34 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK DIRECTORY OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE ALBANY BRANCH Founded April 1, 1877. President, Dr. M. Schlesinger; Treasurer and Secretary, Julius Laventall. Members, 38. Annual income, about $100. Organization meets Passover. BALTIMORE BRANCH Founded June 10, 1888. Officers: President, Aaron Friedenwald, M. D.; Vice-President, Rev. Dr. B. Szold; Secretary, B. H. Hartogensis, 204 Courtland Street; Treasurer, A. B. Arnold, M. D.; Directors: Rabbis A. Guttmacher, Wm. Rosenau, H. W. Schnee- berger, S. SchafEer, Chas. H. Rubenstein and A. Kaiser; Drs. Jos. Blum and Harry Friedenwald; Jacob Herman, Simon Dalsheimer, Silas M. Fleischer, Leon Schiff, M. S. Levy, Benj. Cohen, Louis Kaufman and F. Fuechsl. Members, 97. Annual income, about $225. NEW YORK BRANCH Office, 45 Broadway, Room 163. President, A. S. Solomons; Treasurer, David de Meza; Secretary, Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, 1 W. 69th Street. Members, 100. Annual income, $200-$400. PHILADELPHIA BRANCH Secretary's Office, 336 N. Third Street Founded October 11, 1868. Officers: President, Moses A. Dropsie; Treasurer, A. M. Frechie; Secretary, D. Sulzberger. Board of Trustees: Horace A. Nathans, Isaac P. Hunt, David Teller, Raphael Brunswick, Mayer Troutman, Abraham M. Kohn, Rev. Dr. Marcus Jastrow, Rev. Dr. H. Iliowizi, Rev. Dr. H. Berkowitz. Members, 225. Annual income, $600. THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY 35 PITTSBUBG BRANCH Cremieux Society, founded 1875. Custodian and Superintendent, Rev. Dr. L. Mayer. Members, 40 to 50. Annual income, $60 to $100. COLLECTIONS Collections are taken up, usually at Purim, in Chicago, India- napolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, St. Louis. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN CANTORS Founded March, 1894. Officers: President, Alois Kaiser, 1713 Linden Avenue, Balti- more; Vice-President, Wm. Sparger, 1185 Lexington Avenue, New York; Secretary, Wm. Loewenberg, 1424 N. 7th Street, Phila- delphia; Treasurer, S. Rappaport, West End Synagogue, New York. Board of Trustees: Alois Kaiser, Wm. Sparger, S. Rappaport, Wm. Loewenberg, David Cahn. Members, 100. Board meeting quarterly, January, April, July and October. Organization meets in July. Object: To develop the music of the Synagogue. THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Organized at New York, June 7, 1892; incorporated December 19, 1898, in the District of Columbia. Officers: President, Dr. Cyrus Adler; Vice-Presidents, Hon. Simon W. Rosendale, Mendes Cohen, Prof. Chas. Gross, Prof. H. B. Adams; Treasurer, Prof. Richard Gottheil; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, 943 K Street N. W., Wash- ington; Recording Secretary, Prof. J. H. Hollander. Executive Council: Hon. Oscar S. Straus, Dr. B. Felsenthal, Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Hon. Mayer Sulzberger, Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, Hon. Simon Wolf, Max J. Kohler, Esq., John Samuel, Esq., Rev. Dr. David Philipson, Rev. Henry Cohen. Members: 6 honorary, 11 corresponding, 4 life, 200 regular. Annual income, about $1100. Organization meets usually in December. Objects: The collection, preservation and publication of mate- rial having reference to the settlement and history of the Jews on the American continent. The meetings of the Society are devoted to the reading and discussion of papers; 6 publications have been issued; the Society owns a number of books, manu- scripts and portraits. 36 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAE BOOK FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTS Officers: President, Professor Richard Gottheil, Columbia Uni- versity, New York; Vice-Presidents: Dr. B. Felsenthal, Chicago; Dr. Aaron Friedenwald, Baltimore; Dr. M. Jastrow, Philadelphia; Professor C. Levias, Cincinnati; Rabbi M. Margolis, Boston; Rabbi S. Shenfeld, Louisville, Ky.; H. Masliansky, New York; Dr. S. Solis Cohen, Philadelphia; Dr. Philip Klein, New York; Rabbi B. Levinthal, Philadelphia; Honorary Secretary, I. D. Morrison, 320 Broadway, New York; Honorary Treasurer, C. D. Birkhahn, New York. Executive Council: Dr. S. Schaffer, Baltimore; Henrietta Szold, Baltimore; Dr. B. L. Gordon, Philadelphia; D. W. Amram, Philadelphia; L. Zolotkoff, Chicago; W. Schur, Chicago; Hon. N. Taylor Phillips, New York; K. H. Sarasohn, New York. American Representatives in the Vienna Executive Committee: Professor Richard Gottheil, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. American Delegates to the Third Zionist Congress at Basle: Richard Gottheil, Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Henrietta Szold, K. H. Sarasohn, G. H. Mayer, Stephen S. Wise, H. P. Mendes, L. Zinsler, Davis Trietsch, Eva Leon, Adam Rosenberg, W. Schur, L. Zolot- koff, M. Margolis, M. Jastrow, S. Solis Cohen. The second anmial conference of the American Federation of Zionists met in Baltimore, June 18 and 19, 1899. The address of welcome was delivered by Dr. S. Schaffer, president of the Baltimore Zion Society. Professor Richard Gottheil, the presi- dent, delivered an annual address, reviewing the condition of the Jews, especially in Galicia, and the progress of Zionism in America and Europe, and explaining the purpose and scope of the Jewish Colonial Trust. The reports of the secretary and the treasurer were presented. The Honorary Secretary, Stephen S. Wise, reported upon the work of the Federation during 1898- 99, its publications, the increase in the number of federated organizations, the founding of a company in New York for the sale of Palestinian wine, and the necessity for a Zionist organ. The publications of the Federation are: The Aims of Zionism, by Professor Richard Gottheil. The Progress of Zionism, by Herbert Bentwich, LL. B. George Eliot as a Zionist. The sum of $50 was appropriated for the publication and free distribution of the proceedings of the Conference in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. A like sum was appropriated for the alleviation of the suffer- ing of the Jewish miners and their families in Boryslaw, Galicia. In response to an appeal by Herbert Bentwich, of London, the sum of $100 was contributed as the nucleus of a fund to be secured through general appeal to the public and a special FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTS 37 appeal to the federated societies to give at least $10 each, this fund to be devoted to the purchase of the sites in Modin, Pales- tine, for the purpose of erecting1 a Maccabean memorial in the form of an agricultural college and settlement, such project to be undertaken in conjunction with the English Zionist Federa- tion, with the consent of the Vienna Executive Committee, and to be known as the Anglo-American Zionist Maccabean Memorial. At a public meeting addresses were delivered by Dr. G. Gott- heil, of New York; Dr. L. Zinsler, of New York; Leah Asher, of Worcester, Mass.; Mr. L. Zolotkoff, of Chicago; and Mr. Max Raisin, of Cincinnati. ZIONIST SOCIETIES IN THE FEDERATION; Chewrah Agudath Zion, Alliance, N. J. Secretary, J. Crassen- stein, Norma, N. J. Ezras Zion, Altoona, Pa. President, Rabbi Simon Glaser, 1807 14th Avenue. Zion Association, Atlanta, Ga. Secretary, J. Winer. Zion Association, Atlanta, Ga. President, Y. Dorfau, 35 Moore Street. Zion Society, Atlantic City, N". J. Secretary, J. H. Perskie. Lovers of Zion, Augusta, Ga. Secretary, A. Tannebaum, 1222 Broad Street. Ezrath Chovevei Zion, Baltimore, Md. Secretary, Jacob Hettel- man, 1020 Low Street. Zion Association, Baltimore, Md. Secretary, Bernard Makover, 409 N. Calhoun Street. Dorshei Zion, Berkley, Va. Hayman Goodman, P. O. Box 277. Dorshei Zion No. 1, Boston, Mass. Corresponding Secretary, Louis Goldberg, 302 Hanover Street. Dorshoth Zion Association of Boston, Boston, Mass. Corre- sponding Secretary, Miss P. Arkin, 65 Lambert Avenue, Roxbury, Mass. Hebrew National Association of Boston, Boston, Mass. Presi- dent, F. Altman, 5 Barlow Street. Lovers of Zion Society of East Boston, Boston, Mass. Secre- tary, Robert Goodman. New England Zionist Federation, Boston, Mass. Louis Gold- berg, 302 Hanover Street. Sons and Daughters of Zion, Boston, Mass. Secretary, Robert Silverman, 93 Leverett Street. Zion Association, Boston, Mass. K. M. Casanof, 317 Harrison Avenue, East Boston. Bnothe Zion, Brooklyn, N. Y. Secretary, Gertrude Grodden, 50 Moore Street. Ohavei Zion of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, N. Y. J. Mainloff, 174 Harrison Avenue. 38 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK Zion Society, Burlington, Vt. Rev. H. Sachs. Chovevei Zion, Chattanooga, Tenn. Secretary, Simon J. Rausen, 118 Leonard Street. Dorshei Zion, Chelsea, Mass. President, H. B. Siegel, 69 Salem Street. Dorshoth Zion, Chelsea, Mass. President, Mrs. Tichell, 222 Washington Avenue. Dorshei Zion, Chicago, 111. President, L. Enelow, 233 S. Hermi- tage Avenue. Independent Order of Chovevei Zion, Chicago, 111. Secretary, D. Pollock, 400 Chicago Avenue. Knights of Zion, Chicago, 111. Leon Zolotkoff, 70 La Salle Street, Room 32. South Side Chicago Association, Chicago, 111. Secretary, Isidor Jacobson, 3138 Wentworth Avenue. Zion Association of America, Chicago, 111. E. B. Menrow, 891 Milwaukee Avenue. Daughters of Zion, Cincinnati, O. President, Mrs. H. Hurwitz, W. Sixth Street. Ohavei Zion, Cincinnati, O. Corresponding Secretary, L. Greenberg. Zion Society, Circleville, O. Secretary, Meyer Margolis. Bnoth Zion Association, Cleveland, O. President, Rebecca Barnett, 299 Woodland Avenue. Chovevei Zion, Cleveland, O. S. Rocker, 224 Woodland Avenue. Young American B'nai Zion Association, Cleveland, O. Sec- retary, Maurice B. Sacheroff, 215 Orange Street. Chovevei Zion, Columbus, O. President, H. M. Stone, 447 E. Marmouth Street. Dallas, Tex. P. Aronoff, 556 Elm Street. Chovevei Zion, Denver, Col. President, M. Feierstein, P. O. Box 154. Tifereth Zion, Derby, Conn. Secretary, Louis S. Levin. Zion Society,