THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 1942 OBJECTS OF THE COMMITTEE "The objects of this corporation shall be, to prevent the infrac- tion of the civil and religious rights of Jews, in any part of the world; to render all lawful assistance and to take appropriate remedial action in the event of threatened or actual invasion or restriction of such rights, or of unfavorable discrimination with respect thereto; to secure for Jews equality of economic, social and educational opportunity; to alleviate the consequences of persecution and to afford relief from calamities affecting Jews, wherever they may occur; and to compass these ends to administer any relief fund which shall come into its possession or which may by received by it, in trust or otherwise, for any of the aforesaid objects or for purposes comprehended therein." —Extract from the Charter OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Officers Chairman, Louis E. KIRSTEIN President, MAURICE WERTHEIM Honorary Vice-Presidents { fc™ J™ Vice-Presidents { ^^^7^ Chairman, Administrative Committee, VICTOR S. RIESENFELD Treasurer, SAMUEL D. LEIDESDORF General Secretary, MORRIS D. WALDMAN Executive Committee CARL J. AUSTRIAN (1945)* LOUIS B. MAYER (1943) New York, N. Y. Culver City. Cal. GEORGE BACKER (1943) GEORGE Z. MEDALIE (1944) New York, N. Y. New York, N Y. JAMES H. BECKER (1943) LOUIS J. MOSS (1943) Chicago, 111. Brooklyn, N. Y. JOHN L. BERNSTEIN (1943) MRS. DAVID DE SOLA POOL (1943) New York, N. Y New Yolk, N. Y. DAVID M. BRESSLER (1943) JOSEPH M PROSKAUER (1945) Now York, N. Y. New York, N Y. FRED M. BUTZEL (1944) VICTOR S RIESJ^NFELD (1945) Detroit, Mich. New York, N. Y. LEO M. BTJTZEL (1943) JAMES N. ROSENBERG (1945) Detroit, Mich. New York, N. Y. JAMES DAVIS (1944) SAMUEL I. ROSENMAN (1945) Chicago, 111. New York, N. Y. ABRAM I. ELKUS (1943) WILLIAM ROSENWALD (1943) New York, N. Y. - Greenwich, Conn. LEON FALK, Jr. (1943) WALTER N ROTHSCHILD (1944) Pittsburgh, Pa. Brooklyn, N. Y. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN (1945) MURRAY SEASONGOOD (1944) New York, N. Y. Cincinnati, O PHILLIP FORMAN (1945) JESSE H. STEINHART (1945) Trenton, N. J San Francisco, Cal. ELI FRANK (1943) EDGAR B. STERN (1945) Baltimore, Md. New Orleans, La. MRS M. L. GOLDMAN (1943) HORACE STERN (1943) San Francisco, Cal Philadelphia, Pa. HAROLD K. GUINZBURG (1944) ROGER W. STRAUS (1945) New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. HENRY ITTLESON (1943) LEWIS L. STRAUSS (1945) New York, N. Y. New Yolk. N. Y. MILTON \V. KING (1943) DAVID H. SULZBERGER (1943) Washington, D. c. New Ymk, N. Y. LOUIS KIRSTEIN (1944) WILLIAM B. THALHIMER (1943) Boston, Mass Richmond, Va. SIDNEY LANSBURGH (1945) FREDERICK M. WARBURG (1944) Baltimore, Md. New York. N. Y. ALBERT D LASKER (1943) SIDNEY J. WEINBERG (1943) Chicago, 111. New Yolk, N. Y. EDWARD LAZANSKY (1945) WILLIAM WEISS (1944) Brooklyn, N. Y. New Yolk, NY. FRED LAZARUS, Jr. (1944) MAURICE WERTHEIM (1943) Columbus, O. New York, N. Y. IRVING LEHMAN (1943) JOSEPH WILLEN (1943) New York, N. Y. New York, N. Y. SAMUEL D. LEIDESDORF (1944) HENRY WINEMAN (1943) New York, N. Y. Detroit, Mich JAMES MARSHALL (1945) MORRIS WOLF (1945) New York, N. Y. Philadelphia, Pa. Associate Secretary, SIDNEY WALLACH; Assistant Secretary, HARRY SCHNEIDERMAN. 386 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. • The year given after each name is the date on which member's term expires. 454 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING January 25, 1942 The Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Com- mittee was held at the Hotel Astor, New York City, on January 25, 1942. Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman of the General Committee, called the meeting to order. The following Corporate Members were present: Community Representatives ARKANSAS Little Rock: C. C. Rubenstein CALIFORNIA Los Angeles: Mendel B. Silberberg CONNECTICUT Hartford: Isidore Wise DISTRICT or COLUMBIA Washington: Milton W. King ILLINOIS Chicago: James H. Becker MARYLAND Baltimore: Jacob Blaustein NEW JERSEY ' Bayonne: William Rubin Jersey City: Harry Goldowsky Newark: Julius H. Cohn Paterson: George Abrash Trenton: Phillip Forman NEW YORK New York City: Carl J. Austrian; David A. Brown; William Fischman; Norman S. Goetz; Arthur J. Goldsmith; Leo Gottlieb; Harold K. Guinzburg; Henry S. Hendricks; Maurice B. Hexter; Joseph C. Hyman; Stanley M. Isaacs; Albert D. Lasker; Edward Lazansky; Oscar A. Lewis; William Lieber- REPORT OF AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE 455 mann; James Marshall; Alexander Marx; Maximilian Moss; Edward A. Norman; Joseph M. Proskauer; Harold Riegelman; Victor S. Riesenfeld; A. J. Rongy; James N. Rosenberg; Samuel I. Rosenman; Walter N. Rothschild; Bernard Semel; Fred M. Stein; Hugh Grant Straus; Alan M. Stroock; Nathan Sweedler; Morris D. Waldman Troy: Joseph Goodman Utica: S. Joshua Kohn White Plains: P. Irving Grinberg OHIO Columbus: Fred Lazarus, Jr. Youngstown: Herman C. Ritter PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia: Justin P. Allman; Bernard Louis Levinthal VIRGINIA Richmond: Edward N. Calisch Members-at-Large George Backer, New York City; John L. Bernstein, New York City; Herbert J. Hannoch, Newark, N. J.; Louis E. Kirstein, Boston, Mass.; Samuel D. Leidesdorf, New York City; Louis E. Levinthal, Philadelphia, Pa.; George Z. Medalie, New York City; William Rosenwald, Greenwich, Conn.; David H. Sulzberger, New York City; William B. Thalhimer, Richmond, Va.; Max M. Warburg, New York City; Maurice Wertheim, New York City; Joseph Willen, New York City. Delegates from Affiliated Organizations FREE SONS OF ISRAEL: Max Ogust HADASSAH: Mrs. Benjamin Gottesman; Mrs. Samuel W. Halprin; Mrs. David de Sola Pool HEBREW SHELTERING AND IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: S. Dingol; Abraham Herman; Jacob Massel; Samuel A. Telsey INDEPENDENT ORDER B'RITH ABRAHAM: Herman Hoffman; Max L. Hollander 456 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN: Mrs. H. B. Levine NATIONAL JEWISH WELFARE BOARD: Joseph Rosenzweig UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA: Ben- jamin Koenigsberg; William Weiss UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF AMERICA: Louis J. Moss WOMEN'S BRANCH OF THE UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CON- GREGATIONS OF AMERICA: Mrs. Joseph Mayer Asher; Mrs. Herbert S. Goldstein WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF AMERICA: Mrs. David Kass; Miss Sarah Kussy; Mrs. Samuel Spiegel. There were also present the following members of standing com- mittees who are not Corporate Members: Mrs. William de Young Kay, Jacob Landau, Newman Levy, Herbert H. Maass, Walter Mendelsohn, Maurice Mermey, George J. Mintzer, David Sher, Mrs. DeWitt Stetten, Morton S. Webster; also Mr. Paul Baerwald, all of New York City. MORNING SESSION Presentation of Annual Report The Chairman turned the meeting over to Mr. Maurice Wertheim, the President. The President called upon Mr. Morris D. Waldman, General Secretary, to present the Annual Report of the Executive Com- mittee. (For text of Report, see p. 465). Address of the President The President announced that in accordance with past practice, he had prepared an address, which he proceeded to deliver. In the course of this, the President referred to the death during the past year of Mr. Sol M. Stroock, President of the Committee, and Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, member of the Executive Committee, and requested the meeting to rise for a moment of silent tribute to their memory. (For text of address, see p. 474). REPORT OF AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE 457 Report of Chairman of Standing Committee on Overseas Affairs Mr. George Z. Medalie, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Overseas Affairs, presented a report on behalf of that com- mittee. This report is appended hereto. (For text, see p. 480). Corporate Membership It was reported that the Committee had suffered the loss of the following Corporate Members since the last Annual Meeting: J. Irving Kaufmann, Richmond, Va., September 29, 1941 Solomon Lowenstein, New York City, January 20, 1942 Sol M. Stroock, New York City, September 11, 1941 Minutes expressing the Committee's grief and sense of loss were adopted by the Executive Committee. It was announced that, in accordance with the provision of the by-laws, the following Nominating Committee, empowered to name candidates to succeed those community representatives whose terms expire today, and fill existing vacancies, had been appointed: David M. Bressler, Chairman, Edward M. Baker, Jacob Billikopf, Harry Block, Eli A. Cohen, Harry M. Ehrlich, Harold K. Guinz- burg, Sidney Lansburgh, Benjamin H. Levy, Mendon Morrill, Samuel Salzman, Michael B. Stavitsky, Bertram A. Stroock, Frank L. Sulzberger. Following is a list of the nominees of the Nominating Committee: NEW YORK CITY Carl J. Austrian David A. Brown James Marshall Benjamin J. Buttenwieser A. I. Nova Louis Finkelstein Harold Riegelman Leo Gottlieb Victor S. Riesenfeld Maurice B. Hexter Samuel Schulman Stanley M. Isaacs Bernard Semel Joseph J. Klein Alan M. Stroock Abraham Krasne Nathan Sweedler Samuel M. Levy Morris D. Waldman William Liebermann Frank L. Weil CHICAGO James H. Becker Sol Kline James Davis George E. Kuh A. Richard Frank Hamilton M. Loeb 458 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK Though opportunity was afforded to the Sustaining Members to make independent nominations, no such nominations were offered. The above mentioned persons were thereupon declared elected. In the following communities, in which the Committee receives its support from local federations and welfare funds, the nomina- tions were made by the Boards of those organizations: STATE COMMUNITY AND NOMINEES NOMINATING AGENCY ALABAMA Birmingham United Jewish Fund Leo K. Steiner, Sr. CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Los Angeles Jewish Harry A. Hollzer Community Council San Francisco Jewish National Welfare Jesse H. Steinhart Fund CONNECTICUT Hartford Jewish Welfare Fund William P. Haas New Haven Jewish Community Council Harry Shulman Edgar E. Siskin DELAWARE Wilmington Jewish Federation Aaron Finger GEORGIA Savannah United Jewish Appeal Edmund H. Abrahams INDIANA Evansville Jewish Community Council A. A. Brentano Fort Wayne Jewish Federation Nathan L. Salon Gary Jewish Welfare Federation Garry J. August KENTUCKY Louisville Conference of Jewish Fred Levy Organizations LOUISIANA New Orleans New Orleans Jewish Edgar B. Stern Welfare Fund Shreveport Jewish Federation A.