JEWISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES 1 National Organizations organized after April 1, 1929, are not included in this list. ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH OF THE B'NAI B'RITH Org. 1924. OFFICE: 650 Omaha National Bank Bldg., Omaha, Neb. Sixth Annual International Convention, July 5, 6 and 7, 1929, Pittsburgh, Pa. Chapters 125. Members, 4,200. PURPOSE: Mental, moral and physical development of Jewish youth. Inculcation of Jewish ideals. SUPREME ADVISORY COUNCIL: Pres., Sam Beber, Omaha, Neb.; First Vice-Pres., Jacob J. Lieberman, Los Angeles, Cal.; Second Vice-Pres., Julius J. Cohn, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Third Vice-Pres., Joseph Herbach, Philadelphia, Pa., Treas., Harry Lapidus, Omaha, Neb.; Sec, I. F. Goodman, Omaha, Neb.; Ex. Sec, Philip M. Klutznick, Omaha, Neb.; Asst. Exec. Sec, Julius Bisno, Omaha, Neb.; Alfred M. Cohen, Cincin- nati, O.; Wilfred B. Feiga, Worcester, Mass.; Hyman M. Goldstein, Washington, D. C; Leo Kaminsky, Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph Karesh, New York, N. Y.; Daniel Krause, Braddock, Pa.; Henry Monsky, Omaha, Neb.; I. M. Rubinow, Cincinnati, O. ALEXANDER KOHUT MEMORIAL FOUNDATION Org. 1926. OFFICE: 1185 Park Avenu , New York City. Annual Meeting, March 27, 1930, New York City. Number of Branch Societies, 5. PURPOSE: TO promote original research and to publish works bearing upon Jewish literature and related subjects. OFFICERS: President, Hon. Julian W. Mack; Vice-President, Prof. Alexander Marx; Sec, Prof. Julius Bewer; Treasurer, Albert Tallmer; Executive Director, Dr. George A. Kohut; Executive Secretary for America, Benjamin Barondess; Executive Secretary for Europe, Dr. Emil Damask. ALPHA EPSILON PHI WOMEN'S FRATERNITY Org. 1909. OFFICE: 2026 Broadway, New Orleans, La. Biennial Convention: July 26th—30th, 1929. Mackinac Island, Mich. Members, 2,160. PURPOSE: TO foster close friendship between members, to stimulate the intellectual, social and spiritual life of the members, and to count as a force through service to others. OFFICERS: Dean, Bertha Wolbrette Feitel, New Orleans, La.; Scribe, Aline Lazard Roos, New Orleans, La.; Field Sec, Elizabeth Eldridge, 161 162 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK San Antonio, Texas; Exec. Sec, Louise W. Wolf, New Orleans; Sub- Dean, Gertrude Friedlander Markel, Pittsburgh; Treas., Irma Loeb Cohen, Cleveland; Ritualist, Lucy Cooper, New York City; Historian, Beatrice Feingold, N. Y. C; Editor, Viola Land Rusnak, Chicago; Alumnae Sec, Martha Kaplan Freedman, Brooklyn. ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY Org. 1913. Office: Suite 1779, Woolworth Bldg., New York City. Thirteenth Annual Convention, Dec' 26-29, 1929, New York City. Chapters, 20. Alumni Clubs, 9. Members 1,300. PURPOSE: A national collegiate Greek-letter fraternity for Jewish Students. OFFICERS: Pres., David Schlesinger, N. Y. C; Vice-Pres., Max S. Scheiber, N. Y. C; Treas., Alexander L. Grossman, N. Y. C.; South Rep., Harry L. Cohen, Atlanta, Ga.; Middle-West Rep., Samuel H. Shapiro, Kankakee, 111.; Coast Rep., David Ziskind, Los Angeles, Cal.; Sec, Lester Harwood Block, 233 Broadway, N. Y. C. ALPHA MU SIGMA FRATERNITY Org. 1914. OFFICE: 327 W. 84th, New York City. Annual Convention, Dec. 22-29, 1929, New York City. Next Annual Convention, Dec. 24-28, 1930, New Haven, Conn. Members, 650. PURPOSE: TO foster and perpetuate the fraternal spirit among its personnel, to cultivate and promote an ideal social relationship among them, to voluntarily give aid to fraters in distress and to perpetuate the ideals which gave origin to its existence. OFFICERS: Hon. Grand Prior, Irving H. Fisher, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Grand Prior, Sol. C. Brecker, N. Y. C; Grand Vice Prior, Morton M. Grossman, N. Y. C; Grand Chancellor of the Exchequer, Milton S. Abramson, N. Y. C.; Grand Scribe, Leon S. Imrey, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Grand Historian, Sidney Svirsky, New Haven, Conn;. Chairman Bd. of Trustees, Abba A. Orlinger, Brooklyn, N. Y. ALPHA OMEGA FRATERNITY Org. 1907, Inc., 1909. OFFICE: Secretary, 419 Boylston, Boston, Mass. Twenty-first Annual Convention, Dec. 25-27, 1929, Philadelphia, Pa. Members, 2,500. PURPOSE: TO uphold the highest standards of the dental profession, further the causes of Judaism and to promote fraternalism. OFFICERS: Chancellor, William Rich, N. Y. C; Vice-Chancellors, Emanuel Krieger, Baltimore, Md.; Max Rabinovich, San Francisco, Cal.; Murray Simon, Toronto, Can.; Supreme Scribe, A. M. Flaschner, 419 Boylston, Boston, Mass.; Quaestor, J. W. Malkinson, Hartford, Conn.; Editor, Myron Aisenberg, Baltimore, Md.;Historian, Henry Brown, N. Y. C; Marshall, J. T. Rothner, Detroit, Mich.; Macer, Herbert Metz, Detroit, Mich. JEWISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 163 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DROPSIE COLLEGE Org. 1924. OFFICE : Broad and York, Philadelphia, Pa. Annual Meeting, March 9, 1930, Philadelphia, Pa. Members, 41. PURPOSE : To advance the interests of the Dropsie College and further spirit of friendship among its graduates. OFFICERS: Pres., Louis L. Kaplan, Baltimore, Md.; Vice-Pres., Elchanan H. Golomb, Baltimore, Md.; Sec.-Treas., Joseph Reider, Broad and York, Philadelphia, Pa. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGE Org. 1889. Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O. Annual Meeting, June 28, 1930, Providence, R. I. Members, 200. PURPOSE: TO promote welfare of the Hebrew Union College and to strengthen fraternal feeling among graduates of the college. OFFICERS: Pres., Martin Zielonka, El Paso, Texas; Vice-Pres., Emil Leipziger, New Orleans, La.; Sec, Ira E. Sanders, Capitol Hill Apts., Little Rock, Ark.; Treas., Alvin Luchs, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Historian, L. Eliot Grafman, Tampa, Fla. ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION Annual Meeting, May 26, 1930, New York City. OFFICERS: Pres., Harry Kaplan, Pittsfield, Mass.; Vice-Pres.,Joshua L. Goldberg, Astoria, L. I., and Jacob P. Rudin, N. Y. C; Treas., Morton M. Berman, N. Y. C; Sec, Jacob X. Cohen, N. Y. C. .ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR JEWISH SOCIAL WORK Org. 1927. OFFICE: 71 West 47th Street, New Yoik City. Annual Meeting, Sept. 12, 1929, New York City. PURPOSE: TO maintain friendly relationships among the members; to maintain cordial relations with the Training School; to support its aims and aid its development; to aid in the maintenance and development of professional standards. OFFICERS: Pres., George Wolfe; Eastern Vice-Pres., Pauline Gollub; Mid-Western Vice-Pres., Madeline Berlin; Western Vice-Pres., Charles Schottland; Treasurer, Samuel Travis; Sec, Rose Leff. AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RESEARCH Org., 1920, Inc., Dec. 20, 1929. OFFICE: Philadelphia, Pa. Members, 285; Honorary members, 5. PURPOSE: The furtherance of Jewish learning through periodical meetings at which learned papers shall be presented and discussed; the formulation and carrying into effect of scholarly undertakings of a co-operative character; the issuance of publications; the promotion of relations of fellowship and co-operation between scholars and learned organizations in America and those in other countries; furnishing 164 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK opinions upon scholarly projects submitted to the Academy; and through such other means as may, from time to time, be determined by the Academy. OFFICERS: Pres., Louis Ginzberg, N. Y. C; Vice-Pres., Alexander Marx, N. Y. C; Treas., Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Cincinnati, 0.; Sec, David S. Blondheim, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.. AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE Org. Nov. 11, 1906; Inc. March 16, 1911. OFFICE: 171 Madison Ave. New York City For report, see p. 283. AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS Org. 1920. OFFICE: 33 West 42nd, New York City Seventh Session, May 19-20, 1929, Atlantic City, N. J. Delegates, 400. PURPOSE: TO further and promote the full rights of Jews; to safeguard and defend such rights wherever and whenever they are either threat- ened or violated; to deal generally with all matters relating to and affecting specific Jewish interests. OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Dr. Stephen S. Wise; Pres., Bernards. Deutsch; Vice-Pres., Prof. Hayim Fineman; Louis Lipsky, Carl Sherman, Mrs. Archibald Silverman, Max Silverstein, Benjamin Winter; Chairman Executive Committee, Nathan D. Perlman; Treas., Morris Weinberg, Ex. Dir., B. G. Richards, 33 W. 42nd St., N. Y. C. AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY Org. 1892. OFFICE: 531 W. 123d, New York City. Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting, June 7-8, 1930, Boston, Mass. Members, 450. Has issued thirty-one 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., Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice- Pres., Simon W. Rosendale, Albany, N. Y.; David Philipson, Cincinnati, O.; Max J. Kohler, N. Taylor Phillips, Richard J. H. Gottheil, N. Y. C; Treas., Henry S. Hendricks; Curator, Leon Huhner; Cor. Sec, Albert M. Friedenberg, 116 Nassau Street, N. Y. C; Rec. Sec, Abraham A. Neuman, Philadelphia, Pa. AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION Org. July, 1924. OFFICE: 40 Exchange Place, N. Y. C. PURPOSE: TO assist and give material aid to Jews to engage in agri- cultural pursuits and to settle upon the land in Russia, and to act as the operative agency in Russia of the American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia, Inc., and to render other constructive aid to Jews in Russia. JEWISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 165 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Pres., Joseph A. Rosen; Vice-Pres., E. A. Grower; and S. E. Lubarsky, Bernhard Kahn, D. J. Schweitzer. AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE Org. Nov. 24, 1914. OFFICE: 40 Exchange Place,