Appendices (1944-1945)
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SUPPLEMENTS TO THE REVIEW OF THE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS UNITED STATES April, 1943. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of JEWISH CHAUTAUQ.UA SOCIETY.* May, 1943. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of found- ing of PHILADELPHIA SECTION, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN.* July 4,1943. Boston, Mass.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of FRANCES STERN, social worker, by founding of Frances Stern Chair in Nutrition at Tufts Medical School. July 24-25,1943. Cleveland, Ohio: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversary of founding by B'nai B'rith of BELLEFAIRE, JEWISH ORPHAN HOME. September, 1943. Detroit, Mich.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of DETROIT SECTION, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN. October 13, 1943. Washington, D. C: One hundredth anniversary of founding of B'NAI B'RITH. October 13, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of one hundredth anni- versary of founding of NEW YORK LODGE NO. 1, B'NAI B'RITH. October 18, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of opening of twenty-fifth season of YIDDISH ART THEATER. November 7-11, 1943. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN. November 19-21, 1943. Baltimore, Md: Celebration of ninetieth anni- versary of founding of OHEB SHOLOM CONGREGATION. November 21, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of establishment of EDUCATIONAL ALLIANCE, largest community center in the country. November 28, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of Louis GINZBERG, Talmud authority and professor at Jewish Theological Seminary of America. December 10-18, 1943. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of establishment of CONGREGATION ANSHE EMETH. December 15, 1943. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of sixtieth birthday of SAMUEL NIGER, Yiddish critic and editor. January 1, 1944. Cambridge, Mass.: Seventieth birthday of HUGO LEICH- TENTRITT, musicologist and composer. January 1,1944. New York, N. Y.: Eightieth birthday of ALFRED STIEGLITZ, pioneer and master of modern photography. January 3,1944. Newark, N. J.: Eightieth birthday of CHARLES I. HOFFMAN, rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Oheb Sholom. January 6,1944. Official celebration of HAYM SALOMON Day in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, marking 159th anniversary of the death of Haym M. Salomon. * Omitted from Vol. 45. 316 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK January 27, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of ninetieth birthday of ALFRED MEYER, authority on tuberculosis, consulting physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. February 8, 1944. Baltimore, Md.: Seventieth birthday of ELI FRANK, jurist. February 13, 1944. Cleveland, Ohio.: Celebration of fortieth anniversary of founding of JEWISH WELFARE FEDERATION. February 16, 1944. Boston, Mass.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversary of founding of the SISTERS or REBECCA SOCIETY. February 27, 1944. Indianapolis, Ind.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION KNESSES ISRAEL. February 28, 1944. San Francisco, Calif.: Seventy-fifth birthday of MAX C. SLOSS, judge; communal leader. March 1, 1944. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth birthday of MORTIMER J. COHEN, rabbi of Congregation Beth Sholom, and twenty- fifth anniversary as its founder. March 5, 1944. Boston, Mass.: Celebration of eightieth birthday of MAX AXELROD, communal worker. March 17, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of seventieth birthday of STEPHEN S. WISE, rabbi, author and communal leader; president, Jewish Institute of Religion and American Jewish Congress. March 18, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Fiftieth anniversary of BRUNO WALTER'S career as concert conductor. March 24, 1944. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Seventy-fifth anniversary of establish- ment of CONGREGATION AHAVATH ACHIM and thirtieth anniversary of JOSEPH HARRIS PAYMER as its rabbi and cantor. March 31, 1944. Philadelphia, Pa.: Seventieth birthday of HARRY COHEN, and twenty years of service as president of Har Zion Temple. March 31, 1944. Boston, Mass.: Ninetieth anniversary of founding of Temple Israel. April 2,1944. Philadelphia, Pa.: Eightieth birthday of EDWIN M. GOLDSMITH, inventor, civic worker. April 9, 1944. Boston, Mass.: Eighty-fifth anniversary of founding of TEMPLE MIS'HKAN ISRAEL. April 15, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of eighty-fifth birthday of HUGO HEIMANN, former honorary freeman of Berlin, Germany. April 15-23, 1944. Detroit, Mich.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of the UNITED HEBREW SCHOOLS OF DETROIT. April 16, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of one hundred and twenty- fifth birthday anniversary of the late ISAAC MAYER WISE, founder of Hebrew Union College. April 20, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of eightieth birthday of GREGORY WEINSTEIN, publisher, printer, author. April 21, 1944. Memphis, Tenn.: Celebration of ninetieth anniversary of establishment of TEMPLE ISRAEL. April 26, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Seventieth anniversary of founding of the JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION. May 4, 1944. Boston, Mass.: Celebration of twentieth anniversary of SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY as conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra. May 5, 1944. Philadelphia, Pa.: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of the DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL. ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS 317 May 5—12, 1944. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary in the ministry of S. FELIX MENDELSOHN, as rabbi of Temple Beth Israel. May 7, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of thirty-five years of career of EDDIE CANTOR as stage, screen, and radio star. May 7-21, 1944. Cleveland, Ohio: Celebration of 75th anniversary of the CLEVELAND JEWISH CENTER. May 11, 1944. Yonkers, N. Y.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of the JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER. May 14, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of BRIGHTSIDE DAY NURSERY AND KINDERGARTEN. May 20-24,1944. New York, N. Y.:.Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, as rabbi of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun. May 24. 1944. Omaha, Nebr.: Twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of , OMAHA CHAPTER OF HADASSAH. May 27, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Commemorative exhibit of the one- hundredth anniversary of the birth of MOSHE LEIB LILIENBLUM, author and social leader. June 2-7, 1944. Chicago, 111.: Twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION B'NAI ZION; and of ABRAHAM L. LASSEN, rabbi, encum- bent for quarter of a century. June 4, 1944. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL. June 4, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Celebration of thirtieth anniversary of MENACHEM RIBALOW, editor oiHadoar. June 8, 1944. Denver, Colo.: Seventieth anniversary of founding of TEMPLE EMANUEL. June 9, 1944. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Fiftieth anniversary of NORA B. LEVY, as religious school teacher at Temple Rodef Shalom. June 11, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of YESHIVA TEACHERS COLLEGE. June, 1944. New York, N. Y.: Seventy-fifth anniversary of the YIDDISH PRESS. OTHER COUNTRIES July 1, 1943. Palestine: Twenty-fifth anniversary of first labor villages established in AYEI.ETH HASHACHAR, MAHANAYIM AND KFAR GILADI. July 24,1943. Jerusalem: Twenty-fifth anniversary of laying of cornerstones for HEBREW UNIVERSITY ON MOUNT SCOPUS.* July 27, 1943. London, England: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of MICHAEL ADLER, D.S.O., minister, communal leader. September 7, 1943. Wellington, New Zealand: Seventieth birthday of SIR MICHAEL MYERS, G.C.M.G., Chief Justice of New Zealand. October 8, 1943. Harrogate, England: Celebration of Silver Jubilee of HEBREW CONGREGATION and of the minister, RABBI ELI KAHAN. October 15, 1943. Belfast, Ireland: Fiftieth anniversary of founding of BELFAST JEWISH BOARD OF GUARDIANS. • Omitted from Vol. 45. 318 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK October 21, 1943. U.S.S.R.: Centenary of birth of MARK ANTOKOLSKI, sculptor. October 28, 1943. Jerusalem, Palestine: Centenary of the birth of MOSHE LEIB LILIENBLUM, Zionist pioneer and writer. November 26, 1943. London, England: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary in office of MAURICE BENJAMIN, Secretary of Jewish Board of Guardians. November 27, 1943. London, England: Seventieth birthday of CHAIM WEIZMANN, Zionist leader, chemist. December 8, 1943. London, England: Seventy-fifth birthday of MAX NEUBERGER, physician, authority on medical history and professor at University of Vienna. December 19, 1943. Montreal, Canada: Centenary of death of EZEKIEL HART, first Jew to be elected to Canadian Assembly. , December 20, 1943. London, England: Seventieth birthday of LILY MON- TAGU, J.P., president of Jewish Religious Union and Honorary Secretary of World Union of Progressive Judaism. December 23, 1943. Jerusalem, Palestine: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of HENRIETTA SZOLD HADASSAH NURSES SCHOOL, named in her honor. December 24, 1943. London, England: Ninetieth birthday of YAKOV GORDON, "father of Yiddish Theater." December 24,1943. Leeds, England: Eightieth birthday of HIRSH HURWITZ, rabbi, Federation of Synagogues. December, 1943. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Sixtieth birthday of ISAAC BREUER, Agudist leader and philosopher. January 26, 1944. Jerusalem, Palestine: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary of founding of the MACCABI SPORTS ORGANIZATION. February 11-20, 1944. Edinburgh, Scotland: Twenty-fifth anniversary of installation of SALIS DAICHES, as rabbi and minister of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation. February 18, 1944. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Ninetieth birthday of ALEXANDER ZISSKIND RABINOVITZ, dean of Hebrew writers, oldest member of His- tadruth. February,