ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS

July IS, 1938. Cincinnati, Ohio: Celebration of eighty-fifth anniver- sary of publication of the American Israelite. July 22-24, 1938. Bellefaire, Ohio: Celebration of seventieth anni- versary of founding of the CLEVELAND JEWISH ORPHAN HOME. July 25, 1938. New Rochelle, N. Y.: Eighty-fifth anniversary of birth of PHILIP COWEN, communal worker, former editor of American Hebrew. August 7, 1938. Philadelphia, Pa.: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of HORACE STERN, State Supreme Court Judge, communal leader. August 10, 1938. Philadelphia, Pa.: Eightieth anniversary of birth of JOSEPH H. RUBIN, communal worker. August 28, 1938. Erie, Pa.: Celebration of eightieth anniversary of birth of ISADOR SOBEL, civic and communal leader. September 13, 1938. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of CYRUS ADLER, scholar and communal leader. September 23, 1938. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anni- versary of SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN as physician. October 28-30, 1938. Baltimore, Md.: Celebration of eighty-fifth anniversary of founding of TEMPLE OHEB SHOLEM. October 30, 1938. Cincinnati, Ohio: Celebration of fiftieth anniver- sary of DR. DAVID PHILIPSON, as rabbi of Rockdale Avenue Temple, on his retirement. November 11-13, 1938. Milwaukee, Wis.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION B'NAI . November 13, 1938. City: Fiftieth anniversary of Ameri- can debut as pianist of MORITZ ROSENTHAL. November 26, 1938. : Twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of PHI SIGMA SIGMA, national collegiate sorority. November, 1938. Springfield, Mass.: Twenty-fifth anniversary of SAMUEL PRICE, as rabbi of Temple Beth El. November, 1938. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniver- sary of birth of Louis FABRICANT, communal worker. December 8, 1938. New York City: Sixty-fifth anniversary of birth of Louis GINZBERG, talmudist, professor at Jewish Theological Semi- nary. December 11, 1938. New York City: Celebration of tenth anniver- sary of founding of YESHIVA COLLEGE. December 11, 1938. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anni- versary of founding of the JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA. December 18, 1938. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniver- sary of founding of the UNITED HEBREW TRADES. December 18, 1938. New York City: Fiftieth anniversary of birth of ROBERT MOSES, head of Park Commission. 393 394 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

December 25, 1938. Baltimore, Md.: Celebration of fiftieth anni- versary of founding of the Baltimore Branch of the ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE. January 6, 1939. Memphis, Tenn.: Celebration of eightieth anniver- sary of birth of HARDWIG PERES, Zionist leader. January 17, 1939. Gloversville, N. Y.: Eightieth anniversary of birth of Lucius N. LITTAUER, philanthropist. January 19, 1939. New York City: Twenty-fifth anniversary of publication of Menorah Journal. January 20-22, 1939. Detroit, Mich.: Celebration of fortieth anni- versary of LEO M. FRANKLIN as rabbi in Detroit. January 22, 1939. New York City: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of MAX L. HOLLANDER as secretary of Independent Order Brith Abraham. January 27-30, 1939. St. Louis, Mo.: Celebration of centenary of founding of the UNITED HEBREW TEMPLE. February 1, 1939. New York City: Fiftieth anniversary of birth of Z. H. RUBINSTEIN, editor. March 10, 1939. , N. Y.: Celebration of seventieth anni- versary of founding of CONGREGATION AHAWATH ACHIM, and twenty- fifth anniversary of JOSEPH H. PAYMER, as its rabbi. March 14, 1939. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary on the stage of SARA P. ADLER, actress. March 14, 1939. Princeton, N. J.: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of ALBERT EINSTEIN, scientist. March 15, 1939. New York City: Twenty-fifth anniversary of found- ing of NEW YORK GUILD FOR THE JEWISH BLIND. April 9, 1939. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fiftieth anniversary of establish- ment of KENESETH ISRAEL FREE LIBRARY and eightieth anniversary of birth of HART BLUMENTHAL, Chairman of the Library. April 11, 1939. Portland, Ore.: Celebration of seventieth anniver- sary of birth of JOSEPH SHEMANSKI, philanthropist. April 20, 1939. New York City and Paris, France: Fiftieth anniver- sary of birth of DAVID J. SCHWEITZER, communal worker. April, 1939. New York City: Celebration of Golden Jubilee of found- ing of the FRIENDLY CLUB, originally formed for aid to exiles. May 7, 1939. New York City: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver- sary of HERBERT S. GOLDSTEIN, as rabbi. May 10, 1939. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary as minister of SAMUEL SCHULMAN, rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu-El. May 15, 1939. New York City: Fiftieth anniversary of birth of H. LEVICK, playwright and poet. May 21, 1939. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of literary and communal activity of M. KATZ, publicist. June 15, 1939. Washington, D. C: Celebration of fiftieth anniver- sary of founding of CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBIS. June 23-25, 1939. New York City: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of founding of SIGMA OMEGA PSI FRATERNITY. June 25, 1939. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni- versary of publication of the Jewish World. ANNIVERSARIES AND CELEBRATIONS 395

OTHER COUNTRIES

July 3, 1938. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: Twenty-fifth anniversary of HERMAN BARANOV, as Secretary of the United Hebrew Congregation. July 10, 1938. London, England: Celebration of seventy-fifth anni- versary of founding of the BAYSWATER SYNAGOGUE. July 27, 1938. London, England: Seventieth anniversary of birth of MICHAEL ADLER, D.S.O., minister. July, 1938. London, England: Twenty-fifth anniversary of appoint- ment of HIRSH FERBER, rav in Soho and West Central districts. July, 1938. Manchester, England: Celebration of seventieth anni- versary of birth of JACOB PHILLIPS, minister. August 4, 1938. London, England: Seventieth anniversary of birth of J. F. MIDLOWSKY, physician and communal worker. August 28, 1938. Jerusalem, Palestine: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of M. M. USSISHKIN, Zionist leader. August, 1938. Kingston, Jamaica: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of the DUKE STREET SYNAGOGUE. August, 1938. , Palestine: Fiftieth anniversary of birth of SHMUEL JOSEPH AGNON, Hebrew author. August, 1938. Antwerp, Belgium: Celebration of ninetieth anniver- sary of birth of ELIAS KARLIN, communal leader. September 11, 1938. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of ministry of M. GOLLOP, Dayan. September 14, 1938. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of publication of the Jewish Times, and of MORRIS MYER, its founder, as Editor-in-Chief. September 15, 1938. Canada: Two hundredth anniversary of Jewish immigration to Canada. September, 1938. Glasgow, Scotland: Celebration of fiftieth anni- versary of founding of the GLASGOW HEBREW BENEVOLENT LOAN SOCIETY. October 17, 1938. London, England: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of SIR EDWARD MEYERSTEIN, philanthropist. November 15, 1938. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: Thirtieth anniversary of publication of the Zionist Record. November, 1938. Leeds, England: Celebration of eightieth anni- versary of birth of JACOB SAMUELS, reader emeritus. December 20, 1938. Manchester, England: Seventy-fifth anniver- sary of the birth of REV. HARRIS NEWMAN. December, 1938. , Netherlands: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversary of founding of DUTCH BRANCH OF THE ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE. December, 1938. Leeds, England: Twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of the UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS JEWISH STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION. January 14, 1939. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of ministry of VIVIAN G. SIMMON, at West London Syna- gogue. 396 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

January 16, 1939. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: Celebra- tion of seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of A. M. ABRAHAMS, Zionist leader. February 4, 1939. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of EPHRAIM LEVINE, as minister. February 5, 1939. Jerusalem, Palestine: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of PlNCHAS RUTENBERG, Zionist, hydro-electric engineer. March 2, 1939. London, England: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of SIR PHILIP JOSEPH HARTOG, K.B.E., educator. March 2, 1939. Jerusalem, Palestine: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of DAVID YELLIN, philologist and lecturer. March 11, 1939. Sydney, New South Wales: Seventieth anniversary of birth of SIR SAMUEL COHEN, communal worker. March, 1939. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Celebration of eighty-fifth anni- versary of birth of ALEXANDER ZISSKIND RABINOWITZ (Azar), poet, moralist, talmudist, Zionist. April, 1939. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Celebration of tercentenary of the AMSTERDAM SEPHARDIC JEWISH COMMUNITY. April, 1939. Glasgow, Scotland: Ninetieth anniversary of birth of H. M. LANGMAN, communal worker. May 4, 1939. Jerusalem, Palestine: Seventieth anniversary of first issue of Hebrew weekly Havazeleth. May 7, 1939. Moscow, Russia: Celebration of seventieth anniver- sary of birth of LEO BRAMSON, president of the Ort. May, 1939. Moscow, Russia: Celebration of eightieth anniversary of birth of SHOLOM ALEICHEM, deceased. June, 1939. Warsaw, : Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of publication of Haint, Yiddish weekly.

APPOINTMENTS, HONORS, AND ELECTIONS

UNITED STATES

ADLER, JULIUS OCHS, New York City, elected by Boy Scout Foun- dation of Greater New York, member of Executive Board; reported, May 17, 1939. AMBERG, JULIUS, Grand Rapids, Mich., awarded by Community Chest, honor for civic services; reported, April 7, 1939. ARKIN, GEORGE OTIS, New York City, awarded by , Meritorious Service Award, June 7, 1939. ARONSON, ROBERT L., St. Louis, Mo., elected judge, Circuit Court, November 8, 1938. AUSTIN, BERNARD, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. BACKER, GEORGE, New York City, elected member of the City Council, December 6, 1938. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 397

BAKER, EDWARD M., Cleveland, Ohio, awarded the Charles Eisen- man Award for distinguished service to the community, January 8, 1939. BARNET, PHILIP, New Bedford, Mass., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. BERNSTEIN, SIDNEY J., New York City, elected judge, Supreme Court 1st District, November 8, 1938. BLOOM, SOL, New York City, re-elected member of United States House of Representatives, November 8, 1938. BRACKMAN, DAVID M., Roxbury, Mass., elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. BREITBART, CHARLES H., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. BRENNER, BENJAMIN, Brooklyn, N. Y., appointed by Mayor, justice, Municipal Court, May 10, 1939. CELLER, EMANUEL, New York City, re-elected member of United States House of Representatives, November 8, 1938. COFFEE, RUDOLPH I., San Francisco, Calif., elected president, Temple of Religion for 1939 San Francisco Exposition; reported, July 11, 1938. COHEN, HENRY, Galveston, Tex., awarded by Jewish Institute of Religion, honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity, May 28, 1939. COHEN, HERBERT B., York, Pa., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. COHEN, REUBEN E., Philadelphia, Pa., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. COOPER, IRVING BEN, New York City, appointed by Mayor, to ten year term as judge, Special Sessions Court, June 29, 1939. COSTUMA, Louis F., New York City, appointed by Police Commis- sioner, Chief Inspector of the Police Department, January 10, 1939. DAVIDSON, IRWIN D., New York City, elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. DICKER, SAMUEL B., Rochester, N. Y., elected Mayor, November 8, 1938. DICKSTEIN, SAMUEL, New York City, re-elected member of United States House of Representatives, November 8, 1938. DOLLINGER, ISIDORE, New York City, re-elected to State Legis- lature, November 8, 1938. DREYFUS, LOUIS G., Santa Barbara, Calif., appointed Minister to Iran, June 28, 1939. EFROS, ISRAEL, Buffalo, N. Y., appointed professor of Semitics at the University of Buffalo; announced, December 2, 1938. EHRLICH, HAROLD B., Buffalo, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. ELBOGEN, ISMAR, New York City, awarded by Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters, May 28, 1939; awarded by Jewish Institute of Religion, honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters, May 28, 1939. FARBMAN, AARON A., Detroit, Mich., (with Harry C. Saltzstein and David J. Sandweiss) awarded by American Medical Association, certificate of merit for original investigation in Class I for exhibit 398 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK illustrating relation of sex hormones to peptic ulcer; reported, July 22, 1938. FARBSTEIN, LEONARD, New York City, re-elected to State Legis- lature, November 8, 1938. FEINBERG, BENJAMIN F., Plattsburg, N. Y., re-elected State Senator, November 8, 1938. FELD, A. SPENCER, New York City, re-elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. FELS, SAMUEL S., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Governor, medal for meritorious service to the state; reported, January 13, 1939. FINESHRIBER, WM. H., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Governor, medal for meritorious service to the state; reported, January 13, 1939, FOLKMAN, JEROME D., Grand Rapids, Mich., awarded by Junior Chamber of Commerce, golden key, given citizen "not more than 35 years of age who has proved himself of outstanding usefulness" to the community; reported, April 7, 1939. Fox, I. J., New York City, awarded by 77th Division Association, Order of the Flag, for aid to ex-service men, March 25, 1939. FRANKFURTER, FELIX, Cambridge, Mass., and later Washington, D. C, appointed by President, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; confirmed, January 17, 1939; awarded by Oxford University, honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law, June 21, 1939. FREUND, PAUL A., Washington, D. C, appointed by Harvard University, to faculty of the School of Law; reported, April 13, 1939. FRIEDLAND, JACOB, Jersey City, N. J.r elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. GANS, ISAAC, Washington, D. C, awarded by District of Columbia Department of American Legion, the annual citation for distinguished citizenship; reported, September, 1938. GANS, JULIUS J., New York City, re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. GIMBEL, ELLIS A., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Governor, medal for meritorious service to the state; reported, January 13, 1939. GOLDBERG, MEYER, New York City, re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. GOLDBLATT, HARRY, Cleveland, Ohio, awarded by Phi Lambda Kappa, annual award for contributions to advancement of science of medicine; reported, January 6, 1939; awarded by American Association of Clinical Pathologists, gold medal for outstanding contribution to medical science; reported, May 19, 1939. GOLDBLATT, NORMAN, Dover, N. J., selected by Madrigal Society, for award carrying with it costs of a professional debut, January 10, 1939; announced, December 9, 1938. GOLDEN, ISIDORE M., San Francisco, Calif., appointed judge, Superior Court; reported, July, 1938. GOLDMAN, SOLOMON, Chicago, 111., awarded by Phi Beta Delta Fraternity, certificate of distinction, as Jew contributing the most outstanding achievements of the past year; reported, January 13, 1939. GOLDSMITH, SIMON, New York City, elected president of the Xew York Fraternal Congress; reported, March 23. 1939. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 399

GOLDSTEIN, AARON F., Brooklyn, N. Y., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. GOLDWATER, SIGISMUND S., New York City, awarded by City Club of New York, citation for "outstanding contribution to the health and welfare of our community," May 5, 1939; awarded by New York University, honorary degree of Doctor of Public Health, June 7, 1939. GRAYZEL, SOLOMON, Philadelphia, Pa., appointed editor, Jewish Publication Society of America, May 22, 1939. GREENFIELD, ALBERT M., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Governor, medal for meritorious service to the state; reported, January 13, 1939. GRIMES, IRVING, . Colorado, re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. GUTMAN, DANIEL, Brooklyn, N. Y., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. HARRIS, SAMUEL, Buffalo, N, Y., elected judge, New York State Supreme Court, November 8, 1938. HELLMAN, MILO, New York City, awarded Albert H. Ketcham Memorial Award of the American Board of Orthodontists, for "con- tributions to science and art of orthodontia;" announced, May 24, 1939. HEUMANN, SOL, Rochester, N. Y., honored by Society of the Genesee, for importance in business, social and civic life, January 23, 1939. JOSEPH, LAZARUS, New York City, re-elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. KAHN, ALEXANDER, New York City, elected by Associ- ation, general business manager, January 26, 1939. KALMUS, HARRY, —, Mass., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. KALODNER, Harry E., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by President judge, United States District Court; announced, July 8, 1938. KAPLAN, CHARLES, Mass., elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. KARABELL, CHARLES J., Indianapolis, Ind., re-appointed by Gover- nor, judge of Marion County Municipal Court, reported, December 30, 1938. KENIN, HARRY M., Portland, Ore., elected to State Senate, Novem- ber 8, 1938. KLAUS, HENRY, , Mass., elected to State Legislature, Novem- ber 8, 1938. KLEINFELD, PHILIP M., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. KLINE, HERMAN, , Colorado, re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. KOHN, ROBERT D., New York City, elected president of American Ethical Union; announced, May 23, 1939. KORNHAUSER, SAMUEL J., Cleveland, Ohio, elected president of board of the Cleveland Public Library; reported, July 22, 1938. KRITZMAN, MORRIS, Dorchester, Mass., elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. KROLL, LEON, New York City, awarded by France, silver medal in painting, at 1937 International Exposition, at Paris; reported, Decem- ber 30, 1938. 400 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

KRONBERG, LOUIS, New York City, awarded by France, diploma of honor for painting, at 1937 International Exposition, at Paris; reported, December 30, 1938. KROOT, SAMUEL, Indianapolis, Ind., appointed by prosecutor-elect, deputy prosecutor in Criminal Court for two years; reported, Decem- ber 30, 1938. KUHN, WALT, New York City, awarded by France, silver medal in painting, at 1937 International Exposition, at Paris; reported, Decem- ber 30, 1938 LANDSMAN, BERTHA, New York City, appointed by Hadassah, director of nursing services for Jerusalem Hospital; reported Janu- ary 22, 1939. LEHMAN,HERBERT H., New York City, re-elected , November 8, 1938; elected member of board of directors of the Philharmonic Symphony Society, November 15, 1938; awarded by senior class of New York University, scroll "for distinguished public service," June 6, 1939. LEISERSON, WILLIAM M., Washington, D. C, appointed by Presi- dent, member of National Labor Relations Board, April 26, 1939. LEVENSON, JOSEPH, Woodbine, N. J., elected Mayor, November 8, 1938. LEVIN, HERBERT S., Philadelphia, Pa., elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. LEVINE, DAVID, Seattle, Wash., resolution honoring his ability as president of City Council adopted by Council on his retirement from presidency, June 12, 1939. LEVY, J. HOWARD, Philadelphia, Pa., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. LEVY, MATTHEW M., New York City, elected judge, Municipal Court, November 8, 1938. LITTAUER, NATHAN J., Union City, N. J., elected to State Legis- lature, November 8, 1938. LOEVINGER, GUSTAVUS, St. Paul, Minn., re-elected judge, Ramsey County, Minnesota, District Court, November 8, 1938. MACK, ALFRED, Cincinnati, Ohio, re-elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Hoboken County, for six years, November 8, 1938. MARSHALL, JAMES, New York City, re-elected president of the Board of Education, May 9, 1939. MEYER, EUGENE, Washington, D. C, awarded by Cosmopolitan Club, the Distinguished Service Medal for most outstanding civic service in 1938, January 19, 1939. MILLER, FRIEDA S., New York City, appointed by Governor, State Industrial Commissioner; reported, August 5, 1938. MOSES, ROBERT, New York City, awarded by Roosevelt Memorial Association, medal for "distinguished service in the administration of public office," October 27, 1938; awarded by Massachusetts Horti- cultural Society, the George Robert White medal of honor, an out- standing horticultural award; reported, November 3, 1938; awarded by Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, N. Y., the 1939 Lincoln award for meritorious service to the city, January 10, 1939; appointed Godkin lecturer at Harvard University; reported, April 16, 1939. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 401

ONIMSKY, JOSEPH, Philadelphia, Pa., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. PACK, CARL, New York City, re-elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. PINANSKI, ABRAHAM E., Boston, Mass., elected by Boston Uni- versity, member of board of trustees; reported, June 16, 1939. POLLAK, BERTHOLD STEINBACH, Jersey City, N. J., awarded medal for "work in promotion of good-will and humanitarianism," May 10, 1939. REINHART, ARTHUR H., Portsmouth, N. H., elected to State Legis- lature, November, 8, 1938. RIEGELMANN, EDWARD, Brooklyn, N. Y., elected judge, Supreme Court 2nd District, November 8, 1938. RITTENBERG, Louis, Nee York City, appointed executive and literary editor of the L'niversal Jewish Encyclopedia; reported, May 26, 1939. ROSENFELD, NATHAN, Milford, Mass., re-elected to State Legisla- ture, November 8, 1938. ROSENFELD, S. M., Philadelphia, Pa., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. ROTHSTEIN, JULIUS, New York City, elected State Controller, November 8, 1938. RUBIN, ALBERT, Fall River, Mass., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. RUBY, ISRAEL, Williamstown, Mass., appointed presiding judge of the District Court; reported, December 16, 1938. RUSLANDER, DAVID, Buffalo, N. Y., named by Mayor, member of Board of Education; reported, May 5, 1939. SABATH, A. J., Chicago, 111., re-elected member of United States House of Representatives, November 8, 1938. SACKS, LEON, Philadelphia, Pa., re-elected member of United States House of Representatives, November 8, 1938. SALTZSTEIN, HARRY C, Detroit, Mich., (with David J. Sandweiss and Aaron A. Farbman,) awarded by American Medical Association, certificate of merit for original investigation in Class I for exhibit illustrating relation of sex hormones to peptic ulcer; reported, July 22, 1938. SALUS, SAMUEL W., Philadelphia, Pa., re-elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. SANDWEISS, DAVID J., Detroit, Mich., (with Harry C. Saltzstein and Aaron A. Farbman,) awarded by American Medical Association, certificate of merit for original investigation in Class I for exhibit illustrating relation of sex hormones to peptic ulcer; reported, July 22, 1938. SARASOHN, I. J., Leavenworth, Kans., elected president of the Leavenworth Ministerial Association; reported, February 17, 1939. SARNOFF, DAVID, New York City, awarded by National Broad- casting Company, Gold Medal of Achievement, for 1938; announced December 4, 1938; awarded by Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia, proclamation and medal, in recognition of achievements which "have 402 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

materially helped advance American civilization and have aided in the higher standard of living," January 17, 1939; awarded by Veteran Wireless Operators Association, the first Marconi Memorial Gold Medal of Achievement in absentia, February 11, 1939; awarded by National Institute of Immigrant Welfare, annual award given to Americans of foreign birth who have distinguished themselves, April 19, 1939; awarded by Suffolk University, Boston, Mass., honorary degree of Doctor of Science, June 15, 1939. SCHAAP, MICHAEL, New York City, awarded by New York Univer- sity, Meritorious Service Award, June 7, 1939. SCHANFARBER, E. J., Columbus, Ohio, elected president of Columbus Better Business Bureau; reported July 1, 1938. SCHLOSSBACH, ISAAC, Bradley Beach, N. J., awarded by Governor of New Jersey, Congressional Medal for services to the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, December 20, 1938. SCHULMAN, ABRAHAM, Rochester, N. Y., re-elected to State Legisla- ture, November 8, 1938. SCHWARTZ, RALPH, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. SCHWARTZWALD, JACOB J., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Senate, November 8, 1938. SHARFMAN, ISAIAH L., Ann Arbor, Mich., awarded by faculty of Harvard Law School, the Ames Prize bronze medal and $500 for "the most meritorious law book or legal essay written in the English language" for his book "The Interstate Commerce Commission;" re- ported, April 30, 1939. SHEMANSKI, ALFRED, Seattle, Wash., reappointed by Governor, member of Board of Regents of University of Washington, April 18, 1939. SIEGEL, ISAAC, New York City, appointed by Mayor, judge to succeed Magistrate Louis Brodsky, June 29, 1939. SIROVICH, WM. I., New York City, re-elected member of United States House of Representatives, November 8, 1938. SKALE, JOSEPH, Philadelphia, Pa., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. SOBEL, ISADOR, Erie, Pa., re-elected president of the Erie County Bar Association, May 29, 1939. SOLIS-COHEN, SOLOMON, Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, honorary degree for "outstanding services in the medical profession," June 7, 1939. SOLOMON, CHARLES, Brooklyn, N. Y., elected judge, Supreme Court 2nd district, November 8, 1938. SPIEGEL, JACOB, Boston, Mass., appointed by Governor, associate justice, Municipal Court; reported, April 7, 1939. SPORBORG, CONSTANCE AMBERG, Portchester, N. Y., awarded by Russell Sage College, honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, June 5, 1939. SPORKIN, MAURICE W., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed assistant district attorney; reported, July 15, 1938. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 403

STEINGUT, IRWIN, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. STEINHARDT, LAWRENCE A., New York City, appointed by President, Ambassador to Soviet Russia, March 17, 1939. STERN, MORRIS, Milwaukee, Wis., re-appointed circuit court com- missioner for term of six years; elected chairman of Milwaukee Board of Assessments; reported, January 13, 1938. STONE, HARRY K., Brockton, Mass., appointed by Governor, judge of probate and insolvency in Plymouth County, November 10, 1938. STRAUS, MRS. NATHAN, New York City, appointed by Mayor, member of Board of Higher Education, June 29, 1939. SULZBERGER, ARTHUR HAYS, New York City, awarded by Rollins College, honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, February 27, 1939; elected by Rockfeller Foundation, member of board of trustees: announced, April 5, 1939. SULZBERGER, MRS. ARTHUR HAYS, New York City, awarded by Grand Street Boys' Association, Gold Medal for civic services, Febru- ary 22, 1939. TAHL, HERMAN J., Philadelphia, Pa., elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. WACHTEL, ARTHUR, New York City, elected to State Legislature, November 8, 1938. WALTERS, MRS. GOLDA RICHMOND, Ayer, Mass., appointed by Governor, associate judge of the First Northern Middlesex Court, November 10, 1938. WARBURG, JAMES PAUL, New York City, elected member of board of directors of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society, January 10, 1939. WEISS, SAMUEL, New York City, awarded by France, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, for contributions to medicine and gastroenter- ology; reported, January 13, 1939. WISE, JONAH B., New York City, named by Phi Epsilon Pi Frater- nity as Jew who made finest contribution to American life during 1938; reported, December 30, 1938. WUNDERLICH, FRIEDA (formerly Berlin, ), New York City, elected by Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science of the New School for Social Research, ("University In Exile"), dean for 1939- 1940; announced, February 20, 1939. *ZATURENSKA, MARIA, New York City, awarded Pulitzer Prize for volume of poetry "Cold Morning Skies;" announced, May 3, 1938. ZIMON, ABRAHAM I., , Mass., elected to Legislature, November 8, 1938. ZUCKER, PAUL, New York City, formerly Berlin, Germany, appointed to chair of architectural history at the Cooper Union Art School; announced, July 19, 1938.

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ABRAHAMS, ADOLPHE, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., , England, created by King George VI, Knight Bachelor, January 1, 1939. ABRAHAMS, J., London, England, elected Mayor of Shoreditch Borough; reported, November 11, 1938. ABRAHAMSON, LEONARD, Dublin, Ireland, elected president of the Medical Section of the Royal Academy of Medicine for Ireland; reported, October 28, 1938. ADES, CLEMENT, Cairo, Egypt, appointed by French Government, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor; reported, July 8, 1938. ADES, EMILE, Cairo, Egypt, appointed by French Government Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor; reported, July 8, 1938. . ADLER, RICHARD, Cairo, Egypt, appointed by King, Commander of the Order of the Nile; reported, April 21, 1939. AFIF, DANIEL, , Egypt, appointed by Emperor of Iran, Officer of the Order of Tadj; reported, April 14, 1939. ASSCHER, A., Amsterdam, Netherlands, re-elected president of the Ashkenazic Jewish Community; reported, July 1, 1938; elected member of provincial council; reported, April 28, 1939. ASSCHER, S. E., Amsterdam, Netherlands, awarded knighthood by Queen Wilhelmina, on fortieth anniversary of her accesstion; reported, September 9, 1938. BACHI, ROBERTO, Jerusalem, Palestine (formerly Rome, Italy), appointed by Hadassah to staff of Rothschild Hadassah University Hospital and Medical School on Mt. Scopus; reported, March 24, 1939. BARNETT, LIONEL D., London, England, elected member of the council of management of the Royal Asiatic Society; reported, May 26, 1939. BEDDINGTON, REGINALD, , England, appointed by King George VI, O.B.E., Civil Division, June 7, 1939. BELINFANTE, MISS E. J., The Hague, Netherlands, awarded by Queen Wilhelmina, on fortieth anniversary of her accession, Knight- hood in Order of Orange Nassau; reported, September 9, 1938. BENAS, BERTRAM, J. P., Liverpool, England, appointed by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, justice of the peace; reported, November 11, 1938. BENDAHAM, MENAHEM CORIAT, Barcelona, Spain, appointed presi- dent of the newly established Rabbinical Court; reported, September 2, 1938. BENJAMIN, EPHRAIM, Bombay, India, awarded by King George VI, O.B.E. (first Indian Jew); reported, July 22, 1938. BERCOVITCH, PETER, K. C, Cartier, Canada, re-elected to Parlia- ment, November 7, 1938. BETUCHOVSKY, M., Shavli, , elected Mayor; reported, September 2, 1938. BLACHER, NATHAN, Kfar Saba, Palestine, awarded by High Com- missioner, Police Medal for gallantry and meritorious service; reported, April 28, 1939. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 405

BOVENSCHEN, F. C, , England, invested by King George VI, with insignia, July 5, 1938. BRODY, ERNST, Budapest, Hungary, elected member of Parliament; reported, June 2, 1939. CARMI, DAVID BOULOS, , Palestine, created by King George VI, honorary member of the Civil Division of O.B.E., January 1, 1939. CATTAUI, ASLAN, Bey, Cairo, Egypt, appointed to Senate; reported, August 12, 1938; awarded by Queen Wilhelmina of Netherlands, Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau; reported, March 24, 1939. CATTAUI, MRS. CELINE, , Egypt, awarded by French Govern- ment, decoration of Officier d'Academie; reported, July 8, 1938. CATTAUI, RENE, Bey, , Egypt, appointed by France, Officer of the legion of Honor; reported, December 2, 1938. CICUREL, SALVATOR, Cairo, Egypt, appointed by French Govern- ment, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor; reported, Julv 8, 1938. COHEN, BENJAMIN, Santiago, Chile, appointed Chilean Ambassador to La Paz, Bolivia; announced, March 13, 1939. COHEN, BERTRAM, M.B., B.S., , England, awarded by King, George VI, Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O. (Fourth Class), January 1, 1939. COHEN, LIONEL L., London, England, appointed by United Grand Lodge of England, to Grand Rank, April 26, 1939. COHEN, SIR ROBERT WALEY, K.B.E., London, England, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, March 3, 1939. CREVELD, Simon VAN, Amsterdam, Netherlands, awarded by Amster- dam University, professorship in children's diseases on medical faculty; reported, July 1, 1938. CROI.L, DAVID A., Windsor, Ont., Canada, elected Mayor; reported, December 30, 1938. DAVIDSON, JO, Paris, France, (formerly New York City), awarded by France, Grand Prix in sculpture, at 1937 International Exposition, Paris; reported, December 30, 1938. DAVIS, ADOLPH, K. C, , Union of South Africa, elected member of Parliament, at by-election; reported, March 24, 1939. EPRII.E, CECILE JACOB, Oxford, England, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, January 27, 1939. EZRA, LADY, Calcutta, India, represented India at golden jubilee conference of the International Council of Women, at Edinburgh; reported, July 22, 1938. FEKETE, M., Jerusalem, Palestine, appointed by Hebrew University, Dean of the Faculty of Science; announced, November 28, 1938. FELDMAN, I., , Egypt, appointed by King of Belgium, Officer of the Order of Leopold; reported, April 14, 1939. FINZI, OTHELLO, Rome, Italy, appointed member of faculty of medicine of the National University Medical School, El Salvador, San Salvador; reported, April 1, 1939, FITCH, LOUIS, K. C, Quebec, Canada, elected to Parliament November 7, 1938. FLEISCHMANN, L., —, England, invested by King George VI, with insignia, July 5, 1938. 406 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

Fox, B. J., Belfast, Ireland, appointed by Governor, King's Counsel for Northern Ireland; reported, June 16, 1939. FRAENKEL, ABRAHAM (ADOLF) HALEVI, Jerusalem, Palestine, elected rector of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, November 2, 1938. FRANCO, EMILIO ENRICO, Jerusalem, Palestine, formerly (Pisa, Italy), appointed by Hadassah to staff of Rothschild University Hospital and Medical School on Mt. Scopus; reported, March 24, 1939. FRANKLIN, SYDNEY ERNEST, London, England, appointed by Lord Chancellor, justice of the peace for County of London; reported, March 31, 1939. FRANKS, L. L., , England, decorated by King George VI, Com- mander of the Order of St. John; reported, July, 1938. FREED, LOUIS FRANKLIN, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, elected chairman of the executive committee of the Civic Fellowship of South Africa; reported, May 26, 1939. FREEDMAN, BARNETT, London, England, elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, June 2, 1939. FREUD, SIGMUND, London, England, elected member of the Royal Society; reported, July 4, 1938. GALKIN, S., MOSCOW, Russia, decorated by the Executive of the Supreme Council, "for distinguished achievements in development of Soviet literature;" reported, February 17, 1939. GLASEL, ZIKMUND, •< , Czechoslovakia, promoted honorary consul at Haifa, Palestine, October 27, 1938. GLASS, LOUIS, Birmingham, England, elected to Municipality; reported, November 11, 1938. GLUCKSTEIN, SIR SAMUEL, London, England, elected deputy-chair- man of the London County Council (1939-1940); reported, March 17, 1939. GOLDSTEIN, MOSHE, , Palestine, awarded by King George VI, Colonial Police Medal, for gallantry on September 6, 1938; reported, January 1, 1939. GORDON, L. L., Hull, England, elected member of the Executive committee of Hull University; reported, June 23, 1939. GOTTSCHALK, MAX, Brussels, Belgium, elected president of Hias- Ica Emigration Association, June 19, 1939. GUILELS, EMIL, Odessa, Russia, awarded first prize of the Vsaye International Piano Contest in Brussels; reported, July 1, 1938. GUTT, CAMILLE, , Belgium, re-appointed Minister of Finance; reported, April 21, 1939. HALDIN, PHILIP EDWARD, , India, made Knight-Bachelor, for political and public services, by King George VI, June 7, 1939. HANSFORD, BENJAMIN, London, England, awarded by King George VI, Order of the Bath, K.C.B., Civil Division, January 1, 1939. HEILBRON, I. M., London, England,, awarded by University of Glasgow, honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, June, 1939. HENRIQUES, R. Q., London, England, appointed by Lord Chancellor, justice of the peace for County of London; reported, March 31, 1939. HERTZ, JOSEPH H., Chief Rabbi, London, England, awarded by University of London, honorary degree of Doctor of Laws' reported, December 2, 1938. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 407

HEVESI, SIMON, Budapest, Hungary, awarded by Jewish Theologica Seminary of America, degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters, honoris causa, June 4, 1939. HORWITZ, I. L., Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa, appointed King's counsel; reported, July 22, 1938. HUBBACK, MRS. EVA MARION, London, England, appointed by Lord Chancellor, justice of the peace for County of London; reported March 31, 1939. KODER, SHABDAI S., Cochin, India, nominated by the Dewan of Cochin, member of the Legislative Council, to represent the of Cochin; reported, August 26, 1938. KONOPKA, M., , Poland, elected Senator; reported, December 2, 1938. KRAUS, OSCAR, Prague, Czechoslovakia, invited by Senate of Edinburgh University to deliver the Gifford lectures in natural theology 1940-1941; reported, June 23, 1939. KUHN, FERDINAND, JR., London, England, awarded by , {in absentia) medal for excellence in reporting of world events, June 6, 1939. KVITKO, L. M., , Russia, decorated by the Executive of the Supreme Council, "for distinguished achievements in development of Soviet literature;" reported, February 17, 1939. LASKI, HAROLD J., London, England, elected member of the Execu- tive Committee of the Labor Party; reported, June 2, 1939. LEVER, LESLIE, Manchester, England, elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, June 2, 1939. LEVY, A., Manchester, England, elected to Municipality; reported, November 11, 1938. LEVY, MERVYN, Cardiff, England, elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, July 1, 1938. LEVY, SHABBATAI, Haifa, Palestine, appointed acting Mayor; reported, July 1, 1938. LEWIN, JULIUS, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, appointed lecturer in native law and administration at the University of the Witwatersrand; reported, April 28, 1939. LIPSON, L. M., , , appointed professor in political science at Wellington, New Zealand; reported, November 18, 1938. LIPTON, MARCUS, Lambeth, England, appointed justice of the peace for County of London; reported, March 3, 1939 LOON, S. VAN, The Hague, The Netherlands, awarded by Queen Wilhelmina, on the 40th anniversary of her accession, Knighthood in Order of Orange Nassau; reported, September 9, 1938. LOEWI, OTTO, Graz, Austria, appointed to faculty of Brussels Uni- versity, Brussels, Belgium; reported, January 31, 1939. LUBETZKI, ALBERT, Paris, France, appointed Officer of the Legion of Honor; reported, January 27, 1939. LUDWIG, EMIL, , Switzerland, formerly of German;/, named member of French Legion of Honor, April 18, 1939. MANDELBERG, L. C, —, England, invested by King George VI, with insignia, July 5, 1938. 408 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

MARKISH, PERETZ, , Russia, decorated by the Executive of the Supreme Council, "for distinguished achievements in development of Soviet literature;" reported, February 17, 1939. MARSHAK, SAMUEL, , Russia, decorated by the Executive of the Supreme Council, "for distinguished achievements in development of Soviet literature;" reported, February 17, 1939. MAYER, L. A., Jerusalem, Palestine, elected Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University; reported, June 23, 1939. MAYER, ROBERT, F.R.C.M., , England, created by King George VI, Knight Bachelor, for service to music, especially in organization of concerts for young people, January 1, 1939. MAYZEL, MAURYCY, Warsaw, Poland, awarded by Premier Sklad- kowski, Golden Cross of Service, January 6, 1939. MELAMEDE, ISAAC, —, Palestine, appointed by King George VI, to Colonial Office List, Honorary M.B.E., January 1, 1939. MER, G., , Palestine, appointed professor at Agricultural College of the Hebrew University; reported, September 16, 1938. METZ, M. DE, London, England, elected Fellow of the Royal Insti- tute of British Architects; reported, February 17, 1939. METZ, M. E. DE, Almelo, Netherlands, Knighted by Queen Wit- helmina, on the 40th anniversary of her accession; reported, September 9, 1938. MIKHOELS, SOLOMON, MOSCOW, Russia, awarded title "People's Artist of the U.S.S.R.,' on occasion of twentieth anniversary of Moscow State Theatre; reported, April 5, 1939. MILLIN, ALBERT, O.B.E., Swaziland, South Africa, re-elected to Advisory Council for Northern Swaziland; reported, November 18 1938. MINCZBERG, LEIB, Lodz, Poland, elected to Sejm, November 6, 1938. MIZRACHI, EMMANUEL, , Egypt, appointed by Emperor of Iran, Commander of the Order of the Tadj; reported, April 14, 1939. MORPURGO, MRS. —, Rome, Italy (mother of Lieut.-Col. George Morpufgo, deceased), awarded by II Duce, gold medal; reported, May 26, 1939. NATHAN, H. L., D.L., M.P., London, England, appointed justice of the peace for County of London; reported, March 3, 1939. NIEMIROWER, JACOB, Bucharest, Roumania, appointed by Govern- ment, ex-officio member of Senate, June 6, 1939. NISSIM, MEYER, Bombay, India, re-elected to the Bombay Munici- pality; reported, March 3, 1939. PADOVA, ALDO, Cairo, Egypt, promoted by Italian Government, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy; reported, July 8, 1938. RACHWALSKY, JACOB, , Palestine, awarded by King George VI, Honorary M.B.E., June 7, 1939. RAISMAN, ABRAHAM JEREMY, C.S.I., C.I.E., New Delhi, India, appointed finance member of the Executive Council of the Governor- General of India; reported, December 23, 1938; awarded by King George VI, Knighthood, June 7, 1939. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS 409

RAPHAEL, CHAIM, Oxford, England, re-appointed Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew for three years at University of Oxford: reported, May 26, 1939. READING, MARQUESS OF, K.C., London, England, appointed chair- man of the Central Valuation Board under the Coal Act, 1938; reported, August 5, 1938. RICH, J. M., London, England, appointed director of publicity of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies; reported, December 23, 1938. Ross, BETTY, , England, elected member of the Royal Society of Literature; reported, December 2, 1938. Rossi, BRUNO, , England (formerly Italy), appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Physics at the University of Manchester, England; reported, March 17, 1939. RUBINSTEIN, ISAAC, Vilna, Poland, appointed Senator, reported. December 9, 1938. RUDENBERG, REINHOLD, Wembley, England, (formerly of Germany), appointed to Harvard University Science Faculty, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A., from February, 1939, announced, July 16, 1938. RUPPIN, ARTHUR, , Palestine, appointed professor at Agricul- tural College of the Hebrew University; reported, September 16, 1938. RYKWERT, SIMON, , Poland, awarded by Government, Golden Cross Pour La Merite; reported, December 16, 1938. SAMUEL, DAVID S.r Trichinopoly, India, awarded by Viceroy, the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for public service in India; reported, Novem- ber 4, 1938. SAMUEL, FREDERICK DUDLEY, D.S.O., T.D., London, England, appointed Commander, Military Division, O.B.E.; reported June 8, 1938* SCHAPERA, I., Capetown, Union of South Africa, awarded by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, the Rivers Memorial Medal (1939) awarded annually for meritorious work in the field; reported, May 26, 1939. SCHAUDER, A., J.P., Port Elizabeth, South Africa, elected Deputy Mayor; reported, September 23, 1938. SCHIFF, OTTO M., London, England, appointed by King George VI, Commander in the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire, June 7, 1939. SCHULMAN, L. HYMAN, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, re-elected Mayor; reported, June 16, 1939. SCHWARTZ, ISAYE, .Strasbourg, France, elected by Central Con- sistory of the Jewish Congregations of France and Algeria, Chief Rabbi, March 8, 1939. SCHWARTZCHILD, PERCY HERBERT, London, England, elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, June 2, 1939. SCHWARZBART, IGNACE, Krakow, Poland, elected to Sejm, Novem- ber 6, 19-38.

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SEIDENMAN SIMON, Warsaw, Poland, elected to Sejm, November 6, 1938. SERVADIO, EMILIO, , , (formerly of Italy), appointed Honor- ary Professor and Fellow of the Andhra Research University of Viz- ianagram; reported, March 3, 1939. SHABETAI, JACOB, , Egypt, appointed Egyptian Consul in Paris; reported, August 12, 1938. SLOVIN, ZALMAN, Jerusalem, Palestine, awarded Colonial Police Medal for gallantry; reported, April 21, 1939. SOFFER, SOLOMON N., Jerusalem, Palestine, awarded by High Commissioner, Medal of Order of the British Empire; reported, April 28, 1939. SOMMERSTEIN, EMIL, LWOW, Poland, elected to Sejm, November 6, 1938. SONNENBERG, MAX, Cape Town, Union of South Africa, appointed member of Parliament for South Peninsula, November 14, 1938. STARK, OZJASK, , Poland, awarded by Sejm, posthumously, Order of Merit, for bravery; reported, December 16, 1938. STEIN, LEONARD, London, England, elected president of the Anglo- Jewish Association, June 4, 1939. STERN, LINA S., MOSCOW, Russia, elected member of Soviet Academy of Sciences; reported, February 17, 1939. STONE, JULIUS, Leeds, England, appointed professor of law at Auckland University College, New Zealand; reported, December 2, 1938. SUKENIK, E. L., , Palestine, appointed professor at Museum of Jewish Antiquities of the Hebrew University; reported, September 16, 1938. TROCKENHEIM, JACOB, Warsaw, Poland, elected to Sejm, Novem- ber 6, 1938. UZIEL, BEN-ZION MEIR HAI, Tel Aviv, Palestine, elected Chief Rabbi of Sephardic Jewish Community, June 27, 1939. VISSER, L. E., Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed by Royal Decree, president of the Dutch Supreme Court (first Jew); reported, January 20, 1939. VOLCANI, I. ELEAZAR, Rehoboth, Palestine, appointed professor of Farm Management (Ochberg Chair) of the Agricultural College of the Hebrew University; reported, September 16, 1938. WALDMAN, MICHAEL ERNEST, O.B.E., J.P., Hackney, England, awarded by King George VI, Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) for political and public services in Hackney, January 1, 1939; elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, March 3, 1939. WEIGL, RUDOLF, LWOW, Poland, appointed by Italian Government, to help combat spotjed fever in Ethiopia; reported February 10, 1939. WEINGARTEN, R. J., Bikanir, India, (formerly of Germany), ap- pointed by Maharajah, principal medical officer of the Bikanir State Hospital; reported, September 9, 1938. WEIZMANN, CHAIM, London, England, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; reported, October 28, 1938. SPECIAL BEQUESTS AND GIFTS 411

WIENER, E. COHN, Baroda State, India, (formerly of Germany), appointed Director of Art, Baroda State, reported, March 3, 1939. WOLF, ABRAHAM, London, England, elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics of the University of London for 1938-1940; reported, November 18, 1938. WOLLMAN, MAURICE, Oxford, England, elected member of the Royal Society of Literature; reported, January 27, 1939.

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UNITED STATES

BEAUMONT, LOUIS D., New York City, donates to National Jewish Hospital drive, $30,000; announced, May 7, 1939. BERG, FRED, Newark, N. J., (d. November 14, 1938), bequeathed $47,000 to several institutions; probated, December 5, 1938. BLOCK, EMANUEL, Chicago, 111., (d. March 5, 1939), estate of $360,000: bequeathed 250 shares of Inland Steel Common Stock (valued at approximately $20,000) to the Jewish Charities of Chicago and Michael Reese Hospital, and $2,500 each to two Jewish and four non-Jewish organizations; probated, March 22, 1939. BUTTENWEISER, JOSEPH L., New York City, (d. August 17, 1938), bequeathed $100,000 to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philan- thropic Societies of New York City; $10,000 to Hebrew Technical Institute; $5,000 each to College of the City of New York to aid poor and worthy students, and to Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital; $2,500 each to Vassar College, for its art department and to Dart- mouth College, for needy students; and $1,000 each to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, St. John's Guild of the City of New York, and the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; probated, August 23, 1938. CAHN, BERTRAM J., Chicago, 111., donates $100,000 for Scott Hall at Northwestern University; reported, February 14, 1939. CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N., Washington, D. C., (d. July 9, 1938), estate more than $10,000 real and $10,000 personal: bequeathed to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City, $25,000; Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, $7,500; Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, $1,000; $2,000 in trust for Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.; residuary estate left to Columbia University for Chair in Jurisprudence; probated, July 29, 1938; appraised May 17, 1939. CULLMAN, JOSEPH F., New York City, (d. August 1, 1938), estate of more than $20,000: bequeathed $50,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital; $5,000 each to Beekman Street Hospital and the Society for Ethical Culture; $2,000 each to Henry Street Settlement and the Hudson Guild; probated, August 5, 1938. DANNENBAUM, MORRIS, Atlantic City, N. J., (d. May 2, 1939), estate estimated, $250,000: bequeathed one-half of principal of trust left to daughter and her children on death of last survivor, to the 412 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

Jewish Hospital Association and one-quarter each to Federation of Jewish Charities and the Foster Home for Jewish Orphans; sheet music and bound volumes of music to Free Library of Philadelphia and directed 5% of net estate, not exceeding $15,000 in trust for the Federation of Jewish Charities; reported, June 2, 1939. DINKELMAN, BETSY, New York City, (d. March 1, 1938), net estate $99,361: bequeathed $69,861, divided equally, between Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Montefiore Home, Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, Lebanon Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and Hospital for Joint Diseases; appraised, November 30, 1938. FELSENTHAL, MR. AND MRS. J. C, Jackson, Tenn., donate family estate "Felsenthal Springs" in Madison County to the Jackson Y.M.C.A., January 15, 1939. FRANK, TESSIE K., New York City, (d. June 4, 1938), net estate $173,696: bequeathed to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philan- thropic Societies of New York City, $10,000; to Mount Sinai Hospital, $5,472; to two organizations, $1,000 each; and to two organizations, $500 each; appraised, June 10, 1939. FRANKEL, JOHN, New York City, (d. February 19, 1939), $1,000 each to seventeen institutions, and $500 each to ten institutions; probated, March 6, 1939. GOLDZEIGER, Louis, New York City, (d. June 2, 1938), estate $73,468 net: bequeathed $13,416 each to Beth Abraham Home for Incurables, Hebrew Home for Chronic Invalids, and Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases; appraised, June 30, 1939. HAYWARD, DOROTHY RANDOLPH, LYDIA AND JANET ARNOLD, (non- Jews), Bronxville, N. Y., donate $700 to Bronxville Public Library for books on Jews, as memorial to their father Rev. Richard Hayward and their brother Robert Otis Hayward; announced, December 2, 1938. HEINSHEIMER, NORBERT, New York City, (d. April 23, 1939), estate more than $20,000: bequeathed to University of Cincinnati, Ohio, $2,500 for Norbert Heinsheimer Essay Prize; probated May 9, 1939. KAUFMANN, HENRY, Pittsburgh, Pa., donates $100,000 to the Irene Kaufmann Settlement; reported, January 27, 1939 KRAUS, HARRY, New York City, (d. September 14, 1938), estate more than $10,000: bequeathed to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City, $10,000 in trust, remainder interest in $5,000; United Hospital Fund, Montefiore Hospital, Hospital for Joint Diseases, American Red Cross, remainder interest in residue; New York Times Hundred Neediest Cases Fund, Salvation Army, Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren, remainder interest in $5,000 each; Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, Charity Organization Society, National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colo., Hebrew Orphan Asylum, United Hospital Fund, remainder interest in $10,000 each; probated, September 24, 1938. LAMPORT, SADIE (MRS. ARTHUR M.), New York City, (d. June 24, 1939), estate more than $10,000: bequeathed to Palestine Lighthouse, $10,000 Consolidated Gas Utilities Co. bond; Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York, and Hebrew SPECIAL BEQUESTS AND GIFTS 413

University of Jerusalem, Palestine, $5,000 bond each; probated, June 28, 1939. LEWISOHN, ADOLPH, New York City, (d. August 17, 1938), estate more than $20,000: bequeathed to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York ,City and to Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, $25,000 each; and $25,000 for donations to religious, educational or charitable institutions; approximately $25,000 for worthy individuals; $5,000 to Stadium Concerts, Inc.; probated August 24, 1938. LEWISOHN, SAM A., New York City, donates fund for purchase of building for City College social annex, to be known as Adolph Lewisohn House; announced, May 7, 1939. LITTAUER, Lucius N., Gloversville, N. Y., donates $25,000 to Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to insure continuance and expansion for next five years of the work of the Seminary in pro- moting a better understanding of among both Jews and Christians; announced, January 5, 1939. LYONS, FREDERICK, New York City, (d. November 27, 1938) estate more than $20,000: bequeathed $10,000 to the Englewood, N. J. Hospi- tal Association; probated, December 12, 1938. MARKS, LEO, Columbus, Ohio, donates $150,000 to Columbus Children's Hospital, for enlargement; reported, January 13, 1939. MELGOOD, HENRIETTA, Brooklyn, N. Y., (d. February 18, 1939), estate more than $5,000 real and more than $20,000 personal: be- queathed to Home of Daughters of Israel for the Aged, $5,000; Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, $4,500; Israel Orphan Asylum, $4,250; Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, $4,000; Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, $2,000; Industrial Home for the Blind, $4,500; reported, February 25, 1939. MEYER, MRS. IDA, New York City, (d. March 11, 1939), estate more than $10,000: bequeathed to Hospital for Joint Diseases, $10,000 for endowment of two beds, and three-thirty-seconds residue; One Hundred Neediest Cases Fund of , New York Association for the Blind, Federation for the Support of Jewish Philan- thropic Societies of New York City, Children's Aid Society, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, three-thirty- seconds each of the residue; probated, March 29, 1939. MILLER, LEON H., Buffalo, N. Y., bequeathed on death of widow one-half residue of estate, value not stated, for creation of a Chair of Higher Learning in the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, and one-half for the establishment of an annual prize for the best original work in Hebrew; reported, February 22, 1939. ROSENWALD FUND, Chicago, 111., awards $100,000 in fellowships to Southern whites and negroes; announced, April 27, 1939. ROSENWALD, LESSING J., Philadelphia, Pa., donates $25,000 to the Jewish Child Care Council, in celebration of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, November 27, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, SIMON F., Brooklyn, N. Y., (d. January 5, 1938), estate of $1,156,195 net: $15,000 to Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities; $5,000 each to Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn; $1,000 to Brooklyn Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children; appraised, July 14, 1938. 414 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

SAMUELS, JOSEPH, Providence, R. I., (d. February 13, 1939), be- queathed $250,000 to Rhode Island Hospital, to expand and maintain dental clinic donated by him; reported, February 21, 1939. SELIG, SOLOMON, Philadelphia, Pa., (d. June 13, 1939), estate more than $200,000: bequeathed on death of widow, $5,000 each to two organizations; the bequest to the Juvenile Aid Society to be known as the Bella Loeb Selig Scholarship; probated, June 20, 1939. SELIGMAN, EVELYN H., New York City, (d. October 7, 1936), net estate $770,182: bequeathed to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, $10,000; to American Hospital in Paris, France, $2,500; appraised, March 11, 1939. SOBEL, LEON, New York City, (d. February 9, 1937), net assets $89,551: bequeathed to Henry Street Settlement, Mount Sinai Hospital, Israel Zion Hospital, Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York, and Jewish Sanitarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, $6,492; Oeuvre National Lute Contre La Tuberculose, Oeuvre Centre Le Cancer, Commission De L'Assistance Publique de la Ville D'Anvers, $3,333 each; appraised, December 7, 1938. SPALDING, JACK J., (non-Jew), Atlanta, Ga., bequeathed to Hebrew Orphans' Home, $1,000; reported, January 6, 1939. STERN, CARL W., New York City, (d. March 17, 1939), estate more than $50,000: bequeathed $2,500 each to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City and to the United Hospital Fund of New York; $1,500 each to St. Francis Hospital, Miami Beach, Fla., and Irvington House, New York City; $1,000 each to Salvation Army, American Association, Inc., Beth David Hospital, and Society of New York Hospital; to Mount Sinai Hospital, $1,000 and contingent remainder in one-third residue; New York Tuberculosis and Health Association and Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases, contingent remainder in one-third residue each; probated, March 29, 1939. STIEFEL, BELLA, New York City, (d. June 5, 1939), estate more than $20,000: bequeathed to Mount Sinai Hospital $50,000 and remainder interest in trust; Commissioner of the Fire Department of the City of New York, $2,500 for a memorial medal; 38 institutions and persons, specific cash or remainder bequests; probated, June 20, 1939. STORRS, FRANK VANCE, (non-Jew), New York City, (d. March 8, 1939), bequeathed to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philan- thropic Societies of America, $5,000; Mount Sinai Hospital and Hebrew Orphan Asylum, $2,000 each; probated, March 14, 1939. WARBURG, FELIX M. AND FRIEDA SCHIFF FOUNDATION, New York City, donate to New York University, $25,000 to establish the Institute of Fine Arts endowment fund, income to be used for the support of the division; announced, December 11, 1938. WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION, set up by family of late Joseph B. White- head, Sr., (non-Jew), Atlanta, Ga., allocates $1,000 to Hebrew Orphan Home; reported, January 6, 1939. WOLF, FRANK, New York City, (d. July 10, 1935), net estate of $1,554,286: bequeathed 10% to the Blanche and Frank Wolf Founda- tion, Inc.; appraised, January 6, 1939. SPECIAL BEQUESTS AND GIFTS 415

OTHER COUNTRIES ANONYMOUS, , (non-Jew), through N. B. Walters of London, England, bequeathed over £11,500 for relief of poor and distressed Jews in Palestine and elsewhere; reported, September 23, 1938. ANONYMOUS, , Tel Aviv, Palestine, donates to Keren Kayemeth, house valued at $15,000; reported, December 9, 1938. ANONYMOUS, , England, donates £6,666 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. ALEXANDER, SAMUEL, Manchester, England, (d. September 13, 1938), net estate £15,715: bequeathed £1,000 to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (subject to his brother's life interest) for teaching and research, and the ultimate residue to the University of Manchester, for purposes connected with philosophy and psychology; first edition of Keat's "Endymion" to the University of Manchester, and also books not otherwise bequeathed; reported, November 18, 1938. "ARYAN," Milan, Italy, donates anonymously 10,000 lire for the Passover Relief Fund; reported, April 21, 1939. ASHER, SAMUEL GARCIA, London, England, (d. November 17, 1938), net estate £263,302: bequeathed £1,000 to Middlesex Hospital for general purposes, and additional £1,000 to the Medical School to found a scholarship in his name; £1,000 to the Board of Guardians in London for the relief of the Jewish poor; £100 to the Home for Jewish Incurables; £10.10s to the Garnetshill Synagogue, Glasgow; reported, January 6, 1939. ASHER, MRS. SAMUEL G., London, England, donates 130 volumes from library of late Samuel G. Asher, to Jewish Museum, Woburn House; reported, March 3, 1939. BARON, BERNHARD, Will Fund, London, England, donates £10,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. BARON, BERNHARD, CHARITABLE TRUST, London, England, donates £43,000 to hospitals and other charities, December 5, 1938. BEARSTED, VISCOUNT, London, England, donates £5,000 to Jewish Board of Guardians; reported, July 1, 1938. BEARSTED, VISCOUNT, HON. MRS. N. IONIDES, HON. MRS. R. M. SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, HON. M. R. SAMUEL, HON. P. M. SAMUEL, HON. A. G. SAMUEL, J. H. LEVY, LADY SWATHLING, MRS. R. H. JESSEL, MRS. R. HENRIQUES, J. M. SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, London, England, donate £50,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. BRACHMI, ALBERT, Tunis, Tunisia, bequeathed 400,000 francs to the Jewish National Fund; reported, November 18, 1938. BUECHLER, ADOLPH, London, England, (d. February 19, 1939), net estate £14,083: bequeathed alphabetical reference lists relating to Jewish history and literature to the Jews' College Library; reported, April 28, 1939. BURTON, SIR MONTAGUE, J.P., Harrogate, England, donates £5,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. CHAMI, M. (AND FRIENDS), , Argentina, donate £1,000 annually for a chair to be established at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in honor of the Argentine Republic; reported, October 14, 1938. 416 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

COHEN, MRS. LOUIS S. COHEN AND SONS, DAUGHTERS, AND GRAND- CHILDREN OF LATE ALDERMAN, Liverpool, England, donate £40,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. COLLETT, JOHN AND MRS. JOHN COLLETT, , England, donate £4,200 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 16, 1938. DAVIS, SIR EDMUND, London, England, donates £5,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. DAVIS, SIR EDMUND, London, England, (d February 20, 1939), net estate £182, 132: bequeathed village school and a house "Chilham," to manager of the school; and subject to a life interest and other be- quests £5,000 to King's School, Canterbury for founding scholarships for the advancement of boys, particularly in medicine and music; £10,000 to the Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital; £1,000 to the Notting Hill Day Nursery; £25,000 to the Middlesex Hospital; £25,000 to St. Thomas Hospital; and the remainder to the University of London, for providing "Edmund Davis" scholarships in medicine, law, and engineering of £400 per annum for candidates born in Northern and Southern Rhodesia; reported, June 16, 1939. DOCTOROWICZ, HENRYK, Warsaw, Poland, subscribes 10,000 zlotys ($2,000) to national air defense loan; reported, April 14, 1939. FELDMAN, ISRAEL, London, England, donates to Jewish Museum, Woburn House, Purim Megillah and portrait in oils of Chief Rabbi Solomon Herschell (1762-1842) copied from engraving of Barlin of 1803; reported, March 3, 1939. FITZGERALD, LADY AMELIA CATHERINE, London, England, donates £7,000 to Jewish National Fund Emergency Appeal; reported, June 9, 1939. G. J. AND S., , England, donate £10,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. GRAUMANN, SIR HARRY, Cape Town, Union of South Africa, (d. September 19, 1938), bequeathed £5,000 to charity, to be equally divided at discretion of the executors between Jewish and other denomi- nations, and £100 to the Salvation Army; filed, September 21, 1938. HILMAN, WOLF, Witwatersrand, Union of South Africa, donates $100,000 to the Witwatersrand University, for erection of new civil service engineering building; announced, March 16, 1939. JOEL, D. J.B., , England, donates £4,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 30, 1938. JOEL, J. B. AND H. J. JOEL, , England, donate £10,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 16, 1938. KARP, CHARLES, , Union of South Africa, (d. March, 1937), bequeathed £4,610 to thirty-five organizations as follows: £500 each to four; £250 to three; £200 to one; £150 to one; £100 to five, and £50 to twenty-one; announced, December 23, 1938. LEVY, SIR ALBERT, BENEVOLENT FUND, , England, donates £3,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. LEVY, SIR JOHN ARTHUR, London, England, (d. November 20, 1938), estate valued at £425,402 net: residue to his brother, and failiug appointment by brother, bequeathed to National Gallery several pictures; to British Museum a pair of Ming vases; to Museum of Practical Geology a rough diamond matrix; to Victoria and Albert SPECIAL BEQUESTS AND GIFTS 417

Museum, a number of antiques; to Worshipful Company of Gold- smiths, the silver salver presented to him by King Edward VII and a model of the Cullinan Diamond (or, if refused, to the Victoria and Albert Museum); £2,500 each to two; £1,000 each to sixteen hospitals, and £1,000 upon trust . . . for distribution among poor of three; and nineteen-twentieths to King Edward's Hospital Fund, upon trust to apply income toward foundation and maintenance of a surgical home, to be called the Arthur and Alexander Levy Surgical Home, for British- born persons, irrespective of creed, of the educated middle-classes resident in London . . . remaining one-twentieth to King Edward's Hospital Fund absolutely; reported, January 20, 1939. MARKS, MR. AND MRS. SIMON, MR. AND MRS. I. M. SCHIFF, MR, AND MRS. NORMAN LASKI, MR. AND MRS. HARRY SACHER, MATHILDA MARKS, , England, donate £50,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. MARKS, MR. AND MRS. SIMON; MR. AND MRS. I. M. SCHIFF; ME. AND MRS. HARRY SACHER; MR. AND MRS. NORMAN LASKI; MATHILDE MARKS, London, England, donate £5,000 to Jewish National Fund Emergency Appeal; reported, June 23, 1939. MOND, SIR ROBERT LUDWIG, London, England, (d. October 22,1938), net estate valued at £252,443: bequeathed to the British Museum such of his Egyptian antiquities as the keeper of Egyptian antiquities may select; remainder ... to such museums or persons in any part of the world interested in Egyptian archaeology as his trustees may select... £2,000 to his trustees for distribution among any charitable institu- tions or objects to which he may have subscribed within five years of his death; reported, March 3, 1939. OPPENHEIMER, SIR ERNEST, , South Africa, donates £2,500 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. PINTO, CAPTAIN RICHARD, , England, donates £5,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, JAMES DE, M.P., LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD, ANTHONY DE ROTHSCHILD, LORD ROTHSCHILD, HON. MRS. CHARLES ROTHSCHILD, HON. MIRIAM ROTHSCHILD, HON. ELIZABETH ROTHSCHILD, London, England, donate £50,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, JAMES DE, M.P., London, England, donates £5,000 to the Baldwin Refugee Fund; announced, December 12, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, N. M. AND SONS, London, England, donate £4,827 to Jewish Board of Guardians; reported, July 1, 1938. SAMUEL, H., , England, donates £4,667 to the Council for German Jewry; reported, January 6, 1939. SASSOON, SIR E. VICTOR, BART., AND MRS. MEYER SASSOON, London, England, donate £25,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 23, 1938. SASSOON, MRS. MEYER, London, England, donates £1,000 to name Neville Chamberlain bed in new St. George's Hospital and £1,000 for a like purpose to the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway; reported, November 4, 1938. SELIGMAN [certain members of the family], , England, donate £4,000 to Council for German Jewry; reported, December 2, 1938. 418 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

SETTON, JACQUES EZRA, Cairo, Egypt, (d. July 9, 1938), bequeathed £5,000 to Jewish charitable societies or institutions; reported, Sep- tember 9, 1938. SKELTON BOUNTY (non-Jewish fund under wills of Joseph, C. J. and Ann Skelton) Birkdale, England, donates £500 to Homes for Aged and Needy Jews, for erection of a sunshine veranda; reported, July 22, 1938.

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ADLEE, BERT, city official, publicist, communal worker, New York City, aged 48, March 18, 1939. ADLER, JOSEPH, rabbi and scholar, New York City, aged 62, July 15, 1938. ADLER, LEVI, rabbi, Baltimore, Md., July 7, 1938. ALPERT, ISAAC S., rabbi, Rochester, N. Y., aged 74, January 13, 1939. AMRAM, DAVID WERNER, lawyer, author, lecturer, Philadelphia, Pa., at Beach Haven, N. J., aged 73, June 26, 1939. ARNSTEIN, ALBERT, lawyer, member of City Council (1891), com- munal worker, St. Louis, Mo., aged 82, August 1, 1938. AUGUST, JACOB, manufacturer, veteran in German army of Franco- Prussian War, (decorated for bravery), Rochester, N. Y., aged 96, November 3, 1938. AXELROD, SAMUEL, merchant, communal worker, Albany, N. Y., in New York City, aged 53, August 30, 1938. BACHRACH, DAVID H., rabbi, Providence, R. I., aged 74, May 28, 1939. BACKER, JACOB, merchant, communal worker, St. Louis, Mo., aged 74, July 23, 1938. BARRON, MAURICE EDWARD, professor of clinical surgery at Tufts College Medical School, Boston, Mass., at Bristol, R. I., aged 46, August 22, 1938. BECK, MOREY M., lawyer, communal worker, Jersey City, N. J., aged 37, December 18, 1938. BEER, EDWIN, urologist, lieutenant-colonel in Army Medical Corps, World War, Gold Medal (1927) of International Society of Urology, at Brussels, New York City, aged 62, August 13, 1938. BEERY, EDWIN MILTON, ophthalmologist, surgeon, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 67, January 30, 1939. BEHRENDT, HENRY, civic worker, former sheriff, Detroit, Mich., aged 70, February 19, 1939. BELBER, MARCUS Y., dental surgeon, communal worker, Philadel- phia, Pa., at Atlantic City, N. J., aged 67, January 1, 1939. BELL, NAHUM, rabbi, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 61, December 7, 1938. NECROLOGY 419

BERG, GERTRUDE, communal worker, formerly Philadelphia, Pa New York City, aged 80, October 20, 1938. BERG, HENRY W., neurologist, author of medical monographs, New York City, aged 79, December 22, 1938. BERG, JULIUS S., State Senator, (suicide), New York City, aged 43, July 20, 1938. BBRGIDA, ADOLF, merchant, communal worker, Jersey City, N. J., aged 73, May 1, 1939. BERGMAN, SIMON, civic and communal worker, Rye, N. Y., aged 69, May 10, 1939. BERLIN, MRS. SAMUEL N., communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y aged 82, December 29, 1938. BERMAN, SAMUEL O., publisher Pharos Tribune, Logansport, Ind., aged 56, October 8, 1938. BERNSTEIN, EDWARD J., surgeon, ophthalmologist, laryngologist, Detroit, Mich., aged 76, March 30, 1939. BERNSTEIN, Samuel, court interpreter, former justice of the peace, Passaic, N. J., aged 67, October 5, 1938. BINDER, MRS. ELLA, communal worker, Roxbury, Mass., reported, July 15, 1938. BINSWANGER, HYMAN P., retired dealer in minerals and ores, com- munal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 87, July 2, 1938. BLOCK, DAVID JULIAN, director of chemical laboratories, Chicago, 111., aged 64, April 8, 1939. BLOOM, MOSES E., artist and designer, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 84, June 5, 1939. BLOOM, WILLIAM, communal worker, Boston, Mass., aged 77; reported, December 16, 1938. BLUESTEIN, SAUL, merchant, civic and communal worker, Memphis, Tenn., aged 53, May 2, 1939. BLUMBERG, MAX, lumber dealer, Zionist, communal and philan- thropic worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 58, November 9, 1938. BLUMENTHAL, MRS. JEANNETTE, pioneer settler in West; member D. A. R., Seattle, Wash., aged 76; reported, August 5, 1938. BORUCHOFF, BER, rabbi, author, Maiden, Mass., aged 67, April 5, 1939. BRANDT, JOE, lawyer, motion picture magnate, New York City, aged 55, February 27, 1939. BRANDWEIN, SAUL, manufacturer, Talmudist, communal worker, inspector of Kashruth, Bayonne, N. J., aged 66, October 2, 1938. BRAY, MRS. BELLA GALEK, communal worker, Albany, N. Y., aged 72, February 23, 1939. BRENNER, NATHAN I., rabbi, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 77, February 11, 1939. BRODIE, MAURICE, physician, formerly assistant professor of bacter- iology at New York University, Detroit, Mich., aged 36, May 11, 1939. BROWN, BENJAMIN, founder of New Jersey Homestead, factory settlement, Hightstown, N. J., aged 53, February 12, 1939. BROWN, IRWIN F., leader in fraternal and Jewish war veteran activi- ties, Paterson, N. J., aged 44, April 6, 1939. 420 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

BUERGER, CHARLES R., engineer, oil official, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 51, January 3, 1938. BUTTENWEISER, JOSEPH L., realtor, communal worker, philanthro- pist, New York City, at S. Poland, Maine, aged 73, August 17, 1938. BUTTENWEISER, MOSES, professor emeritus of Biblical Exegesis at Hebrew Union College, author, Cincinnati, Ohio, at Palo Alto, Calif., aged 76, March 12, 1939. CARDOZO, Benjamin N., jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D. C, at Port Chester, N. Y., aged 68, July 9, 1938. CHARAK, JACOB, musician, communal worker, Chelsea, Mass., aged 73, April 15, 1939. CHERNIAVSKY, ABRAHAM, composer, former conductor at Royal Opera House at Moscow, Los Angeles, Calif., aged 82, August 5, 1938. COGAN, MRS. IDA KUBBY, communal worker, Los Angeles, Calif., aged 44, July 27, 1938. COHEN, Franklin M., lawyer, communal worker, officer United States Navy during World War, Boston, Mass., July 8, 1938. COHEN, JOSHUA H., rabbi, Woodbine, N. J., aged 79, November 24, 1938. COHEN, NATHAN N., dentist, communal leader, Minneapolis, Minn., aged 55, June 13, 1939. COHEN, MRS. RUBY JONAS, social worker, head of United Jewish Charities, Kansas City, Mo., aged 64, December 31, 1938. COHN, MRS. ANNIE, communal worker, Seattle, Wash., aged 76, April 29, 1939. COHN, ARTHUR BENJAMIN, communal worker, former assistant secretary and business manager of Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, at Baltimore, Md., aged 67, July 27, 1938. COHN, BENJAMIN, oil dealer, philanthropist, Altoona, Pa., aged 81, June 13, 1939. COHN, MRS. FREDERICK, communal worker, Omaha, Nebr., aged 69, February 23, 1939. COHN, SIMON, merchant", communal worker, Northampton, Mass., aged 72, December 30, 1938. CULLMAN, JOSEPH F., tobacco dealer, communal worker, New York City, aged 83, August 6, 1938. DANNENBAUM, HARRY M., philanthropist, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 67, September 15, 1938. DANNENBAUM, MORRIS, communal worker, Atlantic City, N. J., aged 81, May 2, 1939. DAVID, LESLIE C, advertiser, civic and communal worker, Kansas City, Mo., aged 47, December 20, 1938. DAVID, MRS. REBECCA BEHREND, communal worker, pianist, Wash- ington, D. C, March 5, 1939. DAVIDSON, ISRAEL, scholar, author, professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City, at Great Neck, L. I., N. Y., aged 69, June 27, 1939. DAVIDSON, KALLMAN M., physician, communal worker, Boston, Mass., aged 76; reported, July 29, 1938. NECROLOGY 421

DENEBEIM, Louis, merchant, communal worker, Kansas City, Mo., aged 79, December 14, 1938. EFFRON, HARRY, merchant, communal worker, Phoenix, Ariz., aged 59, August 18, 1938. EINSTEIN, MRS. MARIE, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, August 20, 1938. ELLIS, MILTON, rabbi, Brooklyn, N. Y.; reported, March 1, 1939. ELSBERG, HERMAN A., textile dealer, philanthropist, New York City, aged 69, September 28, 1938. EPSTEIN, BEZALEL, rabbi, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1, 1938. EPSTEIN, CHARLOTTE, chairman, United States Olympic Women's Swimming Committee, New York City, aged 53, August 26, 1938. EPSTEIN, Mrs. Esther C, communal an • philanthropic worker Kenosha, Wis., aged 65, December 6, 1938. EPSTEIN, ISAAC LOEB, rabbi, New York City, at Monticello, N. Y. aged 53. August 5, 1938. ERNST, BERNARD M., lawyer, amateur magician, communal worker, New York City, aged 59, November 28, 1938. ERON, JOSEPH, educator and lecturer, founder of the Eron School, New York City, aged 69, September 1, 1938. ETTENHEIM, MRS. TILUE PATEK, civic and communal worker, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 74, March 5, 1939. FACTOR, MAX, cosmetician, Beverly Hills, Calif., aged 61, August 30, 1938. FELBEL, Jacob, inventor, patent authority, New York City, aged 81, December 12, 1938. FELDENHEIM, CHARLES, civic and communal worker, Portland, Ore., aged 85, May 4, 1939. FELSENTHAL, JACOB C, merchant, communal leader, philan- thropist, Memphis, Tenn., at Jackson, Miss., aged 73, March 1, 1939. FIELDING, MOSES, merchant, communal worker, Worcester, Mass., aged 64, January 30, 1939. FINE, SAMUEL M., rabbi, scholar and author, Detroit, Mich., aged 53, November 2, 1938. FINKELSTEIN, JOSEPH, soldier, World War veteran, awarded Croix de Guerre of France and D.S.C. of United States, Honolulu; reported, September 2, 1938. FISCHEL, ARTHUR M., insurance broker, communal worker, Irving- ton, N. J., October 19, 1938. FISCHEL, JACOB, lawyer, communal worker, Monmouth Beach, N. J., aged 61, May 18, 1939. FISCHEL, MAX, journalist, police reporter, Freehold, N. J., at Long Branch, N. J., aged 75, March 24, 1939. FISCHGRUND, MRS. FANNIE, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 90, November 8, 1938. FRANKLIN, FABIAN, author, editor, educator, formerly professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, New York City, aged 86, January 9, 1939. FRANKLIN, MELVIN M., surgeon, Colonel in United States Army in World War, Philadelphia, Pa., at Point Pleasant, N. J., aged 64, July 31, 1938. 422 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

FRANKO, MRS. NAHAN, (Anna Braga), former actress, New York City, aged 73, September 11, 1938. FREEDMAN, BARNETT, merchant, communal worker, Baltimore, Md., aged 77, October 18, 1938. FREEZER, MRS. JACOB, communal leader, New York City, aged 61, August 30, 1938. FREIBERG, BERNHARD, distiller, communal worker, Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 88, November 24, 1938. FRENTZ, WILLIAM, business executive, communal worker, Louisville, Ky., aged 49, June 17, 1939. FREUDENTHAL, MRS. ALICE L., communal and civic worker, New York City, aged 73, August 21, 1938. FRIEDLAND, ANATOL, song writer and composer, Atlantic City, N. J., aged 50, July 24, 1938. FRIEDLANDER, ALFRED, dean of the College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 67, May 28, 1939. FRIEDLANDER, SAMUEL, merchant, finance executive, Memphis, Tenn., aged 78, October 15, 1938. FRIEDMAN, CLARENCE, lawyer, former judge, philanthropic and communal worker, Memphis, Tenn., aged 69, November 30, 1938. FRIEDMAN, MAX, realtor, communal worker, New York City, aged 73, August 3, 1938. FRIEDMAN, MAX, lawyer, civic worker, served in Ohio State Legis- lature, Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 47, December 17, 1938. FRIEND, EMANUEL, surgeon, Chicago, 111., aged 68, July 19, 1938. FROEHLICH, Jesse, merchant, promotor of Vanderbilt Cup auto races, first president, Long Beach Board of Education, Long Beach, L. I., N. Y., aged 60, May 13, 1939. GARBER, AARON, educator, Zionist, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 61, November 25, 1938. GALLERT, DAVID J., lawyer, author, communal worker, White Plains, N. Y., January 17, 1939. GEISMAR, ALEXANDER H., former City Court justice, former rabbi, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 70, May 22, 1939. GERSHANOFF, BENJAMIN, rabbi, New York City, February 11, 1939. GERTNER, MORRIS, tax expert, communal worker, Columbus, Ohio, aged 56, April 15, 1939. GILBERT, MAX M., author, educator, communal worker, Paterson, N. J., at Hopewell Junction, N. Y., aged 52, August 9, 1938. GODING, JACOB L., merchant, communal worker, Worcester, Mass., at Yonkers, N. Y., aged 87, December 29, 1938. GODOWSKY, LEOPOLD, pianist, composer, New York City, aged 68, November 21, 1938. GOLDBERG, ISAAC, author, scholar, critic, Brookline, Mass., aged 50, July 14, 1938. GOLDBERG, ISAAC, civic and communal worker, New York City, aged 71, April 26, 1939. GOLDBERG, S. J., communal worker, Zionist, St. Paul, Minn., at Bemidji, Minn., aged 62, August 9, 1938. GOLDBLATT, ABBA, communal worker, Chicago, 111., at Tucson, Ariz., March 2, 1939. NECROLOGY 423

GOLDMAN, HARRIS, communal worker, Lynn, Mass., October 16 1938. GOLDMAN, HARRIS, communal worker, Elgin, 111., aged 83, March 26, 1939. GOLDMAN, JULIUS, lawyer, communal worker, New York City aged 85, December 13, 1938. GOLDMAN, MORRIS M., merchant, communal worker, West Orange, N. J., aged 75, October 2, 1938. GOLDMAN, WALTER FRANKO, broker, communal worker, New Orleans, La., aged 54, June 7, 1939. GOLDSTEIN, ABRAHAM, contractor, communal worker, Rochester, N. Y., at West Palm Beach, Fla., aged 68, February 18, 1939. GOLDSTEIN, MRS. MINNIE R., communal worker, Los Angeles, Calif., aged 59, December 29, 1938. GOODFRIEND, IGNATIUS L., surgeon, New York City, aged 61, October 24, 1938. GOODKIND, MAURICE L., specialist in internal medicine, World War veteran, honored by French Government for services, Chicago, 111., aged 71, January 4, 1939. GOODMAN, Henry M. R., former city magistrate, New York City, aged 49, January 14, 1939. GOODMAN, MAURICE, lawyer, motion picture executive, communal worker, New York City, aged 56, March 19, 1939. GOODSITT, JACOB, insurance broker, communal worker, Zionist, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 74, June 10, 1939. GORDON, HARRY Z., rabbi, Detroit, Mich., aged 48, April 27, 1939. GRATZ, HENRY M., insurance broker, communal worker, Philadel- phia, Pa., aged 86, June 20, 1939. GREEN, JOSEPH S., lawyer, official referee of City Court, assigned to Supreme Court, former justice of City Court, (1905-1915); communal worker, New York City, aged 71, May 31, 1939. GREENBAUM, HARRY H., communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 78, March 27, 1939. GREENBERG, ARNOLD, judge, Criminal Court of Duval County, Fla., in New York City, September 1, 1938. GREENBLAU, SOLOMON, editor, Jewish Daily Courier, scholar, Chicago, 111., aged 66, August 30, 1938. GREENMAN, SAMUEL, communal worker, Holyoke, Mass., aged 60; reported, November 14, 1938. GREENWOOD, NATHANIEL S., physician, Zionist worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 67; reported, October 7, 1938. GRODY, DAVID, auto dealer, communal worker, Syracuse, N. Y., aged 73, December 16, 1938. GROSNER, MRS. SADIE, communal worker, Washington, D. C, at Los Angeles, Calif., January 22, 1939. GROSSMAN, MAX, business executive, philanthropist, communal worker, Buffalo, N. Y., aged 72, December 7, 1938. GRUENFELD, SIEGFRIED, rabbi, formerly Berlin, Germany, Buffalo, N. Y., aged 73, June 29, 1939. GUGGENHEIM, GEORGE C, clothing manufacturer, civic and com- munal worker, Rochester, N. Y., aged 76, November 1, 1938. 424 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

HAFT, MAX, communal worker, New York City, aged 78, February 12, 1939. HAHN, J. JEROME, judge, communal worker, Providence, R. I., aged 70, December 6, 1938. HANAUER, JEROME J., financier, former partner Kuhn, Loeb and Company, New York City, at Murray Bay, Que., Canada, aged 63, September 3, 1938. HARRIS, HENRY, physician, author, member of faculty of University of California Medical School, communal worker, San Francisco, Calif., aged 63; reported, July IS, 1938. HARRIS, LOUIS I., physician, former City Health Commissioner (1926-1928), New York City, aged 56, January 6, 1939. HARRISON, ABRAHAM, retired stock broker, veteran of Spanish- American War, major, pioneer in wireless telegraphy, Gulfport, Miss., aged 79, November 30, 1938. HARRITON, HARRY, philanthropic and communal leader, Buffalo, N. Y., at Los Angeles, Calif., May 5, 1939. HART, EDWARD, communal worker, president of Yonkers Civil Service Commission, Yonkers, N. Y., at Washington, D. C, aged 70, October 22, 1938. HEILBRONER, MRS. ALBERT M., communal worker, New York City, at Los Angeles, Calif., aged 68, June 6, 1939. HEINSHEIMER, Norbert, lawyer, New York City, April 23, 1939. HELLER, SIMON J., lawyer, communal leader, Denver, Colo., aged 48, February 1, 1939. HELLMAN, SIDNEY L., distiller, Louisville, Ky., aged 65, November 2, 1938. HERMAN, ISADORE, merchant, communal worker, Seattle, Wash., aged 71, January 4, 1939. HERMAN, LOUIS L., rabbi, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 79, November 22, 1938. HERSH, SAM, builder, communal leader, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 66; reported, February 3, 1939. HERSTEIN, BERNARD, chemist, Brooklyn, N. Y., at Bernardsville, N. J., aged 73, June 8, 1939. HILLQUIT, JACOB, lawyer, civic worker, New York City, aged 70, February 25, 1939. HIRSCH, ALCAN, chemical engineer, consultant to foreign countries, New Rochelle, N. Y., aged 53, November 24, 1938. HIRSCH, JAKE HENRY, business executive, civic and communal leader, Atlanta, Ga., aged 63, April 4, 1939. HIRSCHMAN, JESSE, retired banker and railroad financier, New York City, aged 63, June 17, 1939. HOFFENBERG, CEMACH, rabbi and scholar, Hartford, Conn., aged 75, November 28, 1938. HOFFMAN, MRS. A. M., (Charlotte), communal worker, New York City, aged 59, July 4, 1938. HOLLANDER, JOSEPH, rabbi, Schenectady, N. Y., aged 48, April 21, 1939. HOLSTEIN, ADOLPH M., industrialist, civic and communal worker, Syracuse, N. Y., aged 79, August 3, 1938. NECROLOGY 425

HOLZMANN, ABE, composer of popular music, advertiser, East Orange, N. J., aged 64, January 16, 1939. HORVITZ, DAVID, communal worker, Chelsea, Mass., aged 111; reported, September 30, 1938. HURWITZ, ISAAC, Talmudist, communal worker, Springfield, Mass, aged 80, January 11, 1939. HUSIK, ISAAC, scholar, author, professor of philosophy at University of Pennsylvania, editor of Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 63, March 22, 1939. HYMES, SAMUEL, sergeant, Air Service, United States Army, Wash- ington, D. C, (plane accident), aged 42; reported, October 4, 1938. JACHES, LEOPOLD, X-ray specialist, clinical professor of roentgenology at Columbia University, New York City, aged 65, January 23, 1939. JACOBI, HAROLD, distiller, civic and communal worker, philan- thropist, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y., aged 54, December 31, 1938. JACOBI, SANFORD, distiller, communal worker, philanthropist, New York City, aged 59, November 28, 1938. JACOBSON, MOSES, physician, civic and communal worker, Los Angeles, Calif., aged 60, July 20, 1938. JOYCE, MRS. ISAAC, communal worker, New York City, aged 78, December 25, 1938. KAHN, MORITZ, civil engineer, inventor, Detroit, Mich., (enroute to New York City), aged 58, January 17, 1939. KALICH, BERTHA, (Mrs. Leopold Spachner), actress, New York City, aged 64, April 18, 1939. KANTROWITZ, JOSHUA, lawyer, communal worker, New York City, aged 81, September 16, 1938. KAPLOWITZ, MORRIS, rabbi and hazzan, Atlantic City, N. J., aged 72, March 21, 1939. KARGER, DAVID, manufacturer, communal leader, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 65, January 2, 1939. KATZ, BEN, civic and communal worker, San Antonio, Tex., January 1, 1939. KATZINGER, EDWARD, manufacturer, communal worker, Chicago, 111., at Miami Beach, Fla., aged 75, March 29, 1939. KAUFMAN, MRS. ANTON, communal worker, Newark, N. J., aged 50, February 16, 1939. KAUFMAN, MOSES, merchant, pioneer settler, Great Falls, Mont., aged 83; reported, January 6, 1939. KAUFMANN, NATHAN, retired merchant, Pittsburgh, Pa., at Aix-les- Bains, France, aged 64, August 3, 1938. KAVINOKY, NAHUM, physician, communal leader, Los Angeles, Calif., aged 63, August 4, 1938. KEMPNER, ADOLPH, retired broker, Chicago, 111., aged 69, January 3, 1939. KENNAN, BEN A., social worker, executive director, Jewish Sani- tarium and Hospital for Chronic Diseases, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 34, November 26, 1938. KISBER, Louis, merchant, communal leader, Jackson, Tenn., aged 62, March 17, 1939. 426 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

KLARFELD, PETER, educator, communal worker, West Roxbury, Mass., February 4, 1939. KLEIN, I., merchant, civic and communal worker, Nashville, Tenn., aged 59, May 21, 1939. KLEIN, MRS. JUDAH D., communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 68, May 7, 1939. KLEINER, MOSES, physician, formerly professor of therapeutics at University of Colorado, Denver, Colo., at Boston, Mass., aged 71, November 24, 1938. KOHEN, NATHAN, rabbi, Baltimore, Md., aged 47, October 13,1938. KOHN, MRS. BELLE GRAUMAN, former civic and communal worker of Indianapolis, at Hollywood, Calif.; reported, October 7, 1938. LAMPORT, MRS. ARTHUR M., philanthropic and communal worker, New York City, aged 54, June 24, 1939. LAURIE, ISRAEL, merchant, communal leader, philanthropist, New Brunswick, N. J., aged 69, October 2, 1938. LAYMAN, JOSEPH, manufacturer, communal worker, philanthropist, New York City, aged 65, November 21, 1938. LEAF, WILLIAM B., Zionist leader, publisher, co-founder of Forward, co-publisher of Philadelphia Jewish World, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 63, December 14, 1938. LEAVITT, HENRY LEVI, merchant, pioneer settler on Pacific coast, Los Angeles, Calif., April 19, 1939. LEBOLT, I. C, merchant, communal worker, Memphis, Tenn., aged 79, September 20, 1938. LEDERER, EMIL, economist, professor at New School for Social Research, New York City, aged 57, May 29, 1939. LEDERER, GEORGE W., theatrical manager and producer, Jackson Heights, , N. Y., aged 76, October 12, 1938. LEHMAN, MRS. BELLA, relative of Heinrich Heine, Hollywood, Calif., September 21, 1938. LESSER, JACOB, merchant, communal worker, San Francisco, Calif.; reported, December 2, 1938. LESSLER, Montague, lawyer, former member of the House of Rep- resentatives, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 70, February 17, 1939. LEVI, CHARLES, rabbi, communal leader, Cincinnati, Ohio, at Mil- waukee, Wis., aged 70, January 17, 1939. LEVI, GERSON B., rabbi emeritus, editor, Chicagq, 111., aged 61, February 14, 1939. LEVINE, JACOB, communal worker, Spanish-American War veteran, Jersey City, N. J., aged 68, April 14, 1939. LEVINE, MANUEL, judge, Court of Appeals, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 57, May 6, 1939. LEVITT, MRS. JACOB SANDER, communal worker, Des Moines, la., aged 72, September 9, 1938. LEVY, ERNEST COLEMAN, physician, public health authority, pro- fessor at Medical College of Virginia, Captain of Medical Corps in World War, Richmond, Va., aged 70, September 29, 1938. LEVY, JOHN, psychiatrist, medical educator, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, New York City, at Boston, Mass., aged 41, July 11, 1938. NECROLOGY 427

LEVY, JOSEPH, rabbi, head of Sephardic Beth Din, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 17, 1939. LEWI, ISIDOR, journalist, on staff of New York Herald-Tribune, New York City, aged 88, January 3, 1939. LEWIS, WILLIAM M., Municipal Court judge, national Zionist and communal leader, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 54, January 30, 1939. LEWISOHN, ADOLPH, investment broker, civic leader, philanthropist, New York City, aged 89, August 17, 1938. LIBOWITZ, NEHEMIAH SAMUEL, scholar, authority on Jewish folklore and Kabbalistic literature, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 78, June 13, 1939. LICHTENSTEIN, MORRIS, rabbi, founder and leader of Jewish Science Movement, New York City, aged 48, November 6, 1938. LIEBERMAN, NATHAN, former Assemblyman, New York City, aged 51, March 12, 1939. LIESSIN, ABRAHAM (Wald), Yiddish poet, editor of Zukunfl, New York City, aged 66, November 5, 1938. LINDEMAN, ARTHUR C, merchant, civic and communal worker, Newark, N. J.; reported, June 2, 1939. LINDHEIM, NORVIN R., associate architect of Jewish Palestine Pavilion at World's Fair, New York City, aged 30, April 7, 1939. LIPMAN, JACOB GOODALE, soil chemist, dean of New Jersey College of Agriculture, civic worker, New Brunswick, N. J., aged 64, April 19, 1939. LIPPER, ALBERT, communal worker, Kansas City, Mo., at Denver, Colo., aged 83, August 18, 1938. LIPPMAN, SAMUEL, business man, communal worker, Paterson, N. J., aged 68, November 28, 1938. LOEWENSTEIN, Louis C, consulting engineer, inventor, New York City, aged 62, August 3, 1938. LONG, ISAAC S., retired merchant, civic and communal worker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., aged 82, May 27, 1939. LOWENTHAL, EUGENE M., manufacturer, civic and communal worker, Rochester, N. Y., aged 61, August 20, 1938. LUCHS, MORTON, realtor, civic and communal worker, Washington, D. C, aged 54, December 4, 1938. LURIE, SOLOMON NATHAN, former Rav, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 77, February 20, 1939. LYONS, ALEXANDER, rabbi, civic leader, awarded by France, Cross of Chevalier of Honor (1919), Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 72, June 5, 1939. MACK, MRS. JESSIE FOX, communal worker, New York City, Novem- ber 30, 1938. MANDELBAUM, MOSES J., industrialist, civic and communal worker, philanthropist, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 75, July 16, 1938. MARGOLIS, LOUIS, manufacturer, communal worker, New York City, aged 59, May 13, 1939. MARKEWITZ, MILTON, business executive, civic and communal worker, Portland, Ore., aged 69, September 21, 1938. MARKOWITZ, MRS. SOPHIA, communal worker, Rockyille Center,. L. I., N. Y., aged 54, October 10, 1938. MARKS, HANNAH, civic and communal worker, Long Beach, Calif.„ January 8, 1939. 428 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

MARKSON, SAMUEL, communal worker, Utica, N. Y.; reported, March 24, 1939. MARTIN, HERMAN, rabbi, New York City, at Los Angeles, Calif.; reported, May 11, 1939. MAYER, ERHARD, manufacturer, communal worker, New Orleans, La., aged 57, April 8, 1939. MAYER, HENRY L., banker, civic and communal worker, San Fran- cisco, Calif., at Palo Alto, Calif., aged 77, August 16, 1938. MAYER, THEODORE, realtor, civic worker, former member of Ohio Legislature (1896-97), Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 62, August 15, 1938. MEADOW, AARON, manufacturer, Zionist worker, Paterson, N. J., April 18, 1939. MEDIAS, CHARLES, business man, civic and communal worker, Indianapolis, Ind., aged 71, October 31, 1938. MEISEL, MAX E., former member of Ohio Legislature (1900), civic and communal leader, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 62, April 19, 1939. MEISEL, MRS. MOLLY, communal worker, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 79, April 20, 1939. MELTZER, JOSEPH, business man, communal leader, Atlanta, Ga., aged 80, April 4, 1939. MENDELSOHN, FELIX, publisher, exposition manager, Chicago, 111., aged 61, October 24, 1938. MESSINGER, MRS. ROSE, social and philanthropic worker, author, Memphis, Tenn., aged 46, January 26, 1939. METZ, ABRAHAM LOUIS, public health leader, head of department of medical iurisprudence at Tulane University, New Orleans, La., at Tucson, Ariz., aged 75, February 10, 1939. MEYER, MRS. R. H., philanthropist, Jonesboro, Ark., aged 75; reported, August 19, 1938. MICHTOM, MORRIS, manufacturer, communal leader, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 68, July 21, 1938. MILLER, MRS. JULIAN, civic and communal worker, St. Louis, Mo., aged 52, March 22, 1939. MILLER, LEON H., Zionist, Talmudist, New York City, at Miami Beach, Fla., aged 59, January 24, 1939. MOGIL, ISIDORE, physician, Zionist worker. New York City, aged 53, June 15, 1939. MORRISON, ISIDORE D., lawyer, national communal and Zionist leader, philanthropist, New York City, aged 66, October 2, 1938. MOSES, ISAAC, manufacturer, banker, communal leader, Glovers- ville, N. Y., aged 63, July 21, 1938. MYERS, LOUIS, motion picture operator, communal worker, New York City, aged 52, November 8, 1938. NEWMAN. ADOLPH, merchant, communal worker, New York City, aged 84, June 19, 1939. OBERDORFER, JONAS L., industrialist, civic worker, Syracuse, N. Y., at Star Lake, N. Y., aged 57, July 30, 1938. OETTINGER, LOUIS, communal leader, Scranton, Pa., November 14, 1938. OMANSKY, JACOB, newspaper executive, business manager of New York Post, New York City, aged 44, December 11, 1938. NECROLOGY 429

PALEY, SAMUEL M., Talmudist, communal worker, Brookline, Mass., November 7, 1938. PESKIN, SAMUEL, physician, columnist on Forward, New York City, aged 65, May 22, 1939. POKRASS, SAMUEL, composer of popular film songs, New York City, at Lake Mohegan, N. Y., aged 45, June 15, 1939. PRAGER, CLEM, merchant, communal worker, Hackensack, N. J., aged 45, April 10, 1939. RABINOVICH, MAX, civic and communal worker, member of State Board of Pardons, Grand Forks, N. Dak., at Jamestown, N. Dak., aged 75, December 30, 1938. RADIN, MAX, rabbi, Newark, N. J., aged 80, October 15, 1938. RAEBACH, LOUIS, realtor, communal worker, Washington, D. C, (suicide), aged 53, April 19, 1939. RICH, MRS. ROSA, pioneer settler, communal and philanthropic worker, Milwaukee, Wis., aged 88, November 11, 1938. ROBINSON, MRS. E. L., (Esther Lyons), actress, explorer, lecturer, known in 1890's as "The Klondike Girl," Elizabeth, N. J., aged 74, October 26, 1938. ROBINSON, ISAAC, civic and communal leader, Centralia, Wash.; reported, June 9, 1939. ROSEN, MRS. ROSE, communal worker, Port Chester, N. Y., aged 44, August 21, 1938. ROSENBERG, ISAAC C, businessman, former Mayor, Canisteo, X. Y., aged 68, November 21, 1938. Rosenberg, Saul, communal and labor leader, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 53, January 19, 1939. ROSENBLUM, MORRIS, retired merchant, communal worker, Bayonne, N. J., aged 74, August 14, 1938. ROSENFELD, Louis, Police Inspector, New York City, (suicide), aged 46, July 29, 1938. ROSENFELD, MAURICE, piano teacher, music critic, Chicago, 111., aged 70, February 25, 1939. ROSENSOHN, SAMUEL J., lawyer, civic worker, national Zionist leader, New York City, aged 60, May 11, 1939. ROSENTHAL, JOSEPH, building contractor, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 72, November 29, 1938. ROSENTHAL, JULIUS, Civil War veteran, member of G. A. R., Balti- more, Md , aged 92, July 22, 1938. ROSENTHAL, LOUIS, insurance agent, communal worker, Columbus, Ohio, aged 45, July 5, 1938. ROSING", WILLIAM, communal leader, Spanish-American War veteran, El Paso, Tex., May 5, 1939. Ross, J. D., civic worker, Seattle, Wash., March 21, 1939. ROTHENBERGER, MORITZ, communal worker, New York City, (suicide), aged 57, November 1, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, LESTER, civic and communal worker, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 15, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, MORRIS H., manufacturer, communal worker, Newark, N. J., aged 73, June 25, 1939. 430 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

ROTMAN, MORRIS, industrialist, communal worker, Providence, R. I., aged 54, May 4, 1939. RUSKIN, ALBERT, rabbi, New York City, aged 60, November 23, 1938. SACHS, MORRIS MOSES, insurance executive, communal worker, North Bergen N. J., aged 62, March 25, 1939. SAFRAN, SAMUEL, merchant, communal worker, Perth Amboy, N. J., aged 52, January 11, 1939. SAJLKIN, MEYER, rabbi, Passaic, N. J., aged 75, January 28, 1939. SAMUELS, COL. JOSEPH, merchant, civic and philanthropic leader, Providence, R. I., aged 74, February 13, 1939. SANDS, MRS. EVA, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 65, May 27, 1939. SAPIR EDWARD, scientist, scholar, author, professor of anthropology and linguistics at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., aged 55, Feb- ruary 4, 1939. SCHAKNE, ISAAC, communal worker, leader of orthodoxy, Detroit, Mich., aged 79, March 4, 1939. SCHIFF, JACOB, hazzan and reader, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, at Miami, Fla., December 19, 1938. SCHIFF, MEYER, Talmudist, hazzan, shohet, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 23, 1939. SCHIFFMAN, MRS. SARAH, civic and communal worker, Chicago, 111., aged 61, December 27, 1938. SCHMIDT, ARNOLD MOSES, lawyer, communal leader, World War veteran, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 48, June 14, 1939. SCHNEIDER, MRS. HENRIETTA, communal leader, Seattle, Wash., aged 70, December 20, 1938. SCHOCHET, Louis J., editor and publisher of Jewish Floridian, Miami, Fla., aged 45, January 16, 1939. SCHWAB, JOSEPH S., former magistrate (1919-21), former member of State Legislature, and member of Chicago Board of Education, New York City, aged 82, April 17, 1939. SCHWARTZ, ABRAHAM H., president Century Circuit, Inc., film theatre chain, Brooklyn, N. Y., at Lake Placid, N. Y., September 9, 1938. SCHWARTZ, MRS. ESTHER, communal worker, St. Louis, Mo., aged 67, November 16, 1938. SCHWARTZ, MAX, restaurateur, communal worker, New York City, aged 79, April 4, 1939. SEINFEL, HENRY, insurance executive, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 70, July 28, 1938. SELIG, BERNARD, merchant, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 88, March 20, 1939. SELIG, SOLOMON, manufacturer, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 81, June 12, 1939. SELIGMAN, F. J., photographer, editor, Jewish Times, Youngstown, Ohio, aged 51, May 3, 1939. SESSLER, MRS. BELLE KLEINERT, communal worker, New York City, aged 72, September 4, 1938. NECROLOGY 431

SHAPIRO, MOSES, lawyer, communal leader, Winston-Salem, N. C, aged 42, November 6, 1938. SHEFSKY, AARON, rabbi, Chicago, 111., aged 65, March 6, 1939. SIFF, HENRY, physician, author and poet, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 76 June 19, 1939. SILBERMAN, ALBERT, manufacturer, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged, 71, June 9, 1939. SILBERSTEIN, ISRAEL, realtor, communal worker, Baltimore, Md., aged 72, July 31, 1938. SILVER, HYMAN J., chief rabbi of Worcester, Mass., aged 78, Decem- ber 10, 1938. SILVERMAN, MRS. MARTHA M., social worker, communal leader, Boston, Mass., aged 55, July 28, 1938. SIMON, ABRAM, rabbi, educator, Washington, D. C, aged 66, Decem- ber 24, 1938. SIMON, MRS. CLARA, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., Septem- ber 13, 1938. SINCOFF, ABRAHAM, actor, head of Yiddish Theatrical Alliance, New York City, aged 54, January 15, 1939. SINGER, ISIDOR, encyclopedist, editor, author, translator, New York City, aged 81, February, 1939. SITTENFIELD, MAURICE J., radiologist, surgeon, assistant professor of pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, aged 61, December 1, 1938. SLOTNICK, MICHAEL N., lawyer, former member of Massachusetts State Legislature, New York City, aged 49, October 27, 1938. SMITH, MRS. RAY, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 67, November 17, 1938. SMULYAN, ABRAHAM, rabbi and shochet, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 80, November 19, 1938. SOLMSON, LEWIS, merchant, communal worker, Westerly, R. I., aged 61, June 10, 1939. SOLOMON, HARRY B., communal worker, Little Rock, Ark., June 11, 1939. SOLOMON, MRS. MARY E., communal worker, New York City, July 5, 1938. SOLOVETZIK, SOLOMON, rabbi and cantor, Chicago, 111., aged 70, October 10, 1938. SPEIER, HERMAN, national communal leader, executive secretary, United Roumanian Jews of America, New York City, aged 67, January 22, 1939. SPIVACKE, MRS. ROMANA, communal and philanthropic worker, New York City, aged 54, December 30, 1938. STARK, HOWARD B., communal leader, Albany, N. Y., aged 66; reported, July 2, 1938. STEIN, LEO, communal worker, New York City, aged 88, March 27, 1939. STEINHARDT, MRS. AMELIA, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 84, August 25, 1938. STERMAN, MOSES, rabbi, New York City, aged 70, December 9, 1938. 432 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

STERN, MORLEY A., merchant and manufacturer, Rochester, N. Y., aged 85, February 18, 1938. STERNBERG, DAVID, tobacco dealer, financier, communal worker, Memphis, Tenn., aged 73, December 13, 1938. STETELMAN, LOUIS, civic leader, Columbus, Ohio, aged 63, July 19, 1938. STOLL, MRS. LOTTIE COHEN, communal and philanthropic worker, New York City, aged 61, November 1, 1938. STRASS, EMANUEL H., communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 87, May 28, 1939. STRAUSS, LOUIS A., professor emeritus of English at University of Michigan and head of English Department (1920-1936), Ann Arbor, Mich., aged 66, September 27, 1938. STRAUSS, MOSES, journalist, former managing editor of Cincinnati Times-Star, Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 65, July 14, 1938. STROOCK, SAMUEL, manufacturer, New York City, aged 41, June 30, 1939. SUMMERFIELD, SAMUEL, civic and communal worker, Detroit, Mich., aged 65, August 3, 1938. SUSSMAN, HENRY A., physician, Clinical Professor of Medicine, at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 47, October 16, 1938. TALAMO, HASKELL, physician, communal worker, Worcester, Mass., aged 42, July 10, 1938. TALIMER, BERNARD, retired newspaper executive, Philadelphia, Pa., at Atlantic City, N. J., aged 69, August 5, 1938. TAYLOR, REUBEN, communal worker, Zionist, Hartford, Conn., aged 49, May 6, 1939. TIEFELD, MRS. SARAH, communal worker, Newark, N. J., Decem- ber 19, 1938. TOBRINER, MEL, civic worker, Oakland, Calif., aged 63; reported, November 25, 1938. TOLLER, ERNST, playwright, author and poet, (formerly of Germany), New York City, aged 46, May 2, 1939. TRAUBMAN, MICHAEL, rabbi and hazzan, Newark, N. J., aged 86, October 7, 1938. TUCHMANN, LEON, communal worker, retired merchant, philan- thropist, New York City, aged 78, August 4, 1938. TULIN, SHAIA D., merchant, communal and philanthropic worker, Hartford, Conn., aged 90, August 25, 1938. UHLMANN, FRED, merchant, grain authority, philanthropic worker, Chicago, 111., October 10, 1938. UNGER, MRS. EVA, communal worker, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 65, April 4, 1939. UNGERMAN, MORRIS, merchant, communal worker, Albany, N. Y., aged 54, January 25, 1939. VLADECK, B. CHARNEY, national communal and labor leader, City Councilman, manager of Jewish Daily Forward, New York City, aged 52, October 30, 1938. WACHTEL, MRS. EMANUEL, communal worker, Seattle, Wash., February 5, 1939. NECROLOGY 433

WARSHAW, ROBERT IRVING, economist, author and publisher, New York City, aged 40, November 6, 1938. WEIL, A. LEO, lawyer, civic and national communal leader, philan- thropist, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 78, September 18, 1938. WEISS, JULIUS, physician, communal worker, New York City, aged 63, April 11, 1939. WEISS, MORITZ, rabbi, New York City, December 13, 1938. WEITZENKORN, Joseph K., financier, communal leader, philan- thropist, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., aged 71, November 19, 1938. WIENER, JOSEPH, surgeon and anesthesia expert, Far Rockaway, N. Y., aged 66, August 28, 1938. WIESEN, MRS. BESSIE, communal and welfare worker, New York City, aged 73, November 17, 1938. WILKOFF, MRS. SAMUEL, communal worker, Youngstown, Ohio, aged 72, June 19, 1939. WILSON, MRS. ESTELLE, civic and philanthropic worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 11, 1939. WOLF, EDWIN A., communal worker, Detroit, Mich., aged 55, November 10, 1938. WOLF, MIER, merchant, civic and communal worker, Mason City, Iowa, aged 67, October 26, 1938. WOLF, MORRIS, retired City Police Inspector, Boston, Mass., aged 78; reported, December 9, 1938. WOLFF, HARRY S., physician and social worker, Memphis, Tenn., aged 67, July 26, 1938. WOLK, MRS. RACHEL, communal worker, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 71, January 31, 1939. WORTMANN, MARTIN, merchant, New York City, aged 59, January 26, 1939. YANOFSKY, SAUL, journalist, New York City, aged 74, February 1, 1939. ZOLOTKOFF, LEON, journalist, Zionist, communal leader, former editor, Jewish Daily News, Chicago, 111., at Amityville, L. I., N. Y., aged 70, July 31, 1938.

OTHER COUNTRIES AARONS, ISAAC, minister, communal worker, London, England, aged 67, August 17, 1938. • AARONSOHN, EPHRAIM FISCHEL, head of British espionage in Pales- tine during World War, pioneer settler, Zichron Jacob, Palestine, aged 91; reported, February 1, 1939. ABEL, KARL, physician, head of obstetric department of Jewish Hospital, Berlin, Germany, aged 76; reported, June 30, 1939. ABRAHA, HAIM BOHOR, Chief Rabbi, Xanthe, Thrace, Greece; reported, October 14, 1938. ABRAHAMS, ABRAHAM MARK, Zionist leader, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 75, May 23, 1939. ABRAHAMS, JOSEPH, rabbi emeritus, author, communal leader, Melbourne, Australia, aged 83, August 18, 1938. 434 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

ABRAHAMS, Leonard Sydney, K. C, barrister, communal worker, Sydney, Australia, aged 51, October 24, 1938. ADER, LEON, communal leader—•—, Poland; reported, January, 1939. ALEXANDER, SAMUEL, O. M., professor of philosophy at Victoria University, Manchester, England, aged 79, September 13, 1938. ARIE, GABRIEL, teacher and historian, Knight of the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic, Sofia, Bulgaria, aged 76; reported, March 3, 1939. ASCOLI, , Colonel, (suicide), Florence, Italy; reported May 9, 1939. ASHBEL, JOSEPH MENACHEM, teacher, Petach Tikvah, Palestine, aged 82; reported, January 27, 1939. ASHER, SAMUEL GARCIA, physician, scientist, communal worker, London, England, aged 71, November 17, 1938. ASSER, C. D., lawyer, former president of International Court of Arbitration, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, aged 73; reported, March 3, 1939. ASTRUC, GABRIEL, journalist, music publisher and producer, Com- mander of the Legion of Honor, Paris, France, aged 74; reported, July 22, 1938. AUERNHEIMER, RAOUL, playwright, , Austria, at Dachau con- centration camp, aged 62; reported, July 1, 1938. BAUER, OTTO, socialist leader, former Austrian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vienna, Austria, at Paris, France, aged 57, July 4, 1938. *BEN JOSEPH, SHLOMO JACOB, Zionist Revisionist, (first Jew con- victed and-executed in modern Palestine), Acre, Palestine, June 29, 1938. BENJAMIN, HENRY, communal worker, Toronto, Canada, aged 59, June 8, 1939. BERNHARDT, ADOLF, Zionist, president of Keren Hayesod in Roumania Bucharest, Roumania; reported, December 23, 1938. BERNSTAMM, LEOPOLD, sculptor and portrait artist, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, Paris, France, aged 80, February 25, 1939. BLASHKI, AARON, J. P., Colonial communal worker, London, England, aged 78, July 5, 1938. BLAU, JULIUS, rabbi, communal leader, Frankfort a.M., Germany, aged 77; reported, February 24, 1939. BLOCH, HENRY, communal worker, Capetown, Union of South Africa, aged 84, April 27, 1939. BLOOM, ELI, hazzan, shohet and minister, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, aged 67; reported, June 16, 1939. BORCHARDT, LUDWIG, archaelogist, founder and director of Geneva Institute of Egyptian Archaeology, Berlin, Germany, at Paris, France, aged 74, September 8, 1938. BOUCMIL, JOSHUA, lawyer, pioneer Zionist, author, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 69, October 23, 1938. BRODY, SAMUEL MENACHEM, rabbi, Hull, England, aged 82; reported, September 23, 1938.

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BRUTZKUS, BORIS, Professor of Agrarian Economics at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 64, December 7, 1938. BUCHLER, ADOLPH, scholar, educator, principal of Jews' College, London, England, aged 71, February 19, 1939. BURSTEIN, N. S., journalist and publicist, communal and Zionist worker, London, England, aged 73, October 29, 1938. CHASHIN, ALEXANDER, founder of Poale Zion, former editor of Ernes, Moscow, Russia, aged 53; reported, March 31, 1939. CHIDECKEL, BARUCH, communal worker, Capetown, Union of South Africa, April 28, 1939. COHEN, M. I., M. B. E., minister, pioneer of Jewish education, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, aged 62, June 15, 1939. COHEN, M. M., minister, communal worker, Zionist, Manchester, England, aged 82, October 12, 1938. COHEN, YEHUDA, pioneer Zionist, co-founder of Tel Aviv, founder of Herzlia Gymnasium, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 70, March 8, 1939. DAVIS, SIR EDMUND, director of mining companies, art collector, philanthropist, London, England, February 20, 1939. DICKSTEIN, MEYER, oldest surviving delegate to first Zionist Cong- ress, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 117; reported, November 11, 1938. DIENEMANN, MAX, rabbi, author (formerly of Offenbach, Germany), Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 64, April 13, 1939. DREYFUS, EDGAR, barrister, communal worker, Paris, France, aged 33; reported, August 26, 1938. DUBSON, LEON, miniature painter, member of the Societe des Artistes Francaise, twice awarded Gold Medal, Paris, France, aged 63; reported, January 20, 1939. DUVEEN, SIR JOSEPH, first Baron of Millbank, internationally famous art dealer, connoisseur and patron, London, England, aged 69, May 25, 1939. EIG, Alexander, lecturer in applied botany at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 44; reported, August 5, 1938. ELKIN, JACOB, manufacturer, communal worker and philanthropist, Montreal, Canada, aged 62, April 16, 1939. EPSTEIN, MOSES, communal worker, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 63, August 16, 1938. FENSTER, ABRAHAM, rabbi, Drohobycz, Galicia, aged 100; reported, June 30, 1939. FINKELSTEIN, JOSEPH, cattle rancher, pioneer settler, Zionist, Winnipeg, Canada, aged 79, January 2, 1939. FINKELSTEIN, MAURICE, a founder of Diamond Exchange, communal and philanthropic worker, Antwerp, Belgium, aged 75; reported, February 24, 1939. FLEGENHEIMER, JULIEN, architect, Geneva, Switzerland, aged 58, October 5, 1938. FLEISSIG, ALEXANDER, statesman, banker, philanthropist, member of Parliament, holder of Horthy Cross of Merit, first class, with title Excellency, Budapest, Hungary, aged 70, May 9, 1939. FORMIGGINI, ANGELO, publisher, Modena, Italy, (suicide); reported, January 13, 1939. 436 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK

Fox, JACOB SAMUEL, former editor, educator, principal of Aria College, Zionist worker, Southampton, England, aged 70, August 11, 1938. FRANKLIN, ARTHUR ELLIS, J. P., banker, antiquarian, communal worker, London, England, aged 81, December 24, 1938. FREEDMAN, D. I., O. B. E., V. D., J. P., rabbi, civic worker, Perth, Australia, aged 55, June 24, 1939. FREUND, OTTO, banker, communal worker, philanthropist, Prague, Czechoslovakia (suicide), June 24, 1939. FRIEDMAN, J. L., communal worker, Port Elizabeth, South Africa; reported, October 28, 1938. FULDA, LUDWIG, playwright, novelist and poet, awarded Cross of French Legion of Honor (1933), Berlin, Germany, aged 77, March 30, 1939. GABOWITCH, JOSEF, sculptor, Warsaw, Poland, aged 77; reported, March 24, 1939. GASTER, MOSES, scholar, retired chief rabbi of Sephardic Com- munity of Great Britain, London, England, aged 82, March 4, 1939. GERBER, B., former minister, Germiston, South Africa, aged 63, August 7, 1938. GERTLER, MARK, artist and printer, exhibitor in London galleries, London, England (suicide), aged 47, June 23, 1939. GESTETNER, DAVID, manufacturer, communal worker, philan- thropist, London, England, aged 85, March 12, 1939. GLASS, SAMUEL, scholar and author, Zaleszczyki, Poland, aged 70, January 2, 1939. GLICKSON, MOSHE, writer, publicist, editor Haaretz, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 62, May 23, 1939. GOLD, NACHMAN ZVI, pioneer labor organizer, Haifa, Palestine, aged 46; reported, December 9, 1938. GOLDSTEIN, MAXWELL, lawyer, philanthropist, communal worker Montreal, Canada, aged 76, June 28, 1939. GOLLER, IZAK, minister, author, Liverpool, England, aged 47, June 22, 1939. GORDON, DAVID, rabbi, Doornfontein, Union of South Africa; reported, September 2, 1938. GORDON, MRS. LIFSHA, philanthropic worker, Toronto, Canada, October 31, 1938. GRAUMANN, SIR HARRY, K. B. E., civic worker, former member of Parliament, Cape Town, Union of South Africa, aged 70, September 19, 1938. GREEN, MICHAEL A., communal leader, London, England, aged 87, March 26, 1939. GREISMAN, HERSCH JOSEPH, communal worker, Toronto, Canada, aged 89, June 8, 1939. GROSSCHMIED, BENI (Beno Zsogod), professor of law, Budapest University, former member of Hungarian Court of Appeal and Ministry of Justice, member of Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Hungary, aged 86; reported, October 14, 1938. GURLAND, ELIAHU, Hebrew scholar and Talmudist, former communal NECROLOGY 437 worker of Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 94; reported, July 29, 1938. HADEF, ZAKI EL, Mayor, Tiberias, Palestine, October 29, 1938. HALPHON, Samuel, former Chief Rabbi of Buenos Aires, active in work for immigrants, officer of French Legion of Honor, Paris, France, aged 74; reported, December 23, 1938. HARRIS, HENRY, Justice of the Peace, Brighton, London, England, aged 79; reported, October 28, 1938. HASKELL, JACOB, industrialist, awarded Cross of Officer of the Belgian Order of Leopold, London, England, aged 82; reported, February 3, 1939. HAUSNER, BERNHARD, Zionist pioneer, founder of Nasz Przeglad, Warsaw Polish-language Jewish daily, former Polish Consul, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 64, August 7, 1938. HENRY, ALFRED, communal worker, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Freeman of the City of London, London, England, aged 86, April 14, 1939. HESS, WILLY, distinguished violinist, former concertmaster, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, Germany, aged 84, February 17, 1939. HINSDORFF, JACOB, active in labor movements in Germany up to 1933, Petach Tikvah, Palestine, aged 62; reported, December 23, 1938. HIRSCH, ARON, industrialist, philanthropist, Berlin, Germany, at Amsterdam, Netherlands, aged 80, August 2, 1938. HIRSCH, EMIL, former director of metal works, communal leader, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (formerly of Berlin, Germany) aged 64; reported, September 2, 1938. HIRSHOWITZ, ISRAEL, rabbi, supervisor of Shehitah Board, Man- chester, England, aged 77, June 8, 1939. HOCHMAN, AARON, shohet and minister, Westcliff-on-Sea, England, aged 79, April 9, 1939. HOCHSCHILD, SIGMUND, pioneer settler, coffee merchant, Muizenberg, South Africa, aged 89, November 2, 1938. "HOFFMANN, ABE DAVID, communal worker, Boer War veteran, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, May 6, 1938. HOROWITZ, JACOB, rabbi, scholar, communal leader, Arnheim, The Netherlands, (formerly of Frankfort a.M., Germany), aged 65, February 17, 1939. HOSTER, MRS. CONSTANCE, pioneer leader in training women for secretarial work, first female member, London Chamber of Commerce, London, England, aged 75, June 3, 1939. HURWTTZ, GERSHON, Zionist, pioneer settler, Rishon-le-Zion, Pales- tine, aged 74, September 11, 1938. HYMAN, MARCUS, K. C, lawyer, member of Provincial Legislature (1932-38), Winnipeg, Canada, aged 54, December 31, 1938. IDELSOHN, ABRAHAM ZVI, composer of Synagogue music, music scholar and author, professor emeritus of Jewish music and liturgy at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 56, August 14, 1938.

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INSLAR, ABRAHAM, former Deputy of Sejm, journalist, Lwow, Poland, aged SO; reported, September 30, 1938. ISAACOVITCH, NATHAN, actor, founder of Yiddish Folk Theatre, London, England, aged 64, June 19, 1939. JACOBS, SAMUEL WILLIAM, K. C, attorney, first Jewish member of House of Commons, civic and national communal leader, Zionist, Montreal, Canada, aged 67, August 21, 1938. KALISCH, MRS. CLARA, communal and philanthropic worker, Man- chester, England, aged 86; reported, January 6, 1939. KIBEL, WOLF, artist, Cape Town, Union of South Africa, aged 34; reported, July 8, 1938. KISCH, HELENE, communal worker, Mentone, France, aged 83, December 13, 1938. KOMROWER, EDWARD ALFRED, philanthropist, South Port and Manchester, England, aged 68; reported, July 8, 1938. KRAEMER, EMIL, banker, Munich, Germany, (suicide); reported, November 18, 1938. KRAFTCHIK-COHEN, MRS. LIBBY, Hebrew scholar, Toronto, Canada, aged 95, December 15, 1938. KREININ, MEIR, industrialist, social worker, educator, former president of Emigdirekt, Paris, France, at Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 72, April 27, 1939. KRONITZ, JACOB, Zionist leader, Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, aged 59; reported, May 5, 1939. LACHMANN, ROBERT, research fellow and keeper of the archives of oriental music at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 47; reported, May 11, 1939. LANGLEBEN, SCHLOMO, chess champion, Warsaw, Poland, aged 75, February 15, 1939. LEHRER, FEIGA, pioneer settler, Tel Aviv, Palestine, aged 116; reported, December 23, 1938. LESSER, ERNEST, communal worker, London, England, aged 64, January 10, 1939. LESSING, WILLI, Bamberg, Pomerania, Germany, (assassinated); reported, November 22, 1938. LEVI, ISRAEL, retired Chief Rabbi of France, former professor of Talmudic literature at Paris Rabbinical Assembly, editor-in-chief of Review of Jewish Studies, Paris, France, aged 83, June 23, 1939. LEVINSKY, MESHULLUM, shochet, communal worker, London, Eng- land, aged 79, September 1, 1938. LEVY, SIR ARTHUR, diamond expert, London, England, aged 83 November 20, 1938. LEVY, ISAAC A., communal leader, Lisbon, Portugal, aged 78, March 12, 1939. LEVY-BRUHL, LUCIEN, philosopher, author, professor at the Sor- bonne, member of French Academy, Paris, France, aged 82, March 13, 1939. LIBERMAN, LEON, professor, world renowned eye specialist, Buda- pest, Hungary, (suicide), aged 55, December 23, 1938. NECROLOGY 439

"LIPINSKI, LEO, communal worker, Durban, South Africa, May 25, 1938. LIVINSON, ISRAEL, merchant, communal worker, Toronto, Canada, aged 80, December 18, 1938. LOEWENSTEIN, KURT, secretary of the Socialist Teachers' Inter- national, and former German socialist youth leader, Paris, France; reported, May 19, 1939. MAHEN, GEORG, author, Bruenn, Czechoslovakia (suicide), May 22, 1939. MAHRER, MRS. LOUISE, pioneer settler, communal worker, Van- couver, B. C, Canada; reported, May 12, 1939. MAILMAN, SAMUEL, retired manufacturer, communal worker and philanthropist, Montreal, Canada, aged 65, August 3, 1938. MASSOUDA, BAROUKH LIETO, communal leader, Zionist, president of Karaite Community of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, aged 62; reported, January 27, 1939. MAX, M., merchant, communal worker, Ottowa, Canada, aged 57, April 30, 1939. MAYER, EMILE, colonel, military author, Paris, France, aged 85; reported, December 2, 1938. MEIR, JACOB, Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 82, May 27, 1939. MEYEROVITCH, JOSEPH A., communal worker, after World War helped to rehabilitate Russian-Jewish war victims, Paris, France, aged 65; reported, August 5, 1938. MILL, HENRY, Freeman of City of London, communal worker, London, England; reported, May 26, 1939. MOND, EMILE, chemist, philanthropist, officer of French Legion of Honor, officer of Order of Leopold of Belgium, London, England, aged 73, December 30, 1938. MOND, SIR ROBERT LUDWIG, industrialist, scientist, archaeologist, communal and philanthropic leader, London, England, at Paris, France, aged 71, October 22, 1938. MONTEFIORE, CLAUDE JOSEPH GOLDSMID, scholar, author, leader of Liberal Judaism, communal and philanthropic leader, London, England, aged 80, July 9, 1938. MONTEFIORE, MRS. CLAUDE G., author, communal worker, London, England; reported, December 16, 1938. MORGAN, PAUL, actor, Germany, in Dachau concentration camp, reported, January 4, 1939. MORO, ARTHUR REGINALD, scientist, civic and communal worker, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,' London, England, aged 87, April 20, 1939. MORPURGO, CARLO, a leader of European barristers, communal leader, Knight of the Crown of Italy, Cairo, Egypt, at Venice, Italy, aged 75; reported, June 23, 1939.

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MOSES, ABRAHAM, Haham, authority on Jewish law, Bombay, India; reported, June 30, 1939. MOSSERI, EMILE NESSIM, industrialist, financier, philanthropist, Alexandria, Egypt, aged 42; reported, February 21, 1939. NACHMOLI, JOSEPH, rabbi, leader of Sephardic Jewish Community, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 63; reported, May 5, 1939. NAT, MENACHEM MENDEL, rabbi, Sandomir (Kielce), Poland, aged 95; reported, March 24, 1939. NATHAN, SIR MATTHEW, first Jewish Governor of a British colony, former Governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland, communal leader, lieutenant-colonel in the British Army, London, England, aged 77, April 18, 1939. NORDEN, EPHRAIM, educator, Stepney, England, aged 77, March 10, 1939. OBUDA, ABRAHAM FREUDIGER DE, industrialist, communal leader, Budapest, Hungary, aged 71; reported, April 14, 1939. OLEINIKOV, MICHAEL, Zionist leader, Haifa, Palestine; reported, September 1, 1938. OLLENDORF, MRS. PAULA, social worker, lecturer, communal leader, former Alderman of City of Breslau, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 78, October 15, 1938. ORNSTEIN, JAKOB, lawyer, judge of Supreme Court, communa leader, holder of Diamond Ring of Emperor Franz Joseph, Vienna, Austria, aged 80; reported, May 26, 1939. PATAKASH, ALEXANDER, professor, Bratislava, Slovakia, (suicide); reported, November 18, 1938. PATAKI, Armin, head physician at municipal hospital, Budapest, Hungary, (suicide), aged 86; reported, April 21, 1939. PEIXOTTO, PERCY, leader of American colony in Paris, Commander of the Legion of Honor, Paris, France, aged 68, July 5, 1938. PHILIPPSON, MAURICE, captain, World War, awarded British Military Cross, decorated by Belgium and other governments, president of Jewish Community of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, aged 61, December 21, 1938. PINCHERLE, MAURIZIO, pediatrist, faculty of University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, (suicide), aged 60, January 24, 1939. PINES, LEON, ophthalmic surgeon, delegate to first Zionist Congress, Warsaw, Poland, aged 75; reported, November 25, 1938. POLAK, M., jurist, author, social and communal worker, former member of High Court of Justice, at The Hague, The Netherlands, aged 12, August 4, 1938. POLIAKOFF, VLADIMIR, former publisher, Pariser Tageblatt, Paris, France, aged 74; reported, May 19, 1939. POOL, ELEAZAR S., retired business man, father of Rabbi David de Sola Pool of New York City, communal worker, Hove, England, aged 81, July 25, 1938. PUGACZ, MOSHE, Mizrachi Zionist leader, Roziszcise, (Volhynia), Poland; reported, July 18, 1938. PYKE, MRS. LESLIE, communal worker, London, England; reported, September 16, 1938. NECROLOGY 441

REINSBERG, , professor, Bratislava, Slovakia, (suicide); reported, November 18, 1938. REIZWASSER, STANISLAW, philanthropist, Jaroslav, Poland, aged 72; reported, July 29, 1938. *RENDEL, E., social and communal worker, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, May 15, 1938. REUVID, MORRIS JACOB, communal worker, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 72, July 8, 1938. ROBINSON, C. P., politician, member of House of Assembly, Durban, Union of South Africa, aged 72, October 4, 1938. RONALD, SIR LANDON, composer and conductor, music critic, prin- cipal of Guildhall School of Music, London, England, aged 65, August 14, 1938. ROSEN, MAURICE, communal leader, Capetown, Union of South Africa, aged 74, May 9, 1939. ROSENTHAL, ABRAHAM, neurologist, Jerusalem, Palestine, (assas- sinated), aged 64, September 14, 1938. ROSENTHUL, BERNHARD, physician, gynecologist, Frankfort a.M., Germany, (suicide); reported, November 18, 1938. ROTHSCHILD, MANIEL, merchant, Montreal, Canada, aged 78, April 25, 1939. ROTHSCHILD, SAMSON, educator, historian, London, England (formerly of Worms, Germany), aged 91, June 10, 1939. ROTTENSTREICH, FISHEL, economist, former Deputy of Polish Sejm, member of first Polish Senate, member of Executive of Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 56, July 7, 1938. SALZMAN, JOSEPH, Zionist leader, Haifa, Palestine, aged 60; reported, April 28, 1939. SAMPTER, JESSIE E., Zionist leader, author, philanthropic worker, Givat Brenner, Palestine (native of New York City), aged 55, Novem- ber 25, 1938. SASSOON, SIR PHILIP, former Under-Secretary for Air, First Com- missioner of Works since 1937; art connoisseur, London, England, aged 50, June 3, 1939. SCHESTOV, LEO, (Schwarzmann), Professor of Russian Philosophy at University of Paris, Paris, France, aged 72, November 21, 1938. SEGAL, M., rabbi, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 50, September 29, 1938. SEINKER, JOSEPH, communal worker, Middelburg, (Cape), South Africa, November 1, 1938. SETTON, JACQUES EZRA,- philanthropist, Cairo, Egypt, at Paris, France, July 9, 1938. SILBERGLEIT, HEINRICH, scholar, author, Jewish historian and statistician, Berlin, Germany, aged 80; reported, April 24, 1939. SILBERMANN, A. M., scholar, publisher, London, England, aged 50, June 3, 1939. SMITH, IRVING I., merchant, communal worker, Montreal, Canada, aged 54, May 26, 1939.

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SMOLENSKIN, ALBERT, mathematician, captain of cavalry in Austrian army,(suicide), Vienna, Austria; reported, July 1, 1938. SOLOMON, DAVID, communal worker, Manchester, England, aged 82; reported, September 2, 1938. STEINHAET, FRANK, industrialist, American-Consul General (1903- 1907), civic worker, president Havana Electric Railway Company, Havana, Cuba, aged 74, December 10, 1938. STRAUSS, EDWARD ANTHONY, Member of Parliament, London, England, aged 76, March 26, 1939. TEICHER, LEIB, oldest rabbi in Poland, Tarnogrod, Poland, aged 99, August 5, 1938. TEITEL, JACQUES, philanthropist, former judge in Czarist Russia, Nice, France, aged 87, February 20, 1939. TERNI, AFRICANO, banker, Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Alexandria, Egypt, at Trouville-sur-Mer, France, aged 50; reported, October 28, 1938. TOBIAS, PHILLIP VALLENTINE, former communal worker, 'Zionist, Cardiff, England, (shot) Haifa, Palestine, aged 52, July 11, 1938. TOCHTEN, ADOLF, educator, Ungvar, Hungary, (suicide); reported, March 10, 1939. UNA, GEDALIAH, rabbi, a founder of Tirat Zvi, Palestine, aged 30; reported, November 4, 1938. VAN DER VELDE, A., communal worker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England; reported, September 16, 1938. VAN RAALTE, A., communal worker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, aged 67; reported, March, 1939. VAZ DIAS, A. M., historian, author, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, aged 62; reported, June 30, 1939. VITERBO, ETTORE, communal leader, Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, Knight in the Italian Order of the Sts. Maurice and Lazare, Alexandria, Egypt, aged 59; reported, March 24, 1939. VON SCHWABACH, PAUL, banker, Berlin, Germany, (suicide), aged 72, November 17, 1938. WALK, ALBERT, communal worker, Antwerp, Belgium, aged 77; reported, March 3, 1939. WALLICH, PAUL, banker, Berlin, Germany, (suicide); reported, November 22, 1938. WEINBERG, ABRAHAM, hazzan and minister, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, aged 69; reported, January 13, 1939. WEINLES, JACOB, painter, Warsaw, Poland, aged 79; reported, July 22, 1938. WEISSENBERG, ISAAC MEIER, Yiddish novelist, critic and pamph- leteer, Warsaw, Poland, aged 58, August 13, 1938. WILKOWITCH, ARMIN, author, hazzan, Eger (Sudetenland), Czecho- slovakia (suicide), en route to United States, aged 70; reported, May 5, 1939. WULWIK, MENDEL, rabbi, Prague, Czechoslovakia, at Cardiff, England, aged 53, August 28, 1938.