlier Des
Moines. • See: AJYB, 5(1903-1904):46.
Botwinik, Berl (Barnett); b. Rakow, Russia,
Dec 241885; d. Brooklyn, Aug 29.1945.
To US 1905. • Columbia. • Yiddish short
story author, dramatist, journalist, NYC;
imprisoned for Bund activity (Russia); editor
Forward; active Jewish labor movement. • See:
UJE; AJYB, 48:485; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938;
BEOAJ; NITimes, Aug 301945,2.1:6.
Botwinik, Hyman (Harris); b. Rakow,
Russia, Apr 15 1872; d.June 2 1940.
Communal worker, businessman, New Haven.
• See:AJYB, 42:477;WWlAJ, 1928.
Bouche, Rene Robert (born Buchstein,
Robert August); b. Prague, Sep 201905;
d.July 3 1963.
To US ca 1940. • Fashion & advertising
illustrator & painter, NYC; faculty Art
Students League; assocd with Vogue; WWII
service. • See: DAB, 7; NITimes, July 7 '1963,
52:5.
Boudin, Anna P (Mrs Louis B Boudin); b.
Mariampol, Poland, July 15 1883; d.
NYC, Oct 25 1959.
Dentist; a fdr, pres Womens Am ORT.· See:
AJYB, 62:449; NITimes, Oct 261959,29:5.
72
Boudin, Louis Boudinoff
Boudin, Louis Boudinoff; b. Ukraine, Feb
15 1874; d. NYC, May 291952.
To NYC 1891. • LLB, LLM NYU. • Labor
lawyer, authority on constitutional law,
Socialist Party ldr, lecturer, author; mem Nat!
Com of the Socialist Party; active ORT. • See:
UJE; A]YB, 24:124, 54:538; WWMA, 3; DAB,
5; NYTimes, May 31 1952, 17:1.
Boukstein, Maurice M; b. Cohoes, NY, Oct
25 1905; d. Ft Lauderdale, Nov 191980.
Honorary degrees. • Lawyer, nat! Zionist ldr,
Israel Consulate General; exec com Zionist
Org of Am; advisor Hadassah, Jewish Agency,
World Zionist Org. • See:A]YB, 82:363.
Bovshover, Joseph (pseud=Basil Dahl); b.
Liubavich, Belorussia, 1873; d. NYC,
1915/1916.
To US 1891. • Yale. • Yiddish poet, wrote
revolutionary & anarchist poetry. • See: UJE;
E].
Bowman, Harry Samuel; b. Pueblo, CO,
Oct 20 1880.
U CO, LLB U MI. • Lawyer, atty general, asst
US atty, government official, Santa Fe; active
bar assn; WWI government service, postWWI nat! guard service. • See: UJE; WWIA],
1928,1938; WWWIA, 6.
Bowman, Samuel; b. Weston, MO, Feb 21
1851; d.July 181936.
Realtor, communal worker, St Louis; a fdr Nat!
Jewish Hospital; active B'nai B'rith. • See:
A]YB, 39:589; WWIA], 1928.
Bowman, Stella Olsho (Mrs Simon H
Bowman, Mrs Samuel M Bowman); b.
Bradford, PA, Dec 141881.
Jewish communal worker, Richmond; active
Nat! Council ofJewish Women. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Boxer, Harold Horton; b. Chicago, Apr 24
1907.
LLB StJohns; honorary degree. • Lawyer,
NYC; nat! officer Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations, Nat! Conf of Synagogue
Youth; active Democratic politics, youth
problems, delinquency. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Boxer, Murry; b. NYC, June 141900/1901.
BS NYU, St Lawrence D, LLB Brooklyn Law.
• Lawyer, communal worker, NYC; specialty:
criminal & federal law; active Republican
politics, bar assn. • See: WWIA], 1928, 1938;
BEOA].
Boxennan, Jacob; b. ca 1860; d. St Louis,
Feb 10 1944.
Rabbi, StLouis.• See:A]YB, 46:335.
Boyar, Louis H; b. San Francisco, Jan 10
1898; d. Los Angeles, Dec 211976.
Honorary degree. • Business exec, real estate
developer, communalldr & fundraiser, Los
Angeles; officer Friends ofHeb U; benefactor
Israeli instns. • See: E]; A]YB, 78:539;
NYTimes, Dec 23 1976,21:2.
Boyarsky, Peter; b. ca 1865; d. Chicago,
Oct 201916.
Yiddish journalist, Chicago. • See: A]YB,
19(1917-1918):264.
Boyman, Alter; b. Russia, Sep 251882; d.
before 1938.
Communal worker, Providence; officer Jewish
Workers Alliance; chr Am Jewish Relief Com;
dir Heb Immigrant Aid Soc, Miriam Hospital.
• See: WWIA], 1928.
Bozyk, Max; b. Lodz?, 1899; d. NYC, Apr 5
1970.
To US 1941. • Yiddish stage & screen actor;
pres Heb Actors Club; bd Heb Actors Union. •
See:A]YB, 72:539; NYTimes, Apr 81970,43:4.
Brachfield, Charles L; b. Vicksburg, Jan 10
1871.
Legislator, munidpal judge, Henderson, TX. •
See: A]YB, 6(1904-1905):69.
Brachman, Etta Katzenstein (Mrs Sol
Brachman); b. Marianna, AR, July 26
1899.
Communal worker, Ft Worth; pres Nat!
Council ofJewish Women. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Brachman, Oscar; b. ca 1887; d. Sep 10
1939.
Realtor, communal worker, Milwaukee. • See:
A]YB,42:477.
Brachman, Sigmund; b. ca 1884; d.
Milwaukee, Nov 1933.
Communal worker, Milwaukee. • See: A]YB,
36:279.
Brachman, Solomon; b. Jacobstadt, Russia,
Dec 15 1896.
To US 1905. • AB Marietta ColI. •
Businessman, Ft Worth; pres Jewish Fedn. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Brackman, Robert; b. Odessa, Sep 251896.
Nat! Academy of Design. • Painter, etcher,
noted graphic artist, NYC; faculty Art Students
League, Brooklyn Academy ofArts & Sciences.
• See: UJE; WWIA], 1938.
Braelow, Harry Aaron; b. Russia, Oct 13
1885; d. Dec 1944.
Communal & philanthropic worker, Newark. •
See: BEOA]; NYTimes, Dec 201944,23:3.
Brager, AlbertA; b. ca 1860; d. Mar 27
1936.
Merchant, communal & civic worker,
Baltimore. • See:A]YB, 38:426.
To US 1905.· Cooper Union, NYU.•
Investment banker, communalldr, NYC;
officer ZionistOrg of Am, United Rumanian
Jews of Am; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Oct 16 1959,31:2.
Braham, John Joseph Sr;b. ca 1847; d.
MusiCian, composer, orchestra ldr, Brooklyn. •
See:A]YB, 22:164;NYTimes, Oct291919,
13:5.
Brahinski, Mani Leib (pseud=Mani Leib);
b. Nezhin, Russia, Dec 20 1883; d. NYC,
Oct41953.
To NYC 1905. • Yiddish lyric poet,
revolutionary, translator, anthologist;
contributor Forward. • See: UJE; A]YB,
56:568; NYTimes, Oct 5 1953,27:4.
Braiman, Myer; b. Rochester, NY, June 25
1907.
U Buffalo, U Rochester, LLB Columbia. •
Lawyer, legislator, Rochester, NY. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Braines, Louis; b. Posville, Kovno, Aug 25
1876.
Communal & Zionist worker, Perth Amboy,
NJ; an orgr Sons of Zion; exec com Zionist
Org ofAm. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Brainin, Joseph; b. Vienna, June 191895; d.
NYC, Feb 71970.
To US 1917/1919/1921.· UMontreal, U
Berlin. • Journalist, publicist, NYC; fdr Seven
Arts Feature Syndic;lte; officer Am Com for
Weizmann Inst; WWIJewish Battalion
service, recruiter. • See: UJE (sub Brainin,
Reuben); E] (sub Brainin, Reuben); A]YB,
72:536; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
NYTimes, Feb 91970,39:1.
Brainin, Reuben (Ruben) ben Mordecai; b.
Lyady, Belorussia, Mar 15 1862; d. NYC,
Nov 30 1939.
To US/Canada 1909/1910.· UVienna, U
Berlin. • Heb & Yiddish author, biographer,
critic, Zionist ldr, Vienna, Canada, NYc. •
See:]E; E]; UJE; A]YB, 24:124,42:477;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; NYTimes,
Dec 11939,23:3.
Brainin, Simon; b. Riga, July 15 1854; d.
1911.
To NYC 1895.· U Dorpat, U Berlin.·
Physician, Riga, NYC; promoter ofJewish
culture in Russia; author in field, popular. •
See:]E; Eisenstadt, 24-25; NYTimes, Apr 3
1911,9:5.
Brager, Harry E; b. NYC, Apr 301918; d.
NYC, Aug 4 1966.
Financier, B'nai B'rith ldr; nat! commr B'nai
B'rith Youth Org; nat! membership dir B'nai
B'rith; active Am Friends of Tel Aviv U. • See:
A]YB, 68:524; NYTimes, Aug 61966,23:5.
Braker, Leon; b. ca 1865; d. Philadelphia,
Feb 81936.
Real estate broker, communal worker,
Philadelphia. • See:A]YB, 38:426.
Bragin, Joseph; b. ca 1875; d. NYC, Nov
1932.
Fdr, principal Heb High School, NYC. • See:
A]YB,35:122.
Braloff, Hennan M; b. London, Dec 25
1900?; d. Rockville Centre, LI, Apr 24
1953.
Engineer, philanthropist, Brooklyn; bdJewish
Hospital. • See:A]YB, 55:454; NYTimes, Apr
26 1953, 86:3.
Braham, Aaron David; b. Liteny, Rumania,
Jan 11894; d. Oct 1959.
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Braslavsky, Solomon G
Bram, Israel; b. Philadelphia, July 6 1883;
d. Sep 1955.
Brandeis, Frederick; b. Vienna, July 51832/
1835; d. NYC, May 14 1899.
Brandt, Harry N; b. NYC, Feb 22 1897; d.
Miami,June 3 1972.
To Philadelphia 1889. • Temple U, U PA,
MD Medico-Chirurgical. • Physician,
Philadelphia; specialty: goiter; author in field. •
See: WWlA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA];
NYTimes, Sep 91955,23:3.
To US 1848/1849. • UVienna. • Pianist,
organist, composer, tchr, NYC; "My Love Is
Like the Red, Red Rose." • See: ]E; UJE;
WWWIA, 1.
Motion picture exec; bd Will Rogers Memorial
Hospital, trade assn; active Anti-Defamation
League; benefactor JTS, Fedn ofJewish
Philanthropies, Heb U, AmJewish Com. •
See:A]YB, 74:554; WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, June
41972, 77:1,June 5 1972,36:2.
Bram, Joseph; b. Ekaterinburg, July 17
1904; d. Mar 201974.
To US 1935.· UParis, PhD Columbia.·
Sociologist, anthropologist; faculty Queens
ColI, Hofstra; author in field. • See: WWWIA,
6; NYTimes, Mar 22 1974,42:3.
Bramer, Samuel Eugene; b. Philadelphia,
July 41885; d. Mar 1949.
Steelco exec, Glassport, PA. • See: WWWIA,
2; NYTimes, Mar 25 1949,24:2.
Brams, Stanley Howard; b. Greenville, MI,
May 141910.
Columbia. • Journalist, advertising mgr,
Detroit; editor trade publications. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Bramson, Leo; b. Chicago, Jan 19 1902; d.
Aug291975.
Armour Inst, Chicago Art Inst. • Business
entrepreneur, Chicago; active opera, FL real
estate. • See: WWWIA, 6.
Bramson, Vera (Mrs Leon Bramson); b.
Vitebsk, Sep 25 1871; d. NYC, Sep 2
1952.
aRT ldr, NYC; a fdr womens divison World
aRT, Bramson aRT Trade School. • See:
A]YB, 55:454; NYTimes, Sep 41952, 27:2.
Brandeis, Julian Walter; b. NYC, Dec 28
1875; d. NYC, Oct 23 1933.
CCNY, MA, MD Columbia. • Physician,
author, NYC; faculty NY Polyclinic, Fordham;
pres med assn. • See: A]YB, 36:279; WWIA],
1926,1928.
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz; b. Louisville,
Nov 13 1856; d. Washington DC, Oct 5
1941.
U Louisville, LLB Harvard. • US supreme
court justice, lawyer, natl Zionist ldr, Boston,
Washington DC; honorary pres Zionist Org of
Am; chr Provisional Exec Com for General
Zionist Affairs; supporter economic & cultural
development of Palestine. • See: UJE; E];
E]:l973-1982; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):69,24:124,
44:37-52,335; WWIA], 1926,1928,1938;
BEOA]; A]HQ, 60:37-38, 62:383-400, 65:14062,68:7-42,69: 34-59; PA]HS, 41:41-60,
46:467-73; WWWIA, 1; DAB, 3; NYTimes, Oct
61941,1:4.
Brandeis, Madeline Frank (Mrs E John
Brandeis); b. San Francisco, Dec 18
1897; d.June 1937.
Writer, childrens author, juvenile & travel
motion picture producer, NYC. • See:
tvwIA], 1938; NYTimes, June 291937,21:2.
Brandeis, Susan (Mrs Jacob H Gilbert); b.
Boston, Feb 27 1893.
Brandt, Joe; b. Troy, July 20 1882; d. Feb
1939.
LLB NYU. • Motion picture producer, lawyer,
NYC.· See:A]YB, 41:419; WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Feb 23 1939,23:6.
Brandt, Willi3nn; b. NYC, 1888?;d.NYC,
July 19 1965.
Motion picture distributor, theatre owner,
NYC; a fdr Albert Einstein ColI ofMed;
trustee Beth Abraham Hospital; active Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies. • See: A]YB, 67:532-33.
Brandwein, Saul; b. ca 1872; d. Oct 21938.
Mfr, talmudist, communal worker, kashruth
inspector, Bayonne.· See:A]YB, 41:419.
Branower, William; b. Russia, ca 1881; d~
NYC,Jan 17 1943.
Physician, anesthetist, respirator inventor;
faculty Columbia. • See: A]YB, 45:382;
NYTimes, Jan 19 1943, 19:4.
Bransky, Oscar Ellis; b. Baltimore, 1886; d.
Palm Beach, Oct 1958.
PhD Johns Hopkins. • Chemist, exec,
Whiting, IN; with Economic Cooperation
Adm, earlier Standard Oil. • See: A]YB,
24:124; NYTimes, Oct41958, 21:5.
Brand, Edwin Waterman; b. NYC, Oct 11
1893; d.June 1959.
AB Bryn Mawr, JD U Chicago. • Lawyer,
NYC. • See: WWIA], 1926.
Brant, Henry-Dreyfuss; b. Montreal, Sep
15 1913.
Cornell. • Cotton converter, NYC; officer
Joint Distribution Com; active United
Palestine Appeal. • See: WWIA], 1938;
Brandeis, William; b. ca 1861; d.
Philadelphia, Mar 8 1935.
To US 1929. • Juilliard. • Pianist, composer,
NYC; invented over 200 parlor games. • See:
UJE; WWIA], 1938 (addenda).
Brand, Henry L; b. ca 1836; d. Nov 21
1936.
Jeweler, Civil War veteran, Beechurst, LI. •
See:A]YB, 39:589.
Brandeis, Alice Goldmark (Mrs Louis D
Brandeis); b. Brooklyn, ca 1866; d.
Washington DC, Oct 111945.
Mfr, communal worker, Philadelphia. • See:
A]YB,37:254.
Branden, Paul Maerker; b. Berlin, Feb 27
1888; d. Jan 1942.
To US 1911. • PhD U Berlin. • Author,
translator, reporter, editor, NYC; active WWl
fundraising. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes,
Jan51942,20:3.
Branz, Abraham Oscar; b. Slutsk, Oct 22
1893.
To US 1898.· CCNY, Southeastern Law. •
Broker, realtor, communal & Zionist worker,
Fall River, MA, Providence; officer regional
Zionist Org of Am; chr Kehillah. • See:
WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Communal, civic & philanthropic ldr; active
childrens interests, womens suffrage
movement.· See:A]YB, 48:485; NYTimes, Oct
13 1945,15:3.
Brandler, Samuel; b. Austria, Jan 29 1883.
Brasch, Herman; b. West Prussia, Mar 30
1873.
To US 1915. • Diamond importer, Antwerp,
NYC; active JTS, Heb Immigrant Aid Soc. •
See: WWIA], 1926.
To NYC 1891. • Mercer U. • Lawyer, NYC;
active synagog; WWl exemption bd service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Brandeis, Alfred S; b.*; d. Louisville, Mar 4
1913.
Lawyer, Louisville. • See: A]YB, 15(1913-
Brandon, Joseph Rodrigues; b. ca 1828; d.
San Leandro, CA, Apr 22 1916.
Importer, San Leandro, CA. • See: A]YB,
Braslau, Sophie; b. NYC, Aug 16 1888/
1892; d. NYC, Dec 22 1935.
1914):269.
18(1916-1917):106.
Brandeis, Arthur D; b. ca 1862; d. Omaha,
June 10 1916.
Merchant, Omaha. • See: A]YB, 19(1917-
Brandriss, Joseph M; b. Dome, Poland,
Mar 11918; d.Jerusalem, Oct 251975.
1918):264.
Brandeis, Emil; b. ca 1864; d. on the
Titanic, Apr 14 1912.
Municipal worker, Omaha. • See: A]YB,
14(1912-1913):127.
To US 1947.· Rabbi, Silver Spring, MD; pres
Rabbinical Assembly of Greater Washington;
WWlI French army chaplain. • See: A]YB,
77:592.
Brandt, Abram; b. NYC, Mar 7 1898.
Textile exec, patent holder, NYc. • See:
BEOA].
Inst ofMusical Art. • Opera & concert
contralto; with Metropolitan Opera. • See:
UJE; A]YB, 24:124, 38:426; WWIA], 1926,
1928; BEOA]; WWWIA, 1; NAW; DAB, 1;
NYTimes, Dec 23 1935, 19:1.
Braslavsky, Solomon G;" b. Kaligorka,
Russia, Apr 241887.
To US 1927.· Royal Academy of Music
(Vienna), UVienna,Jewish School of
Theology. • Music dir, composer, Boston; fdr,
conductor Boston Jewish Symphony, Boston
74
Bratter, Andrew Robert
Jewish Choral Soc. • See: WWIA], 1938;
BEGA].
Bratter, Andrew Robert; b. St Paul,]an 21
1899.
LLB St Paul ColI. • Lawyer, St Paul; officer
Jewish Educational Center Activities Assn. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Bratter, EdwardM; b. NYC, Nov 27 1905;
d. Nov 1957.
AB, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, NYC; dir
Recreation Rooms & Settlement. • See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Noy 27 1957,31:1.
Braude, A; b. ca 1884; d. Denver,June 18
1932.
Rabbi, Denver.· See:A]YB, 34:110.
Braude, Abraham Samuel; b. Mitau,
Courland, Aug 9 1845/1851; d. Chicago,
May 4/14 1907.
To US 1891. • Rabbi, author, Chicago. • See:
A]YB, 5(1903-1904):46, 8(1906-1907):506.
Braude, Enrnil;b. ca 1869;d. Chicago, Feb
211937.
Wholesale jeweler, communal worker,
Chicago; active communal charities. See:
A]YB, 39:589; NYTimes, Feb 22 1937,17:2.
I)
Braude, Henry W; b. Neustadt, Lithuania,
ca 1889; d. Philadelphia, July 22 1942.
To US as child.· Lawyer, communalldr,
Philadelphia; pres YM-YWHA, Homewood
School, JTS; officer Alliance Israelite
Universelle; bd United Palestine Appeal. • See:
A]YB,45:382;NYTimes,July231942,19:4.
Braude, Jacob Morton; b. Chicago, Dec 13
1896; d. Chicago, Dec 24 1970.
AB U MI, JD U Chicago. • Lawyer, public
servant, municipal judge, author, Chicago; pres
Zionist Org of Am, Young Mens Jewish
Charities; active Anti-Defamation League;
WWI service. • See: UJE; WWIA], 1928,
1938; BEGA]; WWWIA, 5.
Braude, Max A; b. Harmony, PA, Sep 26
1913; d. Jerusalem, Sep 14 1982.
Ordained Heb Union ColI. • Refugee & relief
org exec, Europe, India, Mrica; mem US
Presidential Com to Study Refugee Problems;
with Joint Distribution. Com, UN Relief &
Works Agency, World ORT. • See: E]; A]YB,
84:330.
Braude, Morris; b. Mitau, Dec 3 1883; d.
June 1959.
To Chicago 1893. • MD Rush Med ColI. •
Physician, neuropsychiatrist, Chicago; faculty
Rush Med ColI, IL Coll.ofMed; author in
field. • See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, June 19
1959,25:5.
Braude, William Gordon; b. Telz,
Lithuania, Apr 25 1907.
To US 1920/1921.. AB U Cincinnati,
ordained Heb Union ColI, AM, PhD Brown. •
Reform rabbi, author, Providence; authority on
midrashic literature; active supporter Heb day
school concept, civil rights. • See: E]; WWIAJ,
1938; BEGAJ.
Brauer, Richard Dagobert; b. Berlin, Feb
101901; d. Apr 171977.
To US 1933.· PhD UBerlin; honorary
degrees. • Mathematician, Cambridge; MA;
faculty U Konigsberg, U MI, Harvard; officer
professional soc. • See: WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA, 7; NYTimes, Apr 20 1977, IV 19:5.
Braun, Abraham (SergeQ;b. Riga, 1881;d.
NYC, Feb 1940.
To NYGI938.· Polytechnikum (Riga). •
Bund ldr & foreign representative, Russia,
Riga; speaker/author for Workmen's Circle. •
See: E]; NYTimes, Feb 241940,49:3.
Braun, Alfred N; b. *
Physician, NYc. 0 See:A]YB, 24:124.
Braun, Karl Ferdinand; b. Fulda, Germany,
June 6 1850; d. NYC, Apr 20 1918.
Nobel laureate for work in wireless &
telegraphy. • See:A]YB, 33:268.
Braun, Leo; b. Breslau, May 261881; d.
Queens, Nov 1954.
To NYC 1903. • Breslau Conservatory of
Music, Berlin Royal Academy ofMusic. •
Conductor, composer, pianist, voice tchr,
NYC; with Metropolitan Opera. • See: A]YB,
24:124; WWIA], 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Nov 14
1954,89:3.
Braun, Maurice; b. Nagy Bittse, Hungary,
Oct 11877; d. San Diego, Nov 7 1941.
To NYC 1881. • Natl Academy of Design,
Vienna. • Landscape artist, San Diego; fdr, dir
San Diego Academy of Fine Arts. • See: A]YB,
24:124,44:335; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 2;NYTimes,.Nov91941, 53:2.
Braunfeld, Julius; b. Sajo Szt Peter,
Hungary, July 17 1863.
Cantor, New Orleans; earlier Brooklyn,
Milwaukee.· See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):46.
Braunstein, Baruch; b. New Casde, PA,
Mar 31906.
BS OH State, MHL, ordained Jewish Inst of
Religion, PhD Columbia. • Lecturer, educator,
rabbi, author, Philadelphia; staff Emergency
Peace Campaign. ··See: WWIA], 1938.
Braunstein, Joseph Elias; b. Jassy, Apr 4
1879; d. Oct 1954.
ToUS 1889. • MD NYU.• Otolaryngologist,
B:rooklyn; pres Menorah Home; officer med
soc; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, Oct 18 1954,25:5.
Brav, Aaron; b. Gonez Ruszka, Hungary,
Jan 13 1875; d~ Philadelphia, Dec 2 1944.
To US 1890. • Temple U, MD MedicoChirurgical. • Opht4almologist, Philadelphia;
officer Am Jewish Physicians; author in field,
on Jewish topics.· See:A]YB, 47:519-20;
WWIA], 1938; BEGAJ.
Brav, Louis; b. Austria-Hungary, Feb 17
1887; d. May 1950.
Columbia, ordainedJTS, DD Heb Union
ColI. • Rabbi, Lake Charles, LA; faculty
Lawrence (Appleton, WI). • See: WWIA],
1926, 1928; NYTimes, May 23 1950,29:4.
Brav, Stanley Rosenbaum; b. Philadelphia,
Nov221908.
AB, MA U Cincinnati, ordained Heb Union
ColI. • Rabbi, Dallas, Vicksburg, Cincinnati;
active Jewish Chautauqua.· See: WWIA],
1938.
Braver, Jehudah; b. Lyngmiany, Lithuania,
Dec 71891.
To US 1913. • LLB, LLM Kansas City ColI of
Law. • Chief rabbi, United Orthodox
Synagogues, Kansas City; earlier Akron,OH;
exec mem Mizrachi. • See: WWIA], 1928,
1938; BEGA].
Braver, Moses Isaac; b.*; d. Sioux City, lA,
Apr 1936.
Rabbi, Sioux City, IA. • See: A]YB, 38:426.
Braverman, Harold; b. NYC, Oct 28 1913;
d. NYC, Feb 271971.
Lawyer, org exec, NYC; natl investigation dir
Anti-Defamation League; author infield. •
See:A]YB, 73:629; NITimes, Mar 11971, 32:4.
Braverman, Sigmund; b. Crepe, Hungary,
May 221894; d. Cleveland, Mar 1960.
To US 1904. • BS Carnegie Inst. • Architect,
Zionist worker, Cleveland; active Jewish
WelfareBd.· See:AJYB, 62:449; WWIAJ,
1938;NYTimes,Mar291960,37:3.
Bray, Bella Galek; b. ca 1867; d. Feb 23
1939.
Communal worker, Albany, NY. • See: A]YB,
41:419.
Breakstone, Benjamin Harrison; b.
Suwalki, Mar 271877; d. Chicago, Apr
1945.
To US 1883. • BS Carnegie, MD RushMed
ColI. • Surgeon, pioneer in field, communal
ldr, Chicago; a fdr Mt Sinai, Jewish Peoples
Inst; faculty Jenner Med ColI, Loyola, Chicago
Med ColI, School for Nurses of West End
Hospital; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NITimes, Apr 241945,19:2.
Brecher, Egon; b. Czechoslovakia, Feb 16
1880; d. Hollywood, CA, Aug 12 1946.
To US 1921. • U Heidelberg. • Movie actor,
dir, Vienna, NYC, Hollywood, CA; fdr Vienna
JeWish Art Theatre. • See: AJYB, 49:609;
BEGA];NYTimes, Aug 141946,26:2.
Brecher, Morris; b. NYC, Feb 15 1896; d.
NYC, June 141974.
Communalldr; a fdr Albert Einstein ColI of
Med; bd United Jewish Appeal,Jewish
Community Services ofLI. See: AJYB,
76:512.
I)
Brav, Herman A; b. Hungary, July 15 1870;
d. Philadelphia, Oct 12 1921.
To US 1891. .MD Medico-Chirurgical.
Proctologist, communal worker, Philadelphia;
author in field. It See: PA]HS, 29:156-57.
I)
Brecher, Samuel; b. Boryslaw, Austria, July
41897.
To US 1910.· Cooper Union, Natl Academy
of Design, Cape Cod School ofArt. • Portrait
75
& landscape artist, NYc. • See: WWIA], 1938;
WWWIA,8.
Bredig, Georg; b. Glogau, Gennany, ca
1869; d. NYC, Apr 241944.
Honorary degrees. • Chemist, educator; mem
several Academies of Science. • See: A]YB,
46:335; NYTimes,Apr 281944,19:3.
Bredt, Charles Ellis; b. Lithuania, June 18
1881.
To US 1889.· MD U PA. ·Physician, patent
holder, insurance examiner, Mahanoy City,
P A; mem Bd of Health; earlier with US Indian
Service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Breen, Bobby; b. Montreal, Nov41927.
Singer, Los Angeles. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bregman, Abner; b. 1904?; d. White Plains,
June 10 1957.
Stockbroker, communalldr, NYC; a fdr
United Jewish Appeal; pres United Heb
Immigrant Aid Soc Service; active Joint
Distribution Com.· See:A]YB, 59:474;
NYTimes, June 111957, 35:1.
Bregman, Adolph; b. Minsk, Mar 211890;
d. Oct 1951..
To NYC 1893. • EM CO School ofMines. •
Metallurgical engineer, consult, NYC; author/
editor in field; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1926,1928,1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Oct 5
1951,28:2.
Bregman, Elsie Oschrin (Mrs Adolph
Bregman); b. Newark, Nov 30 1896; d.
July 1969.
AB Barnard, PhD Columbia. • Psychologist,
researcher, NYC; author in field. • See:
WWIA], 1926,1928,1938; BEOA]; NYTimes,
July261969,25:1.
Bregman, Walter I; b. Cleveland, Sep 30
1897.
BS U IL. • Merchant, exec, Chicago; with
Price Iron & Steel Co. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bregstein, S Joseph; b. Brooklyn, Feb 10
1899; d. May 1972.
DDS NY ColI of Dentistry. • Dentist,
Brooklyn; officer dental soc; interested in
business management & ethics; author/editor
in field. • See: BEOA]; NYTimes, May 24 1972,
50:1.
Bregstone, Anne Rosenberg (Mrs Philip P
Bregstone); b. Chicago, 1873.
Communal worker, Chicago; active Jewish
Welfare Bd; WWI active Council for Nat!
Defense, fundraising. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bregstone, Philip P (Phillip); b. Weiwery,
Russia, 1866; d. Chicago, Feb 41934.
To US as child. • Lake Forest Law. • Lawyer,
probate court judge, communal worker,
Chicago; faculty Northwestern, Hamilton
Law; author on local subjects, Jewry. • See:
UJE; A]YB, 36:279.
Breidenbach, Lester; b. NYC, Dec 211897.
CCNY,BS, MD NYU. • Surgeon,
gynecologist, NYC; author in field; WWI
service. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Brentano, Lowell
Breier, Louis S; b. Brooklyn, July 241909;
d. Queens, Sep 13 1960.
Communal educator, author, lecturer; a fdr,
exec secy Federated Council for Americanism;
with Am Jewish Com, Anti-Defamation
League.· See:AJYB, 63:558; NYTimes, Sep 14
1960,43:1.
Breitkopf, Michael; b. Newark, Feb 12
1895.
LLB NJ Law. • Lawyer, asst prosecutor,
Newark; ldr general & Jewish war veterans
assns; active Am Jewish Cong; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Breitner,lIugo;b.\Tienna, 1873;d. US,
Mar 1946.
To US 1938. "Austrian socialist economist;
advisor Vienna municipal council, Austrian
government; lecturer Claremont ColI; active in
bldg low-cost housing. • See: EJ; NYTimes, Mar 71946,26:2.
Brekes, David; b. ca 1840; d. NYC, Aug 2
1932.
PhysiCian, NYC; Civil War veteran. • See:
A]YB,35:122.
Brekstone, Abraham; b. ca 1878; d. NYC,
Apr91934.
Lawyer, public official, NYc. • See: A]YB,
36:279.
Bremer, Anne M; b. San Francisco; d. San
Francisco, Oct 261923.
Artist, San Francisco. • See:A]YB, 24:124,
26:153.
Brenner, Anita (Mrs David Glusker); b.
Agua Caliente, Mexico, Aug 13 1905; d.
Mexico, 1973/1974.
To San Antonio 1915. • Our Lady of the Lake
ColI, UTX, Nat! U (Mexico), PhD Columbia.
• Writer on art, Mexico City, Brooklyn;
contributor NYTimes. • See: UJE; BEOAJ;
NYTimes, Dec 3 1974,44:1.
Brenner, Daniel; b. NYC, Apr 13 1917; d.
Feb 13 1977.
B Arch Columbia, BS IL Tech.· Architect,
Chicago; faculty IL Tech; WWIIservice. •
See: WWWIA, 7.
Brenner, Jacob M; b. NYC, Apr 8 1857; d.
Lawyer, city magistrate, commr of jurors,
Brooklyn; counsel police dept; pres synagog;
supt religious school; active Republican
politics. • See: UJE; AJYB, 6(1904-1905):69,
24:101; NYTimes, Oct 171921,15:3.
Brenner, Jay Gerson; b. Philadelphia, Feb
161897.
AB Temple U, Dropsie, Jewish Inst of
Religion. • Rabbi, prison chaplain, Perth
Amboy; supt Sunday schools (philadelphia). •
See: WWIA], 1926.
Brenner, Louis Isadore; b. Legum,
Lithuania, June 26 1884.
To Baltimore 1891. • Business school,Johns
Hopkins. • Wholesale woolen merchant,
communal worker, Baltimor~; active Mason. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Brenner, Mortimer; b. Brooklyn, July 5
1889; d. NYC,July 11969.
AB, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer, communal &
professionalldr, Brooklyn; a fdr, pres Council
for Social Planning; bd Fedn ofJewish
Charities; active Synagogue Council ofAm,
bar assns, anti-'discrimination. • See: A]YB,
71:602-03; WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 5;
NYTimes, July 3 1969, 31:2.
Brenner, Nathan I; b. Russia, July 1860; d.
Feb 111939.
To US 1893. • Rabbi, Philadelpbja. • See:
AJYB, 5(1903-1904):46,41:419; NYTimes, Feb
12 1939,44:6.
Brenner, Rica; b.*
Poetry critic. • See: UJE (sub Brenner, Rose).
Brenner, Rose; b. Brooklyn, 1884; d.
Brooklyn, Apr 5 1926~
Adelphi ColI. • Nat! pres Nat! Council of
Jewish Women, Brooklyn; supporter US
participation in League of Nations, child labor
regulation. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:125,29:117.
Brenner, Samuel; b. Sep 15 1888.
CCNY, BA Columbia. • Architect, NYc. •
See: WWIA], 1928.
Brenner, Sylvia Freehof (Mrs Mortimer
Brenner); b. NYC, Mar 9 1889.
Training School for Tchrs, Academy for Adult
Jewish Education. • Communalldr, Brooklyn;
officer Nat! Council ofJewish Jrs, state Nat!
Council ofJewish Women; WWI Red Cross
service, fundraising. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Brenner, Toby; b. Zablotow, Austria, Oct 8
1886.
To US 1896. • Investment banker, Kansas
City.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Brenner, Yictor David; b. Shavli, Lithuania,
June 121871; d. NYC, Apr 51924.
To NYC 1890.· Cooper Union, Nat!
Academy of Design, Art Students League,
Paris. • Medalist, sculptor, designer Lincoln
penny, NYC; noted for bas relief portraits;
author in field. • See: UJE; E]; AJYB, 6(19041905):69-70,24:125; WWWlA, 1; DAB;
NYTimes, Apr 61924,27:1.
Brentano, Arthur; b. CincinnatillIoboken,
Apr 20 1858; d. East O.-ange, Jan 28/29
1944.
Bookseller, exec, canoeist, NYC. • See: UJE
(sub Brentano); E] (sub Brentano); A]YB,
24:125,46:335; BEOA]; WWWIA, 2.
Brentano, August; b. Austria, 1831; d.
Chicago, 1886.
To US 1853. • Bookseller, NYC; fdr internat!
firm. • See: UJE (sub Brentano); E] (sub
Brentano).
Brentano, August; b. Evansville, IN, 1853;
d.1899.
Bookstore firm pres, NYC. • See: UJE (sub
Brentano); EJ (sub Brentano).
Brentano, Lowell; b. NYC, Apr 181895; d.
July 81950.
AB Harvard. • Publisher, novelist, playwright,
76
Brentano, Simon
NYC; with Brentano booksellers & publishers.
• See: UJE (sub Brentano); E] (sub Brentano);
WWIA], 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3; NYTimes,
July 91950,69:1.
Brentano,SUnon;b.Cin~ati,1859;d.
Orange, Feb 15 1915.
Exec, NYC; head Brentano bookselling firm;
student of fire control; author in field. • See:
UJE (sub Brentano); E] (sub Brentano);A]YB,
17(1915-1916):219;NYTimes, Feb 161915,
9:5.
Breslau, Isadore; b. Kabilnik, Russia, Jan 19
1897; d. Washington DC, Nov 18 1978.
To US 1906. • Rabbi, nat! communal &
Zionist ldr; fdr Mill End Shops; co-fdr Nat!
United Jewish Appeal; nat! officer Zionist Org
ofAm; WWI service, wwn chaplain. • See:
A]YB, 80:362-63.
Breslaw, Joseph; b. Miskitky, Russia, Apr
18 1887; d. NYC, July 3 1957.
To US 1907. • Labor ldr, conservative
ILGWU unionist, Zionist; chr Union Health
Center; officer Unity House; active Histradrut,
Am Labor Party. • See: E]; A]YB, 60:354;
WWIA],1938; Fink, 33; NYTimes,July4J957,
19:2.
Breslow, Israel; b. Dashev, Russia, Apr 26
1906; d. NYC,July 281985.
To US early 1930s. • Labor ldr, communal
worker, author, NYC; officer ILGWU,
Forward Assn, Workmen's Circle; active
Yiddish Inst, Jewish Labor Com. • See: A]YB,
87:437.
Bress, David Gerald; b. NYC, June 7 1908;
d. Mar 101976.
BS U VA, LLB Harvard. • Lawyer,
Washington DC; faculty Am U, Georgetown
U; officer bar assns, Am Jewish Com, synagog;
wwn service. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Bressler, David Maurice; b.
Charlottenburg, Gennany, May 1 1879;
d. Dec 161942.
To US 1884.· CCNY,JTS, LLB NY Law. •
Social welfare ldr, insurance agent; mem NY
Planning Bd, Jewish Agency for Palestine; mgr
Industrial Removal Office; exec com Am
Jewish Com; bd Union ofAm Heb
Congregations; WWI welfare service. • See:
UJE; E]; A]YB, 7(1905-1906):46,24:125,
45:382; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;BEOA];
Bressler, Harry Samuel; b. Zlotsow,
Austria, Jan 7 1893.
To US 1900. • Nat! Academy of Design, Art
Students League. • Cartoonist; editorial
cartoonist, NYC.· See: WWIA], 1938.
Bressler, Max; b. Ukraine, Sep 26 1901; d.
Miami Beach, Feb 15 1966.
To US 1921. • Business exec, Zionistldr,
Chicago; nat! officer Zionist Org ofAm; bd
Bonds for IsraeL • See: A]YB, 68:524;
NYTimes, Feb 171966,34:1.
Brettauer, Joseph; b. Austria, ca 1863; d.
NYC, Dec 1941.
To US 1889. • MD U Graz. • Surgeon,
gynecologist, NYC; officer medsoc. • See:
A]YB, 24:125; NYTimes, Dec 27 1941,20:2.
Bretzfelder, Ira Lewis; b. Louisville, Jan 11
1879.
Mfr, St Louis. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bretzfelder, Karl Benjamin; b. New Haven,
May241891.
Dr Osteopathy Philadelphia CoIl of
Osteopathy, MD JeffersonMed CoIl, MD NY
Homeopathic Med CoIl, post-grad Columbia.
• Surgeon, New Haven; officer professional
soc; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938.
Breuer, Henry Joseph; b. Philadelphia, Aug
16 1860/1869.
Painter, illustrator, Santa Barbara, CA • See:
A]YB, 24:125; WWWIA,4.
Breuer, Joseph; b. Papa, Hungary, 1882; d.
NYC, Apr 19 1980.
To US 1939. • Rabbi, Orthodox communal
ldr, kashruth supervisor, author, Frankfurt,
NYC; ldr Torah 1m Derech Eretz movement.
• See: E]; A]YB, 82:363-64.
Breuer, Marcel; b. Pecs, Hungary, May 22
1902; d.July 11981.
To US 1937.· MABauhaus; honorary
degrees. • Architect; faculty Harvard; designer
UNESCO Headquarters (Paris). • See:
E]:1973-1982; WWWIA, 8.
Brez, Selig Colman; b. Philadelphia, Nov
301889.
LLB Georgetown U.· Lawyer, Washington
DC.· See: WWIA],1938.
Brice, Fanny; b. NYC, Oct 29 1891; d.
Beverly Hills, May 291951.
Actress, comedian, singer, mimic; star of
Ziegfeld Follies, "Baby Snooks." • See: UJE;
A]YB, 24:125, 53:523; WWIA], 1926
(addenda), 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA, 3;
NAW:modern; DAB, 5; NYTimes, May 30
1951,21:1.
Bricker, Harry Charles; b. Hurbenitz,
Russia, Dec 10 1893; d. July 1965.
To US 1899.· AB Columbia, PhD NYU.•
Public school English tchr, principal,
Brooklyn; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes,July291965,27:4.
Brickman, Asher; b. ca 1869; d. Syracuse,
Dec 61923.
Rabbi, Syracuse. • See: A]YB, 26:154.
Brickman, Hennan; b. Lithuania, June 7
1894.
To US 1901.· BA, LLB Syracuse U, ML
Brooklyn Law. • Social work admr, lawyer,
Brooklyn; exec dir Fedn ofJewish Charities,
J oint Distribution Com (abroad), Educational
Alliance.· See: WWIA], 1928, 1938.
Brickner, Balfour; b. 1926.
Reform rabbi, Washington DC, NYC;
specialty: interfaith relations; later with Union
ofAm Heb Congregations. • See: E] (sub
Brickner, Barnett Robert).
Brickner, Barnett Robert; b. NYC, Sep 14
1891/1892; d. Lorca, Spain, May 14 1958.
AB, AM, BS, PhD Cincinnati, Heb Union
CoIl, ordained, MEd Heb Union CoIl, School
ofJewish Social Service. • Reform rabbi, social
worker, Zionist, Toronto, Cleveland; pres
Central Conf ofAm Rabbis; active Jewish
Welfare Bd, Jewish military welfare, communal
philanthropy. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 60:354;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
3; NYTimes, May 15 1958,29:5.
Brickner, Perla Abrahams (Mrs); b.*; d.
NYC, Aug 20 1934.
Mem, Daughters of the American Revolution,
United Daughters of the Confederacy, NYc. •
See:A]YB,37:254.
Brickner, Richard Max; b. NYC, Nov 20
1896; d. Apr 1959.
BS, MD Columbia.· Neurologist, NYC;
faculty Columbia; author in field.• See:
WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Apr 27 1959,27:2.
Brickner, Samuel M; b. Rochester, NY, Jan
111867; d. May 1916.
AB, AM U Rochester, MD Columbia, U
Berlin, U Vienna. • Gynecologist, obstetrician,
NYC; author/editor/translator in field. • See:
A]YB, 6(1904-1905):70; NYTimes, May 6 1916,
11:5.
Brickner, Walter Max; b. NYC, Aug 28
1875; d. Adantic Beach, NY,July 22
1930.
BS CCNY, MD Columbia. • Surgeon, noted
instructor, textbook author, NYC; editor in
field; WWI service. • See: UJE; A]YB, 33:125;
WWIA], 1926, 1928.
Bril, Isaac L; b. Mainz, Aug 22 1874; d. Mar
2 1936.
Jews CoIl (London), U Berlin, Hildesheimer
Rabbinical SchooL • Newspaper editor,
Zionist worker, rabbi; assoc editor Am Reb;
secyJewish Publication Soc. • See: A]YB,
6(1904-1905):70, 38:426; WWIA], 1926, 1928;
BEOA]; Eisenstadt, 24.
Brile, Lawrence Miller; b. Spokane, Feb 12
1893.
Jefferson Law School (Louisville). • Mfr, exec,
communal worker, Fairmont, WVA; pres
Jewish Student Found ofU WVA. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Brill, AJ; b.*; d. Brooklyn, Dec 15 1943.
Rabbi, Brooklyn. • See: A]YB, 46:335.
Brill, Abraham Arden; b. Austria, Oct 12
1874; d. NYC, Mar 21948.
To US 1889. • CCNY, PhB NYU, MD
Columbia, Zurich. • Pioneer US psychiatrist,
studied with Freud; fdr NY Psychoanalytical
Soc; head Columbia U clinic; author/translator
in field. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 24:125, 50:513;
WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938; BEOA]; WWWIA,
2; DAB, 4; NYTimes, Mar 3 1948, 23: 1.
Brill, AbrahamJ; b. ca 1850; d.
Indianapolis, Sep 23 1922.
Heb scholar, educator, Indianapolis. • See:
A]YB, 25:138.
77
Brill, Abram; h. Ogdenshurg, NY, May 18
1876; d. Montclair, NJ, Feh 20 1943.
BA U Cincinnati, BHL, ordained Heb Union
ColI; honorary degree. • Rabbi, Greenville,
MS, "Wheeling, Meridian, Shreveport; exec
council Central Conf of Am Rabbis. • See:
A]YB, 5(1903-1904):46,45:382; WWIA],
1926, 1928; NYTimes, Feb 211943,32:5.
Brill, David Harris; h. Chicago, Aug 2 1896.
Lewis Inst, LLB Northwestern. • Lawyer,
Chicago; active Republican politics; WWI
Brill, Isador William; h. St Louis, Aug 11
1875.
Insurance broker, NYC; natl guard service.. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Brill, Isidor Cherniac; h. Russia, Oct 1
1888.
To US 1903.· AB, MD Columbia.·
Physician, Portland, OR; faculty OR U; WWI
service.· See: WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938.
Brill, Jeanette Goodman (Mrs Abraham
Brill); h. NYC, June 15 1888; d.
Brooklyn, Mar 30 1964.
LLB Brooklyn Law, AB NYU. • Lawyer,
municipal judge, social worker, Brooklyn; fdr
Madison Community Service League,
Womens Bar Assn, Brooklyn Child Guidance
Clinic; officer Natl Crime Prevention Bureau,
Fedn ofJewish Charities. • See: UJE; A]YB,
66:573; WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, Mar 31 1964,
35:3.
Brill, Joseph Eugene; h. Warsaw, Sep 16
1903; d. May 1975.
To US 1904. • NYU, LLB Fordham.·
Lawyer, asst US atty general, NYC; wwn
service.· See: WWIA], 1938; W'WWlA, 6;
NYTimes, May 201975,40:1.
Brin, Josiah Eschel; h. Botosani, Rumania,
Dec 15 1885.
To US 1886. • LLB, LLM U MN.•. Lawyer,
Minneapolis; active bar assn. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Brill, Max D; h. NYC, ca 1866; d.Jan 19
1938.
Clothier, NYC; honorary captain Police
Reserves.· See:A]YB, 40:382; NYTimes, Jan
201938,23:5.
Brill, Mrs Max D; h. ca 1878; d. NYC, Apr
221934.
Communal & civic worker, NYC. • See: A]YB,
36:279.
Brill, Nathan Edwin; h. NYC, Jan 13 1859;
d. NYC, Dec 13 1925.
AB, AM CCNY, MD NYU. • Physician,
researcher, diagnostician, NYC; faculty
Columbia; described "Brills Disease"; officer
med socs. • See: UJE; A]YB, 24:125,28:150;
WWWlA, 1; DAB; NYTimes, Dec 17 1925,
23:5.
Brimherg, Samuel N; h. Warsaw, Apr 3
1886; d. Adantic Beach, NY, June 12
1963.
To US 1901. • Industrialist, wholesale
Brodie, Maurice
clothier, philanthropist, NYC; a fdr Albert
Einstein ColI ofMed; est chair ofHeb NYU. •
See:A]YB, 65:432; WWIA], 1926;NYTimes,
June 141963, 31:3.
Brin, Alexander; h. Russia, June 15 1893/
1895; d. Brookline,June 251980.
To US 1904/1907. • Harvard. • Editor,
publisher, civic ldr, Boston; mem MA Bd of
Education; with Jewish Advocate. • See: A]YB,
82:364; WWIA], 1926, 1928,1938; BEOAJ.
Brin, Arthur; h. Chicago, June 5 1880; d.
Minneapolis, Nov 5 1947.
Business exec, communalldr, Minneapolis;
pres Jewish Family Welfare Assn, Council of
Social Agencies; officer B'nai B'rith. • See:
A]YB, 50:513; WWIAJ, 1928,1938; BEOA].
Brin, Fanny Fligelman (Mrs Arthur Brin);
h. Berlad, Rumania, Oct 201884; d.
Minneapolis, Sep 5 1961.
To US ca 1884/1885.· BA U MN.·
Communal & peace worker, Minneapolis; natl
pres Natl Council ofJewish Women; active
Hadassah, League of Women Voters; alternate
consult to US delegation to UN founding
conference. • See: UJE; A]YB, 64:492;
WWIA], 1926, 1938; W'WWlA, 7; NYTimes,
Sep 7 1961, 35: 1.
Brin, Joseph Gottland; h. Zaslaw, Russia,
Apr 21897; d. Brooklyn, MA, Mar 21
1952.
To Boston 1908. • LLB, LLM, PhD Boston
U. • Lawyer, editor, publisher, semanticist,
Boston; inem N atl Commn for Mental
Hygiene; faculty Boston U; co-publisher Jewish
Advocate; orgr Springfield Review. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928,1938; BEOA]; NYTimes, Mar
22 1952,13:2.
Brind, Moses; h. Letichev, Ukraine, 1894.
To US 1923.· Heb Tchrs ColI Gerusalem).·
Heb poet, writer, tchr, NYC; contributor UJE.
• See: UJE.
Brinig, Myron; h. Minneapolis, Dec 22
1900.
Columbia, NYU. • Novelist, screen synopsis
writer, Taos, NM. • See: UJE; EJ; WWIAJ,
1938; BEOAJ.
Briskin, SamueIJacoh; h. Kiev, Feh 8 1896/
1897; d. Nov 141968.
To US 1898.· CCNY, NYU.• Accountant,
motion picture exec, Hollywood, CA; with
RKO; dir Fedn ofJewish Welfare Orgs.· See:
WWIA], 1938; WWWlA, 5; NYTimes, Nov 15
1968,47:1.
Broadman, Joseph; h. Austria, Jan 2 1883;
d. Feh 1966.
MD NYU, post-grad Berlin. • Physician,
NYC; active Fusion Party; collector library on
WWI & aftermath; author in field. • See:
WWIA], 1938; BEOAJ; NYTimes, Feb 26
1966,25:3.
Broch, HermannJoseph; h. Vienna, Nov 1
1886; d. May 30 1951.
To US 1938.· UVienna.· Textile mfr,
government servant, philosopher, novelist,
playwright, Princeton; with Office of Public
Opinion Research. • See: E]; WWWIA, 4;
NYTimes, May 311951, 27:6.
Brock, Samuel; h. NYC, Oct 8 1893; d. Sep
1974.
MD NYUlBellevue.• Neurologist, NYC;
faculty NYUlBellevue; author in field; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938; NYTimes,
Sep251974,42:3.
Brod, Ruth Hagy (Mrs Alhert T Brod); h.
NYC, May 311911; d. May91980.
CraneJr ColI, Mus B Chicago ColI ofMusic. •
TV producer, journalist, public relations
advisor, Philadelphia, NYC; active WWII
fundraising.· See: WWW1A, 7.
Brode,William;h. ca 1853;d.NYC,June
291935.
Pianist, composer of popular music, NYC. •
See:A]YB, 37:254.
Brodek, Charles Adrian; h. NYC, Jan 20
1872.
BS CCNY, MA, LLB Columbia. • Lawyer,
business exec & dir, NYC; active WWI
fundraising. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Brodey, Arthur; h. Toronto, Oct 281900;
d. NYC, 1979.
To US 1930.· AB UToronto,MHL,
ordained Jewish Inst of Religion. • Rabbi,
communal worker, Hattiesburg,MS; active
Zionist Org of Am. • See: WWIA], 1938;
CCARYB.
Brodie, Bernard; h. Chicago, May 201910;
d. Nov 24 1978.
PhB, PhD U Chicago. • Internatl relations &
military strategy specialist; faculty Yale,
UCLA; with Rand Corp; author in field;
WWII service. • See: WWWlA, 7; NYTimes,
Nov 27 1978, IV 12:3.
Brodie, Florence Rohison (Mrs Israel B
Brodie); h. Baltimore, Mar311883; d.
Hampton Bay, NY, Aug 311961.
Hadassah ldr, NYC; developed social welfare
program in Israel. • See: A]YB, 64:492;
NYTimes, Sep 2 1961, 15:6.
Brodie, Gandy; b. NYC, May 20 1924; d.
Oct 221975.
Artist; faculty Carnegie Mellon. • See:
WWWlA, 6,7;NYTimes, Oct25 1975,32:6.
Brodie, Isadore Arthur; h. Poland, Dec 25
1880.
To US 1904. • Merchant, realtor, communal
worker, Manchester, NH; officer Zionist Org
of Am, YMHA; active Am Jewish Congo • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Brodie, Israel B; h. Grinshok, Lithuania;
May 281884; d. NYC, July 311965.
To US 1888. • Johns Hopkins, LLB U MD. •
Lawyer, business exec, Zionist ldr; active Dead
Sea Scrolls work. • See: AJYB, 67:53 3;
WWWL4., 4; NYTimes, Aug 2 1965,29:2.
Brodie, Maurice; h. Liverpool, Aug 19
1903; d. Detroit, May 111939.
To US 1933. • MD, eM, MS McGill, NYU. •
Bacteriologist, NYC, Detroit; discoverer of a
78
Brodski, Baruch
vaccine for infantile paralysis; faculty NYU. •
See: UJE;AJYB, 41:419; WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes, May 12 1939,21:2.
Brodski, Baruch; b. ca 1880; d. reported
July 26 1936.
BIdr of cooperative housing, NYC; active
lCOR (colonization in Russia). • See: AJYB,
39:589.
Brodsky, Bernard H; b. ca 1881; d.
Philadelphia, Feb 211934.
36:279.
Brodsky, David; b. Poltava, Apr 17 1894; d.
Brooklyn, Mar 15 1967.
To US 1914.· Cantor, Brooklyn, Newport;
with Jewish Communal Center, Touro
Synagog; asst chaplain Newport Naval Base. •
See:AJYB, 69:605; NYTimes, Mar 161967,
47:2.
Brodsky, Hyman; b. Bialystok, Aug 11
18521Sep 14 1853; d. Newark, Feb 25
1937.
To US 1889. • Rabbi, communal, educational
& Zionist worker, Newark; contributor Jewish
press.· See: UJE;AJYB, 5(1903-1904):46-47,
39:589; Eisenstadt, 22-23; NYTimes, Feb 26
1937,22:2.
Brodsky, Louis Bernard; b. Elizabethgrad,
Dec 25 1883; d. NYC, Apr 29 1970.
To US 1885. • LLB NYU. • Lawyer,
municipal judge, NYC; mem Jewish
Conciliation Bd; a fdr Albert Einstein ColI of
Med; officer Heb Day & Night Nursery, Am
Jewish Congo It See: UJE; AJYB, 72:539;
WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, May 1
1970,35:4.
Brodsky, Max; b. Kiev, Feb 171902.
RI ColI of Pharmacy. • Business exec,
Providence; owner Eastern Scientific Co. •
See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Brodsky, Nathan; b. Philadelphia, Sep 22
1916; d. Oct 71975.
BS Temple U, post-grad U PA, PhD Am U. •
Government official, Washington DC; dean
Am U; with Munitions Bd, Defense Dept;
author in field; WWII service. • See:
WWWIA,6,7.
Brodsky, Paul; b. Vienna, Nov 12 1900; d.
Sep 91970.
To US 1939.· MAFederal Tchrs ColI
(Vienna), UCLA, U Southern CA. •
Psychologist, Los Angeles; with Bd of
Education, Adler Counseling Center; author in
field. • See: WWWL4, 5.
Brodsky, Saul; b. NYC, Feb 41906; d. Palm
Beach, FL, Apr 301974.
Business exec, philanthropist; a fdr, officer
Yiddish Inst; bd United Jewish Appeal. • See:
AJYB, 76:512.
Brodstein, Edward; b. Asbury Park, NJ,
July 23 1897.
Real estate & insurance agent, postmaster,
Asbury Park, NJ; active postermasters assn,
Democratic politics; WWI Jewish Welfare Bd
field representative. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Brodstein, Ellis; b. Philadelphia, Jan 4
1896.
AB Lehigh, LLB U PA.· Lawyer, civic
worker, Reading, PA; active Welfare Fedn of
Berks County. • See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Brody, Alexander; b. Seiraijai, Lithuania,
Apr 14 1903; d. Bronx, Oct 1968.
To NYC 1914. • BS, MA, PhD, LLM NYU. •
Lawyer, NYC; faculty (economics) Yeshiva
ColI, CCNY; author/editor in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Oct 22 1968,47:2.
Brody, Alter; h. Kartuz, Beroza, Russia,
Nov 11895.
To NYC 1903. • Author, Yiddish playwright,
Brooklyn; contributor Nation; author plays,
reviews, criticism, poetry. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:125; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Brody, Catherine; b. Aknist, Lithuania, Dec
15 1900.
Journalist, novelist, short story writer, NYC;
society reporter NY World. • See: UJE;
REOAJ.
Brody, Charles Machard; b. Sep 2 1899; d.
Jersey City,Jan 271947.
Editor1';ournalist, communal worker; with
Jersey Observer. • See: AJYB, 49:609;NYTimes,
Jan 281947,23:2.
Brody, Charles Sidney; b. NYC, May 24
1894.
AB, LLB Yale. • Lawyer, Bridgeport, CT;
active Republican ·politics, Jewish War
Veterans, Boy Scouts; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Brody, Herman; b. Ansonia, CT, Sep 8
1896.
DMD Harvard. • Surgical dentist, Springfield,
MA; author in field; WWI service. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Brody, Irving Abraham; b. Union City, NJ,
Jan 23 1899.
NYU, U PA.· Editor, publisher, Trenton; fdr,
editor NJ Shield; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Brody, Joseph Harris; b. Lechovich, Russia,
Mar 12 1877; d. Aug 161937.
Composer for Yiddish stage, tchr, Brooklyn. •
See: A]YB, 40:382; WWIAJ, 1928; NYTimes,
Aug 17 1937, 19:2.
Brody, Joseph Isaac; b.Elliott, IA., Jan 13
1889; d.Jan 18 1963.
AB Grinnell ColI, ~hD,JD U Chicago.·
Lawyer, Des Moines; mem Bd of Education;
nat! com Nat! Conf of Christians & Jews;
officer bar assn; dir Jewish Welfare Fund. •
See: "WWWIA, 4.
Brody, Louis Jacob; b. Russia, ca 1888; d.
Kansas City, Aug 5 1944.
To US 1912. • Rabbi, Spokane, then Kansas
City. • See:AJYB, 47:520.
Brody, Paul Ward; b. Hartford, June 6
1903.
Tufts, Boston U Law. • Editor, publisher,
lawyer, advertising agent, Brookline, MA;
active politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Brody, Samuel; b. Garbatchi, Lithuania,
Feb 81890; d. Aug 61956.
BA, MA U CA, PhD U Chicago. • Biochemist,
Columbia, MO; faculty U MO; specialty: dairy
science; author in field. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938; NYTimes, Aug 91956,25:6.
Brodzky, Horace; b. Australia, 1885.
Painter, writer, NYc.. See:AJYB, 24:125.
Brodzky,Maurice;b.caI851;d.NYC,Mar
1919.
Australian veteran of Franco-Prussian War. •
See: AJYB, 21:204.
Broida, Herbert Philip; b. Aurora, CO, Dec
251920; d. Apr 91978.
BA U CO, MA, PhD Harvard. • Physicist;
faculty CT Wesleyan, Harvard, Georgetown
U, U CA (Santa Barbara); author in field. •
See: WWWIA, 7.
Broido, Aaron; b. Russia, Nov 21 1843.
To US 1888. • Rabbi, preacher, orator,
Philadelphia, Newark, NYc. • See: Eisenstadt,
23.
Broido, Louis; b. Pittsburgh, Sep 211895;
d. NYC, Apr 51975.
LLB U Pittsburgh. • Business exec, Commr of
Commerce, civic & communalldr, NYC; mem
US Commn for War Claims; pres United
Jewish Appeal; chr Joint Distribution Com;
WWI service. • See: EJ; AJYB, 77:592;
WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Apr 61975,55:2.
Broido, Lucy Kaufmann (Mrs Louis
Broido); b.1900; d. Dec 1969.
Communalldr, NYC; officer Nat! Council of
Jewish Women, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish
Education Com. • See: EJ (sub Broido, Louis);
NYTimes, Dec 8 1969,47:2.
Broido, Theodore K; b. NYC, 1928; d.
NYC, Aug 12 1984.
Communal org worker; with Union of Am
Heb Congregations; active Zionist orgs. • See:
AJYB, 86:437.
Broidy, Edward William; b. NYC, Sep 27
1886; d. Nov 1950.
Grocery chain exec, NYC. • See: "WWWIA, 3;
NYTimes, Nov 3 1950,27:2.
Brornberg, EdwardJ;b. Roxbury,MA,
1864; d. Boston, June 111930.
Lawyer, legislator, public official, Boston; mem
Common Council, Bd of Alderman; active
Republican politics. • See: UJE; AJYB, 32:153.
Bromberg, J Edward (Edgar); b. Hungary,
Dec 25 1903; d. London, Dec 1951.
To US ca 1905.· Moscow Art Theatre. •
Stage & screen actor, NYC, Los Angeles. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, Dec 71951;
28:2.
79
Bromberg, Jacob; b. Yedintzy, Bessarabia,
June 20 1898; d. Queens, June 1948.
Brown, Bernard Lewis
science, author, London, San Diego; fellow
Salk Inst,,- See: E]; E]:1973-1982; WWWIA,
6; NYTimes, Aug 23 1974, 32:2 ..
To US 1929. • U Simteropol, ME
Czechoslovakia Polytech. • Mechanical
engineer, NYC; with Bd of Water Supply;
author in field; WWI Russian army service. •
See: WWIA], 1938; NYTimes, June 9 1948,
29:6.
Bronstein, David; b. ca 1889; d.July 20
1936.
To US 1891. • PhG St Louis ColI of
Pharmacy. • Pharmacist, real estate &
insurance broker, Milwaukee; offic;er Safety
Com, synagog; active Zionist Org ofAm,
]ewishCenter, Federated]ewish Charities. •
See: WWIA], 1938.
Rabbi, Chicago; faculty NM Normal U. • See:
A]YB, 39:589.
Broudy, Harry Samuel; b. Filipowa, Poland.
Bromberg, Louis; b. Rohatyn, Austria, Jan
291887/1895.
Bronstein, Jacob Hannack; b. Memphis,
Aug291897.
Boston U, Harvard. • Educator; faculty U IL;
specialty: philosophy of education; author in
field. • See: B].
To US 1890. • Columbia, Natl Academy of
Design. • Artist, scene designer,muralist,
NYC; a fdr.]ewish Art Theatre. • See: BEGA];
MD UPA. • Physician, surgeon, Memphis;
faculty U 1N; author in field; WWI service. •
See: WWIA], 1928,1938.
WWIA], 1938.
Bromberg, Perry; b. ca 1875; d. Nashville,
July41939.
Surgeon, urologist, Nashville; faculty U
Nashville, Vanderbilt; officer medical soc. •
See:A]YB, 42:477.
Bromson, Abraham; b. Russia.
Rabbi, Omaha. • See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):47.
Bromson, Nachum Paltiel; b. ca 1831; d.
Baltimore, Feb 25 1912.
Rabbi, Baltimore. • See:A]YB, 14(1912-
Bronstein, Morris; b. Ostrog, Russia, Nov
17 1880/Sep 16 1884; d. Boston, Dec 2
1939.
To Boston 1895. • Realtor, business exec; civic
& welfare ldr, Rent & Housing Commr,
.Boston; mem Bd of Overseers of Public
Welfare. • See: A]YB, 42:477; WWIA], 1928,
To US 1909. - U Odessa, Pasteur Inst, PhD
Columbia, Dr Public Health Harvard. •
Bacteriologist, NYC, St Louis; with
Rockefeller Inst, Washington U; author in
field. • See: WWL4.], 1928, 1938; BEGA];
WWWIA, 3;NYTimes, Aug 141953,19:6.
Bronfenbrenner, Martin; b. Pittsburgh,
1914.
Government servant, economist; specialty: Far
East; mem Federal Reserve System; faculty
Carnegie Tech; author in field. • See: E].
Bronfin, Isadore David; b. Lantzkriene,
Podolsk, Sep 13 1886; d. July 31 1934.
MD LI ColI Hospital. • Physician, authority
on tuberculosis, Denver; with]ewish
Consumptives Relief Soc Sanatorium; author
in field. • See:A]YB, 37:254; WWIA], 1926,
1928; NYTimes, Aug 11934, 17:1.
See:E]:1983-1985.
BS, AM, PhD Columbia. • Psychologist,
expert on juvenile delinquency, Chicago,
Boston; co-fdr child guidance clinic (Boston);
officer professional assn; author in field;]ewish
ancestry. • See: WWWIA, 6; NAW.
Bronowski, Jacob; b. Poland, Jan 18 1908;
d. Aug 221974.
To US 1964. • MA, PhD Cambridge U. •
Public servant, noted popular historian of
1926,1928.
Bronstine, Max; b. 1877; d. Denver, Jan 10
1933.
Communal worker, Denver. • See: A]YB,
To US 1891.· MA, D Mus Musical Inst
(Warsaw)/St Petersburg Conservatory. •
Composer, singer, tchr,lecturer,NYC;
specialty:]ewish folk music, Russian music;
faculty Inst of Musical Art; music critic
Forward. • See: UJE; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):7071,24:125; WWWIA, 1; NYTimes,]uly 13
1924,22:4.
35:122.
Brooks, George B; b.*; d. Providence, Feb
161923.
Communal worker, Providence. • See: A]YB,
25:138.
Brounstein, Leon; b. Mar 111900.
Brooks, Ludwig; b. ca 1843; d. Seattle, Oct
291915.
Rabbi, Seattle. • See: A]YB, 18(1916-
Syracuse U. • Mfr, communal worker,
Syracuse; pres YMHA; officer State Fedn of
YMHAs.• See': WWL4.], 1938.
1917):106.
Brown, A B J; b. Posen, June 12 1854.
Brooks, Maurice; b. 1893?; d. NYC, Mar 8
1952.
Newspaper mgr, exec, NYC; with Der Tog. •
See: A]YB, 54:538.
Brooks, Max; b.*; d. San Francisco, Nov 12
1909.
Mem School Bd, San Francisco. • See: A]YB,
12(1910-1911):109.
Brooks, Morris; b. Lutzk, Poland, May 28
1892.
To Brooklyn 1896. • MD LI CollHospital. •
Physician, Brooklyn; with Metropolitan Life;
Brooks, Sam D; b. Husi, Rumania, Mar 28
1877.
To US 1900. • Civic & communal worker,
Corsicana, TX; officer synagog, B'nai B'rith;
WWI chr Am]ewish Relief Com. • See:
WWIA],1928.
Bronner, Augusta Fox (Mrs William
Healy); b. Louisville, July 22 1881; d.
Clearwater, FL, Dec 111966.
Broun, Aaron; b. London, Mar 1 1894.
Beaux Arts. • Artist, NYC; publisher Modern
Poster Annual. • See: A]YB, 24:125; WWIA],
Brounoff, Platon G; b. Elizavetgrad, May
101863/1869; d. NYC,July 111924.
Bronfman, Edgar Miles; b. Montreal, 1929.
To NYC 1955. • Distiller, industrialist,
communalldr, NYC; pres World]ewish Cong;
active Am]ewish Com, Am]ewish Cong, AntiDefamation League, Natl Urban League. •
1914):269.
1938; BEOA].
1913):126.
Bronfenbrenner, Jacques Jacob; b.
Cherson, Russia, Nov 211883; d. Aug 13
1953.
Broudy, Louis;. b. ca 1843; d. Pittsburgh,
Mar 81913.
Rabbi, Pittsburgh. • See:A]YB, 15(1913-
Broslow; Israel; b. Dashev, Russia, Apr 26
1906; d. NYC, July 28 1985.
To US 1930s. • Labor ldr, communal worker,
author; pres]ewish Forward Assn; officer
ILGWU; active Workmen's Circle,]ewish
Labor Com, Yiddish Inst, Jewish Socialist
Verband, Cong for]ewish Culture. • See:
A]YB, 87:437.
Broude, Bertholde Charles; b. Moscow,
Mar 81884.
Rabbi, San Francisco; earlier Seattle, San]ose,
Oakland.· See:A]YB, 5(1903-1904):47,
6(1904-1905):215. • *See Brown, E B M.
Brown, Aaron; b. Warsaw, July 41884; d.
NYC,Jan 241945.
To NYC 1889.· CCNY, MD Cornell.·
Physician, allergist, NYC; faculty NYU; author
in field.· See:A]YB, 47:520; UlJVlA], 1938;
NYTimes,]an25 1945, 19:2.
Brown, Albert Louis; b. Cincinnati, Feb 27
1899; d. Cincinnati,June 1963.
BS, MD U Cincinnati, post-grad U PA.·
Ophthalmologist, Cincinnati; faculty U
Cincinnati; active med soc; author in field;
WWII humanitarian service (England). • See:
WWIA], 1938;NYTimes,]une 111963, 37:4.
Brown, Benjamin; b. Tulchin, Russia, Apr
10188S;d.Highbtown,~,FebI2
1939.
To US 1901.· Drexel, PA State.· Communal
farm colonizer, colonist, ldr in farm
cooperatives, turkey king, UT, NYC,
Hightstown, NJ; pres]ewish Agricultural &
Colonial Assn; advisor iIi Russia toJewish
agricultural colonists. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB,
41:419; WWIA], 1938;NYTimes, Feb 13 1939,
15:3.
Brown, Bernard Lewis; b. Poland, Feb 6
-1891.
Cooper Union, NYU. • Dept store exec,
80
Brown, Charles Chester
Brown, Charles Chester; b. NYC, Jan 1
1887; d. Providence,AfayI949.
CCNY, DDS NYU. • Dentist, merchant,
Providence; officer Miriam Hospital,
Community Fund. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
Brown, Frederick W; b. Carlsbad, AZ/
Pilsen, Austria, Apr 291870; d. NYC,
Dec 101960.
To US 1890.· Honorary degree. • Realtor,
philanthropist, NYC; fundraiser Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies; benefactor NYU, Heb
U, Heb Union ColI. • See: UJE; AJYB, 63:558;
WWIAJ, 1926,1928, 1938;NYTimes, Dec 11
1960,88:4.
Brown, Charlotte (Afrs); b. ca 1853; d.
Detroit, Afay 22 1933.
Communal worker, Detroit. • See: AJYB,
35:122.
Brown, Gerson Jacob; b. Buffalo, Aug 29
1877; d. Feb 1957.
Cornell. • Stockbroker, NYC. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; NYTimes, Feb 41957, 19:2.
Brown, David; b. Baronov, Russia, Afar 8
1864.
To US 1884. • Merchant, realtor, Williamson,
WVA; active Joint Distribution Com. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Brown, Harold; b. NYC, 1927.
PhD Columbia. • US Secy of Defense,
physicist, nuclear policy/disarmament advisor;
earlier Secy ofAir Force; faculty Cal Tech,
Johns Hopkins. • See: EJ:1973-1982.
Brown, David Abraham; b. Edinburgh, Nov
3/23 1875; d. NYC, Dec 22 1958.
To Detroit 1879. • Honorary degree. •
Industrialist, banking consult, civic &
communal reliefldr & fundraiser, Detroit,
NYC, then Los Angeles; natl chr Am Jewish
Relief Campaign, United Jewish Campaign;
US chr China Famine Relief; publisher Am
Reb; active Joint Distribution Com, Union of
Am Heb of Congregations. • See: UJE; EJ;
AJYB, 24:125,61:415; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928,
1938; BEOAJ; WWWL4, 5; NYTimes, Dec 24
1958; 2:4.
Brown, Harry A; b. ca 1862; d. Portland,
OR, Apr 211935.
Communal worker, Portland, OR.· See:
AJYB, 37:255.
communal worker, Brooklyn. • See: WWIAJ,
1928.
Brown, Dora; b.*; d. Apr 301938.
Principal, tchr, Youngstown; with Free
Evening School for Foreign Born. • See:
AJYB, 40:382.
Brown, E B M (Alphabet Brown); b.*
Rabbi, Toledo. • See: AJYB, 7(19051906):120. • *See Brown, A B J.
Brown, Eddy; b. Chicago, July 15 1895/
1896; d. Abano, Italy, June 1974.
Royal Conservatory (Budapest & Petrograd). •
Concert violinist, NYC; faculty NYU; orgr
Chamber Music Soc of Am; musical advisor to
Mutual Broadcasting. • See: UJE; AJYB,
24:125;WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;BEOAJj
Brown, Edward E; b. Peekskill, NY, Feb 12
1901.
AB, MD U MI. • Physician, pediatrician,
Elmhurst, NY, NYc.. See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Brown, Felix Harry (F Harry); b. Rostok,
Austria, July 23 1908; d. NYC, Jan 7
1978.
To US 1938.· Columbia, LLB NY Law, CPA.
• Publishing co exec, NYC; with Book of the
Month Club. • See: WWU7lA, 7; NYTimes, Jan
9 1978, IV 7:4.
Brown, Fred; b~ Pressburg, Hungary, May
181905.
To US 1907. • AB, MA, PhD OH State, U
Vienna. • Psychologist, Binghamton, NY;
faculty PA State; with State Bureau ofJuvenile
Research (Columbus, OH); author in field. •
See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Brown, Harry Joe; b. Pittsburgh, Sep 22
1893; d. Apr 281972.
U MI, LLB Syracuse U. • Motion picture dir,
producer, Beverly Hills; pres Federal
Television Productions; WWI service. • See:
WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Apr 291972,34:5.
Brown, Hine Arthur; b. NYC, Apr 8 1906.
Mus B U WA, Juilliard, France. • Conductor;
with El Paso & Louisville Symphonies. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Brown, Hugo; b. Altenochonbach, Bavaria,
Feb 111858.
To AL 1873. • Royal Bavarian ColI. •
Insurance agent, Mobile; pres Philharmonic
Soc. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Brown, Irwin F; b. ca 1895; d. Apr 61939.
Fraternal & Jewish war veteran Idr, Paterson. •
See:AJYB,41:419.
Brown, Jack C; b. ca 1879; d. Boston, Oct
221944.
Leather expert; author/editor/publisher in
field. • See:AJYB, 47:520; NYTimes, Oct 23
1944,19:3.
Brown, Jacob G; b.*; d. Detroit, Aug 29
1917.
20(1918-1919):227.
Brown, Leah; b. Bobruisk, Russia, Oct 28
1890; d. Brooklyn, Sep 1 1970.
To US 1906. • Co-fdr, natl officer Pioneer
Womens Org of Am; editor Pioneer Womens
Journal. • See: AJYB, 72:536.
Brown, Leo Af (Leopold Melville); b.
Livingston, AL, July 26 1878.
U PA. • Lawyer, civic & communal worker,
Mobile; officer Public Library Bd; active Am
Jewish Com. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938.
Brown, Lew; b. New Haven, Dec 101894;
d. Feb 5 1958.
Producer, songwriter, Scarsdale; "Yes We
Have No Bananas." • See: WWWIA, 3;
NYTimes, Feb 6 1958,27:3.
Brown, Aferliss (Murdock Aferliss); b.
Minsk, Oct 5 1885.
To US 1906. • Automobile exec, Civic ldr,
Flint, MI; with Chevrolet; mem Bd of
Managers; officer Community Fund Bd; active
YMCA, Republican politics. • See: WWIAJ,
1928, 1938;BEOAJ.
Brown, Afeyer; b. ca 1874; d. Kansas City,
June 12 1936.
Communal & Zionist worker, Kansas City. •
See:AJYB,38:426.
Brown, Afeyer L; b. Bialystok, Jan 7 1889;
d. Brooklyn, Nov 2 1965.
To US 1901. • Labor Zionistldr, author; pres
Farband,JTS, Peoples U.· See:AJYB, 67:533;
NYTimes, Nov 3 1965,35:1.
Brown, Wchael; b. Russia, ca 1890; d.
Brooklyn, Jan 23 1947.
To US as child. • City editor, Jewish Morning
Journal, NYC. • See: AJYB, 49:609; NYTimes,
Jan 24 1947,22:3.
Brown, Wchael Stuart; b. NYC, 1941.
BA, PhD U PA.· Medical geneticist, Nobel
laureate, Bethesda, MD, Dallas; with Natl Inst
of Health, UTX.· See: EJ:1985-1987.
Brown, Wlton Leopold; b. Afobile, Mar 6
1877.
BS U AL. • Mfr, Mobile; officer Community
Chest, Rotary Crippled Children Com. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Brown, Afonris; b. Vienna, 1895?;d.NYC,
Aug 13 1965.
To US 1902. • Mfr, philanthropist; officer
United Jewish Appeal; trustee Beth Abraham
Hospital, Brandeis.· See:AJYB, 67:533;
Brown, Afrs David A; b. ca 1878; d. Detroit,
Feb 11924.
26:154.
Brown, Afurdock Merliss; see Brown,
Merliss.
Brown, Nicholas L; b. Russia.
Publisher, Philadelphia.· See:AJYB, 24:125.
Brown, Samuel; b. Vilna, July 1 1886.
To US 1903.· MD UTN.· Physician,
Cincinnati; faculty U Cincinnati; author in
field; WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928,
1938.
Brown, Saul Pardo; b.*; d. Cura~o, Apr 17
1702.
Early religious Idr, wholesale merchant,
Newport, NYC. • See: EJ; BDEAJ.
Brown, Sidney J; b. Sanford, FL, Apr 4
1894.
U MD. • Insurance exec, Jacksonville, FL;
officer professional assn. ., See: WWIAJ, 1928.
81
Brown, Stanley Lawrence; b. Brooklyn,
Mar 81911; d. Santa Monica, Sep 1964.
NYU. • Distillery exec, financial consult,
realtor, Los Angeles; wwn fundraiser. • See:
WWWIA, 4; NITimes, Sep 29 1964, 43:3.
Brown, Wtlliam S; b. ca 1895; d. Deal, NJ,
Aug261934.
Hotel keeper, philanthropic worker, NYc. •
See:AJYB,37:255.
Brown, Wolf; b. Lomza, Russia, Dec 14
1858.
Cantor, NYc. • See:AJYB, 5(1903-1904):47.
Browne,Le~sAllen;b.London,June24
1897; d.Jan 3 1949.
To US 1911/1912. • AB U Cincinnati, BH
Heb Union CoIl, Jewish Inst of Religion, Yale.
• Author of popular nonfiction, lecturer, world
traveler, rabbi, CT, NJ, CA, HI; contributor
Nation, New Republic. • See: UJE; AJYB,
51:520; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; BEOAJ;
WWWIA,2.
Brownstein, Herman Irwin; b. Brooklyn,
May261898.
EE Brooklyn Polytech, LLB Brooklyn Law. •
Lawyer, Jamaica, NY; active Zionist Org of
Am.· See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Broyde, Isaac; b. Zelba, RussiaIPorozowa,
Grodno, Feb 23 1867; d. NYC, 1922.
Ecole des Hautes Etudes (Paris), PhD
Sorbonne. • Arabist, librarian, Paris, NYC,
Cincinnati; with JE, NY Public Library, Heb
Union CoIl Library; author in field. • See: JE;
UJE;AJYB, 6(1904-1905):71; WWWIA, 4.
Broza, Stanley Alexander; b. Philadelphia,
Oct 191897.
Radio exec, Philadelphia. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bruce, Lenny (horn Leonard Alfred
Schneider); b. Mineola, NY, Oct 13
1925; d. Hollywood, CA, Aug 3 1966.
Controversial comedian, NYC, San Francisco;
wwn service. • See: WWWIA, 4; DAB, 8;
NITimes, Aug 4 1966, 33:2.
Bruch, Hilda; b. Germany; d. Dec 15 1984.
To US 1934. • MD U Freiburg. • Psychiatrist,
psychoanalyst, pediatrician, NYC, Houston;
faculty.U Leipzig, Johns Hopkins, Baylor,
Washington-Baltimore Inst, Columbia; author
in field. • See: WWWIA, 8.
Bruck, Maurice; b. Perth Amboy, July 29
1896.
NJ Law. • Merchant, Perth Amboy; active
synagog.· See: WWIA], 1928,1938.
Bruck, Samuel; b. Russia, Dec 23 1885; d.
Philadelphia,Jan 1958.
MD U P A. • Physician, roentgenologist,
Philadelphia; author in field. • See: BEOA];
NITimes, Jan 12 1958,86:4.
Bruck, Solomon; h. Zoczow, Galicia, Mar 1
1889.
Columbia. • Communal & civic worker,
Pomona, NY; orgr, pres]ewish Community
Center; officer Boy Scouts; trustee District
Public School. • See: WWIA], 1928.
Buchhalter, Julius
Bruckman, Henrietta Kahn (Mrs Philip
Bruckma.n); b. Bohemia, Apr 1810; d.
NYC, Ca 1842.
To USca 1842. • Fdr, Order of True Sisters
(lst]ewish womens lodge in US), NYc. • See:
]E.
Brudno, Ezra Selig; b. Volozhin, Lithuania,
June 5 1877IMay 28 1878.
To US 1892/to Cleveland 1894. • Western
Reserve Law, Yale, Sorbonne. • Lawyer,
author, novelist, Cleveland. • See: UJE; A]YB,
6(1904-1905):71,24:126; WWIA], 1928, 1938;
BEOA]; WWWIA, 6.
Brudno, Mollie Rothenberg (Mrs Emil
Brudno); b. Cleveland, Sep 20 1880.
Radio mgr, communalldr, Cleveland; fdr, pres
Fedn of]ewish Womens Org; nat! dir Nat!
Council of] ewish Women. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Bruenn, Bernard; b. New Orleans, Apr 17
1859; d. New Orleans, Oct 4 1916.
Soule Commercial CoIl, Tulane. • Lawyer,
railroad exec, communalldr, New Orleans. •
See: PA]HS, 26:275-76.
Bruenn, Zachary (Zacharie); b. ca 1823; d.
New Orleans, Nov 221912.
Merchant, communal worker, New Orleans. •
See:A]YB,15(1913-1914):269.
Brukenfeld, Morris; b. Austria, Dec 25
1878; d. Mar 1958.
To US 1899. • Merchant, realtor, communal
worker, NYC.· See: WWIA], 1928, 1938;
NITimes, Mar 141958, 25:1.
Brumberg, Joseph; b. Buffalo, Dec 211888.
Buffalo U, Columbia. • Physician,
dermatologist, Buffalo; faculty U Buffalo;
WWI service. • See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1938.
Brunn, H; b. *
Surgeon, coIl professor, San Francisco. • See:
A]YB, 24:126.
Brunner, Arnold Wtlliam; b. NY, Sep 25
1857; d. NYC, Feb 14 1925.
MIT. • Architect, civic planner, NYC; mem
Bd of Education; fdr Architectural League of
NY; officer cultural socs. • See: ]E; UJE; E];
A]YB, 6(1904-1905):71, 24:126, 27:151;
PA]HS, 31:253-55.
Bruns~ck,
Chester H; b. ca 1885; d. St
Louis, Aug 12 1912.
Deputy Harbor & Wharf Commr, St Louis. •
See:A]YB,15(1913-1914):269.
Brunswick, Mark; b. NYC,Jan 61902; d.
May261971.
Composer, music tchr, NYC; faculty CCNY;
chr Nat! Com Refugee Musicians; officer
professional socs. • See: WWWIA, 5; NITimes,
May 28 1971, 36:1.
Bruns~ck, Ruth Jane Mack (Mrs Mark
Bruns~ck); b. Chicago, Feb 17 1897;
d.
NYC,Jan 241946.
BA Radcliffe, MD Tufts. • Psychoanalyst,
Vienna, NYC; active Vienna Psychoanalytic
Soc, NY Psychiatric Inst. • See: NAW; DAB, 4;
NITimes, Jan 26 1946, 13:3.
Bruson, Herman Alexander; b.
Middletown, OH,July 201901; d. May
311981.
BSc MIT, DSc Federal Polytech Inst (Zurich);
honorary degree. • Chemist, inventor, patent
holder, author, New Haven; research on
petroleum based chemicals. • See: WWWIA, 7.
Brustein, Robert Sanford; b. 1927.
Drama critic; with New Republic; dean Yale
School of Drama. • See: EJ; E]:1973-1982.
Bryks, Rachmil; b. Skarzysko, Poland,
1912; d. 1974.
To US 1949.• Yiddish poet, novelist,
Auschwitz survivor, NYC; poet ofWWII Lodz
ghetto. • See: EJ:1973-1982.
Brylawski, Edward; b. Norfolk, June 8
1866; d. Apr 1951.
Investment banker, philanthropic ldr,
Philadelphia; bd Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
• See: WWIA], 1928; NITimes, Apr 30 1951,
21:3.
Brylawski, Michael; b. ca 1840; d.
Philadelphia, Jan 1915.
Communal worker, Confederate Civil War
service, Philadelphia.· See:A]YB, 17(19151916):219.
Bubis, Hattye Raphael (Mrs David S
Bubis); b. Adanta, July 3 1899.
GA Peabody CoIl. • Tchr, communalldr,
Nashville; active Young Womens Heb Assn,
Nat! Council of]ewish Women.· See:
WWIA],1938.
Bubis, Jacob Louis; b. Cleveland, July 23
1885.
MD OH Wesleyan. • Gynecologist,
obstetrician, Cleveland. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Bublick, Gedaliah; b. Grodno, Oct 10 1875;
d. NYC, Mar 18 1948.
To NYC 1904. • Yiddish journalist, Orthodox
Zionist ldr, NYC; editor Jewish Daily News; a
fdr Am]ewish Cong, Mizrachi; exec com
World Zionist Org, ] ewish Agency; led group
of]ewish families to Argentina. • See: UJE; E];
A]YB, 24:126, 50:513-14; WWIA], 1926, 1928,
1938; NITimes, Mar 191948,23:2.
Buchalter, Louis (Lepke); b. 1897; d. 1944.
Criminal, gangster, racketeer; executed for
murder. • See: EJ.
Buchau, Max; b. ca 1841; d. NYC, Oct 18
1904.
Yiddish writer, journalist, NYC. • See: A]YB,
7(1905-1906):216.
Buchbindet, Jacob Richter; b. Chicago, Apr
111887; d. Sep 17 1947.
AB, MD Northwestern.· Surgeon, Chicago;
faculty Northwestern; WWI service. • See:
WWIA], 1938; WWWIA, 3; NITimes, Sep 19
1947,23:1.
Buchhalter, Julius; b. Mariampol, SuwaIk,
Aug 171860.
82
Buchhalter, Simon
Heb tchr, author, NYC; officer Union of
Orthodox Heb Congregations. e See: AJYB,
6(1904-1905):72.
Bucky, Gustav; b. Leipzig, Sep 3 1880; d.
1963.
Buchhalter, Simon; b. Russia, 1881.
Pianist, composer, NYC. e See: AJYB, 24:126.
To NYC 1933. e MD ULeipzig. e
Radiologist, NYC; worked with Albert
Einstein; author in field. e See: EJ; WWIAJ,
1938.
Buchler, Samuel; b~ Budapest, Mar 21
1884.
Bucove, Bernard; b. South Porcupine,
Ontario, Nov 3 1912; d. Oct 41973.
PhD U Switzerland (Berne). e Lawyer, public
servant, rabbi, prison chaplain, NYC; fdr
Jewish Court ofArbitration; pres Fedn of
HungarianJews. e See: WWIAJ; 1926, 1928.
In US 1949-1970.• MD, DPH UToronto. e
Physician, health admr, educator, WA, NYC;
consult US Public Health Service; officer
professional socs; wwn Canadian service. e
See: WWWIA, 6; NYTimes,Oct 5 1973, 34:4.
Lawyer, NYC; secy Peace Arbitration League.
e
See:AJYB, 13(1911-1912):136.
Bullowa, Emilie M; b. NYC, ca 1869; d.
NYC, Oct 25 1942.
LLB NYU. e Lawyer, NYC; a fdr Nat! Assn of
Women Lawyers; bd NY Med ColI & Hospital
for Women. e See:AJYB, 45:382;NYTimes,
Oct261942,15:3.
Bullowa,Jesse Godfrey M; b. NYC, Oct 19
1879; d. Nov 9 1943.
AB CCNY, MD Columbia. e Physician, NYC;
faculty NYU; author in field. II See: UJE;
AJYB, 46:335; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928, 1938;
Buchman, Albert; b. ca 1860; d. NYC, Apr
15 1936.
Architect, NYC. e See:AJYB, 24:126, 38:426.
Budner, Harold Sydney; b. NYC, May 8
1893.
23:2.
Buchman, Jacob Manuel; b. Leova, Russia,
Mart21881.
AB CCNY, MA, LLB Columbia. e Lawyer,
NYC; active Am Jewish Cong, city politics,
taxpayers assn. e See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Buloff, Joseph; b. Vilna, Dec 6 1899; d.
NYC, Feb 27 1985.
To US 1906. • Merchant, window shade mfr,
Tampa; active synagog. e See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Budnich, Jacob; b. ca 1873; d. May 141938.
Buchman, Joseph; b. Hommel, Russia, Mar
13 1898.
To NYC 1905.· BS,MD Columbia.·
Orthopedist, surgeon, NYC; faculty NYU;
author in field. e See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Bucholtz, SamuelH; b. NYC, 1909; d. Los
Angeles, May 1978.
Psychologist, communal exec, Los Angeles;
with]ewish Bd of Guardians, synagog; officer
Am Jewish Com. e See:AJYB, 80:363;
Zionist worker, Dayton, OH; active Jewish
Nat! Fund... See:AJYB, 40:382.
Hudson, Fannie Dushman (Mrs Alexander
Budson); b. Russia, July 5 1889.
To US 1894. e NJ Training School for Tchrs.
e Social work exec, public school tchr,
Trenton; exec dir YMHA, Jewish Fedn; orgr
Sunday school; dir Nat! CouncilJewish
Women. • See: WWIAJ, 1938.
Budzinsky, Nissan Z; b. ca 1860; d.
Chicago, Oct 111945.
Rabbi, Chicago. • See: AJYB, 48:485.
Buchsbaum, Elizabeth Mabel; b. Ft
Corregidor, Philippine Islands, Nov 25
1909.
Bueno (de Mesquita), Joseph; see
Mesquita, Joseph Bueno de.
Chicago Art Inst, U Chicago. e Artist, tchr,
Gary, IN; active professional orgs. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938.
Buerger, CharlesR; b. Vienna, ca 1882; d.
Pittsburgh, Jan 3 1939.
Buchsbaum, Sigmund; b. ca 1860; d.
Philadelphia, Apr 30 1936.
CCNY, Stevens Tech. e Engineer, oil official,
Pittsburgh; active industrIa'! orgs. • See: AJYB,
41:420; NYTimes, Jan 41939,21:5.
Realtor, communal worker, Philadelphia.
See: AJYB, 38:426.
e
Buchwald, Nathaniel; b. Polonia, Apr 14
1890; d. NYC, July 71956.
To US 1908. e Yiddish writer, drama critic;
fdr, drama critic Freiheit; fdr Yiddish drama
group. e See: EJ; AJYB, 59:474; NYTimes, July
9 1956,23:4.
Buerger, Leo; b. Vienna, Sep 13 1879; d.
NYC,Oct61943.
To US 1880. eAB, MA, MD Columbia, U
Breslau. e Surgeon, urologist, NYC;
. discovered Buergers Disease; inventor/author
in field. e See: UJE; EJ; AJYB, 24:126,46:335;
WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Oct 7 1943,
23:2.
Buckin, Leon; b. Russia, 1874; d. Paterson,
Dec61941.
Bugenstein, Morris; b. Teofipole,
Volhynia, May 61869.
To US 1904. e Rabbi, cantor, Paterson. e See:
AJYB, 44:335; NYTimes, Dec 71941,76:1.
To US 1889. e Businessman, communal &
civic ldr, Cedar Rapids; officer Zionist district;
active Am Jewish Congo .. See: WWIAJ, 1928,
Buckstein, Abraham; b. near Ostrov,
Volhynia.
1938;BEOAJ.
To NYC 1912. e U Berne, U Leipzig,
Columbia, NYU. II Yiddish novelist, journalist,
playwright. • See: UJE:
Biihler, Charlotte Bertha Malachowski
(Mrs Karl Biihlet)j b. Berlin, Dec 20
1893; d.Feb 3 1974.
Buckstein, Jacob; b. NYC, July 21.1890; d.
Sep 1962.
BS CCNY, MD Cornell. e Physician,
gastroenterologist, NYC; with US Public
Health Service, US Veterans Bureau; author in
field; WWI service. e See: WWIAJ, 1938;
NYTimes,Sep 201962,33:3.
To US 1940. e U Freiburg, U Kiel, U Berlin,
PhD U Munich. e Psychologist, Los Angeles;
specialty: child development; faculty Dresden
Inst, U Vienna, U Southern CA; active
"humanistic psychology movement"; author in
field. e See: EJ; WWWIA, 6; NAW.
Bullowa, Alfred L M; b. *; d. NYC, Oct 15 .
1910.
BEOAJ; WWWL4,2;NYTimes,Nov10 1943,
To US 1927. e Important Yiddish & Broadway
actor, author, NYC, Israel. II See: EJ; AJYB,
87:437.
Bulova, Arde; b. ca 1889; d. Encino, CAl
NYC, Mar 18 1958.
Radio station owner, business exec, NYC; mem
Pres Co~ of the Employment of the Physically
Handicapped; dir World Rehabilitation Fund.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWL4, 3; NYTimes,
Mar 20 1958, 29:1.
Bulova, Joseph; b. ca 1852; d. NYC, Nov 18
1935.
Watchmfr, NYc. e See:AJYB, 38:426.
Bunchuk, Yascha; b. Russia, ca 1896; d. Los
Angeles, Aug 31 1944.
Cellist, conductor; motion picture co musical
dir. e See: AJYB, 47:520; NYTimes, Sep 1 1944,
13:4.
Bunim, Irving Mayer; b. Volozyn, Vilna,
June 2 1901; d. Dec 1980.
CCNY, Columbia. • Cotton jobber, textile
exec, communal education & fundraising ldr,
NYC; active Young Israel, Mizrachi; donor
Jewish scholarships. e See: AJYB, 82:364;
BEOAJ; NYTimes, Dec 16 1980, IV 21 :6.
Bunim, Joseph Jay; b. Wolozin, Russia, Nov
5 1906; d. Bethesda, MD, July 8 1964.
To US 1910. • BSc CCNY, MD, ScD NYU. •
Physician, researcher, Bethesda, MD; with
Nat! lost of Arthritis; faculty Georgetown U,
Johns Hopkins; author/consult iIi field. e See:
AJYB, 66:573; WWWL4, 4; NYTimes, July 9
1964,33:2.
Bunshaft, Gordon; b. Buffalo, 1909.
Architect, NYC; specialty: large commercial
bldgs. II See: EJ.
Bunzel, Ruth Leah; b. NYC, 1898.
Anthropologist; specialty: Indians, Chinese in
NYC; faculty Columbia; author in field. e See:
EJ.
Burack, Aaron David; b. Popelan, Kovno,
May 14/16 1892; d. Brooklyn, Oct 7
1960.
To US 1914. • RIETS, Yeshiva ColI. • Rabbi,
Brooklyn; faculty RIETS; officer Union of
Orthodox Rabbis; nat! bd Mizrachi. • See:
83
Burstein, Pesach
AJYB, 63:558-59; WWIAJ, 1926,1928,1938;
NITimes, Oct 8 1960,23:3.
Zeitgeist; regular contributor Forward, Zukunft;
active Jewish labor movement. • See: UJE.
Burack, Abraham Solomon; h. NYC, Feh 12
1908; d. Brookline, MA, June 1978.
Boston U. • Publisher, Boston. • See: WWIAJ,
1938; NITimes, June 30 1978, II 2:6.
Burgreen, David; h. NYC, Aug 11917; d.
Nov 301979.
BCE CCNY, M Aero Engineering, PhD
Brooklyn Polytech. • Nuclear engineer, atomic
energy expert; faculty Brooklyn Polytech;
author in field; WWII service. • See:
WWWIA, 7.
Bumshaw, Stanley Alfred; h. NYC, June 20
1906.
AB U Pittsburgh, MA Cornell. • Advertising
agent, author, Pittsburgh then NYc. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Burk, Samuel B; h. Paterson, Jan 5 1889.
MD Cornell, post-grad Europe, LLB, LLM
Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer, surgeon, NYC;
active med assns; author in field; WWI service.
• See: WWIAJ, 1928, 1938.
Burnstein, Alexander J; b. Kiev, Mar 19
1900; d. NYC, Oct 17 1980.
To US 1914. • OrdainedJTS, AB
Northwestern, MA Columbia; honorary
degree. • Conservative rabbi, NYC; active
rescue of refugee Jewish ministers, interfaith
concerns. • See: AJYB, 82:364; WWIAJ, 1938.
Burack, Ethel; h. Newark, Mar 20 1907.
AB Columbia, PhD Yale.· Biochemist, New
Haven; specialty: vitamins; faculty Yale. • See:
WWIAJ,1938.
Burck, Jacoh; h. Visoky, Poland, Jan 10
1904/1907;d. May 11 1982.
To US 1914.· Cleveland Art School, Art
Students League. • Editorial cartoonist,
illustrator, mural painter; with Chicago SunTimes.· See: WWIAJ, 1938; WWWIA, 8;
NITimes, May 13 1982, IV27:5.
Burd, Ahraham M; h. Kiev, Nov 1 1878; d.
July 1957.
To US 1890.· Communal worker,
Philadelphia; active Talmud Torahs,JTS,
United Synagogue of Am, communal charities.
• See: WWIAJ, 1938; NYTimes, July 26 1957,
19:4.
Burg,Joseph; h. Nadwoma, Poland, Oct 3
1900.
Ordained RIETS, CCNY, PhD Natl U of
Sciences (Chicago), Reb U. • Rabbi, author,
Yonkers.· See: WWIAJ, 1926, 1928.
Burger, Adolph; h. Kozma, Czechoslovakia,
Sep 21 1887; d. Tampa,]an 18 1942;
To US 1907. • Dropsie.· Rabbi, Tampa;
officer Zionist Org of Am, FL Rabbinical Assn,
LibraryBd.· See:AJYB, 44:335; WWIAJ,
1938.
Burger, Joseph; h. llonok "Pjfolu, Hungary,
Sep 15 1866; d. May 3 1933.
To US 1890.· Restaurateur, communal &
civic worker; officer trade assns; active Denver
Shelter Home for Jewish Children, Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies, advocate profit-sharing.
• See:AJYB, 35:122; WWIAJ, 1926,1928;
BEOAJ; NYTimes, May41933, 17:4.
Burger, Victor Joseph; h. Knoxville, Sep 17
1881.
U TN. • Communal worker, philanthropist,
Louisville; pres Jewish Welfare Fedn. • See:
WWIAJ, 1928 (addenda), 1938.
Burgheim, David; h. ca 1821; d.
Indianapolis, Aug 3 1910.
Rabbi, author, Indianapolis. • See: AJYB,
13(1911.;.1912):1'35.
Burgheim, J; h. ca 1845; d~ Houston, Dec
1920.
Consul for Nicaragua, Houston. • See: AJYB,
23:131.
Burgin, (Samuel) Hertz; h. Malat,
Lithuania, 1870.
To US ca 1904. • Jewish Tchrs Inst (Vilna),
Polytechnical Inst (Riga). • Communal
educator, rabbi, Sebezh, Lithuania, Riga; editor
Burkan, Nathan; h. Jassy, Nov 8 1879; d.
LI,june 61936.
CCNY, LLB NYU. • Lawyer, civic & political
ldr, NYC; chr Triborough Bridge Authority;
counsel Am Soc of Composers, Authors &
Publishers; aGtive Democratic politics. • See:
UJE; AJYB, 38:426; WWIAJ, 1926, 1928;
NITimes, June 71936, II 9:1.
Burlin, Paul; h. NYC, Sep 10 1886; d. Mar
13 1969.
Painter, NYC; used Southwestern Native
American themes. • See: UJE; AJYB, 24:126;
BEOAJ; WWWIA, 5; NYTimes, Mar 151969,
33:4.
Burman, Aaron; h. Kishinev, Apr 30 1892.
To Syracuse 1905.· BS, MD Syracuse U. •
Physician, Syracuse; pres Zionist Org of Am;
officer Jewish Welfare Fund.· See: WWIAJ,
1938.
Burman, Edgar Henry; h. Savannah, Aug 12
1897.
PA State ColI, Harvard. • Insurance broker,
communal worker, Brooklyn, NYC; state
officer Jewish War Veterans; active
Democratic politics, anti-Nazi orgs; Mexican
border service. • See: WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Bums, George; h. NYC, Jan 20 1896. .
Comedian, singer, actor, dancer, Beverly Hills,
Los Angeles. • See: WWIAJ,1938.
Burroughs, Harry Emest; h. Kashoftka,
Russia, Apr 15 1890; d.· Brookline, MA,
Dec 181946.
To US 1903. • Suffolk Law School,LLB,
LLM Boston U; honorary degree. • Lawyer,
philanthropist, Boston; fdr H E Burroughs
Newsboys Found; memoirs. • See: UJE; AJYB,
49:609; WWIAJ, 1928, 1938; NYTimes, Dec 19
1946,29:3.
Burstein, Abraham; h. Cleveland, Oct 25
1893; d. Oct 3 1966.
AB, AM Columbia, ordainedJTS. • Rabbi,
author, editor, NYC; execsecyJewish
Academy ofArts & Sciences; editor Jewish
Outlook; chaplain Jewish Theatrical Guild;
WWIJewish Welfare Bd service. • See: UJE;
EJ; AJYB, 68:524; WWIAJ, 1926, 1938;
NYTimes, Oct 4 1966, 47:3.
Burstein, Benjamin; b. Lomza, Apr 11902;
d. NYC, June 17 1964.
To US 1941. • Zionist & communal exec; exec
secyJTS Tchrs Seminary; officer Labor
Zionist Org of Am, Histadrut. • See: AJYB,
66:573.
Burman, HermanJ; h. Russia, July 141898.
To US 1906. • MD Tufts. • Otolaryngologist,
bronchoscopist, NYC; author in field. • See:.
WWIAJ,1938.
Burstein, David L; h. Philadelphia, Dec 2
1906.
BS UPA, LLB Harvard.· Lawyer,
Philadelphia; faculty Natl Farm School; active
Democratic politics. • See: WWIAJ, 1938;
BEOAJ.
Burman, Michael Samuel; h. NYC, Dec 5
1901.
BS CCNY, MD U MI.- Roentgenologist,
pathologist,NYC; author in field. • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Burstein, Elliot M; h. New Haven, Oct 30
1898.
BAColumbia, ordainedJTS, post-grad U UT,
Reed. • Rabbi, Portland, OR; bd Zionist Org
of Am. • See: WWIAJ, 1926.
Bum, Bruno; h. Berlin, Sep 4 1891.
JD, D Pol Sci U Berlin, U Wiirzburg. •
Economist, consult, NYC; author in field;
WWI German government advisor. • See: ,
BEOAJ.
Butstein, Michael (Mordecai); h. US?,
1945.
To Israel 1954. • Pop singer, movie performer,
Israel. • See: EJ (sub Bursteiri).
Burnett, Rohert; h. StJoseph, Oct 71892.
IA U, LLB U MO. • Lawyer, St Louis; WWI
service. • See: WWIAJ, 1928.
Bums, Arthur Frank; h. Stanislau, Austria,
1904.
Columbia. • Economist, chr Federal Reserve
System; faculty Rutgers, Columbia; head Natl
Bureau of Economic Research; author in field.
• See: EJ; EJ: 1973 -1982.
Burstein, Mordecai; h. Chyzew, Poland,
Sep 251887.
To US 1903/1908. • Orthodox rabbi, New
Bedford, MA, Kansas City, Chicago; exec dir
Heb Theological CoIl (Chicago). • See:
WWIAJ, 1938; BEOAJ.
Burstein, Pesach; b. Warsaw, 1900.
To Israel 1954. • Yiddish actor & mgr, NYC,
Brooklyn. • See: EJ (sub Burstein).
84
Burstein, Samuel
Burstein, Samuel; b. NYC, Oct 21 1904.
AB Brooklyn CoIl, MA, LLB NYU, JSD
Brooklyn Law. • Lawyer, NYC; active Fedn of
Jewish Philanthropies. • See: WWIA], 1938.
Burstiner, Joseph; b. ca 1871; d. June 22
1937.
Pioneer apartment house bldr, collector of
trees, East Orahge, NJ. • See: A]YB, 39:589;
Buschman, Sol L; b. NYC, Sep 14 1891; d.
Sep 1945.
Pres, Nad Can Co, NYC. • See: WWIA],
1938; WWWIA, 2; NYTimes, Sep 25 1945,
25:3.
Bush, David; b.*
Early seWer, patriot, Mason, Wilmington, DE,
Philadelphia, • See: UJE.
Bush, Herman L; b. Boston, Mar 4 1893.
LLB Boston U, Harvard. • Lawyer, civic ldr,
Boston; mem City Council; active veterans
assns, public library; Mexican border & WWI
Bush, Hyman P; b.*; d. San Francisco, Dec
291907.
Brigadier-General, CA Nad Guard. • See:
A]YB, 10(1908-1909):128.
Bush (Busch), Isidor; b. Prague, 1822; d.
1898.
To NYC 1849. • Printer, journalist,
viticulturalist, union supporter, alderman,
communal & civic worker, NYC, St Louis;
mem Bd of Education, State Bd of
Immigration; publisher, editor Israels Herold;
pres German Immigrant Aid Soc. • See: UJE;
E].
Bush, Mathias; b. Prague, May 10 1722; d.
Philadelphia, Mar 29 1790.
To Philadelphia ca 1742. • Early Am
merchant, landowner, communalldr,
Philadelphia; contributor PA Hospital; signer
Non-Importation Agreement. • See: UJE;
BDEA].
Bush, Philip Lee; b. San Francisco, June 29
1875; d. June 1954.
BS U CA. • Engineer, civic ldr, communal
worker, San Francisco; pres Bd of Education;
dir US government irrigation & reclamation
projects. • See: WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
Bush, Solomon; b. Philadelphia, Oct 13
1753; d. 1795.
Patriot, revolutionary war officer, Mason; mem
Quaker Abolitionist Soc; active civic affairs. •
See:]E; UJE; E]; BDEA]; PA]HS, 23:177-78.
Butensky, Jules Leon; b. Novogrudok,
Russia, ca 1865/1871; d. NYC, Feb 26
1947.
To NYC 1904. • Academy ofArts (Vienna). •
Sculptor; used Biblical & Jewish themes. • See:
UJE; E]; A]YB, 24:126,49:609; NYTimes, Mar
1 1947, 15:2.
Buttenwieser, BenjaminJoseph; b. NYC,
Oct221900.
AB Columbia. • Banker, civic ldr,
philanthropist, NYC; active Jewish Welfare
Bd; WWII service; asst High Commr for
Germany post WWII. • See: UJE (sub
Buttenwieser, Joseph L); E] (sub
Buttenwieser); WWIA], 1938.
Buttenwieser, Helen Lehman (Mrs
BenjaminJ Buttenwieser); b. 1905.
Lawyer, social worker, civic ldr, NYC. • See:
E] (sub Buttenwieser).
Buttenwieser, Joseph Leon; b.
Philadelphia, Apr 3 1865; d. South
Poland, ME, Aug 171938.
BA CCNY, LLB NYU. • Lawyer, realtor,
communalldr, philanthropist, NYC; a fdr, pres
Fedn ofJewish Philanthropies; bd Heb
Technical Inst; active Heb Sheltering &
Guardian Soc. • See: UJE; E] (sub
Buttenwieser);A]YB, 7(1905-1906):47,24:126,
41:420; WWIA], 1926, 1938; BEOA];
Buttenwieser, Laemmlein; b.
Wassertriidingen, Bavaria, Jan 16 1825;
d. NYC, Sep 23 1901.
To US 1854.· UWiirzberg, U Prague. •
Talmudist, linguist, tchr, Cincinnati,
Philadelphia, NYC. • See: ]E; NYTimes, Sep
241901, 7:6.
Buttenwieser, Moses; b. Beerfelden,
Germany, Apr 5 1862; d. Palo Alto, Mar
11/12 1939.
To US 1897.· ULeipzig, UWurzberg, PhD
U Heidelberg. • Biblical scholar, translator,
Cincinnati; faculty Heb Union CoIl; author in
field. • See: UJE; E]; A]YB, 6(1904-1905):72,
24:126,41:420; WWIA], 1926, 1928, 1938;
WWWIA, 1; NYTimes, Mar 13 1939, 17:5.
Butzel, Fred M; b. Detroit, Aug 25 1877; d.
Detroit, May 20 1948.
PhB U MI; honorary degree. • Lawyer, public
servant, philanthropic & communal worker,
Detroit; commr House of Correction; pres
Nad Conf ofJewish Social Work, Community
Union, Legal Aid Bureau, United Jewish
Charities; bd Urban League; active bar assn. •
See: UJE; E] (sub Butzel); A]YB, 24:126,
50:514; WWIA], 1928,1938; BEOA];
WWWIA,2;NYTimes,May221948, 15:4.
Butzel, Henry Magnus; b. Detroit, May 24
1871; d. Detroit, June 7 1963.
PhB, LLB U MI; honorary degrees. • Lawyer,
state supreme court chief justice, Detroit; a fdr
AmJewish Com; co-fdr Legal Aid Bureau; pres
bar assn; officer United Jewish Charities,
synagog. • See: UJE; E] (sub Butzel); A]YB,
24:126,65:432; WWIA], 1938; BEOA];
WWWIA, 4; NYTimes, June 81963,25:1.
Butzel, Leo M; b. Detroit, 1874; d. Feb 27
1961.
PhB, LLB, LLD U MI. • Banker, lawyer,
Detroit; authority on corporation law; active
AmJewish Com, synagog.· See: E] (sub
Butzel);A]YB, 24:126; WWWIA, 4; NYTimes,
Mar 11961, 33:4.
Butzel, Magnus; b. Burgellem, Bavaria,
1830; d. 1900.
To US 1852. • Clothier, state Republican
Party ldr, civic & communal worker, Detroit;
mem Bd of Education; pres Public Library
Commn; active B'nai B'rith, synagog. • See: E]
(sub Butzel).
Butzel, Martin; b. Burgellem, Bavaria,
1828.
To US 1845. • Wholesale clothier, Union
uniform mfr, communal & civic ldr, Detroit;
pres Public Lighting Commn, synagog;
supporter Jewish colony (Bad Axe, MI). • See:
E] (sub Butzel),
Butzel, Martin L; b. 1906.
Lawyer, communalldr, Detroit; officer
synagog, Am Jewish Com. • See: EJ (sub
Butzel).
Buxbaum, Isador; b.*
Lawyer, municipal judge, Brooklyn. • See:
WWIA], 1938.
Byalostozky, Benjamin Jacob; b. Pompian,
Lithuania, 1892.
To US 1911. • Yiddish poet, essayist,
Pittsburgh, NYC; editor Kinder Welt; co-editor
Der Yiddisher K.emfer, Zeit; staff Forward; active
Poale Zionist movement. • See: UJE.
Byer, Herbert; b. Cincinnati, Oct 311899.
BS OH State. • Advertising agent, novelist,
Columbus, OH; WWI service. • See: WWIA],
1938.
Byer, Samuel G; b. Warsaw, Feb 22 1885.
To US 1906. • Hull House, Chicago Art Inst.
• Artist, Chicago; used Jewish subjects. • See:
WWIA],1938.
Byfield, Albert H; b. Chicago, 1881; d. Los
Angeles, Aug 1946.
Pediatrician, coIlprofessor, Iowa City, Los
Angeles. • See: A]YB, 24:126; NYTimes, Aug
25 1946,46:4.
Byfield, Emest Lessing; b. Chicago, Nov 3
1889; d. Feb 1950.
Armour Inst, Cornell. • Business & hotel exec,
Chicago; WWI service. • See: WWIA], 1938;
NYTimes, Feb 111950, 15:5.
Byfield (bom Beifield), Joseph; b. Hungary,
Aug 22 1853; d. Sep 17 1926.
To US 1867. • Hotel owner, Chicago; WWI
supplier.· See: WWWIA, 1.

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