Review of the Year: Appendices (1941-1942)

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ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS
UNITED STATES
July 7, 1940. New York, N.Y.: Eightieth birthday 9f ABRAHAM
CAHAN, editor of Jewish Daily Forward, novelist, trade union leader.
July 12, 1940. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Celebration of eightieth anniversary
of birth of HENRY KAUFMANN, communal leader.
July 24, 1940. San Francisco, Cal.: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of
ERNEST BLOCH, composer.
August 17, 1940. Newport, R.I.: One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the address of George Washington to the "Hebrew Congregation of Newport, R.I.," celebrated bv Touro Synagogue.
September 20-22, 1940. Omaha, Neb.: Celebration of seventieth
anniversary of founding of TEMPLE ISRAEL.
September 23, 1940. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of seventy-fifth
anniversary of founding of JEWISH HOSPITAL.
October 18-20, 1940. New York, N.Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth
anniversary of NATHAN STERN, as rabbi of West End Synagogue.
October, 1940. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary
of founding of the RUMANIAN AMERICAN CONGREGATION.
November 9, 1940. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of seventy-fifth
anniversary of birth of ELLIS A. GIMBEL, merchant and philanthropist.
November 27-December 1, 1940. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of
two hundredth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION MIKVEH
ISRAEL, fourth oldest Jewish congregation in the United States.
November 29, 1940. Savannah, Ga.: Celebration of one hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of granting of charter to CONGREGATION
MICKVE ISRAEL, oldest Jewish congregation in the South.
November, 1940. Fort Wayne, Ind.: Celebration of seventy-fifth
anniversary of founding of the EMEK BERACHA LODGE of B'nai B'rith.
December 2-9, 1940. New Haven, Conn.: Celebration of one hundredth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL.
December 8, 1940. New York, N.Y.: Celebration of fiftieth anni-
versary of founding of CONGREGATION ZICHRON EPHRAIM and of
BERNARD DRACHMAN as its rabbi.
December 21, 1940. New York, N.Y., and Palestine: Celebration of
eightieth anniversary of birth of HENRIETTA SZOLD, Zionist leader and
founder of Hadassah.
December 22-29, 1940. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of one hundredth anniversary of founding of TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL.
December, 1940. Portland, Ore.: Seventy-fifth anniversary of
founding of PORTLAND LODGE of B'nai B'rith.
January 12, 1941. New York, N.Y.: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of birth of CHAIM TSCHERNOWITZ, Talmudic scholar and professor at Jewish Institute of Religion.
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AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK
January 18, 1941. Boston, Mass.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of the B'NAI ZION EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY.
January 26, 1941. Milwaukee, Wis.: Celebration of eightieth anniversary of birth of SOLOMON I. SCHEINFELD, dean of local rabbinate,
and the fortieth anniversary of his service as rabbi in Milwaukee.
February 14-16, 1941. Buffalo, N.Y.: Celebration of the seventyfifth anniversary of the founding of MONTEFIORE LODGE of B'nai B'rith.
February 16, 1941. New York, N.Y.: Commemoration of the seventyfifth anniversary of death of HENRY JONES, founder of B'nai B'rith.
March 12, 1941. Cincinnati, O.: Celebration of sixtieth anniversary
of birth of JULIAN MORGENSTERN, and the twentieth anniversary of
his presidency of Hebrew Union College.
April 25, 1941. Houston, Tex.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of
founding of CONGREGATION ADATH YESHURUN.
April 26, 1941. New York, N.Y.: Celebration of eighty-fifth anniversary of birth of HENRY MORGENTHAU, Sr., diplomat.
May 2, 1941. Richmond, Va.: Celebration of one hundredth anniversary of the founding of CONGREGATION BETH AHABAH, and the
fiftieth anniversary of EDWARD N. CALISCH in the rabbinate.
May 3, 1941. New York, N.Y.: Celebration of sixtieth anniversary
of birth of ALEXANDER KAHN, manager of The Jewish Daily Forward
and vice-chairman of the J.D.C.
May 28, 1941. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary
of founding of the JEWISH SHELTERING HOME FOR THE AGED.
May 30, 1941. Detroit, Mich.: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of birth of HENRY M. BUTZEL, judge, communal worker.
May, 1941. Washington, D.C.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary
of founding of ARGO LODGE of B'nai B'rith.
OTHER COUNTRIES
July 17, 1940. London, England: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of establishment of the UNITED SYNAGOGUE.
September 9, 1940. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Celebration of one hundredth
anniversary of birth of HERMANN SCHAPIRA, initiator of the Jewish
National Fund and of the Hebrew University, marked by naming of
a street in his memory.
October, 1940.
England: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of birth of ENRICO GLICENSTEIN, sculptor, twice awarded the
Prix de Rome.
November 6, 1940. London, England: Celebration of seventieth
anniversary of birth of VISCOUNT (HERBERT LOUIS) SAMUEL.
November 15, 1940. London, England: Celebration of seventieth
anniversary of birth of JACOB ROSENHEIM (formerly Frankfort, Germany), president of the AGUDATH ISRAEL WORLD ORGANIZATION.
December [6], 1940. Liverpool, England: One hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of founding of LIVERPOOL OLD HEBREW CONGREGATION.
December 14, 1940. Riga, Latvia: Celebration of eightieth anniversary of birth of SOLOMON DUBNOV, historian.
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December 14, 1940. London, England: Celebration of eightieth
anniversary of birth of Rabbi C. SELIGMANN (formerly Frankfort,
Germany).
December [20], 1940. Stockholm, Sweden: Celebration of sixtieth
anniversary of birth of MARTIN LAM, professor of Swedish literature.
December, 1940. London, England: Celebration of one hundredth
anniversary of the establishment of THE JEWISH CHRONICLE.
January, 1941. Jerusalem, Palestine: Celebration of seventy-fifth
anniversary of founding of the DORESH ZION SCHOOL.
February 11-13, 1941. Hedera, Palestine: Celebration of fiftieth
anniversary of founding of the HEDERA COLONY.
February, 1941. Montreal, Canada: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of the STANLEY STREET SYNAGOGUE.
March 1, 1941. Montreal, Canada: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary
of birth of SAMUEL BRONFMAN, industrialist, communal leader.
May 4, 1941. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: Celebration of
seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of J. L. LANDAU, rabbi.
June 1, 1941. Oxford, England: Commemoration of hundredth
anniversary of OXFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY and seventieth anniversary
of repeal of Oxford University religious tests.
APPOINTMENTS, HONORS, AND ELECTIONS
UNITED STATES
ABRAHAMS, EDMUND H., Savannah, Ga., appointed Chairman of
Advisory Board of the National Park Service, reported, Oct. 31, 1940.
ADLER, JULIUS OCHS, Colonel, New York, N.Y., appointed by War
Department as commanding officer of reception center at Fort Dix,
N.J., for induction of men called to duty under the Selective Service
Act; announced Sept. 30, 1940.
ALPERIN, MAURICE G., Boston, Mass., appointed by President
Roosevelt, member of United States Assay Commission, Feb. 3, 1941.
AMBERG, JULIUS H., Grand Rapids, Mich., appointed special assistant to Secretary of War, Jan. 16, 1941.
BARNET, PHILLIP, New Bedford, Mass., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
BAUM, LESTER, New York, N.Y., elected member of New York City
Council, April 1, 1941.
BERLIN, IRVING, New York, N.Y., awarded by National Committee
for Music Appreciation, plaque, for composition "God Bless America,"
Sept. 9, 1940.
BLOOM, SOL, New York, N.Y., re-elected member of United States
House of Representatives, Nov. 5, 1940.
*BLUMENTHAL, GEORGE, New York, N.Y., re-elected president of
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 17, 1941.
BRACKMAN, DAVID M., Roxbury, Mass., re-elected to State Senate,
Nov. 5, 1940.
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BURCK, JACOB, Chicago, 111., awarded Pulitzer Prize for best newspaper cartoon of 1940, announced May 5,'1941.
CELLER, EMANUEL, New York, N.Y., re-elected member of United
States House of Representatives, Nov. S, 1940.
COOK, MILTON, Roxbury, Mass., elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
DAVIDSON, IRWIN D., New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
DEUTSCH, BABETTE, New York, N.Y., awarded Julia Ellsworth Ford
Foundation Prize of $2,000 for best children's book of 1941, "Walt
Whitman: Builder for America," May 23, 1941.
DIAMOND, DAVID, Buffalo, N.Y., appointed by Governor Lehman,
State Supreme Court Justice, to fill vacancy caused by death of Justice
Bertram E. Harcourt, Jan. 15, 1941.
DICKSTEIN, SAMUEL, New York, N.Y., re-elected member of
United States House of Representatives, Nov. 5, 1940.
DOLLINGER, ISIDORE, New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
*EDELSTEIN, M. MICHAEL, New York, N.Y., re-elected member of
EHRLICH, HAROLD B., Buffalo, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
ELLENBOGEN, EDWARD, Omaha, Nebr., appointed chaplain, U.S.
Army, reported, March 19, 1941.
FALK, ALEXANDER A., New York, N.Y., elected to State Senate,
Nov. 5, 1940.
FAEBSTEIN, LEONARD, New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
FEINBERG, BENJAMIN F., Plattsburg, N.Y., re-elected to State
Senate, Nov. 5, 1940.
FERSTER, SAMUEL S., Newark, N.J., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. S, 1940.
FINESTONE, LEWIS J., Philadelphia, Pa., elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
FRANK, JEROME N., New York, N.Y., appointed by President
Roosevelt, Judge of Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Feb. 13, 1941.
FRANKFURTER, FELIX, Washington, D.C., awarded honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws by Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., July 16,
1940.
FRIEDLANP, JACOB, Jersey City, N.J., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
FRIEDMAN, LOUIS L., Brooklyn, N.Y., elected to State Legislature
at special election, Feb. 18, 1941.
GANS, JULIUS J., New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
GILMAN, WILLIAM R., Maiden, Mass., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. S, 1940.
GINZBERG, Louis, New York, N.Y., awarded honorary degree of
Doctor of Hebrew Letters by Dropsie College, Philadelphia, Pa.,
May 18, 1941.
GITTELSON, HARRY, Brooklyn, N.Y., elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
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GOLDWATER, SIGISMUND S., New York, N.Y., awarded 1940 Award
of Merit for "distinguished service in the hospital field" by American
Hospital Association, announced Aug. 28, 1940.
GORBATY, AARON, Cumberland, Md., appointed chaplain in U.S.
GREENBERG, JACOB, New York, N.Y., re-elected by Board of Education, Associate Superintendent of New York City schools, Sept. 11,
1940.
GUTMAN, DANIEL, Brooklyn, N.Y., elected to State Senate, Nov. 5,
1940.
HALPERN, SEYMOUR, Kew Gardens, L.I., N.Y., elected to State
HARRIS, M. M., San Antonio, Tex., elected chairman of board of
trustees of Public Library, reported, June 5, 1941.
HARRIS, NATHAN, Newark, N.J., awarded Silver Star decoration for
an exploit as second lieutenant in the American Expeditionary Force
in October, 1918, reported, April 9, 1941.
HELLMAN, LILLIAN, New York, N.Y., awarded New York Drama
Critics Circle annual award for play "Watch on the Rhine," April 22
1941.
HILLMAN, SIDNEY, New York, N.Y., appointed by President Roosevelt, Associate Director General of Office for Production Management,
Jan. 7, 1941.
HIRSCHMANN, IRA A., New York, N.Y., appointed by Mayor Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, member of Board of Higher Education, July 2, 1940.
HONIG, EMANUEL, Brooklyn, N.Y., appointed chaplain, U.S. Army,
reported, March 19, 1941.
HONIG, JACOB, Huntington, L.I., N.Y., appointed chaplain, U.S.
JOSEPH, LAZARUS, New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Senate,
Nov. 5, 1940.
KALUS, HARRY, Roxbury, Mass., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
KAPLAN, CHARLES, Dorchester, Mass., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
KARP, ELIAS, Scranton, Pa., appointed chaplain, U.S. Army, reported,
March 19, 1941.
KLEINFELD, PHILIP M., Brooklyn, N.Y., re-elected to State Senate, •
Nov. S, 1940; appointed by Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Judge of
State Supreme Court, Second Judicial District, Jan. 13, 1941.
KOERNER, HENRY, Brooklyn, N.Y., (formerly Vienna, Austria),
awarded 81,000 first prize in poster competition conducted by the
National Alliance of Art and Industry for the American Society for
the Control of Cancer, reported, Oct. 17, 1940.
KOPPLEMANN, HERMAN PAUL, Hartford Conn., elected member of
KRAUSS, SAMUEL, (formerly Vienna, Austria), awarded honorary
degree of Doctor of Divinity by Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O.,
May 24, 1941.
LEHMAN, HERBERT H., Albany, N.Y., awarded honorary degree >
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Doctor of Laws by Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New
York, N.Y., June 15, 1941.
LEIBOWITZ, SAMUEL S., Brooklyn, N.Y., elected Judge of King
County Court, Nov. 5, 1940.
LEONARD, LEON, Atlantic City, N.J., elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
LEV, ARYEH, Brooklyn, N.Y., called to active duty in Office of
Chief of Chaplains in War Department, Nov. 13, 1940.
LIEBERMAN, GEORGE B., rabbi, Wheeling, W. Va., awarded honorary
degree of Doctor of Literature, by West Virginia Wesleyan University,
reported, May 30, 1941.
LIEF, JOSEPH HENRY, Brooklyn, N.Y., appointed chaplain, U.S.
Army, reported, May 2, 1941.
LITTAUER, NATHAN J., Union City, N.J., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
LOBEL, Louis, Boston, Mass., elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5,
1940.
LOEWI, OTTO, New York, N.Y., (formerly Graz, Austria, co-winner
of 1936 Nobel Prize in medicine), appointed Research Professor of
Pharmacy at New York University; reported, Sept. 17, 1940.
MARGOLIS, JOSEPH, Chelsea, Mass., elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
MARSHALL, JAMES, New York, N.Y., re-elected President of New
York City Board of Education, May 13, 1941.
MATZ, ISRAEL, New York, N.Y., awarded honorary degree of Doctor
of Hebrew Letters, by Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New
York, N.Y., June IS, 1941.
MEYER, ARTHUR, New York, N.Y., appointed Chairman of the
State Mediation Board, Dec. 11, 1940.
MEYER, EUGENE, Washington, D.C., appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, member of National Defense Mediation Board
March 19, 1941.
MILLER, CHARLES, Chelsea, Mass., elected to State Legislature,
Nov. S, 1940.
MINTZ, MORRIS M., New York, N.Y., elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
MORGENSTERN, JULIAN, Cincinnati, O., elected president of Society
for Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Jan. 25, 1941.
MOSES, ROBERT, New York, N.Y., awarded gold "order of merit"
medal by National Institute of Arts and Letters for "his distinguished
creative beauty in New York City," Jan. 18, 1941.
NEUBERGER, RICHARD L., Portland, Ore., elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
NEUMAN, ABRAHAM A., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed President of
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Feb. 16, 1941.
PACK, CARL, New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Senate, Nov. 5,1940.
*PHILLIPSON, IRVING J., Brigadier-General, Fort Ontario, N.Y.,
appointed Chief of Staff of Second Corps Area, Feb. 8, 1940.
REINHAET, ARTHUR J., Portsmouth, N.H., elected to State Senate,
Nov. 5, 1940.
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RIBICOFF, ABRAHAM A., Hartford, Conn., elected to State Senate,
Nov. S, 1940.
RICHMOND, HARRY, Wichita, Kans., appointed chaplain, U.S. Army,
RIFKIND, SIMON H., New York, N.Y., appointed by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Judge in Federal Court for Southern District
of New York, April 25, 1941.
RITTENBERG, DAVID, New York, N.Y., awarded the Eli Lilly award
of $1,000 in biological chemistry given annually to chemists under 35,
for "brilliant work on isotopes as tracers in chemical reactions,"
April 7, 1941.
ROSENBERG, JAMES N., New York, N.Y., decorated by President
M. J. Troncoso de la Concha, of Dominican Republic, for work in
founding Sosua Colony, Feb. 3, 1941.
ROSENTHAL, NORBERT L., Chicago, 111., appointed chaplain, U.S.
ROSENWALD, WILLIAM, New York, N.Y., elected member of the
Board of Directors of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York,
ROWE, LEO S., Washington, D.C., awarded gold insignia of Pan
American Society for activity in Pan American Union, Nov. 7, 1940.
SABATH, ADOLPH J., Chicago, 111., re-elected member of United
States House of Representatives, Nov. 5, 1940.
SACKS, LEON, Philadelphia, Pa., re-elected member of United States
SCHICK, BELA, New York, N.Y., awarded by Forum of Allergy,
Gold Medal for contribution to treatment of allergy, Jan. 12, 1941.
SCHOTTLAND, CHARLES I., Los Angeles, Cal., appointed Assistant
Chief of United States Children's Bureau, Washington, D.C, reported,
April 28, 1941.
SCHREIBER, BENJAMIN F., New York, N.Y., elected Judge of State
Supreme Court, First District, Nov. 5, 1940.
SCHULMAN, ABRAHAM, Rochester, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
SCHWARTZ, RALPH, Brooklyn, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
SCHWARTZWALD, JACOB J., Brooklyn, N.Y., re-elected to State
SCHWEITZER, DAVID J., New York, N.Y., director of San Domingo
offices of Dominican Republic Settlement Association, decorated by
President M. J. Troncoso de la Concha, of Dominican Republic, for
work in founding Sosua Colony, Feb. 3, 1941.
SEGAL, BERNARD, Queens Village, L.I., N.Y., appointed chaplain,
U.S. Army, reported, July 17, 1940.
SHAPERO, HAROLD S., Newton, Mass., awarded by American Academy in Rome, 1941 Prix de Rome of $1,000 for musical composition
"Nine-Minute Overture," June 8, 1941.
SIEGEL, NORMAN, Monticello, N.Y., appointed chaplain, U.S. Army,
SILVER, ABBA HILLEL, Cleveland, O., awarded honorary degree of
Doctor of Hebrew Letters by Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 0.,
May 24, 1941.
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SILVERMAN, ALEXANDER, Pittsburgh, Pa., awarded 1940 Pittsburgh
Award of Pittsburgh Section of American Chemical Society for outstanding service to chemical education and for distinguished contributions to industrial chemistry and the ceramic industries, March 20,
1941.
SLEPIAN, JOSEPH, Swissvale, Pa., elected member of National Academy of Sciences, reported, May 21, 1941.
STEIN, CLARENCE S., New York, N.Y., awarded annual medal of
honor of N.Y. Chapter of the American Institute of Architects for his
"high professional achievements"; announced, Feb. 11, 1941.
STEINGUT, IRWIN, Brooklyn, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. S, 1940.
STRAUS, HERBERT C , LOS Angeles, Cal., appointed chaplain, U.S.
Navy, reported, Feb. 27, 1941.
TINTNER, BENJAMIN A., New York, N.Y., appointed chaplain, U.S.
Army, with rank of lieutenant-colonel; reported, March 19, 1941.
TURSHEN, MAX M., Brooklyn, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature,
Nov. 5, 1940.
WACHTEL, ARTHUR, New York, N.Y., re-elected to State Legislature, Nov. 5, 1940.
WEINBERG, SIDNEY J., New York, N.Y., appointed assistant director
of purchases in the United States Office of Production Management,
May 5, 1941.
WEINBERGER, JACOB, San Diego, Cal., re-elected President of Board
of Education, July, 1940.
WEISS, SAMUEL A., Glassport, Pa., elected member of United States
WOLFSOHN, JOEL D., Chicago, 111., appointed Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office, reported, March 21, 1941.
ZIMBALIST, EFREM, Philadelphia, Pa., appointed director of Curtis
Institute of Music, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 24, 1941.
OTHER COUNTRIES
ADLER, F. B.,
, Union of South Africa, appointed Director of
Field Army Artillery Training, reported, Aug. 9, 1940.
APTOWITZER, AVIGDOR, Jerusalem, Palestine, awarded honorary
degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters, by Jewish Institute of Religion,
New York, N.Y., June IS, 1941.
AVIGDOR, SAMUEL,
, Egypt, appointed by Council of Ministers,
member of State Consultative Council of Agriculture, reported,
March 7, 1941.
BARDEGA, BERNARD, London, England, sergeant observer, awarded
Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry and devotion to duty,
reported, Oct. 11, 1940.
BERGSON, HENRI, (deceased) Paris, France, honored by memorial
meeting of the French Academy, reported, Jan. 23, 1941.
BONAVENTURA, ENZO, Jerusalem, Palestine (formerly Florence, Italy),
appointed professor of psychology at the Hebrew University, reported,
Sept. 27, 1940.
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BRODIE, ISRAEL, London, England, appointed first Jewish chaplain
for the R.A.F. to serve in the Middle East, reported, Dec. 15, 1940.
CASSIN, RENE,
, England (formerly Paris, France), appointed
member of the Council of Defense of the French Empire, reported,
Nov. 8, 1940.
CASSUTO, UMBERTO, Jerusalem, Palestine (former Chief Rabbi of
Florence and Professor of Hebrew, Universities of Florence and Rome),
appointed to the faculty of Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew
University, reported, Sept. 27, 1940.
CATTAUI, RENE BEY,
, Egypt, appointed by Council of Ministers, member of State Consultative Council of Agriculture, reported,
March 7, 1941.
CHERNICHOVSKY, SAUL, Jerusalem, Palestine, awarded Bialik prize
for literature for poem "Look, the Earth," Jan. 10, 1941.
COHEN, HAROLD E., Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, appointed Australian Red Cross Commissioner for the Middle East; reported, June 22,
1940; re-elected member of Victoria Legislature; reported, July 5, 1940.
COHEN, JULIUS ALLAN, Flight-Lieutenant, Sydney, Australia, awarded
Distinguished Flying Cross, Sept. 19, 1940.
COHEN, KALMAN JACOB, assistant superintendent of Palestine police,
awarded King's Police Medal, for distinguished service, Jan. 1, 1941.
COHEN, RONALD JOSEPH, squadron leader in Royal New Zealand
Air Force, awarded Air Force Cross, Jan. 1, 1941.
COHEN, MRS. TEMIMAH LITNER, Toronto, Canada, elected member
of Board of Education, Jan. 1, 1941.
DE SOLA, RAPHAEL, Lieutenant, London, England, appointed Commander of Ship of the Royal Navy, following heroic action in rescue
operations at Dunkirk, announced, Feb. 14, 1941.
DICHY, MOISE BEY, Alexandria, Egypt, awarded by King of Egypt,
Commander of Order of the Nile, reported, March 7, 1941.
EPSTEIN, LAZAR, Kaunas, Lithuania, appointed by government of
Soviet Lithuania, Inspector General of Health, reported, May 2, 1941.
ERLEIGH, VISCOUNT, London, England, Second Lieutenant in Armored Corps of the Dragoon Guards, awarded Military Cross for
gallant and distinguished service in the field, Sept. 29, 1940.
FEIGENBAUM, ARIEH, Jerusalem, Palestine, appointed Professor of
Opthalmology at the Hebrew University, reported, October, 1940.
FEKETE, MICHAEL, Jerusalem, Palestine, re-elected Dean of the
Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University, reported, July 26,
1940.
FLEISHMAN, DAVID, Sergeant, in Rhodesian Regiment attached to
Somaliland Camel Corps, awarded Military Medal for distinguished
service in the field, announced, Feb. 11, 1941.
FOA, UGO, Rome, Italy, elected President of the Rome Jewish
Community, reported, March 7, 1941.
FRAMPTON, SAMUEL, Rev., Liverpool, England, awarded honorary
degree of Master of Arts by the University of Liverpool, reported,
July 12, 1940.
FRANCO, ENRICO, Jerusalem, Palestine (formerly Pisa, Italy), appointed head of the Department of Pathological Anatomy of the
Medical Faculty at the Hebrew University, reported, October, 1940.
FRANKEL, S. H.,
, Union of South Africa, appointed member of
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Government Committee to advise on questions of food supplies and
reserves, reported, Oct. 2, 1940.
FREDERICIA, L. S.,
, Denmark, appointed member of Food
Control and Supply Board, reported, Sept. 27, 1940.
FRIEDE, MAXIMILIAN, (formerly Poland), appointed Polish Consul in
Ecuador, announced, Dec. 8, 1940.
FRIENDLY, JOCELYN, Sergeant, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa,
member of R. A. F., awarded Distinguished Flying Cross, reported,
Oct. 23, 1940.
FRIZI, MORDECHAI, Colonel, Albanian village of Bessantchi renamed
"Frizi" by Greek Government in honor of officer who fell near the
village, heroically leading his troops, announced, March 2, 1941.
FRUMKIN, GAD, Judge of Palestine Supreme Court, named Honorary
Commander of O.B.E., Jan. 1, 1941.
GAVENDA, SOLOMON, Wilno, Lithuania, named vice-mayor, July 15,
1940.
GINSBERG, LESLIE,
,
, awarded Military Medal for "gallant
and distinguished services" in the Middle East, reported, May 2,
1941.
GOODHART, ARTHUR L., Oxford, England, awarded honorary degree
of Doctor of Laws, by Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.,
June IS, 1941.
GUEDALLA, PHILIP, London, England, appointed head of the Latin
American section of the Ministry of Information, reported, July 5, 1940.
HELFET, A. J., Calvinia, Cape, Union of South Africa, awarded the
Hunterian professorship by Royal College of Surgeons, London, reported, July 19, 1940.
HERZCU, MENDEL, Bucharest, Rumania, decorated by King Carol,
for faithful services, Aug. 2, 1940.
HESS, MYRA, London, England, awarded Gold Medal of Royal
Philharmonic Society, reported, June 13, 1941; created Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, reported, June 13, 1941.
HOOFIEN, S., Netherlands Consul at Tel Aviv, Palestine, appointed
Consul at Jerusalem, reported, May 28, 1940.
KINGSLEY, H. H., Manchester, England, prominent barrister, appointed Crown Counsel in the Tanganyika Territory, reported, Aug. 30,
1940.
KLABER, R., London, England, elected Fellow of Royal College of
Physicians of London, reported, May 30, 1941.
KORETZ, HIRSCH, Salonica, Greece, elected honorary member of
Parnassos, leading Greek literary society (first Jew), reported, March 23,
1941.
KRAMER, MARCUS, London, England, pilot officer, awarded Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry and devotion to duty during air
operations, July 5, 1940.
LEVI, S. GERSHON, Montreal, Canada, appointed chaplain to all
Jewish troops in Canada, April 6, 1941.
LEVY, ELLIS, St. Andrew, Jamaica, appointed by Governor, member
of Legislative Council and Justice of the Peace for St. Andrew, reported,
Sept. 27, 1940.
LEWIN, RAYMOND M., London, England, awarded George Cross
for bravery during rescue operations in R.A.F., reported, May 16, 1941,
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LIBERMAN, SAUL, Jerusalem, Palestine, appointed by Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Visiting Professor of Palestinian Literature and Institutions, announced, Oct. 4, 1940.
MAIMUN, M. J.,
, Lithuania, appointed Vice-Minister of Industry for Soviet Lithuania, reported, Jan. 24, 1941.
MENTZ, BRIAN VAN, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, awarded
Distinguished Flying Cross for services in R.A.F., reported, Nov. 1,1940.
MITTLEMAN, PINHAS,
, Palestine, awarded Colonial Police Medal
for meritorious service, Jan. 1, 1941.
MUHLBERG, JACQUES,
, Egypt, appointed by Council of Ministers, member of State Consultative Council of Agriculture, reported,
March 7, 1941.
NELSON, WILLIAM HENRY, Montreal, Canada, awarded Distinguished
Flying Cross, reported, June 24, 1940.
NEWGASS, HAROLD REGINALD, London, England, awarded George
Cross for "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty," March 14,
1941.
NIMAN, MARK ALFRED, Manchester, England, awarded Distinguished
Flying Medal, for gallantry and devotion to duty, reported, June 13,
1941.
PEPO, JOSEPH, Salonica, Greece, decorated by government with
Military Cross, March 14, 1941.
PERLMAN, C. S.,
, Australia, awarded the Military Medal for
gallant and distinguished service, reported, May 23, 1941.
PHILLIPS, NATHAN, K.C., Toronto, Canada, re-elected Alderman
for eighteenth consecutive term, Jan. 1, 1941.
PRILUTZKI, NOAH, Wilno, Lithuania, appointed professor of Yiddish
language at Wilno University, reported, Jan. 6, 1941.
RACAH, J., Jerusalem, Palestine (formerly Pisa, Italy), appointed
Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University, reported,
October, 1940.
RAGINSKY, MRS. A., Montreal, Canada, elected President of Hadassah Organization of Canada, Jan. 22, 1941.
READING, LADY, London, England, created Dame Commander of
the Order of the British Empire, Jan. 1, 1941.
REYNOLDS, J., Captain, London, England, awarded Military Cross
for bravery at Dunkirk, reported, July 5, 1940.
ROLO, SIR ROBERT SIMON,
, Egypt, appointed by Council of
Ministers, member of State Consultative Council of Agriculture, reported, March 7, 1941.
ROTH, LEON, Jerusalem, Palestine, elected Rector of the Hebrew
University, reported, May 30, 1940.
SACHS, CAROL (formerly Warsaw, Poland) appointed Envoy Extraordinary to represent Polish Government at inauguration of President
Fulgencio Batista of Cuba, reported, Oct. 9, 1940; appointed Polish
Consul-General in Havana, Cuba, reported, Nov. 1, 1940.
SCHAUDER, ADOLPH, Port Elizabeth, Union of South Africa, elected
Mayor, Sept. 6, 1940.
SHAUS, L., Kaunas, Lithuania, appointed director of the Soviet
Lithuanian Telegraphic Agency, reported, Dec. 19, 1940.
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SIMON, F., Oxford, England (formerly Breslau, Germany), elected
Fellow of the Royal Society, reported, April 18, 1941.
SOLOMON, MARTIN H. B., Lieutenant,
, England, awarded Distinguished Service Cross for "good service during withdrawal from
Dunkirk," March 14, 1941.
TORCZYNER, HARRY, Jerusalem, Palestine, awarded Bialik prize for
scholarship, for edition of ancient Hebrew letters from Lachish, reported, Jan. 19, 1941.
ULLMAN, SOLOMON, Brussels, Belgium, appointed Chief Rabbi, by
Consistoire of Belgium, reported, March 21, 1941.
WEIZMANN, CHAIM, London, England, appointed a scientific advisor
to the British Government, reported, Dec. 16, 1940.
WISEMAN, MICHAEL MAX, London, England, awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal, reported, May 16, 1941.
WOLF, ABRAHAM, London, England, elected Dean of the Faculty of
Economics in the University of London, reported, Nov. 15, 1940.
YOFFEY, JOSEPH MENDEL, Cardiff, Wales, elected to a Hunterian
professorship by Royal Society of Surgeons, London, reported, July 19,
1940; appointed Professor of Anatomy at University of Bristol, reported, March 28, 1941.
SPECIAL BEQUESTS AND GIFTS
UNITED STATES
ANNENBERG, MRS. WALTER H., Haverford, Pa., donates three
ambulances to the British Ambulance Corps; announced, Sept. 20, 1940.
ANONYMOUS ("MORDECAI BEN DAVID"), donates $50,000 to Yeshiva
College, for the establishment of an endowment fund, from which
$1,000 will be awarded annually to the student or graduate achieving
the most noteworthy success in the promotion of American and Jewish
ideals; reported, Jan. 15, 1941.
ARONSON, LOUIS V., Newark, N. J. (died Nov. 2, 1940), bequeathed
to Beth Israel Hospital, $5,000 in addition to $22,500 already donated;
to Congregation B'nai Abraham all sums in which it may be indebted
to testator, and $5,000 in addition; Jewish Home for the Aged, $5,000;
to Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A., $2,500; and $4,000 to four institutions;
filed, Nov. 21, 1940.
BALABAN, BARNEY, Brooklyn, N.Y., established Jewish Library
named for the late Moses D. Mosessohn, at the B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundation at Brooklyn College; reported, December, 1940.
BARUCH, BELLE W. AND REN£E B. SAMSTAG, New
York,
N.Y.,
donate the Annie Griffen Baruch X-Ray Department to the Knickerbocker Hospital in memory of their mother, Jan. 16, 1941.
BARUCH, BERNARD M., New York, N.Y., donates $50,000 to New
York University Medical College Alumni Fund, toward establishment
of a Samuel A. Brown professorship in therapeutics in honor of the
dean emeritus; announced, Oct. 7, 1940.
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BERG, ALBERT A., New York, N.Y., donates to the New York
Public Library the book collection of W. T. H. Howe of Cincinnati, 0.,
devoted to English and American nineteenth and twentieth century
literature, as a memorial to his brother, the late Henry W. Berg, and
trust fund for care and administration of the volumes; announced,
Sept. 20, 1940. Donates jointly with Owen D. Young 10,000 to 15,000
rare books, manuscripts and other literary treasures, to the New York
Public Library; announced, May 4, 1941.
BERLIN, IRVING, New York, N.Y., donates royalties from the song
"God Bless America" to the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl
Scouts of America, to be used for patriotic purposes, with $43,646
already available for distribution; announced, July 10, 1940.
B'NAI B'RITH, appropriates $100,000 to establish a Palestine Colony
in name of its president, Henry Monsky; reported, March 31, 1941.
BREITENBACH, JENNIE W., New York, N.Y. (died Dec. 6, 1940),
bequeathed to Mount Sinai Hospital, $42,500; Federation for the
Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City, $15,000;
Temple Emanu-El, $10,000; Association for the Aid of Crippled
Children, Jewish Social Service Association, Lebanon Hospital, $5,000
each; New York Association for Jewish Children and American Society
for the Control of Cancer, Inc., $2,000 each; and ten other bequests of
$1,000 each; probated, Dec. 17, 1940.
COHEN, MR. AND MRS. FRANK, New York, N.Y., (Esco Fund Committee) donate $15,000 to the Jewish Section of the Interfaith Committee
for Aid to the Democracies, for transmission to British War Relief
Society; also an $18,000 gift of Navitol, through Jewish Section for use
among children of Great Britain; reported, April 9, 1941.
DREYFUS, MRS. BERTHA L., Stapleton, S.I., N.Y., donates four
biological laboratories in memory of her husband, Dr. Louis A. Dreyfus,
to the Wagner Lutheran Memorial College, Staten Island, N.Y.;
Nov. 11, 1940.
FALK FOUNDATION, Pittsburgh, Pa., votes donation of approximately
$100,000 to conduct a complete economic, medical and social survey
of the Dominican Republic, under the supervision of the Brookings
Institute, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2, 1940.
FELS, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL, Philadelphia, Pa., donate $42,000 to
United Charities Campaign; reported, Feb. 7, 1941.
GABRILOWITCH, MRS. CLARA, (non-Jew) Detroit, Mich., donates complete music library of late Ossip Gabrilowitch (over 1,000 volumes) to
the Palestine Conservatoire of Music in Jerusalem; reported, Oct. 23,
1940.
GERSHWIN, MRS. ROSE, New York, N.Y., donates complete set of
late George Gershwin's works to the Palestine Conservatoire of Music,
Nov. 12,1940.
GIMBEL, MRS. BERNARD F., and family, New York, N.Y., donate
mobile canteen trailer, to Bundles for Britain Committee on medical
aid; Dec. 18, 1940.
GOLDWYN, SAM., LOS Angeles, Cal., donates £20,000 to America's
Allied Relief Fund for aid of Britain's civilian war victims; reported,
Oct. 18, 1940.
HADASSAH, New York, N.Y., donates $25,000 to Henrietta Szold,
in honor of her eightieth birthday, "to foster any phase of work in
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Palestine which she deems necessary to meet emergency conditions
brought about by the war," Dec. 21, 1940.
HECHT, MRS. FANNIE, New York, N.Y., (died July 23, 1940),
bequeathed $500,000 trust fund stipulated by husband Israel Hecht
for creation of Samuel and Henrietta Hecht Foundation to Furnish
Free Coal to the Poor, for poor families of Philadelphia; reported,
July 26, 1940.
ICKELHEIMER, HENRY H., New York, N. Y., (died Dec. 8, 1940),
bequeathed to Cornell University, $25,000; probated, Dec. 13, 1940.
KAPLAN, JACOB H., Miami, Fla., donates library to the University
of Miami; reported, May 30, 1941.
KAUFMANN, HENRY, Pittsburgh, Pa., donates $25,000 to the Irene
Kaufmann Settlement and $8,000 to twenty national and local institutions, July 12, 1940.
LABOLD, LEONA, Portsmouth, O., bequeathed to the University of
Pennsylvania, $146,336 for cancer research; reported, Aug. 30, 1940.
LAMPORT, ARTHUR M., New York, N.Y. (died Nov. 8, 1940), bequeathed $150,000 for the Sadie and Arthur Lamport Foundation "to
enlarge its beneficial scope without regard to race, color or creed";
filed, Nov. 18, 1940.
LASKER, MR. AND MRS. ALBERT D., Chicago, 111., donate $50,000
to National Committee for Planned Parenthood; announced, April 9,
1941.
LOUCHHEIM, JEROME H., Philadelphia, Pa., donates $24,000 to
MACHT, EPHRAIM, Baltimore, Md., donates $25,000 to the nurses
home of the Hebrew Home for the Aged; reported, November, 1940.
MEIS, ALEX, Cincinnati, 0., (died July 10, 1940) estate appraised at
$1,250,000: on death of sister Mrs. Stella M. Hirsch, Philadelphia, Pa.,
(died March 2, 1941): bequeathed to numerous charities of all faiths,
residual estate, divided into 100 parts, including, 25 parts to Joint
Distribution Committee; 25 to United Jewish Social Agencies, Cincinnati; three parts to the Cincinnati College of Medicine; two parts to
Institutum Divi Thomae; three to Catholic Charities, etc.; reported,
March 6, 1941.
MEYER, ALBERT, Chicago, 111., (died May 10, 1941) estate valued
at $525,000: bequeathed $195,000 as follows: Michael Reese Hospital
$100,000; Chicago Tumor Institute $25,000; Policemen's Benevolent
Association, Home for Destitute Crippled Children, and Illinois Social
Hygiene League, $15,000 each; and $25,000 to bring refugees from
Germany and assist them in establishing themselves in this country;
reported probated, May 29, 1941.
PICK, ERNEST (non-Jew), Pittsfield, Mass., bequeathed $8,000 to
the Jewish National Fund; reported, Feb. 28, 1941.
ROSENWALD FAMILY ASSOCIATION, New York, N.Y., donates $10,000
to the Hebrew University, Feb. 25, 1941; $25,000 to the National
Committee for Planned Parenthood, Feb. 28, 1941; $250,000 to University of Chicago (conditional upon the raising of substantial contributions); announced, April 6, 1941.
ROSENWALD, LESSING J., Philadelphia, Pa., donates $38,850.30 to
ROTHSCHILD, MAURICE, Chicago, 111. (died April 23, 1941) bequeathed
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$420,000 to charity, including $100,000 to Chicago Jewish Charities,
and $20,000 to the Chicago People's Institute; reported, May 7, 1941.
STRAUS, AARON AND LILLIE, Baltimore, Md., donate $100,000 to the
city for construction of a new aquarium in Druid Hill Park; reported,
July, 1940.
ULMANN, JAMES, New York, N.Y. (died March 10, 1940), net
estate, $1,765,345: bequeathed to Federation for the Support of Jewish
Philanthropic Societies of New York City, $534,316; Home for Aged
and Infirm Hebrews, $267,158; to Montefiore Hospital for Chronic
Diseases, the Jewish Social Service Association, Beth Israel Hospital
Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum,
$106,863 each; Home for Hebrew Infants at Kingsbridge, the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society, and Madison House, $53,431 each; to
Temple Emanu-El, $3,500; and $50,000 to charitable organizations to
be designated by Gene Ulmann, who named eight organizations, of
which the National Refugee Service, Inc. received $18,000; appraised,
Feb. 28, 1941.
WALD, LILLIAN D., Westport, Conn., (died Sept. 1, 1940) estate of
$87,919 net, bequeathed to Henry Street Settlement, $50,779; appraised,
June 17, 1941.
WARBURG, MRS. FELIX M., New York, N. Y., donates $10,000 to the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America, on the occasion of the 70th
anniversary of her deceased husband's birth, for the establishment of
a Cyrus Adler Scholarship, to be awarded annually to the outstanding
graduating student of the Rabbinical Department "who comes closest
to the all-around human being that Cyrus Adler was"; announced,
Jan. 17, 1941.
OTHER COUNTRIES
ABRAHAMS, DAVID A., London, England, donates to Greater London
Fund for the Blind, £2,000; Jan. 28, 1941.
ANONYMOUS, Nathanya, Palestine, donates estate valued at £3,000,
to Great Britain, for purchase of fighter planes; announced Aug. 25,1940.
ATHENS JEWISH COMMUNITY, Greece, donate 25,000 drachmas to
fund for erection of memorial to late Greek Premier, John Metaxas;
BERNHARD BARON TRUST, London, England, donates £43,000 to
hospitals and charities; reported, Dec. 13, 1940; donates £40,000 for
endowment of Professorship of Research at the Bernhard Baron
Laboratories of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; donates
£16,000 to hospitals, British Red Cross Society, special war needs, etc.;
£1,000 to Royal Air Force Fund if nine other contributors are secured;
reported, June 20, 1941.
BRONFMAN, SAMUEL, Montreal, Canada, donates $250,000 to the
National Research Council of Canada, for developing new scientific
inventions to aid Great Britain's armed operations; announced, Oct. 1,
1940.
GUBBAY, RAPHAEL A., Hongkong, China, bequeathed over £100,000
to Jewish charitable institutions in Baghdad, Calcutta, Jerusalem, and
England, in equal shares; reported, Aug. 30, 1940.
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HENRIQIES BUGS., Kingston, Jamaica, donate £5,000 to provide a
bombing plane for Great Britain; reported, Sept. 20, 1940.
HILLMAN, WOLF AND HIRSCH, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa,
donate endowment of £35,000 for engineering block at Witwatersrand
University; reported, June 19, 1941.
KARTER, J., Glasgow, Scotland, donates mobile canteen, to the
Glasgow Y.M.C.A.; reported, Feb. 14, 1941.
LANDAU BROS., Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, donate £10,000
to South African War Fund; July 18, 1940.
LEVY, ALEXANDER MICHAEL, London, England, estate valued at
net personalty £708,396: bequeathed nineteen-twentieth of residue of
estate to King Edward's Hospital Fund for London to found and
maintain an Arthur and Alexander Levy surgical home; to National
Gallery, portrait of Richard Burke by Sir Joshua Reynolds; and subject to other bequests, £1,000 to West London Synagogue for British
Jews; £5,000 each to Jewish Orphanage, West Norwood, and the
Board of Guardians for the Relief of Jewish Poor; additional sums to
other charities; reported, March 7, 1941.
MARKS, MR. AND MRS. SIMON; Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Sieff; Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Sacher; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Laski, and Mathilde Marks,
London, England, donate £7,500 to the Keren Hayesod War Appeal;
reported, Feb. 28, 1941.
MONTEVIDEO SEPHARDIC JEWISH
COMMUNITY,
Uruguay,
donate
10,000 sheep to the British Army; announced, Nov. 13, 1940.
MYERS, HORACE VICTOR, Kingston, Jamaica, donates $25,000 to the
British Empire Bombing Plane Fund (gift of $5,000 given to Fund in
May); reported, Nov. 29, 1940.
PESSEN, MORRIS LASSER, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa,
(died April 5, 1941), bequeathed £1,000 to a fund in South Africa
"for assistance to disabled soldiers who have fought for the British
Empire, no discrimination to be shown as to race or creed"; £500 to the
Council of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, to be established for Morris
Lasser Pessen Fund for assistance to poor students, and £200 each to
twelve organizations; £300 to the Red Cross Society and £100 each to
the Dutch Reform Minister of Randgate Randfontein "to be distributed among poor people in need"; and to three organizations;
reported, April 25, 1941.
SMOUHA, JOSEPH, Alexandria, Egypt, donates £5,000 to the British
Government toward the purchase of a Spitfire airplane; reported,
Jan. 24, 1941.
SYDNEY JEWISH COMMUNITY, Australia, donates a new Anzac Buffet
and Sir John Monash Recreation Hut, at cost of £5,000, for use of
the Anzac forces; reported, Dec. 6, 1940.
URUGUAY, JEWISH COMMUNITY OF, donates ambulance for use of
navy, in memory of officers and men who perished in the Battle of the
River Plate; reported, Jan. 17, 1941.
WARBURG,
PAULINE ROSALIE (Mrs. Simon Elias), bequeathed
3,000,000 Swedish crowns (about £176,500) for Jewish causes, including
100,000 for the Stockholm Jewish Community; 60,000 for the Gothenborg community; a 500,000 crown fund for the poor and distressed,
and the remainder for establishment of homes for Jews in Palestine!
and for needy Jewish servants; reported. July 6, 1940.
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UNITED STATES
ALSBERG, CARL LUCAS, biochemist; b. New York, N. Y., April 2,
1877; chief, Bureau of Chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
1912-1921; director, Stanford U. Food Research Institute 1921-37;
dean of graduate study, Stanford U. 1927-33; director of Gianini
Foundation of Agricultural Economics at U. of California since 1937;
Berkeley, Cal., Oct. 31, 1940.
ALSCHULER, ALFRED SAMUEL, architect; b. Chicago, 111., Nov. 2, 1876;
introduced and used many new devices in field of architecture; was
first to use reinforced concrete construction in Chicago; designed many
industrial buildings, synagogues and temples; Chicago, 111., Nov. 6,
1940.
ALTSCHUL, HAROLD, communal and philanthropic worker; former
executive vice-chairman of American Ort Federation; aged 45; New
York, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1940.
ARONSON, LOUIS V., industrialist and inventor; b. New York, N. Y.,
Dec. 25, 1869; inventor, Ronson Lighters; was instrumental in developing non-phosphorous match, for which he was awarded $10,000 by
Belgian Government; Republican candidate for mayor of Newark,
N. J., 1912; West End, N. J., Nov. 2, 1940.
AUFSESSER, MOSES F., industrialist and philanthropist; civic and
communal leader; b. Albany, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1879; Casco, Me., Aug.
30, 1940.
BADMAN, THEODORE, banker, importer, realtor; b. Oettingen, Germany, June 25, 1884; came to U. S. 1901; trustee and former district
president, B'nai B'rith; New York, N. Y., Feb. 25, 1941.
BASEL, ALEXANDER, rabbi and director of Jacob H. Schiff Center,
Bronx, N. Y.; director of National Council, Boy Scouts of America;
vice-president, New York Board of Jewish Ministers; author of articles
and monographs on Jewish law, customs and ceremonials; aged 59;
New York, N. Y., June 11, 1941.
BAUMAN, JACOB, rabbi, Congregation Shara Torah; talmudic scholar;
b. Zagarow, Poland, 1870; came to U. S. 1907; in Los Angeles, since
1908; Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 23, 1940.
BECK, MARTIN, theatrical producer; b. Czechoslovakia, 1869; acted
with Shakespearean troupe in Germany; came to U. S., 1887; built
Orpheum Circuit of theatre houses throughout country and Palace
and Martin Beck Theatres in New York; backed many theatrical
successes; New York, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1940.
BECKMAN, NATHAN HENRY, manufacturer, philanthropist, communal
worker; b. Fuerth, Bavaria, Oct. 1, 1860; came to U. S. 1880; treasurer
and member of executive committee of Union of American Hebrew
Congregations; Cincinnati, O., Aug. 30, 1940.
BENDER, ALBERT MAURICE, insurance broker, art patron; b. Dublin,
Ireland, June 18, 1866; came to U.S. 1881; trustee of Mills College;
commissioner of San Francisco Public Library; director of San Fran-
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cisco Symphony Orchestra, Art Association, Opera Association and
Opera Guild; San Francisco, Cal., March 4, 1941.
BENJAMIN, EUGENE SIMEON, managing director, Baron de Hirsch
Fund; vice-president, Jewish Agricultural Society; b. Leavenworth, Kan.,
Jan. 21, 1862; had been wholesale clothier and silk manufacturer; bank
director and adviser on commerical credits; author of "Practical Credit
Analysis," widely used textbook; New York, N. Y., June 22, 1941.
BLOCH, CHARLES E., president of Bloch Publishing Co.; "dean of
Jewish publishers"; b. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 22, 1861; founded Reform
Advocate, Chicago, 1891; came to New York and established Bloch
Publishing Company, 1901; a founder of Free Synagogue and of Jewish
Institute of Religion; New York, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1940.
BLOCK, PAUL, newspaper publisher and advertiser; b. Elmira, N. Y.,
Nov. 2, 1877; owned chain of newspapers; New York, N. Y., June 22,
1941.
BLUMENTHAL, GEORGE, banker, art collector and patron, philanthropist; b. Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, April 7, 1858; came to U. S.
1882; partner, Lazard Freres, bankers, 1893-1904, sr. partner, 1904-25;
retired 1925; president, Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1934;
president emeritus and director, Mt. Sinai Hospital; New York, N. Y.,
June 26, 1941.
BLUMENTHAL, HART, civic and communal worker, retired merchant,
bibliophile, Lincoln authority; b. Philadelphia, Pa., May 25, 1859;
owned an outstanding collection of Lincolniana; former chairman of
board of Philadelphia Free Library; chairman of finance committee of
National Farm School; Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1941.
BODANSKY, MEYER, professor of pathology and chemistry at University of Texas School of Medicine; b. Elizavetgrad, Russia, Aug. 30,
1896; came to U. S. 1907; author of works on physiological chemistry;
Galveston, Tex., June 14, 1941.
COHEN, WILLIAM W., broker, civic and communal worker; b. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1874; member, New York Stock Exchange until
1922; U. S. Congressman 1927-29; New York, N. Y., Oct. 12,
1940.
COHN-WIENER, ERNST, special lecturer on the art and architecture
of Turkestan and India, at Iranian Institute; b. Tilsit, Germany, Dec.
25, 1882; came to U. S. 1938; New York, N. Y., April 13, 1941.
CORK, ISRAEL, rabbi, Keneseth Israel Synagogue, aged 77, Ellington,
Conn., Nov. 23, 1940.
D'ANCONA, EZIO LEVI, scholar, linguist, Mary Whiton Calkins
visiting Professor of Italian at Wellesley College; internationally known
in Romance language field; b. Mantua, Italy; former Professor at
Women's University in Florence and University of Naples; came to
U. S. 1939; wrote 176 articles and books in his field; aged 56, Boston,
Mass., March 28, 1941.
DANNENBAUM, HENRY J., judge, civic and communal worker; b.
Columbia, Tex.; active in Houston civic and charitable enterprises;
appointed federal assistant attorney-general in charge of prosecution
of Mann Act, in New York; on return to Houston chosen president,
school board and chairman, civil service commission; judge, state
district court, 1915-19; pioneer Zionist; aged 69; Houston, Texas,
Aug. 23, 1940.
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DASHEFSKY, JOSEPH, rabbi and hazan of Shaare Hatzedek Congregation; aged 60, Philadelphia, Pa., April 17, 1941.
DAVIDSON, MENDEL, rabbi emeritus, Congregation of the Children
of Israel, Plainfield, N. J., July 3, 1940.
DUKAS, JULIUS J., merchant, philanthropist, communal worker;
b. Baden, Germany, Aug. 15, 1859; member, Vienna Stock Exchange at
age of 16; came to U. S. 1878; president of Hebrew Free Loan Society
for 35 years; trustee and member of executive committee, N. Y. Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; honorary president, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations; New York, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1940.
EDELSTEIN, M. MICHAEL, U. S. Representative from New York;
b. Poland, Feb. 5, 1888; came to U. S. 1891; in law practice in New
York City until elected, in 1940, to fill unexpired term of Congressman
William I. Sirovich, deceased; Washington, D. C , June 4, 1941.
ERLANGER, MITCHELL LOUIS, judge; b. Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1857;
appointed sheriff, 1904; New York Supreme Court Justice, 1907-27;
theatrical producer after retirement from court; New York, N. Y.,
Aug. 30, 1940.
EVARTS, BENJAMIN F., Col., attorney, communal leader; captain
in army during World War; leader in Zionist movement; honorary
president, New England Zionist Region; aged 45; Holyoke, Mass.,
Aug. 3, 1940.
FISHER, HENRY M., rabbi, Beth Israel Temple since 1903; civic and
communal worker; b. New Haven, Conn., July 24, 1876; member,
Atlantic City Board of Education; Atlantic City, N.J., June 23, 1941.
FRANKO, JEANNE, violin virtuoso, professor of music; b. New Orleans,
La., Feb. 8, 1868; New York, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1940.
FREDMAN, SAMUEL, rabbi, Congregation Beth-El, Philadelphia; b.
Grodno, Poland, March 7, 1886; came to U. S. 1888; a leader of
Conservative rabbinate; Philadelphia, Pa., April 14, 1941.
FREED, JOSEPH DAVID ROTH, radio executive; b. New York, N. Y.,
Oct. 18, 1897; pioneer developer and manufacturer of radio receiving
sets; designed many improvements in radio apparatus for U. S. Navy;
lieutenant-commander in U. S. Naval Reserve; New York, N. Y.,
April 18, 1941.
FREIBERG, ALBERT HENRY, nationally known orthopedic surgeon;
b. Cincinnati, O., Aug. 17, 1868; former professor of orthopedic surgery,
U. of Cincinnati Medical College; major in U. S. army medical corps
in World War; past president, Ohio State Medical Association; former
chairman of Executive Council, Georgia Warm Springs Foundation;
member, board of trustees, Hebrew Union College; Cincinnati, O.,
July 14, 1940.
FREUNDLICH, HERBERT, chemist, Distinguished Service Professor of
Colloid Chemistry at University of Minnesota since 1938; formerly
honorary professor of chemistry at University of Berlin and associate
director of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute; aged 60; Minneapolis, Minn.,
March 30, 1941.
FRIEDENWALD, JULIUS, physician, professor emeritus of gastroenterology at University of Maryland Medical School; b. Baltimore,
Md., Dec. 20, 1866; former president, American Gastro-Enterological
Association; author of many articles on subject; trustee of Institute
for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J.; Baltimore, Md., June 8, 1941.
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FRIEDMAN, JACOB, rabbi, B'nai Abraham Synagogue, Clairton, Minn.,
Rochester, Minn., July 28, 1940.
GARBER, LEIB, rabbi, Hebrew teacher; b. Poland, 1869; founder
of Congregation Thilim, Passaic, in 1905; Passaic, N.J., March 21,
1941.
GILMAN, SAMUEL P., lawyer; b. Troy, N. Y., March 13, 1877; general
counsel, N. Y. Board of Trade, 1932-38; vice-president, American Bar
Association, 1915—16; chairman of admission committee of New York
State Bar Association, 1915-18; expert on brokerage law; active on
behalf of negro rights; New York, N. Y., March 17, 1941.
GINSBURG, SAUL, historian, journalist; b. Minsk, Russia; founded
first Yiddish daily, Der Freind in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1903; professor
of Jewish history at Jewish Institute of St. Petersburg; came to U. S.
1930; member of staff of Jewish Daily Forward; aged 74; New York,
N. Y., Nov. 16, 1940.
GOELL, JACOB, builder and realtor, communal worker, philanthropist;
b. Kovno, Russia, July 15, 1871; came to U. S. 1890; a founder, Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities; former member of executive committee, Zionist Organization of America; New York, N. Y., Nov. 26,
1940.
GOLDEN, SAMUEL HERBERT, wool merchant,
philanthropist; b.
Russia, Sept. 15, 1875; came to U. S. 1880; a director of Hebrew Free
Loan Society; trustee and treasurer, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun;
past president, United Synagogues of America; New York, N. Y.,
Jan. 1, 1941.
GOLDENWEISER, ALEXANDER, anthropologist, sociologist; b. Kiev,
Russia, Jan. 29, 1880; came to U. S. 1900; lecturer in anthropology,
Columbia University, 1910-19; taught at many universities; on faculty
of U. of Oregon at time of death; founder and member of editorial
staff of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences; author of widely used college
texts; Portland, Ore., July 6, 1940?
GOLDMARK, HENRY, civil engineer; b. New York, N. Y., June 15,
1857; supervised many important projects throughout the world, including canal locks, bridges, waterways, and hydroelectric plants;
pioneer in use of steel for bridge construction; associate of General
George W. Goethals in building of Panama Canal; consulting engineer
to New York City since 1914; author of many articles for engineering
journals; Nyack, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1941.
GOODMAN, JOSEPH, civil engineer, Commissioner of Water Supply,
Gas and Llectricity of New York City; b. Saros Patak, Hungary, Jan.
11, 1876; came to U. S. 1886; New York, N. Y., May 9, 1941.
GKEF.NBEKG, ABRAHAM, law\e'; b. New York, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1881;
democratic member of New York State Assembly 1908-09; 1913-14;
member, New York State Senate, 1927-28; New York, N. Y., May 10,
1941.
GREENWALD, OSCAR J., merchant, communal worker, philanthropist;
b. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 12, 1871; managing director of Milwaukee
Gimbel Brothers store; Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 17, 1941.
GUGGKNHEIM, WILLIAM, industrialist, philanthropist, publicist; b.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 6, 1868; director, with brothers, of family mining
and smelting interests founded by father; author of numerous works on
public affairs; New York, N. Y., June 27, 1941.
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HERTZBERG, HARRY, attorney, communal and cultural leader, bibliophile; b. San Antonio, Tex.; State Senator, 1918-22; member of Public
Library Board; aged 56; San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 12, 1940.
HOLLANDER, JACOB H., economist, adviser on tax problems to federal,
state, and municipal governments; Abraham G. Hutzler Professor of
Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University; b. Baltimore, Md.,
July 23, 1871; named by Congress as secretary of American Bimetallic
Commission, 1897; chairman, Municipal Lighting Commission of
Baltimore, 1900; on Johns Hopkins faculty since 1901; appointed
treasurer of Puerto Rico by President William McKinley, 1900; later
revised its tax laws; appointed financial adviser to Dominican Republic,
1908; associate editor Baltimore News, 1929-30; chairman of Tax Survey
Commission of Maryland, 1931; active in labor arbitration; author of
many works on economics; a founder of American Jewish Committee;
Baltimore, Md., July 9, 1940.
HOLTZMANN, HENRY, educator, Zionist leader; b. Brzezany, Austria,
July 19, 1863; came to U. S. 1888; school superintendant for teaching
English to foreigners in New York City, 1895-1900; one of organizers
of Zionist movement in America; representative of Theodor Herzl here
and correspondent of Zionist publication Die Welt, Vienna, 1900-03;
a director of Brooklyn Jewish Center since 1921; New York, N. Y., Dec.
16, 1940.
HORNER, HENRY, Governor of Illinois; b. Chicago, 111., Nov. 30,
1878; lawyer in private practice until 1914; elected Judge of Probate
Court of Cook County six times; elected Governor of Illinois, 1933;
reelected, 1937; honorary chairman of American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Chicago, 111., Oct. 6, 1940.
ICKELHEIMER, HENRY R., banker, financier, philanthropist; b. New
York, N. Y., March 14, 1868; trustee of Cornell U. and Cornell Medical
College; New York, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1940.
JABOTINSKY, VLADIMIR, world leader of New Zionist (Revisionist)
Organization; b. Odessa, Russia, Oct. 18, 1880; organized and led
Zionist Legion in Palestine during World War; resigned from executive
of World Zionist Organization in 1921 and founded Revisionist movement; New York, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1940.
JACOBY, GEORGE W., neurologist; b. St. Louis, Mo., Sept., 1856;
professor of nervous and mental diseases at Women's Medical College
of New York Infirmary, 1890-1900; president, American Neurological
Association, 1915; author of articles on neurology and medical jurisprudence; New York, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1940.
JOFFE, MARK S., artist, teacher; b. Dvinsk, Latvia, March 28, 1864;
professor of art at Imperial Academy of Art, 1899-1904; came to U. S.
1924; private art teacher since 1924 and member of faculty, Academy
of Allied Arts since 1934; achieved world recognition after exhibition
of painting "Eve of the Day of Atonement" at Imperial Academy of
Art; New York, N. Y., June 27, 1941.
KAHN, JOSEPH, lawyer, educator, author, civic worker; b. Riga,
Latvia, March 29, 1882; came to U. S. 1893; authority on accounting;
author of texts on education; New York, N. Y., July 28, 1940.
KANDER, MRS. LIZZIE BLACK, welfare worker, communal leader;
b. Milwaukee, Wis., May 28, 1858; founded Jewish Center of Milwaukee; known as "Jane Addams of Milwaukee"; honored by New York
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World's Fair as outstanding woman in Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wis.,
July 25, 1940.
KATZ, MAURICE, Yiddish newspaper editor, novelist, playwright;
former editor, Philadelphia Jewish World; wrote many novels and plays
for Yiddish stage; founder of Peretz Verein; aged 77, Philadelphia,
Pa., June 14, 1941.
KATZ, SAMUEL MORRISON, b. New York, N. Y., March 12, 1888;
city magistrate, 1933-37; member of executive council, American
Jewish Congress; New York, N. Y., Jan. 21, 1941.
KIRSTEIN, HENRY, manufacturer of optical goods, communal worker,
aged 75; Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1940.
KITTNER, VIOLET, social worker; b. Defiance, O., responsible for
founding of first mental hygiene clinic in Cleveland; executive director,
Jewish Social Service Bureau, Cleveland, since 1924; Cleveland, O.,
July 22, 1940.
KLEBANOV, MOSES M., rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel; Detroit,
Mich., Dec. 2, 1940.
KOSLOFSKY, IRVING, rabbi, Congregation Chevra Thilim, aged 26;
New Orleans, La., Oct. 17, 1940.
LAMPORT, ARTHUR MATTHEW, investment banker, economist, philanthropist, communal leader; b. Franklin Falls, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1883;
government advisor on economic problems; an organizer of Dominican
Republic Settlement Association; treasurer of United Palestine Appeal
and United Jewish Appeal; art collector and patron of modern music;
New York, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1940.
LASKER, EMANUEL, chess master; b. Berlinchen, Germany, Dec. 24,
1868; world chess champion, 1894-1921; New York, N. Y., Jan. 11,
1941.
LEVENE, PHOEBUS AARON, internationally famous biochemist; b.
St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 25, 1869; came to U. S. 1893; member
of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1907-1939; noted for
studies of chemical configurational relationships and the nucleic acids;
holder of Willard Gibbs and William H. Nichols medals of American
Medical Society; achieved success in concentrating vitamin B-2; cited
by Society as "outstanding American worker in application of organic
chemistry to biological problems"; New York, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1940.
LEVI, NINO, member of graduate faculty of Political and Social
Science of New School for Social Research; former teacher of criminal
law in Genoa and Milan, Italy; came to U. S. 1938; aged 46; New York,
N. Y., March 25, 1941.
LEVIN, ABRAHAM L., professor of gastro-enterology at Louisiana State
University Medical Center, inventor of Levin stomach tube; aged 59;
New Orleans, La., Sept. 15, 1940.
LEVINE, FROIM, rabbi; author of Hebrew books on the Talmud;
aged 85; Asbury Park, N. J., Jan. 4, 1941.
LEVINSON, SALMON OLIVER, internationally known lawyer and leader
in movements to outlaw war; b. Noblesville, Ind., Dec. 29, 1865; aided
in drafting Kellogg-Briand Pact; received Rosenberger Medal from U.
of Chicago for his work in improving international relations, 1931;
proposed as candidate for Nobel Peace Prize, 1939; author of many
articles on outlawing of war and world economics; Chicago, 111., Feb. 2,
1941.
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LEVITZKI, MISCHA, concert pianist and composer; b. Krementchug,
Russia, of American parents, May 25, 1898; came to U. S. 1907; Avonby-the-Sea, N. J., Jan. 2, 1941.
LEVY, SAMUEL DAVID, judge, communal worker; b. New York, N. Y.,
Jan. 12, 1860; city magistrate, 1913-16; judge, Children's Court, 191633; judge, Domestic Relations Court, 1933-35 (retired); author of
monographs on child psychology and juvenile delinquency; former
president of Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society; New York, N. Y.,
Dec. 26, 1940.
LEVY, WOLF, rabbi; founder and first president of Yeshiva of Flatbush; aged 50; Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 17, 1940.
LICHTENSTEIN, MEYER B., physician, Zionist leader, aged 57, member
of administrative committee, Zionist Organization of America; Pittsburgh, Pa., at Miami Beach, Fla., March 11, 1941.
LIKNAITZ, DAVID L., rabbi, Venice, Cal., reported, September, 1940.
Liss, BENJAMIN, rabbi, Beth Jacob Congregation, Columbus, O.,
Feb. 16, 1941.
LOURIE, ADOI.PH, social and communal worker; b. Riga, Latvia,
Feb. 12, 1883; came to U.S. 1921; executive director since 1925 of
Home and Hospital of Daughters of Jacob; New York, N. Y., Dec.
18, 1940.
LUCKSTONE, ISIDORE, pianist, singing teacher, composer, accompanist
for famous singers and violinists; professor of education, New York
University School of Education; aged 80; New York, N.Y., March 12,
1941.
MAGID, MAURICE OLIVER, gynecologist and obstetrician; b. Skalat,
Austiia, Oct. 24, 1882; came to U.S. 1892; instructor in gynecology
at N. Y. Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, 1913-1918; founder
and director Hunts Point Hospital; past president, N. Y. Physicians
Association; wrote many articles on gynecology, medical economics and
socialized medicine; New York, N. Y., July 31, 1940.
MAMLOCK, HANS J-, leading pioneer of modern dentistry in Germany,
formerly head of Dental School at University of Berlin; came to U. S.
1937; aged 65; New York, N. Y., Nov. 11, 1940.
MANN, JACOB, rabbi, professor of Jewish history at Hebrew Union
College, author; b. Przemysl, Galicia, Aug. 26, 1888; ordained rabbi
in London; came to U. S. 1920; taught at College for Jewish Teachers,
Baltimore, 1920-22; professor at Hebrew Union College since 1922;
outstanding authority on Jewish history of medieval period and Gaonic
literature; Cincinnati, O., Oct. 23, 1940.
MARKSON, ELDAR, merchant, communal worker, Zionist leader;
vice-president, New England Zionist Region; member, finance and
administrative committees of Z. O. A.; aged 65; Boston, Mass.; at
Miami, Fla., Jan. 17, 1941.
MEYER, MRS. HELENE STRAUSS, civic and communal worker, social
welfare leader; b. Newark, N. J., May 15, 1872; honorary president,
local section, National Council of Jewish Women; director, Conference
of Jewish Charities, Newark; chairman, Women's Division, Newark
YM and YWHA; Newark, N. J., June 8, 1941.
MISCH, MRS. MARION L., department store executive, civic and
communal worker; b. Newark, N. J., May 13, 1869; member of Providence School Board for 15 years; past president, Rhode Island Federa-
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tion of Women's Clubs and Rhode Island Federation of Music Clubs;
former president, National Council of Jewish Women; Providence,
R. I., Jan. 18, 1941.
MORITZ, ALBERT, naval engineer, commander in U. S. Navy (retired);
b. Cincinnati, O., June 8, 1860; active in Spanish-American War,
Philippine insurrection and World War; inspector of building and
engineering materials; Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 16, 1941.
MOSEBSOHN, MOSES DAYYAN, lawyer, trade organizer, editor; b.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 17, 1884; chairman and executive director of
Trade Organization Associates; executive director, Chamber of Commerce of the Apparel Industry; co-publisher with brother, David N.,
of Jewish Tribune before 1931; member of executive committee, AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith; New York, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1940.
NATHAN, HAROLD, lawyer; b. New York, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1865;
a leader in New York bar for nearly SO years; New York, N. Y., June
20, 1941.
NEUMAN, LEO HANDEL, gastro-enterologist; b. Albany, N. Y-, Sept.
12, 1868; conceived the idea of a portable electro-cardiagraph, later
developed by Charles P. Steinmetz; author of many papers on gastrointestinal and cardiac diseases; Albany, N. Y., March 15, 1941.
OLTARSH, DAVID M., architect, engineer; b. New York, N. Y., March
27, 1883; captain of engineers during World War; after War, promoted
to major and lieutenant-colonel; member of engineering examining
board of United States Army since 1925; New York, N. Y., July 21,
1940.
ORLEANSKY, ZVI HIRSCH (Skidler maggid), rabbi; b. Grodno, Russia,
1863; pioneer Zionist in England; came to New York 1905; New York,
N. Y.; reported, Oct. 18, 1940.
OTTINGER, NATHAN, lawyer, judge; b. New York, N. Y., Dec. 14,
1874; appointed by Governor Charles E. Whitman to N. Y. Supreme
Court, 1918; New York, N. Y., Nov.'17, 1940.
POLLAK, WALTER HEILPRIN, lawyer; b. Summit, N. J., June 4, 1887;
counsel to N. Y. State Park Commission 1925-39; consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1929-31;
chairman of Federal Railroad Investigation Commission, 1935; successfully argued appeals of Scottsboro defendants before U. S. Supreme Court, 1932 and 1935; New York, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1940.
POLLYEA, MANDLE MORDECAI, rabbi; aged 68; Los Angeles, Cal.,
April 23, 1941.
RABINOVITZ, JACOB (ROBBINS), rabbi, Congregation Agudas Israel,
Newark, N. J.; aged 69; Boston, Mass., Feb. 24, 1941.
RAUH, MARCUS, manufacturer, philanthropist, civic and communal
worker; aged 81; Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 17, 1940.
REIS, MRS. NANNIE A., civic and communal worker; b. Dresden,
Germany, Dec. 28,1871; came to U. S. 1884; president, Chicago section,
National Council of Jewish Women, 1922-26, national director, 192632; Chicago, 111., October 14, 1940.
RESNICK, LOUIS, journalist, public relations counsel; b. Russia,
May 1, 1891; director of public information of Welfare Council (N. Y.).
1925-35; director of informational service of U. S., Social Security
Board, 1935-38; public relations consultant for International Labor
Office; industrial relations director of National Society for Prevention
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of Blindness for IS years; a leader of movement to conserve human
eyesight; New York, N. Y., March 18, 1941.
REVEL, BERNARD, president of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological
Seminary and Yeshiva College; b. Kovno, Russia, Sept. 17, 1885; came
to U. S. 1907; founder and president of Seminary and Yeshiva College;
associate editor of Ozar Israel, Hebrew encyclopedia; author of many
articles on Jewish subjects; New York, N. Y., Dec. 2, 1940.
REZNIKOFF, ELIAS, Hebrew scholar, communal worker, educator;
b. Elizavetgrad, Russia, Feb. 12, 1886; organizer of Hebrew School,
Talmud Torah, Hebrew Library, and other communal institutions in
Long Branch, N. J.; author of articles on Hebrew educational and
religious subjects; Long Branch, N. J., Jan. 15, 1941.
ROSEN, THEODORE, judge, civic and communal worker; b. Carme!,
N. J., Sept. 20, 1895; lieutenant in army during World War, wounded
26 times; twice cited for bravery under fire; awarded Distinguished
Service Cross; appointed civilian aide to Secretary of War, 1922;
appointed assistant district attorney of Philadelphia, 1926; named
municipal judge, 1931; elected judge of Common Pleas Court, 1937;
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 27, 1940.
ROSENBERG, MEYER J., rabbi of United Orthodox Congregations,
Hartford, Conn.; b. Poland, 1890; came to U.S. 1920; member of
executive board of Union of Orthodox Rabbis; headed United Orthodox
Congregations in Plainfield, N. J., 1927-32; served in Springfield,
Mass., 1932-39; Hartford, Conn., Nov. 17, 1940.
ROSENBERG, MRS. PAULINE HANAUER, communal worker; b. Pitts-
burgh, Pa., 1865; a founder of National Council of Jewish Women,
1893, and of local section in Pittsburgh; a founder of Irene Kaufmann
Settlement and former president of Women's Club in Pittsburgh; New
York, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1940.
ROSENBLOOM, HIRSCH MAIER, rabbi, Congregation Esras Israel,
Chicago, 111.; aged 75; Jan. 25, 1941.
ROSENTHAL, DAVID, attorney, authority on federal bankruptcy
procedure; aged 67, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; at New York, N. Y., Sept. 16,
1940.
ROSEWATER, VICTOR, journalist, publisher, publicist; b. Omaha,
Neb., Feb. 13, 1871; former editor and publisher of the Omaha Bee;
chairman, Republican National Convention, Chicago, 1912; publicity
director of Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exposition, 1926; author
of "The History of Cooperative News Gathering in the United States,"
and "The Liberty Bell, Its History and Significance;" lecturer on
political science; Philadelphia, Pa., July 12, 1940.
SACHS, SAMUEL S., rabbi, Ahavath-Zion Congregation for 25 years;
aged 73; Cleveland, 0., April 18, 1941.
SALIT, MICHAEL, Zionist worker; b. Kovno, Lithuania; came to U. S.
1887; first treasurer of Federation of American Zionists; former president of Achooza Aleph, first American colony in Palestine; aged 72;
Long Beach, L. I., N. Y., at Miami, Fla., Jan. 5, 1941.
SCHILDER, PAUL FERDINAND, clinical director of psychiatric division
of Belleyue Hospital and research professor of psychiatry at New York
University College of Medicine; b. Vienna, Austria, Feb. 15, 1886;
came to U. S. 1929; author of works on psychiatry; New York, N. Y.,
Dec. 8, 1940.
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SCHUSTEK, GEORGE, communal worker, executive vice-president of
United Home for Aged Hebrews, New Rochelle, N.Y., vice-president
and director, National Hebrew Orphan Asylum; aged 50; New York,
N. Y., April 25, 1941.
SELIGSBERG, ALICE LILLIE, social worker, communal leader; b. New
York, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1873; founder of Fellowship House, orphan care
agency; a founder of Hadassah and national president, 1921—22; directed medical work in Palestine during World War; organized Junior
Hadassah, 1920, and senior advisor since 1925; active in child-care
work; New York, N. Y., Aug. 27, 1940.
SHAPIRO, DAVID, newspaper publisher, b. Lida, Poland, March 20,
1872; came to U. S. 1888; founded Yiddish daily, The Day, 1914; New
York, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1940.
SHIFF, LOUIS, civic and communal worker, Zionist leader; a founder
of Hebrew Free Loan Society, former member of executive committee,
Zionist Organization of America; Plainfield, N. J., Nov. 23, 1940.
SILVEEMAN, ISAAC, electrical engineering contractor; b. Pittsburgh,
Pa., April 14, 1862; pioneer builder of electric street railways; director
of railroad and transit companies; a trustee and treasurer of National
Farm School; Philadelphia, Pa., May 12, 1941.
SIMON, HEINRICH, German journalist, music critic; former editorial
director of Frankfurter Zeitung; co-founder of Palestine Symphony
Orchestra; aged 61; (murdered); Washington, D. C , May 6, 1941.
SOLOVEITCHIK, MOSES, talmudist, educator, b. Kaslovitz, Russia,
scion of famous European rabbinical family; senior professor of Talmud
at Yeshiva College since 1929; former educator of Rabbinical College
at Warsaw; internationally famous for Talmudic learning; aged 62;
New York, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1941.
SONNEBORN, SIEGMUND BACHARACH, clothing manufacturer, com-
munal worker; b. Breidenbach bei Biedenkopf, Germany, April 14,
1872; came to U. S. 1889; pioneer in introducing collective bargaining
in industry; student of psalms; director of National Farm School;
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 19, 1940.
STERN, WALTER GUSTAVE, orthopedic surgeon; b. Chattanooga,
Tenn., Dec. 6, 1874; pioneer in field of specialty; active in aiding
crippled children; Cleveland, O., June 8, 1941.
STEUER, MAX DAVID, nationally famous criminal lawyer; b. Munkascz,
Austria, Sept. 6, 1871; came to U.S. 1877; trustee-at-large of N. Y.
Federation since 1926; active in refugee work; New York, N. Y., at
Jackson, N. H., Aug. 21, 1940.
STOLZ, JOSEPH, rabbi, dean of reform rabbinate in U. S., civic and
communal leader; b. Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1861; with Zion Congregation, Chicago, 1887-1895; with Isaiah-Israel Congregation, 18951929; emeritus since 1929; past president of Central Conference of
American Rabbis; Chicago, 111., Feb. 7, 1941.
TAUBER, ELMORE B., nationally known dermatologist; b. Cincinnati,
O., May 4, 1880; professor of dermatology, U. of Cincinnati College
of Medicine; Cincinnati, O., June 21, 1941.
TEITLEBAUM, LEIB, rabbi, Khal Yraim Congregation of Bronx,
N. Y.; aged 54; New York, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1941.
Tovi, DAVID, rabbi, Temple Tifereth Israel of Sephardic Community, Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 19, 1940.
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TROTZKEY, ELIAS, social worker; b. Struchin, Russia, Aug. 20, 1881;
came to U. S. 1912; superintendent of Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan
Home, Chicago, since 1913; member of board of directors, National
Conference, of Jewish Social Service; author of standard scientific works
on care of dependent children; Chicago, 111., April 22, 1941.
WALD, LILLIAN D., social worker; b. Cincinnati, O., March 10, 1867;
internationally famous as founder of Henry Street Settlement, 1895,
director till 1933; organized first non-sectarian public health nursing
system in world, and first public school nursing system; pioneer in
movement to provide playgrounds for children; received many honors
for distinguished social service, including gold medal by National
Institute of Social Sciences, 1912, distinguished service certificate of
the City of New York, 1937; Westport, Conn., Sept. 1, 1940.
WEKTHEIMER, MAX, rabbi, formerly at Temple Israel, Dayton, O.;
aged 77; Ada, 0., Feb. 3, 1941.
WILE,
FREDERIC
WILLIAM,
newspaper
correspondent,
author,
columnist; b. LaPorte, Ind., Nov. 30, 18/3; foreign correspondent for
Chicago Tribune, N. Y. Times, and other leading newspapers; one of
first radio commentators; specialist on German affairs in the Intelligence Section of General Headquarters, A. E. F. during World War;
Washington columnist; Washington, D. C , April 7, 1941.
YELLIN, SAMUEL, outstanding metal craftsman; b. Russia, March 2,
1885; came to U. S. 1906; designer and executor of hand-wrought iron
art works for cathedrals, universities, and other institutions throughout
country; received Bok Civic Award as outstanding citizen of Philadelphia, 1925; lecturer on subject at universities; Wynnewood, Pa.,
at New York, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1940.
ZAGER, MENACHEM MANDELL, rabbi; b. Novogrodek, Poland;
affiliated with orthodox congregations in Detroit; Detroit, Mich.,
Oct. 1, 1940.
OTHER COUNTRIES
ABELSON, JOSHUA, former minister of Leeds United Hebrew Congregation and distinguished Anglo-Jewish scholar; b. Merthyr-Tydfil,
Wales, 1874; Leeds, England, Dec. 24, 1940.
ADLER, HERBERT M., former director of Jewish Education; co-editor
with the late Arthur Davis of the "Service of the Synagogue," standard
translation of the festival liturgy; aged 64, London, England, Aug. 25,
1940.
APFEL, ALFRED, lawyer, Zionist leader; b. Dueren, Rhineland,
Germany, 1882; founder of the Federation of Jewish Youth Associations in Germany, 1909; former president, Zionist Federation of Germany; Marseille, France; reported, April 15, 1941.
ASHENHEIM, LEWIS, lawyer, civic and communal leader; aged 68,
Kingston, Jamaica, reported, June 13, 1941.
BAKER, PERCY P., communal and Zionist worker; associated in
founding of Chovevei Zion movement in England; aged 65; London,
England; reported killed in air-raid, Sept. 24, 1940.
BARSEL, MOSHE, communal worker; a founder of the Palestine
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Society in Johannesburg; aged 61; Johannesburg, Union of South
Africa, May 4, 1941.
BAUM, OSCAR, author, Zionist worker; recipient of Czechoslovak
State Prize for Literature; aged 58; Prague, Czechoslovakia; reported,
March 20, 1941.
BEHAM, ARJEH, Zionist worker, founder of only Pasteur Institute
in Near East; aged 64; Tel Aviv, Palestine; reported, May 21, 1941.
BENJAMIN, WALTER, psychologist, formerly professor at Universities
of Vienna and Munich and at the Sorbonne, Paris; (suicide) at Port
Bou, Spain; reported, October 2, 1940.
BENVENISTI, DAVID, municipal councillor in Tel Aviv; b. Smyrna,
1892; leader of Sephardic Community of Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv, Palestine,
July 7, 1940.
BERGSON, HENRI, philosopher; b. Paris, France, Oct. 18, 1859; lecturer at College de France; elected to French Academy, 1918; awarded
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1927; served as French Cabinet minister,
1918; president of League of Nations Committee for Intellectual Cooperation, 1921-1925; author of "Creative Evolution," "Two Sources
or Morality and Religion"; declined Vichy Government offer of exemption from anti-Jewish legislation, December, 1940; Paris, France,
Jan. 4, 1941.
BIRENBAUM, ABRAHAM M., Zionist worker, talmudic scholar; b.
Lomza, Poland, 1877; London, England; reported, Aug. 23, 1940.
BLUMENFELD, KALMAN, newspaper publisher, famous under penname of "Scrutator"; publisher of Adeverul and Dim-ineata, liberal
democratic newspapers in Bucharest; aged 61; (suicide) Bucharest,
Rumania, Nov. 10, 1940.
BODENHEIMER, MAX, Zionist leader; b. Stuttgart, Germany, Mar. 21,
1865; associate of Theodor Herzl; chairman of Jewish National Fund;
president of Zionist Organization of Germany; Jerusalem, Palestine,
July 20, 1940.
BOEHM, ADOLF, Zionist writer and historian; b. Teplitz-Schoenau,
Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, 1873; author of "Die Geschichte des Zionismus," first authoritative history of the Zionist movement; editor of
magazine, Palestina, 1904-38; and of other journals; associate of
Theodor Herzl; Vienna, Austria, April 10, 1941.
BONNIER, KARL OTTO, publisher, philanthropist; aged 85; Stockholm, Sweden, May 26, 1941.
BORGHI, UBALDO, physician, child specialist; b. Siena, Italy, 1886;
on staff of Jewish Hospital of Alexandria for 25 years; Alexandria,
Egypt; reported, Sept. 13, 1940.
BRAMSON, LEON, world leader in Jewish vocational rehabilitation,
a founder and president, World Ort Federation; b. Kaunas, Lithuania,
May 7, 1868; director of schools founded by Society for Enlightenment
of Jews in Russia, 1894; directed Jewish Colonization Association
enterprises in Russia; elected to first Russian Duma, 1906; author of
Russian Equalities Act of 1917, which outlawed discrimination against
Jews; Marseille, France, March 2, 1941.
BUDKO, JOSEPH, artist, director of Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem;
b. Poland, 1888; refugee from Germany; Jerusalem, Palestine, July
17, 1940.
COHEN, JOSEPH LEWIS, economist, Zionist worker, author; member
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of Executive Committee of Poale Zion; helped organize, and served as
sergeant of Jewish Legion in Palestine during World War; aged 49,
(killed in air raid), London, England, Nov. 16, 1940.
DANIEL, M., author, playwright; aged 40; Yalta (Crimea), Russia;
reported, May 30, 1941.
DE CORDOVA, RUDOLPH, actor, dramatist; b. Kingston, Jamaica,
1860; London, England, Jan. 11, 1941.
DE LIEME, NEHEMIAH, pioneer Zionist leader; founder and past
president of The Netherlands Zionist Federation; The Hague, The
Netherlands; reported, September, 1940.
DYNF, SAMUEL, printer, Yiddish actor; b. Odessa, Russia; came to
Johannesburg, 1896; a founder of first Yiddish theatrical company in
South Africa; Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, Jan. 19, 1941.
ELJASEV, ESTHER, Yiddish author, critic; aged 62; Kaunas, Lithuania; reported, May 2, 1941.
FARHI, HELAL, physician, linguist; b. Damascus, Syria, 1868; founder
of Cairo Jewish Historical Society; translated prayerbooks from Hebrew
into Arabic, and "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam into Hebrew; Cairo,
Egypt; reported, Oct. 11, 1940.
FELEKI, ALEXANDER, poet, physician; aged 75; Budapest, Hungary,
Nov. 9, 1940.
FREIER, ISSACHAR DOV, Hebrew journalist; editor, and contributor
to various Hebrew journals, under pen name of Bar-Drora; aged 62;
Tel Aviv, Palestine, March 17, 1941.
FREIMAN, MRS. LILLIAN, outstanding civic and communal leader,
philanthropist; b. Mattawa, Ontario, Canada, June 6, 1885; organizer
and president of Canadian Hadassah; decorated by King George V
with 0. B. E., Jan. 1, 1934; Montreal, Canada, Nov. 2, 1940.
FRIZI, MORDECHAI, colonel in Greek army; killed in action in GreekItalian campaign; reported, March 2, 1941.
FURTH, HILLEL JOSEPH, Hebrew author, Zionist worker; former
lecturer in Hebrew and Yiddish Literature at Dorpat University,
Estonia; aged 48; Jerusalem, Palestine; reported, Jan. 17, 1941.
GELBER, MOSES, wool merchant, Zionist leader, philanthropist;
a founder and vice-president of Canadian Zionist Organization, an
organizer of Toronto Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; aged 64;
Toronto, Canada, Jan. 12, 1941.
GITTLESON, MORRIS, builder, communal worker; aged 85; Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, Nov. 27, 1940.
GOLDSCHMIDT, JAMES, jurist; b. Berlin, Germany, 1874; former
professor of law at Berlin University and director of Criminological
Institute; lectured at various Spanish universities; came to U. S. 1936;
special lecturer at University of Montevideo; Montevideo, Uruguay;
reported, July 18, 1940.
GOSZTONY, LASZLO, industrialist; director of large coal-mining concern; World War hero; aged 52; (suicide) Budapest, Hungary, July 9,
1940.
GOTTLIEB, JOSHUA, editor of Moment, Yiddish daily of Warsaw,
Poland; in Soviet jail in Kasakstan, Siberia, Soviet Russia; reported,
March 14, 1941.
GRAIEVSKY, PINCHAS, historian, aged 68; Jerusalem, Palestine,
March 13, 1941.
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GRODZIENSKI, CHAIM OZEK, popularly known as "Wilner Gaon";
orthodox rabbinical leader; president of Rabbinical Council of Agudath
Israel World Organization; aged 78, Wilno, Lithuania, Aug. 10, 1940.
GRUSENBERG, OSCAR, lawyer, defender of Mendel Beiliss; member
of Senate in Provisional Government of 1917; member of Jewish Agency
Council; lived in Latvia after Bolshevist revolution; Nice, France;
reported, Dec. 29, 1940.
HALLEGUA, ISAAC ELIAS, Chief Elder of Paradeshi Synagogue in
Jew Town, Cochin; communal leader; aged 79; Cochin, China, Jan. 5,
1941.
HARARI, CHAIM, a founder of Herzlia Gymnasium, Tel Aviv; pioneer
of modern Hebrew culture; aged 58; Tel Aviv, Palestine; reported,
Jan. 17, 1941.
HART, CECIL M., sportsman, aged 57; Montreal, Canada, July 16,
1940.
HEPKER, HERMAN, timber merchant, communal and Zionist worker;
b. Goldingen, Latvia, 1870; came to South Africa 1890; Johannesburg,
Union of South Africa, June 25, 1940.
HEXNER, BELA, metallurgist, Hungarian Jewish political leader; vicechairman of Hungarian Party of Transylvania; aged 50; Budapest,
Hungary, Dec. 16, 1940.
HONIKMAN, ISAAC JOSEPH, merchant, communal worker; b. Sheffield,
England, 1872; came to South Africa, 1885; Cape Town, Union of
South Africa, Sept. 1, 1940.
Hos, Dov, deputy mayor of Tel Aviv; b. Russia, 1894; came to
Palestine 1906; leader in labor movement; (killed in automobile accident) Tel Aviv, Palestine, Dec. 29, 1940.
HULDSCHINSKY, KURT, physician; discovered ultra-violet ray treatment for rachitis; refugee from Germany; Alexandria, Egypt, Dec. 15,
1940.
IRWELL, MRS. HENRIETTA, communal worker, Zionist leader, a
founder of Women's International Zionist Organization; London, England, May 3, 1941.
JASVENSKY, JEHOSHUA, physician, social worker; government medical
officer in Kaunas; president of Jewish Educational Association; aged
58; Kaunas, Lithuania, Oct. 29, 1940.
JOEL, DUDLEY JACK BARNATO, Member of Parliament (Conservative),
financier, sportsman; b. London, England, 1904; reported missing while
serving in Royal Navy, June 10, 1941.
JOSEPH, MRS. LILY DELISSA, artist, communal worker; London,
England, July 27, 1940.
KAMINER, MENDEL, editor, communal leader; former editor of Warsaw
newspapers Der Jud and Yiddishe Togblatt; former president of Agudath
Israel of Poland; aged 77; Warsaw, Poland; reported, Jan. 10, 1941.
KATZ, SIMCHA, author, librarian at Jewish National and University
Library; aged 38; Jerusalem, Palestine; reported, June 18, 1940.
KESSEL, SOLOMON, communal worker; aged 76; Johannesburg, Union
of South Africa, July 24, 1940.
Kiss, ARNOLD, chief rabbi of Buda Progressive Jewish Community,
poet and writer; translated Hebrew and Yiddish poems into Hungarian;
vice-president, Hungarian Rabbinical Association; aged 71; Budapest,
Hungary, Nov. 14, 1940.
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KOSKY, HARRY, civic and communal worker; mayor of Stepney,
London, 1922-23; aged 66; London, England, Dec. 7, 1940.
KOWARSKY, NOAH, merchant, communal worker; b. Malat, Lithuania, 1871; came to South Africa 1896; Johannesburg, Union of South
Africa, July 19, 1940.
LANDA, MRS. ANNIE GERTRUDE, journalist, novelist, dramatist;
well known as "Aunt Naomi of the Jewish Chronicle, aged 60; London,
England, June 25, 1941.
LANDAU, RAFAEL, president of Jewish Community of Cracow, Poland;
aged 72; Kazakstan, Siberia, Soviet Russia; reported, March 21, 1941.
LEVEN, GEORGES, communal leader, acting president of Alliance
Israelite Universelle; aged 73; Vichy, France, June 18, 1941.
LOEWE, HERBERT MARTIN JAMES, orientalist, communal worker;
b. London, England, 1882; Reader in Rabbinics, University of Cambridge; Cambridge, England, Oct. 11, 1940.
Louis-DREYFUS, LOUIS, banker, former senator; Cannes, France, Nov.
10, 1940.
MAINZ, LEOPOLD, banker, philanthropist, communal leader; refugee
from Germany; aged 90; Harrogate, England; reported, April 18, 1941.
MARKS, PERCY LEMAN, architect and surveyor; aged 73; London,
England, Feb. 24, 1941.
MORDECAI, JOSEPH, portrait painter, painted last portrait of King
Edward VII; aged 89; London, England, Dec. 31, 1940.
MOSSERI, ELIE N., banker, communal leader, vice-president Jewish
Community of Cairo, member of Economic Council of the Egyptian
State; Grand Officer of the Order of the Nile; decorated by foreign
governments; aged 61; Cairo, Egypt; reported, Oct. 11, 1940.
MUNK, AZRIEL, rabbi, former Berlin orthodox leader; aged 72;
Jerusalem, Palestine; reported, Nov. 15, 1940.
MYERS, MAURICE, journalist, communal worker; a founder of Young
Israel movement; aged 56; London, England, Sept. 19, 1940.
NUSSBAUM, MEYER, communal and Zionist worker, aged 55; Toronto,
Canada, May 16, 1941.
OLSCHKI, LEO, bibliophile and antiquarian; b. Germany, 1860;
founder of famous publishing firm and rare bookstore at Rome; was
granted honorary Italian citizenship by King Victor Emanuel in 1925
for contributions to Italian culture; in voluntary exile from Italy after
revocation of citizenship owing to racist legislation; Geneva.Switzerland;
reported, July 13, 1940.
ORNSTEIN, LEONARD, physicist, Zionist worker; b. Nymwegen, The
Netherlands, 1880; director, Physical Institute of Utrecht University;
member, Royal Academy of Science; former president, Dutch Zionist
Federation; instrumental in creation of Institute of Physics at Hebrew
University; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; reported, June 27, 1941.
PROBST, MENDEL, bibliographer; aged 53; (killed in air raid) Tel Aviv,
Palestine; reported, June 12, 1941.
RAPAPORT, ACHILL, former professor of law at Vienna University,
former judge of Vienna High Court of Appeal; aged 69; Blaenau
Festiniog, North Wales, England; reported, January 17, 1941.
RATZKER, JOSEPH, communal leader; aged 77; Johannesburg, Union
of South Africa, July 6, 1940.
SALZ, ABRAHAM, Polish Zionist leader; vice-president of first Zionist
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Congress in Basel, 1897; founder of Mahanaim colony in Palestine;
Tarnow, Poland; reported, March 3, 1941.
SCHMITZ, SIEGFRIED, Austrian editor, translator, Zionist worker;
translated works of Sholem Asch into German; aged 54; (suicide)
Jerusalem, Palestine, March 17, 1941.
SCHNIRER, MORITZ TOBIAS, pioneer Zionist, physician, author, editor
of Medizinische Wochenschrift, Vienna; aged 81; Vienna, Austria;
reported, June 20, 1941.
SCHUR, ISSAY, mathematician, former professor of mathematics at
University of Berlin; aged 66; Tel Aviv, Palestine; reported, January
13, 1941.
SELIGMAN, CHARLES GABRIEL, anthropologist, author, b. London,
England, 1873; professor emeritus of ethnology at University of London; London, England, Sept. 19, 1940.
SHATZKY, BORIS, Russian jurist, representative of Alexander Kerensky in Washington, D. C , 1917; Professor of American Constitutional Law at University of Paris, 1927; former editor of French review,
Ambassades et Consulate; on faculty of Concepcion University since
1933; aged 51; Santiago, Chile, January 22, 1941.
SKLIAR, EUGENE, poet and author, editor, officer in Lithuanian War
of Independence, 1918-20; aged 58; Riga, Latvia; reported, June 20,
1941.
SPIEGEL, MARCUS, Zionist leader; aged 56; (executed by Nazis)
Cracow, Poland; reported, May 5, 1941.
TROTSKY, LEON (LEIB BRONSTEIN), revolutionary head of Fourth
International, one-time Russian Bolshevik leader; b. Yanovka, Kherson, Russia, 1879; associate of Lenin in Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
and in founding of U. S. S. R.; Minister of Foreign Affairs and later
Minister of War in Soviet Government; exiled by Stalin in 1928;
(murdered) Mexico City, Mexico, Aug. 21, 1940.
VALENTINE, A. HENRIQUES, journalist, communal worker; former
assistant secretary, United Synagogue; aged 75; London, England,
April 1, 1941.
VAN DEN BERGH, A. M. S., member of The Netherlands Parliament;
aged 76; Nice, France; reported, Feb. 21, 1941.
VISSER, LEWIS E., jurist, President of Supreme Court of the Judicature at The Hague; b. Amersfort, The Netherlands, 1871; president of
Palestine Foundation Fund in The Netherlands; author of works on
commercial law; reported executed by Nazis, Aug. 8, 1940.
VOLTERRA, VITO, world-famous physicist, mathematician, Italy's
greatest scientist, father of mathematical biology; b. Ancona, Italy,
1860; former professor of physics at Rome University; doyen of Italian
Senate; president of International Committee of Weights and Measures;
former president of Academia dei Linci and National Research Council;
one of two Jewish members of the Pontifical Academy; vice-president
of World VVar Inter-Allied Committee for War Inventions; Rome,
Italy, Oct. 11, 1940.
WALDMAN, ISRAEL, lawyer, Zionist leader; b. Galicia, 1881; member
of Austrian Jewish National Council; Jerusalem, Palestine; reported,
Sept. 27, 1940.
WEBBER, W. J., Captain, organizer, during the World War, of irregular foreign legion, subsequently incorporated into the Allied armies in
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France; creator of anti-Nazi boycott movement in 1933; organizer of
the famous Hyde Park anti-Nazi demonstration, July, 1933; London,
England, reported, Aug. 16, 1940.
WOLFF, IRENE, journalist, communal worker, a leader of National
Council of Jewish Women; aged 55; Montreal, Canada, Aug. 19, 1940.
YAHUDA, ISAAC YAHUDA, rabbi, scholar; aged 77; Jerusalem, Palestine; reported, March 28, 1941.
ZALMAN, MORITZ, Viennese writer, lawyer; at concentration camp
Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen, May 29, 1940.
ZALMANOVITCH, AARON, rabbi, talmudic scholar; b. Ritava, Lithuania, 1868; came to Canada 1920; secretary
:ary cof Montreal Council of
Orthodox Rabbis; Montreal, Canada, Dec.:. 27,
27, 1940.

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