JEWISH NATIONAL OEGANIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES In the following list information is given respecting those Jewish organ- izations which have a national scope as distinguished from societies of a local character which are listed in the Directory of Local Jewish Organizations, volume 21, pp. 330-583, and in the Supplementary Directory in this volume, pp. 322-339. Eighty-two hodies are listed below. During the past year, the Eastern Council of Reform Rabbis disbanded, and the three organizations of Roumanian Jews were amalgamated. Over against this decrease are nine new national bodies, namely, the Aid Association for ex-Patients of Tubercular Sanatoriums, the Federation of Hungarian Jews, the Federation of Ukrainian Jews, the Hebrew Veterans of the Wars of the Republic, the Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America, The Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Association, Sigma Epsilon Delta Fraternity, the Union of Orthodox Women's Organization of America, and Young Israel of Amer- ica. There has therefore been a net increase of six in the number of organizations. No material change has occurred in the statistics of these organizations as given in volume 21. The classification used there is repeated below with the addition of the Landsmanpschaften—organizations of natives of various sections of Europe—and a miscellaneous group comprising the Jewish Sab- bath Alliance of American and the Hebrew Veterans of the Wars of the Republic. In the international group are the Alliance Israelite Unlverselle, the American Jewish Committee, and the American Jewish Congress ; the Zionist organizations have been grouped separately. In the educational class are the Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations, the Intercollegiate Menorah Association, the Jewish Chautauqua Society, and others of a similar character. The three Theological Seminaries and the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning are given separately. As research institutions are classed the American Jewish Historical Society, the Bureau of Jewish Social Research, ana the Jewish Academicians of America. Professional associations include the various rabbinical societies and the National Conference of Jewish Social Service. The Religious Unions include the congregational federations and their national auxiliaries. Following is a table showing the number of organizations in each class, the number of branches and of members : Number Number Number Character of Organization Total reporting of Number of number branches branches 22KS"™? Fraternal Orders and Mutual 16 2378 16 559,411 Benefit Associations. Philanthropic Organizations.. 544 261,435 Zionist Organizations 1186 201,658 Religious Unions and affiliated 427 bodies. International Organizations... Landsmannschaften- 520 66,000 Educational Organizations 431 48,818 Fraternities 73 5,993 Professional Associations 1,108 Colleges , Research Institutions "423 Miscellaneous 5,350 Total . 33 5559 53 Several interesting facts are apparent in the foregoing table. Over a million of the Jews of the United States are connected with National Organizations ; over half a million are affiliated with fraternal orders or mutual benefit associations ; a quarter of a million help to maintain philan- thropic enterprises of a national scope ; and thirty-three of the organiza- tions report a total of 5569 branches, affiliated bodies, or agencies. The number of these must be taken into account when we consider the number of local organizations. 292 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK AID ASSOCIATION FOR EX-PATIENTS OF TUBERCULAR SANATORIUM^ Org. 1917. OFFICE: 8000 Montview Blvd., Denver, Colo. Members, 20,000. PURPOSE : After care for ex-patients of sanatoria for the tubercular. OFFICERS : Pres., I. Reichman ; Sec, A. M. Blumberg, 3135 W. Colfax Av.; Treas., J. Klatzkin. DIRECTORS : M. Berkowitz, A. M. Blumberg, S. Brody, M. Cohen, E. Fried- man, C. Gulinson, Isadore Hurwitz, J. Jaflee, A. Judelovitz, J. Klatzkin, Ed. Monash, M. Nierenberg, I. L,. Qulat, Simon Quiat, A. Reichman, I. Reichman, Mrs. I. Reichman, Max Schradsky, Wm. Stein, Sol. Wargon, N. Zaslavsky. ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE Org. May, 1860. OFFICE : 150 Nassau, New York City AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE Org. Nov. 11, 1906 ; inc. Mch. 16, 1911. OFFICE : 31 Union Square West, New York City For report, see pp. 394-458. AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS * Org. Mch. 27, 1916. OFFICE : 1 Madison Av., New York City First Convention, Dec. 15-19, 1918, Philadelphia, Pa. Second Convention, May 30, 1920. Members, 400. OFFICERS : Hon. Pres., Nathan Straus, N. Y. C.; Pree., Julian W. Mack, Chicago, 111.; Viee-Pres., Louis Marshall, N. Y. C.; Harry Cutler, Provi- dence, R. I.; Hugo Pam, Chicago, 111.; Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.; Adolf Kraus, Chicago, 111.: Louis B. Rubinsohn, Phila., Pa.; Hayim Pineman, Phila., Pa. ; Leon Sanders, N. Y. C." Gedaliah Bublick, N. Y. C.; Henrietta Szold, Jerusalem, Palestine; M. S: Margolies, N. Y. C.; Alexander Kahn, N. Y. C.; Treas., Jacob H. Schiff, N. Y. C.; Sees., Bernard G. Richards, 1 Madison Av., N. Y. C.; Wm. Edlin, Isaac Allen. Max L. Hollander, N. Y. C.; Martin O. Levy, Phila., Pa. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Org. 1892. OFFICE : 38 Park Row, New York City Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting, Feb. 22-23, 1920, New York, N. Y. Members, 399. Has issued twenty-six volumes of publications and an index to publica- tions 1-20. Maintains a collection of books, manuscripts, and historical objects in its room in the building of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 531 W. 123d, N. Y. C. OFFICERS : Pres., Cyrus Adler, Phila., Pa.; Vice-Pres., Simon W. Rosen- dale, Albany, N. Y.: David Philipson, Cincinnati, O.; Julian W. Mack, Chicago, 111.; Richard J. H. Gottheil; Treas., Henry S. Hendricks ; Curator, Leon Hiihner; Cor. Sec, Albert M. Friedenberg, 38 Park Row; Rec Sec, Samuel Oppenheim, N. Y. C. * The Congress adjourned sine die on May 31, 1920, in accordance with the condition under which it was originally organized. (See also p. 144.) JEWISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 293 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL : The Officers, and Chaa. J. Cohen, Phlla., Pa. Henry Cohen, Galveston, Tex.; Herbert Friedenwald, Kew Gardens, L. I. Lee M. Friedman, Boston, Mass.; Jacob H. Hollander, Baltimore, Md. Max J. Kohler, L. Napoleon Levy, N. Y. C.; Max L. Margolis, Phlla., Pa. Alexander Marx, N. Y. C.; N. Taylor Phillips, N. Y. C.; A. S. W. Rosenbach, Mayer Sulzberger, Phlla., Pa.; Simon Wolf, Washington, D. C.; Oscar S. Straus, N. Y. C.; ex-offlcio, as past President of the Society. BARON DB HIRSCH FUND Org. Feb. 9, 1891; inc. 1891. OFFICE : 80 Maiden Lane, New York City Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting, Feb. 9, 1919, New York City. The activities of the Fund (all under the following heads : I. BARON DE HIESCH AGEICULTURAL SCHOOL, Peekskill, N. Y., offer- ing to Jewish young men a course in Agriculture. II. BAEON DE HIESCH TRADE SCHOOL, 222 B. 64th, N. Y. C, offering to Jewish young men instruction in day classes in the follow- ing trades: Machinist, Plumbing, Electrical, House, Fresco and Sign Painting, Printing, Sheet Metal Work, Woodworking and Carpentry, and Operating Engineering. III. WOODBINE LAND AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. IV. ENGLISH EDUCATION TO IMMIGRANTS. Day and Evening Classes. V. BELIEF WORK. Through subsidized societies in Maryland: Balti- more.—Massachusetts : Boston —New York : Brooklyn, New York City.—Pennsylvania : Philadelphia. OFFICERS : Pres., Eugene S. Benjamin, 130 E. 25th ; Vice-Pres., Jacob H. Schiff; Treas., Simon F. Rothschild; Hon. Sec, Max J. Kohler, 52 William, N. Y. C. TEUSTKES : The Officers, and Charles L. Bernheimer, Nathan Bijur, Abram I. Elkus, Alfred Jaretzki, Herbert H. Lehman. S. G. Rosenbaum, N. Y. C.; S. S. Fleisher, Mayer Sulzberger, Phila., Pa,; Julius Bosenwald, Chicago, 111. GENERAL AGENT : B. A. Palitz. BUREAU OF JEWISH SOCIAL, RESEARCH Org. Apl., 1919. OFFICE : 114 Fifth Av., New York City Merger of Bureau of Philanthropic Research. Bureau of Jewish Statis- tics and Research of the American Jewish Committee, and the Field Bureau of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, and supported by funds provided by the American Jewish Committee, the New York Founda- tion, and the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of N. Y. C, in addition to private contributions. PURPOSE : Research into problems of Jewish social and communal life in America and in other centers of Jewry throughout the world. OFFICEES : Chairman, Adolph Lewisohn; Treas., David M. Heyman; Sec, Morris D. Waldman ; Chairman Exec. Com., Cyrus L. Sulzberger. BOARD OF DIRECTORS : The Officers, and Cyrus Adler, Leo Amsteln, B. D. Bogen, Lee K. Frankel, I. E. Goldwasser, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Solomon Lowensteln, Max Senior, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Felix M. Warburg. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Chairman ; Leo Arnstein, David M. Heyman, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Felix M. Warburg, N. Y. C. ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Lee K. Frankel, Chairman; Boris D. Bogen, I. Edwin Goldwasser, Solomon Lowenstein, and Morris D. Waldman. ADMINISTRATION : Executive Director. Ludwig B. Bernstein; Assistant Executive Director, Hyman Kaplan, N. Y. C. 294 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK CANTORS' ASSOCIATION OP AMERICA (SUCCESSOR TO S( TIETY OF AMERICAN CANTORS) Org. June 1, 1! 8. OFFICE: New York City -Eleventh Annual Meeting, 'ay 25, 1920, New York City. Members, 250. PURPOSE : To uplift the prof, ssion and give aid to Cantors in need and to their families. OFFICERS : Pres., Jacob Schwartz, 78 W. 85th; Vice-Pres., S. Fine; M. Schechter; Sec, Efrajim Spivak ; Joseph Salzman; Treas., M. Aranoff, N. Y. C. DIRECTORS : Sol. Baum, J. Beimel, N. Cantor, M. Hilmann, L. Lipitz, J. Rappaport, M. Schrager, A. Singer, J. Taubenhaus. CENTRAL, CONFERENCE OP AMERICAN RABBIS Org. July 9, 1899. OFFICE : Temple Beth El, Detroit, Michigan Thirty-first Annual Convention, June 29, 1920, Rochester, N. Y. Members, 266. Has issued twenty-nine volumes of its Year Book; and besides, the Onion Prayer Book; the Union Hymnal; the Union Haggadah; Prayers for Private Devotion; Army Ritual for Soldiers of the Jewish Faith (1916) ; and various other publications. OFFICERS, 1920-1921: Hon. Pres., Kaufmann Kohler. Cincinnati, 0.; Pres., Leo M. Franklin, Detroit, Mich. ; Vice-Pres., Edward N.