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ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS UNITED STATES July 7, 1935. New York City: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of ABRAHAM CAHAN, editor of Jewish Daily Forward. July 7, 1935. Seattle, Wash.: Celebration of eightieth anniversary of birth of SAMUEL R. STERN, judge, veteran member of B'nai B'rith. July 9, 1935. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Sixty-fifth birthday anniversary of MITCHELL MAY, New York State Supreme Court Judge. July 12, 1935. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniver- sary of birth of HENRY KAUFMANN, philanthropist. July 28, 1935. Portland, Ore.: Eightieth anniversary of birth of I. BROMBERG, communal worker. October 1, 1935. Cincinnati, Ohio: Celebration of seventy-fifth an- niversary of birth of N. HENRY BECKMAN, communal leader. October 18-19, 1935. Baltimore, Md.: Celebration of twentieth anniversary of ministry of MORRIS S. LAZARON, as rabbi of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation. October 24, 1935. Cincinnati, Ohio: Celebration of eighty-fifth an- niversary of birth of CHARLES SHOHL, communal leader. October 24, 1935. Chicago, 111.: Twentieth anniversary of service on the bench of SAMUEL ALSCHULER, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, celebrated by the Chicago Bar Association. October 25, 1935. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of twentieth anniver- sary of the JEWISH COMMUNAL CENTER OF FLATBUSH. October 25, 1935. Jackson, Mich.: Celebration of seventy-fifth an- niversary of founding of TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL. October, 1935. Minneapolis, Minn.: Celebration of eightieth anniver- sary of birth of MRS. HENRY WEISKOPF, communal worker. November 12, 1935. New York City: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of NATHAN RATNOFF, medical director of Beth Israel Hospital and of Jewish Maternity Hospital. November 17, 1935. Jersey City, N. J.: Seventieth anniversary of birth of CHARLES I. BLOCK, rabbi. November 19, 1935. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniver- sary of his connection with Lenox Hill Hospital, of MAX EINHORN, physician. November 21, 1935. New York City: Celebration of completion of fifty years of philanthropic and civic activity of REBEKAH KOHUT. November 23, 1935. New York City: Celebration of seventieth anni- versary of founding of the HUNGARIAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. November 27, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fortieth anni- versary of FREDERICK HAHN, as violin teacher and fiftieth year as professional musician. 395

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ANNIVERSARIES AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS

UNITED STATES

July 7, 1935. New York City: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birth ofABRAHAM CAHAN, editor of Jewish Daily Forward.

July 7, 1935. Seattle, Wash.: Celebration of eightieth anniversaryof birth of SAMUEL R. STERN, judge, veteran member of B'nai B'rith.

July 9, 1935. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Sixty-fifth birthday anniversary ofMITCHELL MAY, New York State Supreme Court Judge.

July 12, 1935. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniver-sary of birth of HENRY KAUFMANN, philanthropist.

July 28, 1935. Portland, Ore.: Eightieth anniversary of birth ofI. BROMBERG, communal worker.

October 1, 1935. Cincinnati, Ohio: Celebration of seventy-fifth an-niversary of birth of N. HENRY BECKMAN, communal leader.

October 18-19, 1935. Baltimore, Md.: Celebration of twentiethanniversary of ministry of MORRIS S. LAZARON, as rabbi of BaltimoreHebrew Congregation.

October 24, 1935. Cincinnati, Ohio: Celebration of eighty-fifth an-niversary of birth of CHARLES SHOHL, communal leader.

October 24, 1935. Chicago, 111.: Twentieth anniversary of service onthe bench of SAMUEL ALSCHULER, Judge of the United States CircuitCourt of Appeals, celebrated by the Chicago Bar Association.

October 25, 1935. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of twentieth anniver-sary of the JEWISH COMMUNAL CENTER OF FLATBUSH.

October 25, 1935. Jackson, Mich.: Celebration of seventy-fifth an-niversary of founding of TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL.

October, 1935. Minneapolis, Minn.: Celebration of eightieth anniver-sary of birth of MRS. HENRY WEISKOPF, communal worker.

November 12, 1935. New York City: Sixtieth anniversary of birthof NATHAN RATNOFF, medical director of Beth Israel Hospital and ofJewish Maternity Hospital.

November 17, 1935. Jersey City, N. J.: Seventieth anniversary ofbirth of CHARLES I. BLOCK, rabbi.

November 19, 1935. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniver-sary of his connection with Lenox Hill Hospital, of MAX EINHORN,physician.

November 21, 1935. New York City: Celebration of completion offifty years of philanthropic and civic activity of REBEKAH KOHUT.

November 23, 1935. New York City: Celebration of seventieth anni-versary of founding of the HUNGARIAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK.

November 27, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fortieth anni-versary of FREDERICK HAHN, as violin teacher and fiftieth year asprofessional musician.

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November, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of seventieth anni-versary of birth of ELLIS A. GIMBEL, merchant and philanthropist.

November, 1935. San Bernardino, Calif.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversary of establishing of PARADISE LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

November, 1935. Oakland, Calif.: Celebration of sixtieth anniversaryof establishing of OAKLAND LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

December 1, 1935. Newark, N. J.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of connection of A. SIGMUND KANENGIESER, with IndependentOrder B'rith Sholom.

December 2, 1935. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Celebration of twenty-fifthanniversary of founding of YOUNG MEN'S AND WOMEN'S HEBREWASSOCIATION.

December 2, 1935. Chicago, 111.: Twenty-fifth anniversary on benchof JOSEPH SABATH, Superior Court Judge.

December 3, 1935. Washington, D. C.: Eightieth anniversary offounding of WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION.

December 5, 1935. New York City: Celebration of forty-fifth anni-versary of founding of the SISTERHOOD OF TEMPLE ISRAEL.

December 6-8, 1935. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of SAUL SILBER, rabbi.

December 7, 1935. New Haven, Conn.: Celebration of ninety-fifthanniversary of founding of CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL.

December 10, 1935. Chicago, 111.: Celebration of fifty-fifth anniver-sary of founding of CHICAGO PHILANTHROPIC CLUB AND CO-WORKERS,(formerly the Montefiore Society; later the Baron Hirsch Women'sClub.)

December 16, 1935. Newark, N. J.: Seventieth anniversary of birthof Louis SCHLESINGER, communal worker.

December 18, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of sixtieth anni-versary of birth of MARTIN O. LEVY, Grand Secretary of Order B'rithSholom, and completion of thirty years of service with the organization.

December 18, 1935. Boston, Mass.: Celebration of twenty-fifthanniversary of ELIHU D. STONE, as Zionist leader, by pledges of NewEngland Zionists to plant $10,000 Palestine Grove in his name.

December 20, 1935. New York City: Thirtieth anniversary of EDGARJ. LAUER, as judge in New York.

December 20-22, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of ninety-fifth anniversary of founding of CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL.

December 20-22, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of twentiethanniversary of founding of B'NAI JESHURUN CONGREGATION.

December 22, 1935. Providence, R. I.: Celebration of thirty-fifthanniversary of founding of SOUTH PROVIDENCE LADIES AID ASSOCIATION.

December 25-29, 1935. Detroit, Mich.: Thirtieth anniversary offounding of POALE ZION ZEIRE ZION.

December 29, 1935. New York City: Celebration of twenty-fifthanniversary of founding of TAU DELTA PHI FRATERNITY.

December, 1935. St. Louis, Mo.: Celebration of eightieth anniversaryof founding of MISSOURI LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

December, 1935. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of activities of MOSES LIPSCHITZ, rabbi.

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January 1, 1936. Denver, Colo.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniver-sary of birth of SERAPHINE PISKO, social worker.

January 1, 1936. Seattle, Wash.: Eightieth anniversary of birth ofDAVID LIPMAN, communal leader.

January 3, 1936. San Francisco, Calif.: Celebration of DiamondJubilee of founding of TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL.

January 5, 1936. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniversaryof founding of LODZER TRUE BROTHERS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

January 7, 1936. Buffalo, N. Y.: Celebration of sixtieth anniversaryof birth of EUGENE WARNER, communal and social welfare leader.

January 7, 1936. Cincinnati, Ohio: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birthof MAURICE J. FREIBERG, communal and civic leader.

January 11, 1936. New York City: Celebration of seventieth anniver-sary of birth of LEOPOLD HOROWITZ, Matzoth baker and philanthropist.

January 12, 1936. New York City: Celebration of ninetieth anniver-sary of founding of IMMANUEL LODGE, UNITED ORDER OF TRUE SISTERS.

January 12, 1936. New York City: Celebration of fiftieth anniversaryof birth of B. CHARNEY VLADECK, manager of Jewish Daily Forward.

January 16, 1936. New York City: Celebration of eighty-fifth anni-versary of founding of GRAND LODGE, UNITED ORDER OF TRUE SISTERS.

January 17, 1936. Houston, Tex.: Eightieth anniversary of foundingof TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL, and thirty-sixth anniversary of HENRYBARNSTON, in rabbinate.

January 26, 1936. Minneapolis, Minn.: Twenty-fifth anniversary offounding of the MINNEAPOLIS TALMUD TORAH.

January 31, 1936. New York City: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of appointment of JULIAN W. MACK, as United States Judge.

January, 1936. Los Angeles, Calif.: Celebration of twentieth anni-versary of EDGAR J. MAGNIN, as rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple.

February 1, 1936. Washington, D. C.: Celebration of seventy-fifthanniversary of birth of ISAAC GANS, philanthropic and civic worker.

February 2, 1936. ̂ Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anniver-sary of founding of UPTOWN LADIES' HOME FOR THE AGED.

February 3, 1936. New York City: Sixtieth anniversary of birth ofMRS. FELIX M. WARBURG. Celebration by Hadassah on February 13th.

February 3, 1936. New York City: Twenty-fifth anniversary ofSAMUEL D. LEVY, as Judge of Children's Court.

February 8, 1936. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Seventieth anniversary of birthof MOSES GOMBERG, head of chemistry department of University ofMichigan; gift of five thousand dollars to the University in his honorby friends and students.

February 9, 1936. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of thirtieth anniver-sary of JULIUS H. GREENSTONE, as member of faculty and now principal,of Gratz College.

February 14, 1936. Richmond, Va.: Celebration of ninety-fifth anni-versary of founding of CONGREGATION BETH AHABA.

February 16, 1936. St. Louis, Mo.: Celebration of sixtieth anniversaryof_birth of GUSTAVE KLAUSNER, Zionist leader.

February 16, 1936. Boston, Mass.: Sixty-fifth anniversary celebrationof SISTERS WHO VISIT THE SICK.

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February 28, 1936. Atlantic City, N. J.: Celebration of twenty-fifthanniversary of founding of YOUNG MEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION.

February 28—March 1, 1936. Binghamton, N. Y.: Celebration by-Jewish community of fiftieth anniversary of founding of its first houseof worship, CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL.

March 1, 1936. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of MAX I). KLEIN, rabbi of Congregation Adath Jeshurun.

March 8, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Fortieth anniversary of foundingof CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL.

March 13, 1936. New York City: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of founding of MOUNT NEBOH CONGREGATION.

March 21, 1936. New Haven, Conn.: Eightieth anniversary of found-ing of HOREB LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

March 22, 1936. Portland, Ore.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of founding of CONGREGATION NEVEH ZEDEK.

March 22-29, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of fiftieth anniver-sary of founding of CONGREGATION B'NAI SHOLAUM.

March, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of founding of FIRST HEBREW DAY NURSERY.

March, 1936. Atlanta, Ga.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversaryof establishment of GATE CITY LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

April 4, 1936. Chicago, 111.: Seventieth anniversary of birth ofADOLPH J. SABATH, member of House of Representatives.

April 19, 1936. Indianapolis, Ind.: Celebration of twenty-fifth anni-versary of founding of the JEWISH EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

April 19, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniver-sary of birth of MOSES B. SCHMIDT, communal worker.

April 24-26, 1936. Detroit, Mich.: Celebration of eighty-fifth anniver-sary of founding of TEMPLE BETH-EL.

April 25, 1936. New York City: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniver-sary of birth of EDWIN R. A. SELIGMAN, professor emeritus of economics.

April 25, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Twenty-fifth anniversary of ISRAELH. LEVINTHAL, in rabbinate.

April 26, 1936. Purchase, N. Y.: Celebration of eightieth anniversaryof birth of HENRY MORGENTHAU, SR., financier and former Ambassadorto Turkey.

May 3, 1936. New York City: Celebration of sixtieth anniversaryof birth of IRVING LEHMAN, judge and communal leader; and fifteenthanniversary as president of the Jewish Welfare Board.

May 4, 1936. Atlantic City, N. J.: Celebration of one hundredthanniversary of birth of AARON BLUMENTHAL, former New York Citymerchant.

May 8, 1936. Washington, D. C : Eightieth anniversary of foundingof WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION.

May 10, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of eightieth anniversaryof founding of CONGREGATION BAITH ISRAEL ANSHEI EMES.

May 10, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birthof SAMUEL ISAAC FINKELSTEIN, rabbi.

May 15, 1936. Philadelphia, Pa.: Eighty-fifth anniversary of birthof BERNARD SELIG, communal worker.

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May 16, 1936. Philadelphia, Pa.: Seventieth anniversary of birthof DAVID WERNER AMRAM, communal leader.

May 17, 1936. Cleveland, Ohio: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of establishment of Jewish Star, Yiddish weekly, forerunner ofJewish World, Yiddish daily.

May 20, 1936. Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversaryof WILLIAM H. TELLER, as physician at Jewish Hospital.

May 22, 1936. Passaic, N. J.: Celebration of fifteenth anniversaryof service of MAX RAISIN as rabbi of Barnert Memorial Temple.

May 22, 1936. New York City: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birthof MILTON GOLDSMITH, author.

May 24, 1936. New York City: Celebration of sixty-fifth anniversaryof birth of ISIDORE D. MORRISON, communal and Zionist leader.

June 2, 1936. Cleveland, Ohio: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of activity of A. H. FRIEDLAND, in field of Jewish education.

June 7, 1936. Newark, N. J.: Seventieth anniversary of birth ofLouis SCHLESINGER, celebrated by National Farm School, by plantingtree in his honor.

June 8, 1936. Philadelphia, Pa.: Seventieth anniversary of birth ofEDWARD BRYLAWSKI, communal worker.

June 21, 1936. New York City: One hundredth anniversary of birthof MRS. HENRIETTA WIMPFHEIMER.

June 25, 1936. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Celebration of thirty-sixth anniver-sary of HYMAN RAYFIEL, Judge of Court of Special Sessions, on retire-ment as Judge.

June, 1936. New York City: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of ABRAHAMREISEN, dean of Yiddish writers.

June, 1936. St. Louis, Mo.: Celebration of fiftieth anniversary ofA. B. FREY, judge and communal worker.

OTHER COUNTRIESMay 21, 1935. Ancona, Italy: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary

of HAYIM ROSENBERG, as rabbi.July 7, 1935. London, England: Fiftieth anniversary of consecration

of the DALSTON SYNAGOGUE.July 10, 1935. Lublin, Poland: Centenary of birth of HENRI WIENIAW-

SKI, musician, composer for violin.July 11, 1935.* Hamburg, Germany: Celebration of eightieth anniver-

sary of birth of SIEGFRIED KORACH, professor of medicine and communalworker.

July 28, 1935. London, England: Fiftieth anniversary of death ofSIR MOSES MONTEFIORE, philanthropist.

August 6, 1935. Perth, Australia: Celebration of eightieth anniversaryof birth of SIR ISAAC ISAACS, Governor-General.

August 20, 1935. Palestine: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversaryof COLONY MIKVEH ISRAEL.

August, 1935. Hamburg, Germany: Celebration of six hundredthanniversary of Jewish settlement in the town.

September, 1935. Birsfelden, Switzerland: Celebration of eightiethanniversary of birth of SIMON GOLDBERG, prominent artist.

* Date of publication of report.

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September, 1935. Riga, Latvia: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birthof SIMEON DUBNOW, historian and scholar of Poland.

October 10, 1935. Kent, England: Seventy-fifth anniversary of birthof MARQUESS OF READING (RUFUS D. ISAACS).

October 21, 1935. Dagania, Palestine: Twenty-fifth anniversary ofsettling of DAGANIA ALEPH, first K'vutzah (communist colony) inPalestine.

October, 1935. Budapest, Hungary: Celebration of twenty-fifthanniversary of establishment of Mult tLs Jovo {Past and Future) Jewishmonthly.

November 3, 1935. Manchester, England: Celebration of seventiethanniversary of birth of Miss A. Q. HENRIQUES, communal worker.

November 6, 1935. London, England: Sixty-fifth anniversary ofbirth of SIR HERBERT SAMUEL.

November 10, 1935. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifthanniversary of founding of FIRST LODGE OF ENGLAND, B'NAI B'RITH.

November 14, 1935. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Celebration of threehundredth anniversary of foundation of the ASHKENAZI COMMUNITY.

November 15, 1935. Townley, England: Celebration of seventiethanniversary of birth of SAMUEL LEVENE, minister, and his forty-fifthat Townley Castle School.

November 15, 1935. London, England: Celebration of eighty-fifthanniversary of birth of JACOB TEITEL, formerly judge in Russia.

November, 1935. Paris, France: Celebration of sixtieth anniversaryof birth of GEORG BERNHARD, publicist, politician and economist.

November, 1935. Paris, France: Celebration of tenth anniversaryof the FRANCE-PALESTINE COMMITTEE.

December 1, 1935. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Seventieth anniversaryof birth of M. POLAK, member of High Court of the Hague.

December 8, 1935. Manchester, England: Celebration of seventiethanniversary of birth of LEVY DAVIS, communal worker.

December 8, 1935. Grimsby, England: Celebration of fiftieth anniver-sary of founding of the SIR MOSES MONTEFIORE SYNAGOGUE.

December 9, 1935. Jerusalem, Palestine: Celebration of seventiethanniversary of birth of JOSEPH HANKIN, director of the Palestine LandDevelopment Company, known as "Great Redeemer" of land.

December 16, 1935. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Sixtieth anniversary of birthof SAUL TCHERNICHOWSKY, poet.

December 21, 1935. Jerusalem, Palestine and New York City: Cele-bration of seventy-fifth anniversary of birth of HENRIETTA SZOLD,communal leader.

December, 1935. Poland: Celebration of centenary of birth ofMENDEL MOCHER-SEFORIM (Shalom Jacob Abramovitch).

December, 1935. Hungary: Jewish communities celebrate fortiethanniversary of emancipation of Hungarian Jewry.

December, 1935. Vancouver, B. C, Canada: Celebration of SilverJubilee of SAMUEL LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

December, 1935. Montreal, Canada: Celebration of fiftieth anniver-sary of LYON COHEN, in public and Jewish service.

January 2, 1936. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Seventy-fifth anniversary ofbirth of SAMUEL BLOOM, Palestine industrialist formerly of Philadelphia.

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January 16, 1936.. Leeds, England: Celebration of eighty-fifth anni-versary of birth of ISRAEL HAYIM DAICHES, rabbi.

January 27, 1936. Paris, France: Celebration by the College deFrance, of fiftieth anniversary of professional services to French math-ematical progress of JACQUES HADAMARD.

February 22, 1936. Augsburg, Germany: Ninetieth anniversary ofbirth of SAMUEL LANDAUER, professor, Orientalist and librarian.

February 25, 1936. Vienna, Austria: Celebration of seventiethanniversary of birth of SAMUEL KRAUSS, scholar and theologian.

February, 1936. Wellington, New Zealand: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniversary of service of M. M. HEINEMANN, on the Board ofManagement of the Wellington Jewish Community.

February, 1936. Helsingfors, Finland: Celebration of fiftieth anniver-sary of birth of JONAS JAKOBSON, communal leader.

February, 1936. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Celebration of eightieth anniver-sary of birth of MORDECAI BEN HILLEL HACOHEN, author.

February, 1936. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: Twenty-fifthanniversary of founding of The PALESTINE SOCIETY.

March 1, 1936. Dagania Aleph, Palestine: Celebration of sixtiethanniversary of birth of ARTHUR RUPPIN, sociologist.

March 1, 1936. Jerusalem, Palestine: Eightieth anniversary of birthof JACOB MEIER, Chief Rabbi of Sephardic Community.

March 9, 1936. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Celebration of seventy-fifthanniversary of birth of MEIER DIZENGOFF, Mayor.

March 10, 1936. London, England: Celebration of seventy-fifthanniversary of birth of ADOLPH MAX LANGDON, distinguished attorney.

March 15, 1936. Blackpool, England: Celebration of ninetieth anni-versary of birth of JOSEPH MYERS, civic and communal leader.

March 18, 1936. London, England: Seventieth anniversary of birthof LAWRENCE G. BOWMAN, former headmaster of Jew's Free School.

March, 1936. Frankfort a. M., Germany: Celebration by colleaguesof sixtieth anniversary of birth, and thirty-fifth year of continuous devo-tion to science of EDWARD STRAUSS, biochemist.

March, 1936. Istanbul, Turkey: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of organization of the ISTANBUL LODGE, B'NAI B'RITH.

March, 1936. Berlin, Germany: Seventieth anniversary of birth ofKONRAD COHN, authority on dentistry.

March 1936. Oslo, Norway: Sixtieth anniversary of birth of JOSEPHSIEW, president of Jewish Community of Norway.

April 9, 1936. London, England: Celebration of sixtieth anniversaryof birth of BERNHARD KAHN, European director of the American JewishJoint Distribution Committee, and thirty-fifth anniversary of hisservice to Jewish community.

April 30, 1936. London, England: Two hundredth anniversary offounding of the HAMBRO SYNAGOGUE.

April, 1936. Tel Aviv, Palestine: Sixtieth anniversary of birth ofHERMANN STRUCK, etcher and lithographer.

May 4, 1936. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa: Celebration ofseventieth anniversary of birth of J. L. LANDAU, Chief Rabbi.

May 6, 1936. Vienna, Austria: Eightieth anniversary of birth ofSIGMUND FREUD, psychologist.

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May, 1936. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of service of SAMUEL DAICHES as lecturer at Jews' College.

May, 1936. Cologne, Germany: Seventy-fifth anniversary of foundingof the GLOCKENGASSE SYNAGOGUE.

May, 1936. Geneva, Switzerland: Seventieth anniversary of birthof OSKAR WETTSTEIN, member of Legislature since 1914.

June 4, 1936. London, England: Celebration of twenty-fifth anniver-sary of service of MIRIAM DAVIS as Matron of the Jewish Day Nursery,Whitechapel.

June 8, 1936. Esthonia: Tenth anniversary of cultural Autonomy ofJews, celebrated by government officials.

June 10, 1936. Benoni, Union of South Africa: Twenty-fifth anni-versary of founding of SIR HARRY GRAUMANN LODGE, of the HebrewOrder of David.

June, 1936. Dublin, Ireland: Seventy-fifth anniversary of J. BROWN,lecturer at the Chevrah Gemorah of the New Synagogue for fortyyears.

June, 1936. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Celebration of one hundredand seventy-fifth anniversary of founding of the JEWISH GIRLS'ORPHANAGE.

APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS

UNITED STATES

ABRAHAMSON, ALBERT, Portland, Me., appointed director of WorksProgress Administration for the State of Maine. Announced, December,1935.

ABRAMS, LEWIS A., New York City, elected Judge, Municipal Court,November 5, 1935.

ALTMEYER, ARTHUR J., , , appointed member of FederalSocial Security Board, July 29, 1935.

APPELBAUM, SAUL B., Bradford, Pa., appointed Judge of the JuvenileCourt, April, 1936.

AUSTIN, BERNARD, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

BARACH, ALVAN L., New York City, awarded by American MedicalAssociation, bronze medal Class I, for original research on use of mixedhelium and oxygen in treating asthma and other respiratory diseases,May, 1936.

BARON, SAMUEL H., Leavenworth, Kans., appointed chaplain of theFederal Penitentiary, October, 1935.

BECK, JACOB, Brooklyn, N. Y., awarded Silver Star by War Depart-ment for gallantry in action during the Aisne-Marne offensive, in WorldWar, September 20, 1935.

BEHREND, JEANNE (Mrs. Alexander Kelberine), Philadelphia, Pa.,awarded the Joseph Beams Prize of $1200 for her piano compositions,by Columbia University, April, 1936.

BLUMENTHAL, HART, Philadelphia, Pa., awarded Keneseth IsraelAlumni Association bronze medal and engrossed diploma for distinguishedservice to the Philadelphia Jewish Community, April 12, 1936.

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BREITBART, CHARLES H., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legis-lature, November 5, 1935.

BRUNSTEIN, DAVID, Atlantic City, N. J., elected President of theMedico-Dental Society, June 14, 1936.

CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N., Washington, D. C, awarded by Senate ofUniversity of London, Degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, (inabsentia), June 29, 1936.

CAYTON, NATHAN, Washington, D. C, re-appointed Judge, MunicipalCourt, District of Columbia, July 16, 1935.

•COHEN, ARCHIE H., Chicago, 111., appointed by United States Dis-trict Court Judges of the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division,Referee in Bankruptcy for the Counties of Cook and Lake, June 26, 1934.

COHN, ALBERT, New York City, appointed by Governor, Judge,Appellate Division of Supreme Court, December 31, 1935.

COHN, JULIUS, Portland, Ore., elected Judge, Municipal Court,April, 1936.

COPLAND, DAVID, Cleveland, Ohio, re-elected Judge, Municipal Court,November 5, 1935.

DAVIDSON, ISRAEL, New York City, awarded by Bialik Foundation,prize of $1000 for a thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew poetry, January, 1936.

DOBROWSKI, WILLIAM, San Antonio, Tex., awarded Purple HeartMedal, for services in World War, August, 1935.

EINSTEIN, ALBERT, Princeton, N. J., awarded by Senate of Universityof London, Degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, (in absentia),June 29, 1936.

ELKUS, ALBERT, San Francisco, Cal., receives from Juilliard Schoolof Music, award for best work in recent competition, for "Impressionsfrom a Greek Tragedy," November, 1935.

ELMAN, MISCHA, New York City, awarded by Chicago MusicalCollege, honorary degree of Doctor of Music, June, 1936.

ELSBERG, CHARLES A., New York City, awarded by Associate Alumniof City College, Townsend Harris Medal for post-graduate attainments,November 16, 1935.

EPSTEIN, ALBERT A., New York City, awarded by New York Uni-versity Alumni, 1936 Alumni Meritorious Award, May 26, 1936.

ERLANGER, JOSEPH, St. Louis, Mo., awarded by University of Penn-sylvania, honorary degree of Doctor of Science, March 31, 1936.

ERLICH, HAROLD B., Buffalo, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

FARBSTEIN, LEONARD, New York City, re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

FILENE, A. LINCOLN, Boston, Mass., appointed member of FederalBoard for Vocational Education, July 29, 1935.

FLEXNER, ABRAHAM, New York City, awarded by New York Uni-versity, honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, June 10, 1936.Germany, as science martyr, April, 1936.

FLEISHER, BERNARD R., New York City, elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

FLEISCHMANN, MISS E., San Francisco, Cal. (died in 1906), name of,chiseled on a memorial front of the Roentgen Institute in Hamburg,

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FORMAN, MAX L., Petersburg, Va., re-appointed chaplain of FederalReformatory at Camp Lee, October, 1935.

FUCHS, EMIL, Boston, Mass., appointed by Governor, Chairman ofthe Unemployment Compensation Commission, September 11, 1935.

GANS, JULIUS J., New York City, elected at special election, toAssembly to fill vacancy of Benjamin Gladstone (deceased), January21, 1936.

GARBER, MAURICE, Chelsea, Mass., elected Chairman of SchoolBoard, January 7, 1936.

GIMBEL, RICHARD, Philadelphia, Pa., promoted Lieutenant-Colonel,Field Artillery, Reserve Corps, United States Army, June, 1936.

GINSBERG, M. S., Denver, Colo., appointed special attorney of theUnited States Department of Justice in connection with the resettlementwork in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, November, 1935.

GINSBERG, WILLIAM, Washington, D. C, receives citation of theBoard of Trade for design of new Washington Daily News Building,April, 1936.

GLADSTONE, BENJAMIN, New York City, re-elected to State Legisla-ture, November 5, 1935.

GLASS, LEOPOLD, Philadelphia, Pa., elected Judge, Municipal Court,November 5, 1935.

GOLDBERG, SIDNEY G., Newark, N. J., re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

GOLDBLATT, MAURICE H., Chicago, 111., awarded by French Govern-ment and by National Museums of France, a Gold Medal for his cor-rect identification of the authorship of the famous triptych "VirginGlory," in the cathedral at Moulins, June, 1936.

GOLDMAN, SOLOMON, Chicago, 111., awarded by Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America, degree of Doctor of Hebrew Literature in Course,June 7, 1936.

GOLDMARK, RUBIN, New York City, awarded by Associate Alumniof City College, Townsend Harris Medal for post-graduate attainments,November 16, 1935.

GOLDSTEIN, AARON F., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legisla-ture, November 5, 1935.

GOLDSTEIN, ISIDOR, Juneau, Alaska, re-elected Mayor, April, 1936.GOLDSTEIN, JONAH J., New York City, appointed by Governor,

Judge of General Sessions Court, May 21, 1936.GOTTSCHALL, MORTON, New York City, awarded by Associate

Alumni of City College, Townsend Harris Medal for his attainmentsand services to the college, November 16, 1935.

GREENBAUM, SIGMUND, Philadelphia, Pa., appointed Professor ofClinical Dermatology at the Graduate School of Medicine of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, November, 1935.

GREENBERG, EMANUEL, Brooklyn, N. Y., appointed by Governor,Judge, Court of Claims, March 3, 1936.

GREENBURG, LEONARD, New Haven, Conn., appointed executivedirector of the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the State Departmentof Labor. Announced, December, 1935.

GREENFIELD, ALBERT M., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by Mayor,trustee of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, May, 1936.

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GREENSFELDER, BERNARD, St. Louis, Mo., elected head of the PublicLibrary of St. Louis County, July, 1935.

GROSSMAN, MARY, Cleveland, Ohio, elected Judge, Municipal Court,November 5, 1935.

GUGGENHEIM, MRS. DANIEL, New York City, awarded by Mayor,Certificate of Honor for Distinguished Service to the City of New York,at the one thousandth performance of the Goldman Band in CentralPark, July 10, 1935.

HABER, ISIDORE I., New York City, elected Judge, Municipal Court,November 5, 1935.

HARRIS, SAMUEL H., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded, by Penn AthleticClub, medal as "greatest living theatrical manager," May 18, 1936.

HARTOGENSIS, B. H., Baltimore, Md., cited by Johns Hopkins Uni-versity as one of class of 1886, who had achieved distinction in practiceof law, June 9, 1936.

HERMAN, HAROLD P., Nassau, N. Y., elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

HIRSCH, MIRIAM, Peoria, 111., appointed Secretary to the AmericanEmbassy of China, November, 1935.

HIRSCHBERG, ABRAHAM, Chicago, 111., elected Rabbi for life, of TempleSholom, January, 1936.

HODES, BARNETT, Chicago, 111., appointed by Mayor, CorporationCounsel, July 22, 1935.

JACOBY, AARON L., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected Register for KingsCounty, November 5, 1935.

JOLSON, AL, Encino, Cal., elected Mayor, December 28, 1935.KALODNER, HARRY E., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by Governor,

Judge of Common Pleas Court No. 2, December, 1935.KAMINSKY, GEORGE, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature,

November 5, 1935.KAUFMAN, DAVID E., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by Mayor, trustee

of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, May, 1936.KEIDAN, HARRY B., Detroit, Mich., re-elected Judge, Wayne County

Circuit Court. Announced, December, 1935.KLEBANOW, LOUIS, New York City, awarded by War Department,

Distinguished Service Cross and an Oak Leaf Cluster for the Cross, fortwo acts of extraordinary heroism in action in France during World War,November 21, 1935.

KLEIN, CHARLES, Philadelphia, Pa., elected Judge, Orphans' Court,November 5, 1935.

LAUER, EDGAR J., New York City, awarded by Government ofPortugal, Cross of Officer of Devotement, April 17, 1936.

LAZARON, MORRIS SAMUEL, Baltimore, Md., awarded by RutgersUniversity, honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, June 13, 1936.

LEIDESDORF, SAMUEL D., New York City, awarded by AlumniAssociation of the Graduate Schools of Columbia University, certificateof recognition, in field of philanthropy and religion, May 29, 1935.

LEVI, HARRY, Boston, Mass., awarded by Boston University, honor-ary degree of Doctor of Divinity, June, 1936.

LEVINTHAL, LOUIS E., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by Governor,

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Special Deputy Attorney General, representing the Public Service Com-mission in Philadelphia Rapid Transit valuation, July 3, 1935.

LEVITT, ALBERT, , appointed Judge of the Federal District Courtfor the Virgin Islands, October 17, 1935.

LEVY, ALFRED B., Philadelphia, Pa., elected president of the Phila-delphia Association of Life Underwriters (first Jew so honored), June 17,1936.

LEWIS, HARRY E., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected Judge, Supreme Court,November 5, 1935.

LEWIS, WILLIAM M., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed by Mayor, im-partial chairman of the Municipal Board of Labor Conciliation andArbitration, February, 1936.

LIBMAN, EMANUEL, New York City, awarded by Phi Lambda KappaFraternity, Gold Medal, awarded annually to most outstanding Jewishphysician in United States, January 1, 1936.

LIMBURG, RICHARD P., North Castle, N. Y., re-elected Supervisorof the town, November 5, 1935.

LIPPMANN, WALTER, New York City, awarded by University ofRochester, honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, June 15, 1936.

LIVINGSTON, JACOB H., Brooklyn, N. Y., elected to State Senate,November 5, 1935.

LOEB, HOWARD A., Philadelphia, Pa., re-appointed member ofFederal Reserve Advisory Council, January, 1936.

LOWE, ELIAS AVERY, New York City, awarded honorary degree ofDoctor of Literature by Oxford University, June 6, 1936.

LUBIN, DAVID (deceased), San Francisco, Cal., has street in Rome,Italy, named in his memory, "Viale Davide Lubin," March 17, 1936.

MAAS, ERNEST, Tampa, Fla., awarded Civitan Club award, as out-standing Tampa citizen of 1935, February, 1936.

MANDELBAUM, DAVID G., New Haven, Conn., appointed by NationalResearch Council, first American anthropologist for research work onHill Tribes of India, June, 1936.

MANDELBAUM, SAMUEL, New York City, appointed by President,Federal Judge for Southern District of New York, June 20, 1936.

MAY, MITCHELL, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected Judge, Supreme Court,November 5, 1935.

MEISSNER, HARRY V., Milwaukee, Wis., unanimously elected presidentof the Milwaukee School Board, July, 1935.

MELNIKER, AARON A., Bayonne, N. J., reappointed by Governor,District Court Judge, June, 1936.

MIELZINER, Jo, New York City, listed by Nation, on honor roll for1935, for beautiful stage designs for play "Winterset," January 1, 1936.

MOSES, ROBERT, New York City, re-appointed by Mayor, memberof Triborough Bridge Authority, July 1, 1935; re-appointed by Mayor,City Park Commissioner, March 4, 1936; award by Yale Universityhonorary degree of Master of Arts, June 17, 1936.

NATHAN, EDWARD I., Philadelphia, Pa., appointed Consul Generalof United States of America at Monterrey, Mexico, June 8, 1936.

NEUSTEIN, IRVING D., New York City, re-elected to State LegislatureNovember 5, 1935.

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ODETS, CLIFFORD, New York City, listed by Nation, on honor rollfor 1935, as playwright, January 1, 1936.

PACK, CARL, New York City, re-elected to State Legislature, Novem-ber 5, 1935.

PESIN, SAMUEL, Jersey City, N. J., re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

REISS, BERNARD, New York City, re-elected president of the NewYork County Criminal Courts Bar Association, March, 1936.

RHEINSTEIN, MAX, Chicago, 111. (formerly Berlin, Germany) ap-pointed to Chair of Comparative Law at University of Chicago LawSchool, December, 1935.

RICE, ELMER, New York City, appointed head of the WPA TheatreProject in New York City. Announced, December, 1935.

ROSE, DAVID A., Boston, Mass., appointed Associate Judge, Dor-chester District Court, February 12, 1936.

ROSENAU, MILTON J., Boston, Mass., appointed by University ofNorth Carolina, head of recently established department of publichealth, January, 1936.

ROSENBACH, A. S. W., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Perm AthleticClub, Medal as "writer and the world's most famous bibliographer,"May 18, 1936.

ROSENBERG, MRS. ANNA M., New York City, appointed director ofRegion 2 of the Federal Social Security Board, May 21, 1936.

ROSENBERG, LOUIS JAMES, Detroit, Mich., appointed by AttorneyGeneral, legal advisor to the State Board of Escheats, July 4, 1935;appointed counsel to all public administrations of State on matters ofproof of foreign heirship, June, 1936.

ROSENBERG, MAURICE, Alexandria, Va., elected to State House ofRepresentatives, November 5, 1935.

ROWE, LEO S., Philadelphia, Pa., decorated at Washington, D. C,by Bolivian Minister, with gold and blue enameled Cross of the Condorde los Andes, December 6, 1935.

RUBEL, MAURICE, Chicago, 111., awarded Cross of the Legion ofHonor by the French Government, December 15, 1936.

RYPINS, HAROLD, Albany, N. Y., awarded by Italian Government,degree of Cavalier of the Italian Legion of Honor, June 12, 1936.

SALOMON, HAYM, (late) House of Representatives unanimously adoptsJoint Resolution, authorizing erection of a memorial on public grounds,in Washington, June, 1936.

SAMUEL, DAVID B., Shreveport, La., re-elected Judge in City Court,for sixth five-year term, March, 1936.

SCHANZER, ALBERT D., Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legisla-ture, November 5, 1935.

SCHINDLER, RUDOLPH, Chicago, 111., (exile from Munich, Germany),awarded, by American Medical Association in convention at KansasCity, gold medal, for his refinement of the gastroscope, May 13, 1936.

SCHLESINGER, FRANK, New Haven, Conn., appointed by FrenchGovernment, Officer of the Legion of Honor, November, 1935.

SCHLOSSBERG, JOSEPH, New York City, appointed by Mayor, Memberof the Board of Higher Education, December 14, 1935.

SCHWARTZ, RALPH, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

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SCHWARTZ, WILLIAM, New York City, re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

SEIDENBERG, EDWARD, Nome, Alaska, elected Mayor, April, 1936.SILBERT, JOSEPH H., Cleveland, Ohio, re-elected Judge, Municipal

Court, November 5, 1935.SILVERMAN, MORRIS, Hartford, Conn., appointed lecturer of Jewish

History at Connecticut State College, December, 1933.SLESINGER, REUBEN E., Pittsburgh, Pa., first student graduated at

the University of Pittsburgh with perfect "A" record for four yearsat the College, awarded Kidd Memorial Award, June 18, 1936.

SOBEL, ISADOR, Erie, Pa., re-elected president of the Erie CountryBar Association, June 1, 1936.

SOLOMON, CHARLES, Brooklyn, N. Y., appointed Magistrate byMayor, December 14, 1935.

SOLON, LEON VICTOR, New York City, awarded by American CeramicSociety, the Charles Fergus Binnis Medal, for his architectural tiledesigning, March, 1936.

STEINGUT, IRWIN, Brooklyn, N. Y., re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

STEUER, Max D., New York City, awarded by John Marshall Collegeof Law, honorary degree of Doctor of Law, June 22, 1936.

STERN, HORACE, Philadelphia, Pa., elected Judge, State SupremeCourt, November 5, 1935.

STRAUS, NATHAN, New York City, appointed by Mayor, member ofNew York City Housing Authority, March 22, 1936. '

STRAUS, ROGER W., New York City, awarded American Hebrewmedal for 1935, for outstanding service in aid of Jewish-Christian amity,April 2, 1936; awarded by Bucknell University, honorary degree ofDoctor of the Humanities, for work of promotion of religious liberty,June 8, 1936; awarded class of 1913 loving cup at Princeton Universityfor work in fostering better understanding between Christians and Jewsin America, June 14, 1936.

STREIT, SAUL S., New York City, re-elected to State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

SZOLD, HENRIETTA, New York City (living in Jerusalem, Palestine)named honorary citizen of Tel Aviv (first woman so honored), Decem-ber 10, 1935; listed by Nation, on honor roll for 1935, for Palestinianwork, particularly with Youth Aliyah Movement, January 1, 1936;made "Freewoman" with honorary citizenship of Tel Aviv, and awardedpurse representing fund gathered in Palestine for establishment of asocial welfare project in her name, in honor of her seventy-fifth birthday,February 16, 1936; has forest named in her honor, by Jewish NationalFund, to be developed by youths from Germany, March 6, 1936.

TABEK, AARON, New Brunswick, N. J., awarded by War Department,Order of the Purple Heart for bravery in action, in World War, August4, 1935.

TOLL, HERMAN, Philadelphia, Pa., elected president of the LawAcademy of Philadelphia, June 17, 1936.

TULIN, MRS. JUSTINE WISE, New York City, appointed by Mayor,Justice of the Domestic Relations Court, July 8, 1935; re-appointedfor ten-year term, September 14, 1935.

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UNGER, SIDNEY E., Philadelphia, Pa., awarded by Temple Universitydegree of Doctor of Sacred Theology, and a fellowship for furtherresearch in the field of religious education, June, 1936.

WALDMAN, HENRY S., Elizabeth, N. J., elected president of the UnionCounty Bar Association, February 1936; re-appointed by Governor,Judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of Union County,March 10, 1936.

WEINBERG, HARRY E., Duluth, Minn., appointed City Attorney(first Jew). Announced, December, 1935.

WEISMAN, SAMUEL, New York City, re-elected to State Legislature,November S, 1935.

WEISS, EDWARD, Philadelphia, Pa., appointed Professor of ClinicalMedicine at Temple University School of Medicine, February, 1936.

WEISS, JACOB, Indianapolis, Ind., elected president pro tempore ofthe Indiana Senate. Announced, December, 1935.

WILENSKY, OSCAR, Passaic, N. J., elected to 'State Legislature,November 5, 1935.

YANKWICH, LEON R., LOS Angeles, Cal., appointed United StatesDistrict Judge, southern district of California, July 29, 1935.

OTHER COUNTRIES

ABRAHAMS, SIDNEY SOLOMON, Tanganyika Territory, appointed byKing Edward, Chief Justice of Ceylon, April, 1936.

AGNON, SAMUEL J., , Palestine, awarded by Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America, honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters,June 7, 1936.

AMIEL, MOSHE AVIGDOR, Antwerp, Belgium, elected Chief Rabbi ofTel Aviv, Palestine, November, 1935.

ARAKIE, E. A., Calcutta, India, appointed a Presidency Magistrate,March, 1936.

ARONSON, MRS. ZARA BAER, , Australia, awarded Order ofthe British Empire, for services in connection with Red Cross and othercharitable activities, June 23, 1936.

ASSCHER, A., Amsterdam, Netherlands, awarded by Queen, Orderof the Knight of the Dutch Lion, November 21, 1935.

AVERBUCH, BORIS, Brussels, Belgium, awarded Order of Knight ofLeopold II, June, 1936.

BARDAKY, NATHAN, Jerusalem, Palestine, appointed Magistrate,Grade K, March 3, 1936.

BEARSTED, VISCOUNT, London, England, appointed a Trustee of theNational Gallery, April, 1936.

BELLA, S. DE LA, , Netherlands, elected to Senate, August, 1935.BENVENISTI, DAVID, Tel Aviv, Palestine, appointed Chief of City

Water and Light Department, January 20, 1936.BERCOVITCH, PETER, K. C, Montreal, Canada, re-elected to Quebec

Provincial Legislature, December, 1935.BERGH, A. VAN DEN, Nijmegen, Netherlands, appointed by Queen,

Knight of Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.BERGH, A. A. HIJMANS VAN DEN, Utrecht, Netherlands, appointed

by Queen, Knight of the Order of thf Dutch Lion, September, 1935.

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BERGH, S. VAN DEN, , Netherlands, re-elected to Senate, August,1935.

BLAU, LUDWIG, Budapest, Hungary, awarded by Jewish TheologicalSeminary of America, honorary degree (posthumously) of Doctor ofHebrew Letters, June 7, 1936.

BLUM, LEON, Paris, France, re-elected member of Parliament, April26, 1936; appointed Premier, May 5, 1936.

BLUMENFELD, ERNST, formerly of Berlin, Germany, appointed byShah of Iran (Persia), in charge of entire hospital system, July 17, 1935.

BRODT, SAMUEL, Tomaszo, Poland, elected Chief Rabbi of Antwerp,Belgium, June, 1936.

BRUNSCHVIG, MME., Paris, France, appointed Under-Secretary ofEducation, May, 1936.

BUCH, HENRI, Antwerp, Belgium, appointed Judge, January, 1936.CASSUTO, UMBERTO, Rome, Italy, appointed member of the Italian

Royal Academy, August [16] 1935.CHELOUCHE, MOSHE, Tel Aviv, Palestine, awarded by King of

Bulgaria, the Croix de Commandeur de l'Ordre National, for publicservice rendered to Bulgaria, September, 1935.

CHENIO, T., Salonika, Greece, elected member of Parliament, January26, 1936.

COHEN, EZEKIEL, Basutoland, Africa, appointed Companion of theImperial Service Order, June 23, 1936.

COHEN, GEORGE JUDAH, Sydney, Australia, has park named "CohenPark" in his honor by the West Maitland Council, on occasion of recentcentenary celebration of City of West Maitland, December, 1935.

COHEN, JOSEPH, K. C, Montreal, Canada, re-elected to QuebecProvincial Legislature, December, 1935.

COHEN, MOSES ISAAC, Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa,awarded by King, M. B. E., for services in Southern Rhodesia, January1, 1936.

COHEN, PERCY, London, England, awarded by King, insignia ofCommander of the Order of the British Empire, February 18, 1936.

DANIELS, L. POLAK, Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed rector ofthe State University of Groningen, September 15, 1935.

DICKER, J., GENEVA, Switzerland, re-elected to Parliament, Novem-ber, 1935.

DIZENGOFF, MEIR, Tel Aviv, Palestine, re-elected Mayor by Munic-ipal Council, December 30, 1935; awarded by King Peter of Jugoslavia,the Order of St. Sava of the Third Class, for activities as President ofthe Levant Fair, January, 1936; appointed honorary Commander ofthe British Empire for public services to Palestine, June 23, 1936.

DRESDEN, A., , Netherlands, appointed by Queen, Knight ofOrder of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

DREYFUS, ALFRED (late), Paris, France, street in Tel Aviv named inhis memory, July 15, 1935.

DREYFUS, CHARLES, San Salvador, Central America, elected Mayor,March, 1936.

DUNKELBLUM, MENACHEM, Tel Aviv, Palestine, appointed Judge ofthe District Court at Haifa, January, 1936.

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EZRA, ALWYN, Bombay, India, awarded by King, honor of KnightBachelor, January 1, 1936.

FACTOR, SAMUEL, Toronto, Canada, re-elected member of DominionParliament, October 15, 1935.

FARBSTEIN, DAVID, Zurich, Switzerland, re-elected Judge of theCantonal Court of Cassation, July, 1935, re-elected to Parliament,November, 1935.

FLEISSIG, ALEXANDER, Budapest, Hungary, awarded by the Regent,Hungarian Service Cross First Class, with title of Excellency, in recog-nition of twenty-five years' work in the economic field, August, 1935;appointed member of Upper House, January 5, 1936.

FRANK, MISS , Amsterdam, Netherlands, awarded by Govern-ment, Knighthood of the Order of Orange Nassau, for twenty-fiveyears' service at the Jewish Girls' Orphanage, June, 1936.

FRANKEL, DANIEL, London, England, elected member of Parliament,November 14, 1935.

FREEDMAN, DAVID ISAAC, V. D., J. P., Perth, Western Australia,awarded by King Edward VIII, Order of the British Empire, for public,social and welfare services to Australia, June 23, 1936.

FREUNDLICH, H., Utrecht, Netherlands, (German Refugee) awardedby Senate of the University of Utrecht, on occasion of three hundredthanniversary, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, May, 1936.

GINSBURG, MARCEL, Brussels, Belgium, appointed Knight of theOrder of the Crown, June, 1936.

GLUCKSTEIN, L. H., Nottingham City, England, re-elected memberof Parliament, November 14, 1935.

GOLDBERG, MICHAEL, London, England, awarded A.R.C.A. diplomawith honors, and the painting prize of the Royal College of Art, SouthKensington, July, 1935.

GOLDSCHMIDT, V. M., Utrecht, Netherlands, (German Refugee)awarded.by Senate of University of Utrecht, on occasion of three hun-dredth anniversary, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, May, 1936.

GOLOMINTZ, R., , Belgium, awarded by Government, Knight-hood of the Order of Leopold, July 15, 1935.

GOTTLIEB, JOSHUA, Warsaw, Poland, elected to Sejm (in place ofWaclaw Wislicki, deceased), May 4, 1936.

GUTWRITH, CHARLES, Brussels, Belgium, appointed Knight of theOrder of the Crown, June, 1936.

GOTTSCHALK, MAX, Brussels, Belgium, appointed by the Govern-ment, head of the National Unemployment Board, September, 1935.

HABER, FRITZ (deceased refugee), , Germany, has Library of theSieff Institute of Chemical Research at Rehoboth, Palestine, namedfor him, January 29, 1936.

HAMBURGER, D., ——, Netherlands, appointed by Queen, Knightof Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

HARRIS, SIR PERCY A. ALFRED, London, England, re-elected memberof Parliament, November 14, 1935.

HEAPS, ABE A., Winnipeg, Canada, re-elected to Provincial Parlia-ment, October 15, 1935.

HERZFELD, ERNST, formerly of the University of Berlin, Germany,

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appointed to faculty of the School of Humanistic Studies, Princeton,N. J., January, 1936.

HESS, MYRA, London, England, awarded by King, C.B.E., forservices to music, January 1, 1936.

HIRSCHFELD, H. M., The Hague, Netherlands, appointed by Queen,Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion, September, 1935.

HORE-BELISHA, SIR LESLIE, London, England, re-elected member ofParliament, November 14, 1935; elected chairman of the ParliamentaryNational Liberty Party, December 18, 1935.

HOROVITZ, AARON, Cornwall (Ontario), Canada, re-elected Mayor,December 6, 1935.

HURST, ALFRED H., Hampstead, England, awarded by King ofRoumania, Order of Officer of the Star of Roumania, in recognition ofservices during World War, September, 1935.

JACOBS, SAMUEL W., K. C, Montreal, Canada, re-elected member ofDominion Parliament, October 15, 1935.

JAFFE, H. M., Somerset West, Union of South Africa, re-electedMayor, September, 1935.

JOEL, DUDLEY, London, England, re-elected member of Parliament,November 14, 1935.

JUDAH, SAMUEL, Bombay, India, appointed by H. M. the King-Emperor, "Officer Brother," (associate) of the Order of the Hospitalof St. John of Jerusalem, May, 1936.

JUNG, GUIDO, , Italy, decorated by Premier Mussolini, forexceptional bravery in the war against Ethiopia, June, 1936.

KEESING, I., Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed by Queen, Knightof Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

KELSEN, HANS, Utrecht, Netherlands, (German Refugee) awardedby Senate of the University of Utrecht, on occasion of three hundredthanniversary, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, May, 1936; appointedProfessor of International Law at the German University, Prague,Czechoslovakia, June, 1936.

KRAUSE, ELIAHU, Mikveh Israel, Palestine, awarded by King, Hon-orary M.B.E. for services to agriculture in Palestine, January 1, 1936.

KRAUSS, SAMUEL, Vienna, Austria, awarded by Jewish Institute ofReligion, honorary degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters, May 31, 1936.

KUBAVITZKI, MRS. A., Brussels, Belgium, awarded by Government,degree of Order of the Belgian Knighthood, for philanthropic work,July 8, 1935.

LEVI, LEON, Rome, Italy, awarded posthumous decoration at Asmar,Abyssinia, December 18, 1935.

LEVISSON-ASSCHER, MRS. S. A., Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointedby Queen, Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, August 31, 1935.

LEVY, T., London, England, elected member of Parliament, November14, 1935.

LEYDENSDORF, HERMAN, Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed byQueen, Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, on occasion of twenty-five-year jubilee of his "Dutch String Quartette," October 31, 1935.

LIPSCHUTZ, ISIDOR, Brussels, Belgium, appointed Officer of the Orderof Leopold II, June. 1936.

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LIPSON, DANIEL LEOPOLD, J. P., Cheltenham, England, electedMayor, November, 1935.

LYON-CAEN, Leon, Paris, France, appointed Advocate-General to theCourt of Cassation, February 16, 1936.

LYONS, A. M., Leicester, E., England, re-elected member of Parlia-ment, November 14, 1935.

MANDEL, GEORGES, Paris, France, appointed Minister of Ports andTelegraphs and of Alsace-Lorraine in Sarraut Cabinet, January 24,1936; re-elected to Chamber of Deputies, April 26, 1936.

MEYER, LEON, Havre, France, elected Member of Chamber ofDeputies, May 5, 1936.

MEYERS, F. S., Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed by Queen,Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

MICHAELIS, MRS. ESTHER ZILLAH, Melbourne, Australia, awardedby King, O.B.E., for services to ex-servicemen in Australia, January1, 1936.

MINCBERG, , Lodz, Poland, elected member of Sejm, September8, 1935.

MOND, SIR ROBERT, London, England, appointed a Commander ofthe French Legion of Honor, for services to the Maison de la Chimie,April 24, 1936; elected president of the Industrial Chemistry Societyof France, June 19, 1936.

MYERS, Sir MICHAEL, Wellington, New Zealand, sworn in as Memberof the Privy Council, June, 1936.

OLSCHKI, LEO SAMUEL, Florence, Italy, awarded by Government,Order of Sts. Mauritzo and Lazzaro, for important work as publisher,August, 1935.

PANOFSKY, E., Utrecht, Netherlands, (German Refugee) awardedby Senate of the University of Utrecht, on occasion of three hundredthanniversary, the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa, May, 1936.

PIMENTEL, M., Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed by Queen,Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

POLAK, HENRI, , Netherlands, re-elected to Senate, August,1935.

POLAK, J., Oslo, Norway, appointed by Queen of Netherlands, Officerof the Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

POLAK, M., The Hague, Netherlands, awarded by Queen, Commanderof the Order of Orange Nassau, November 21, 1935.

PORTNOY, ANTONIO, Buenos Aires, Argentina, awarded by NationalCouncil on Education, first prize ($3,000) and a gold medal, and pub-lication by the Government of monograph "Public Education since1810," February 20, 1936.

PRAAG, S. W., , Netherlands, appointed by Queen, Knight ofthe Order of the Dutch Lion, September, 1935.

READING, MARQUESS OF, K.C., London, England, elected a Masterof the Bench of the Middle Temple, January, 1936.

RHEINSTEIN, MAX, formerly of Berlin, Germany, appointed memberof faculty of University of Chicago, December, 1935.

RIES, L. A., Amsterdam, Netherlands, appointed by Queen, TreasurerGeneral of the Netherlands, November 21, 1935.

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ROLO, ROBERT J., Alexandria, Egypt, awarded by French Govern-ment, Cross of the Legion of Honor, August, 1935.

ROTHSCHILD, JAMES DE, London, England, re-elected member ofParliament, November 14, 1935.

RUBINSTEIN, , Wilno, Poland, elected member of Sejm, Septem-ber 8, 1935.

SALMON, SIR ISIDORE, London, England, re-elected member ofParliament, November 14, 1935.

SAMUEL, SIR ARTHUR MICHAEL, London, England, re-elected mem-ber of Parliament, November 14, 1935.

SAMUEL, MARCUS, Wandsworth, Putney, England, re-elected toParliament, November 14, 1935.

SASSOON, SIR PHILIP, London, England, re-elected member of Par-liament, November 14, 1935; appointed Trustee of the National Gallery,April, 1936.

SATANOWSKY, SARA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, appointed ChiefSurgeon of Teodoro Alvarez Hospital, July, 1935.

SCHACHTER, J., Belfast, Ireland, awarded, by Senate of Queen'sUniversity, honorary degree of Master of Arts, June, 1936.

SCHORR, A., Warsaw, Poland, appointed by President to Senate,September 24, 1935; re-appointed member of the Government Boardfor Public Education, September 18, 1935.

SCIAKY, ISAAC, Salonika, Greece, elected member of Parliament,February 10, 1936.

SEGAL, J., Kaunas, Lithuania, appointed by Government, to takecharge of anti-gas defence in the Lithuanian Army, March 30, 1936.

SEGRE, GUIDO, Turin, Italy, appointed by Premier Mussolini, headof the Coal Import Board, August, 1935.

SHEMS, AARON, Haifa, Palestine, promoted Judge, District Court,Grade G, February 12, 1936.

SHINWELL, EMANUEL, Seaham, England, re-elected member ofParliament, November 14, 1935.

SILKIN, LEWIS, Peckham, London, England, elected at By-election,Member of Parliament, May 6, 1936.

SILVERMAN, S. SYDNEY, Liverpool, England, elected member ofParliament, November 14, 1935.

SOLOMON, IVAN, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, re-elected Mayor,November 4, 1935.

SOMMERSTEIN, ERNST, LWOW, Poland, re-elected member of Sejm,September, 1935.

STERN, JACQUES, Paris, France, appointed Minister of the Coloniesin Sarraut Cabinet, January 24, 1936.

STIEBEL, ARTHUR, London, England, appointed by the Lord Chancel-lor, Senior and Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court,March, 1936.

STRAUSS, EDWARD A., London, England, re-elected member of Par-liament, November 14, 1935.

SZOLD, HENRIETTA, See APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS—UNITED STATES.

TCHENIO, ALBERT, Salonika, Greece, elected member of Parliament,February 10, 1936.

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TROCKENHEIM, JACOB, Warsaw, Poland, appointed by President, toSenate, September 24, 1935.

TSCHERNICHOWSKY, SAUL, Jerusalem, Palestine, decorated byGovernment of Finland, Commander of the Order of White Rose, fortranslation into Hebrew of classic "Kalivala," October 10, 1935; receivesfreedom of city of Tel Aviv, on occasion of sixtieth birthday, December16, 1935.

UMBERTO, MOSES DAVID, Rome, Italy, named to membership inthe Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, August 12, 1935.

VEDER, A. S., Amsterdam, Netherlands, awarded by Queen, Orderof Orange Nassau, November 21, 1935.

VENTURA, MICHON, Istanbul, Turkey, appointed Chief Rabbi ofTurkey, June 20, 1936.

VRIES, S. PH. DE, Haarlem, Netherlands, appointed by Queen,Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau, September, 1935.

WALEY, SIGISMUND DAVID, , England, appointed Controller ofAnglo-Italian Debts, November, 1935.

WAST, HUGO, Buenos Aires, Argentina, appointed Director of theNational Library and awarded First National Prize, July, 1935.

WEIL, GOTTHOLD, Frankfort am. M., Germany, appointed Professorfor Arabic and Turkish Philology at the Hebrew University, andDirector of the Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem,Palestine, August, 1935.

WEISSBROD, BORIS, MOSCOW, Soviet Russia, awarded Lenin Order,for services as surgeon, July 15, 1935.

WIENER, LEOPOLD, Brussels, Belgium, appointed by King, head ofthe Military Academy, July, 1935.

WISLICKI, WACLAV, Warsaw, Poland, elected member of Sejm,September 8, 1935.

YELLIN, AVINOAM, , Palestine, appointed by King EdwardVIII, honorary Member of the British Empire, June 23, 1936.

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ALTHEIMER, BEN, New York City, testimonial fund of $30,000 pre-sented to him for new building of National Jewish Hospital at Denver,honoring his thirty-fifth term as treasurer; to which he added a personalcontribution of $5,000; announced, December, 1935.

BEER, SOPHIA, New York City, bequeathes $10,000 to FEDERATIONfor the Support of JEWISH PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETIES OF NEW YORK and$1,000 to Ladies Auxiliary of Mount Sinai Hospital; appraised, April29, 1936.

BENEDICT, ELIAS C, New York City, bequeathes $50,000 to the NewYork Medical College and Hospital; and $50,000 to the New YorkOphthalmic Hospital; announced, May 29, 1936.

BERG, MRS. ALEX., St. Louis, Mo., establishes annual prize of $2,500in bacteriology at Washington University, School of Medicine, inmemory of husband, June, 1936.

BERK, SAMUEL, Philadelphia, Pa., donates fifteen acre farm in

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Warrington, for a Jewish Memorial Hospital, in memory of son, June 19,1936.

BLUMENTHAL, GEORGE, New York City, donates $10,000 to UnitedHospital Campaign Fund, December 5, 1935.

COHEN, MRS. LENA, , , bequeathes $500,000 to poor ofBromberg, Poland; accepted, August 8, 1935.

COOK, MRS. BIRDIE F., New York City, bequeathes estate valuedat over $10,000 to daughter, and in event she leaves no children, prin-cipal is to be equally distributed to Montefiore Hospital for ChronicDiseases and seven non-Jewish organizations, $15,000 among threeadditional organizations as contingent legacies; probated July 18, 1934.

DANZIGER, ABRAHAM L., New York City, bequeathes income fromfund of $280,099 (The Abraham L. Danziger Fund) to the social serviceboards of various city hospitals to supply surgical appliances for needypersons; appraised, July 9, 1935.

DAVIDOW, MYER, New York City, bequeathes $10,000 to JewishHome for the Friendless; $1,500 to Jewish Home for the Friendless ofScranton; $557 to Jewish Federation of Scranton; $5,000 each to fourorganizations and $2,500 each to three organizations; appraised,December 20, 1935.

DREIFUS, JACOB S., Philadelphia, Pa., bequeathes $150,000 to charityof which $5,000 to Dropsie College is to establish the Mack DreifusScholarship in memory of a deceased brother, October, 1935.

EINHORN, MAX, New York City, donates to Lenox Hill Hospital,building, addition to be known as the Max and Flora Einhorn MemorialJune, 1936.

FELS, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL S., Philadelphia, Pa., donate $40,000to United Campaign 1936, Fund for the Federation of Jewish Charitiesand the Community Fund of Philadelphia, March, 1936.

FISCHER, HARRY S. AND JOSEPH J., Philadelphia, Pa., in memory ofparents Isaac and Esther Fischer, purchase plot for 1,200 graves inMontefiore Cemetery, for free burial of poor of the community, May,1936.

FLEISHMAN, MARCO, New York City, bequeathes $5,000 each to fiveJewish charities and residuary estate to Mount Sinai Hospital, February26, 1936.

FLORSHEIM, MILTON S., with Louis E. Schmidt, Chicago, 111., donates$20,000 worth of radium to the tumor clinic of Northwestern Univer-sity's Medical School; announced, December, 1935.

Fox, JACOB, New York City, bequeathed eighty-five per cent of hiscapital stockholdings in Owners and Tenants Electric Company, Inc.,and residuary estate to aid German Jewish refugees and one thousandfirst aid kits to the Ethiopian Government; also $5,000 to Federation forthe Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City;$2,000 to Jewish Consumptive Relief Society of Denver, Colo.; and$2,000 each to Catholic and Protestant Charities to be named by execu-tors, December 27, 1935.

FRANKO, SAM, New York City, donates his entire collection of valuablemusic manuscripts to the New York Public Library, January, 1936.

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FRIEDSAM FOUNDATION, New York City, donates new Division ofChild Neurology at the Neurological Institution of New York; announced,December, 193S; donates $10,000 to United Hospital Campaign, Decem-ber 28, 1935; $12,000 to New York University, for Department of FineArts, Graduate School, 1935; announced, February 15, 1936.

GIMBEL BROTHERS, Philadelphia, Pa., donates $12,000 to UnitedCampaign 1936, Fund for the Federation of Jewish Charities and theCommunity Fund of Philadelphia, April, 1936.

GOLDSMITH, JACOB AND DORA, children of, Memphis, Tenn., presentfamily home to nuns of St. Agnes Academy, for memorial library, intoken of thirty years friendship of nuns for their parents, January,1936.

GOTTESMAN, MENDEL, New York City, donates $50,000 to RosalskyMemorial Fund for educational projects, June 14, 1936.H GOTTSCHALL, WILLIAM C, New York City, bequeathes art collectionand library to the State, and $35,000 for cost of a bronze plate to markthe collection, book plate and book cases; accepted, April 7, 1936.

GUGGENHEIM, AUGUSTA, Philadelphia, Pa., bequeathes $10,000 toJewish Hospital after termination of life estates created for relatives,to be used for a free home for working girls, January, 1936.

GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION, DANIEL AND FLORENCE (through Mrs.Daniel Guggenheim and daughter Mrs. Roger W. Straus), New YorkCity, donates $25,000 to Hadassah, for a Daniel and Florence Guggen-heim Building, of the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital,Jerusalem, February 5, 1936.

GUGGENHEIM, MR. AND MRS. SIMON, New York City, donates$1,000,000 for additional fellowships in science and art, to the JohnSimon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in memory of son; an-nounced, May 10, 1936.

HERSKOVITS FAMILY, New York City, donates $10,000 in memory ofparents, to the scholarship department of the Yeshiva EndowmentFoundation; announced, April 7, 1936.

HEYMAN, ELLA, New York City, bequeathes $2,000 each to twoorganizations, and remain derinterest residue in, over $600,000, to nineothers in equal shares; appraised, May 18, 1936.

HOCHNER, GEORGE, New York City, bequeathes contingent interestin half residue, of $164,000 to Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews,filed May 27, 1936.

HOFFMAN, MEYER, Philadelphia, Pa., bequeathes $5,000 each toJewish Hospital for endowment of free bed as memorial to parentsMeyer and Hannah Hoffman, and to Federation of Jewish Charities;$2,000 each to Mount Sinai Hospital and to Jewish Consumptive Homeat Denver; $1,000 to Eaglesville Sanatorium; residuary estate to theFederation of Jewish Charities, December, 1935.

JACOBSON, JOSEPH C, New York City, bequeathes $5,000 to Federa-tion for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New YorkCity; $2,500 to United Home for Aged Hebrews; $1,000 to UnitedKrakauer Charity and Aid Society; probated, January 24, 1936.

KATZINGER, EDWARD, Chicago, 111., donates $10,000 to Mount Sinai

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Hospital to augment facilities for giving violet-ray and other physio-therapy treatments, March, 1936.

KAUFMAN, MRS. BELLA M., New York City, bequeathes $5,000 toMontefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.; $5,000 to Montefiore Hospitalfor Chronic Diseases, N. Y. C; $1,500 to Crippled Childrdn's EastSide Free School, N. Y. C, filed June 20, 1936.

KING, EDWARD J., New York City (died September 30) bequeathesto Mount Sinai Hospital, residuary estate, remainder in $80,000 andcontingent remainder in $750,000; $33,000 to twelve other organiza-tions; filed, October 16, 1935.

KING, SARAH, New York City, bequeathes to Mount Sinai Hospital,$7,500; Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, $5,000; CongregationB'nai Jeshurun, $4,000; Federation for the Support of Jewish Philan-thropic Societies of New York City, remainder interest in $12,000trust; appraised, November 16, 1935.

KLINGENSTEIN, CHARLES, New York City, bequeathes $110,000 totwenty-one charities: $50,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital, to be added tothe Mr. and Mrs. Charles Klingenstein Fund; $5,000 to the hospital'sSchool of Nursing Alumni Fund; $20,000 to Federation for the Supportof Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City; $5,000 each tothree; $2,000 each to three; $1,000 each to eleven; filed March 3, 1936.

LAMPORT, NATHAN, (estate), New York City, donates $50,000 toRosalsky Memorial Fund for educational projects, June 14, 1936.

LEBLANG, JOSEPH, New York City (died April 17, 1931) bequeathed$50,000 to Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies;$25,000 to the Joe Leblang Fund; $10,000 each to the Jewish EducationAssociation and Lebanon Hospital; $10,000 to Rockefeller Institute;$2,500 to Red Cross Society; $1,500 to Cathedral of St. John the Divine;$1,000 to Jewish Theatrical Guild; charity fund of $25,000 be held fortwenty-year period during which charities are to receive the income,to include The New York Times Hundred Neediest cases, the New YorkAmerican Christmas Fund and the Newsboys Christmas Fund, afterwhich period the charities are to receive the fund outright; appraised,May 11, 1936.

LEFCOURT, CHARLES S., New York City (died March 4, 1935) be-queathed contingent remainder of $106,969 to Federation for theSupport of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City, afterbequest of life estate in $25,000; appraised, January 14, 1936.

LEHMAN, ARTHUR, New York City, bequeathes $250,000 to theFederation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of NewYork, May 20, 1936.

LESSER, LEO, Long Beach, L. I., N. Y., bequeathes more than $50,000to eighteen Jewish institutions here and abroad; probated, July 9, 1935.

LEVIN, MAURICE, New York City, donates $50,000 to RosalskyMemorial Fund for educational projects, conditionally on its reaching$200,000, June 14, 1936.

LIT, MRS. ROSA LEE, Atlantic City, N. J., bequeathes remainderinterest in two trust funds of $100,000 to Federation of Jewish Charities;appraised, December, 1935.

LITTAUER, Lucius N., Gloversville, N. Y., donates $15,000 to theNew York Diabetes Association for research for three years; announced.

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December, 1935; donates to Harvard University, $2,000,000 for estab-lishment of a Graduate School of Public Administration; announced,December 10, 1935.

LOEB, HOWARD, Philadelphia, Pa., donates $15,000 to United Cam-paign 1936, Fund for the Federation of Jewish Charities and the Com-munity Fund of Philadelphia, March, 1936.

LOUCHHEIM, JEROME H., Philadelphia, Pa., donates $24,000 to UnitedCampaign 1936, Fund for the Federation of Jewish Charities and theCommunity Fund of Philadelphia, April, 1936.

NELSON, JULIUS, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequeathes $44,000 to twenty-twoorganizations; probated, July 9, 1935.

NEWMAN, ABRAHAM L., New York City, bequeathes to HebrewOrphan Asylum, $25,000; appraised, December 18, 1935.

OCHS, ADOLPH S., (estate of), New York City, donates $25,000 toNew York University, income to be used for general university purposes;announced, June 13, 1936.

OGUS, WILLIAM I., Washington, D. C, donates funds for establish-ment of the Ogus Free Institutional Dental Clinic; announced, Decem-ber, 1935.

PALEY, MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL, Philadelphia, Pa., donate $15,921.45to United Campaign 1936, Fund for the Federation of Jewish Charitiesand the Community Fund of Philadelphia, April, 1936.

PAM, MAX (Estate of), Chicago, 111., donates $85,000 to Universityof Chicago Law School, for chair in comparative law, December, 1935.

PFEIFFER, ISAAC, New York City, bequeathes $10,000 to Federationfor the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of Nevf York; $1,000to the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, Denver, Colo.;$500 Salvation Army; probate, June 15, 1936.

RICHMAN, CHARLES LEHMAN, Cleveland, Ohio, bequeathes $300,000to charity, March 27, 1936.

ROSALSKY, OTTO A., New York City, bequeathes to eleven charities,equal shares of five percent of estate; filed May 25, 1936.

ROSENBLOOM, MRS. SOL., Pittsburgh, Pa., donates $500,000 toHebrew University, Jerusalem, Palestine, for a new auditorium building,September 25, 1935.

ROSENWALD, JULIUS, (Fund), Chicago, 111., donates $54,084 toHarvard University Medical School; announced, June 18, 1936.

ROSENWALD, MR. AND MRS. LESSING J., Philadelphia, Pa., donated$30,000, and Mr. and Mrs. William Rosenwald donates $10,000 toUnited Campaign of Federation of Jewish Charities and CommunityFund drive for $4,688,000, May, 1936.

ROTHSCHILD, SIMON FRANK, Brooklyn, N. Y., bequeathes $15,000 toBrooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities; $5,000 each to two otherJewish organizations and $1,000 to one non-Jewish charity; filed,December 11, 1935.

SCHINASI, LEON, New York City, bequeathes $50,000 to SydenhamHospital and a contingent remainder and one-sixth of the residuaryestate; appraised, April 7, 1936.

SCHWARTZ, ANTHONY, Philadelphia, Pa., bequeathes $100,000 toMount Sinai Hospital as memorial to his parents; and $10,000 to theYoung Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association from residuary

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estate upon death of beneficiaries of three trust funds, and income of$10,000 an additional trust fund to be created, to the Federation ofJewish Charities; all printed music and musical compositions ownedby him, to the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association;and $1,000 to Congregation Rodeph Shalom, January, 1936.

SIEGMAN, SIMON, New York City, bequeathes $21,000 to fifteeninstitutions, May 6, 1936.

SINGER, MRS. JACOB, Philadelphia, Pa., donates collection of 12,000music records with an autophonetic instrument to the Department ofMusic of the University of Pennsylvania in memory of son, and to beknown as the Godfrey F. Singer Memorial Collection of RecordedMusic, April, 1936.

SLOAT, JULIAN, New York City, bequeathes to the ICOR (Associationfor Jewish Colonization of the Soviet Union, Inc.) $10,234; probated,January 24, 1936.

SNELLENBURG, N. AND CO., Philadelphia, Pa., donates $16,400 toUnited Campaign 1936, Fund for the Federation of Jewish Charitiesand the Community Fund of Philadelphia, April, 1936.

STEIN, EMANUEL, New York City, bequeathes to Hebrew TechnicalInstitute, $10,000; to Community Workers Auxiliary of New York Guildfor Jewish Blind, $2,000; Temple Emanu-El, $1,000, December 31, 1935.

STIEGLITZ, ALBERT, New York City, bequeathes $70,000 to charity:$20,000 to Hudson Guild; $5,000 each to Society for Ethical CultureHenry Street Settlement, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Home for Aged andInfirm Hebrews in New York, Educational Alliance and CharityOrganization; $5,000 for general welfare of Jews living in Germany;$1,000 to Manhattanville Nursery Association, May 4, 1936.

STRAUS, LEWIS, Newark, N. J., bequeathes $ , to charity as fol-lows: Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases, 20 parts; Federationfor the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies in New York City, 7;Jewish Sisterhood and Day Nursery, Daughters of Israel, Home forthe Aged, Hebrew Sheltering Society, Young Men's and Young Women'sHebrew Association, St. Barnabas, St. Michaels, St. James, Babies andPresbyterian Hospitals, Home for Crippled Children, all of Newark,each 1 share; Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, 6; Welfare Federation ofNewark, 5; probated, December 31, 1935.

THALMANN, MRS. ANNA, New York City, bequeathes $60,995, includ-ing rare laces appraised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; $15,000to Lenox Hill Hospital; $10,000 each to Federation for the Support ofJewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City, and to the Phil-harmonic Symphony Society; $5,000 each to theNorthwood Sanitariumat Saranac, the Guild for the Jewish Blind, and the Henry Street VisitingNurse Service; appraised, November 26, 1935.

UNTERBERG, MRS. BELLA EPSTEIN, New York City, bequeathes10% of net estate to one or more charitable, philanthropic or educationalinstitutions, at discretion of her children, within six months after herdeath; filed, December 9, 1935.

WARBURG, MR. AND MRS. FELIX M., New York City, donate $50,000over period of ten years to the Corporation of the American Schoolsof Oriental Research; announced, December 30, 1935.

WARBURG, MRS. FELIX M., New York City, donates $25,000 to

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Hadassah, for Frieda Schiff Warburg Building of the Rothschild-Hadassah-University Hospital, Jerusalem, February 5, 1936.

WEINMAN, BERTHA, New York City, bequeathes $1,300,000 to MountSinai Hospital to establish fund for care of convalescents in memory ofher brother; $25,000 to City College, in memory of brother; $5,000 toFederation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of NewYork City, and $12,000 to seven other societies; appraised, October 14,1935.

WEIS, MAMIE B., New York City, bequeathes to Board of SchoolTrustees, Galveston, Tex., remainder interest in various trust funds;$3,000 to town of Quartzenheim, Alsace, France, as memorial to Jacoband Louis Block, after death of Lalla Arnstein; $1,000 each to six organ-izations; filed, June 8, 1936.York, and $12,000 to seven other societies; appraised, October 14, 1935.

WOLLMAN, HENRY, New York City, bequeathes $10,000 to NewYork County Lawyers Association; $3,000 to Hebrew Sheltering Guard-dian Society of Pleasantville, N. Y.; $2,000 each to Jewish Social ServiceAssociation, Inc.; Young Women's Hebrew Association and the YoungMen's Hebrew Association; $1,500 each to the Charity OrganizationSociety, and the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor;$300 each to Lincoln Hospital, the Salvation Army, the Volunteers ofAmerica, and the American Jewish Committee; fourteen others $250each. Trust of $2,500 for Board of Education of Leavenworth, Kan.,income to be used for "worthy and meritorious students of the Leaven-worth High School . . . prizes to be known as "The Wollman Prize;"filed, April 1, 1936.

OTHER COUNTRIES

ANONYMOUS, , England, donates £10,000 to Keren Kayemeth;announced, December 24, 1935.

ANONYMOUS, , Palestine, donates £4,000 to Keren Kayemeth;announced, December 24, 1935.

BARON, BERNHARD, CHARITABLE TRUST, London, England, donates£41,317 to charitable organizations, of which £9,852 is for Jewishorganizations; December 5, 1935; donates £5,000 to London JewishHospital appeal for £100,000; announced, December, 1935.

BARON FAMILY TRUST, London, England, donates £10,000 to theCouncil for German Jewry, appeal for Ll,000,000; April, 1936; donates£25,000 to the Royal College of Surgeons for new research laboratories,as a memorial to Bernhard Baron, May, 1936. y

BEARSTED, VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS, MRS. N. IONIAES AND MRS.IDA SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, London, England, donate £90,320 to theCouncil for German Jewry, appeal for £1,000,000, April, 1936.

BEDDINGTON, CLAUDE, London, England, donates £4,500 to theCouncil for German Jewry appeal for £1,000,000, June, 1936.

BLOOM, SAMUEL, Tel Aviv, Palestine (formerly Philadelphia) donates£3,000 for establishment of a home for vagrant children, in celebrationof seventy-fifth birthday, January 2, 1936.

BLUNT, DAME MAUD, Tunbridge Wells, England, bequeathes £1,000to Jewish Orphanage, West Norwood, to endow a bed; £1,000 to Jewish

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Board of Guardians; £100 each to two; and £25 to one organization.March, 1936.

BURTON, SIR MONTAGUE, London, England, partially endows chairof International Relations at the London School of Economics, LondonUniversity; Senate of University decides to change title of chair to"Montague Burton Chair of International Relations," December, 1935.

CAHEN D'ANVERS, CHARLES, , France, donates historic palacein Champs-sur-Mame as a gift to the nation, July, 1935.

CAHN, SIR JULIEN, London, England, donates £3,000 to the Uni-versity College of Wales towards a plant breeding station and specialland survey, May, 1936.

CASSUTO, UMBERTO, Rome, Italy, donates to Vatican Library severallate Hebrew works and manuscripts, September, 1935.

COHEN, MR. AND MRS. LOUIS (family of late) Liverpool, England,donate £36,788 to the Council for German Jewry, appeal for £1,000,000,April, 1936.

COHEN, LOUISA, , England, bequeathes her share and interest inthe estate of her late brother, Samuel Cohen, to be divided equallybetween the Cancer Hospital, the National Institute for the Blind, theJewish Orphan Asylum, the Jewish Home for Incurables, the JewishBoard of Guardians and the Jewish Hospital, Stepney, November, 1935.

COHEN TERVAART-ISRAEL, MRS. M., Amsterdam, Netherlands,donates to the State, collection of sketch books from estate of brother,Isaac Israel, for the gallery of Prints and Drawings at the "Ryks-museum," July 1, 1935.

DEFRIES, WILLIAM, London, England, bequeathes, subject to wife'slife interest, £500 each to the London Hospital, Cancer Hospital; £300to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; £200 each to twelve,and residue in equal shares to Queen Mary's Hospital for Children andthe East London Hospital for Children, January, 1936.

ESHKENAZI, , , , bequeathes $1,000,000 to the townof Manissa, Turkey, for erection and maintenance of a hospital, October,1935.

FRANKLIN, ARTHUR E., London, England, donates £2,800 to Councilfor German Jewry appeal for £1,000,000, May, 1936.

GOLDBERG, A. & SONS, Glasgow, Scotland, donate £2,250 to theCouncil for German Jewry appeal for £1,000,000, June, 1936.

GOLDBERG, ISAAC LOEB, Jerusalem, Palestine, bequeathes $3,750,000in trust to the Jewish National Fund, interest to be distributed foreducational purposes in Palestine by a joint committee of the HebrewUniversity, the Zionist Executive, the Jewish National Fund andHebrew Writers, October 4, 1935.

HABER, FRITZ (Estate of), German Nobel prize-winner, bequeathesto Daniel Sieff Institute at Rehoboth, Palestine, scientific library(forty-five cases), September, 1935.

KOOTCHER, MORRIS, Windhoek, Southwest Africa, bequeathes £500to Cape Jewish Orphanage and balance of estate (approximately£40,000) to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to be dedicated toVladmir Tomkin, pioneer of Zionism; monies to be utilized for founding,or if already founded, contributing to the Hebrew section of an archaeo-logical museum at the Hebrew University, January, 1936.

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LASKI, NATHAN, Manchester, England, donates £5,000 to the Councilfor German Jewry, appeal for £1,000,000, April, 1936.

LASKI, MR. AND MRS. NORMAN, London, England. See Marks, Mr.and Mrs. Simon.

LIBERMAN, HYMAN, Cape Town, Union of South Africa, bequeathes£7,000 for Hebrew school to be maintained by the Cape Town HebrewCongregation, to be known as "The Hyman Liberman School forHigher Hebrew Education," November 17, 1935.

LOEWI. OTTO, HERMAN, PAUL, AND CHARLES, London, England,donate £4,090 to Council for German Jewry appeal for £1,000,000,May, 1936.

MARIANOFF, DMITRI, Paris, France, donates Renouveau, trainingfarm for German-Jewish refugees, in France, to the World MizrahiOrganization, September, 1935.

MARKS, MR. AND MRS. SIMON, MR. AND MRS. I. M. SIEFF, MR. ANDMRS. NORMAN LASKI, MR. AND MRS. HARRY SACHER, MATHILDAMARKS, London, England, donate £90,320, to the Council for GermanJewry, appeal for £1,000,000, April, 1936.

MERRENS, MRS. PEARL, Glasgow, Scotland, donates £1,000 to theJewish National Fund, following recent donations of £1,000 to theBoard of Guardians, Glasgow; £500 to the Glasgow Jewish Institute;£400 to the Glasgow Royal Hospital for Sick Children and £500 tothe Glasgow Jewish Orphanage, December, 1935; donates £2,000 tothe Council for German Jewry appeal for £1,000,000, June, 1936.

MEYERSTEIN, E. W., London, England, donates site costing £5,000to new Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital; previous donation of£10,000 toward the Hospital's rebuilding fund, February, 1936; donates£20,000 to the Middlesex Hospital (previously gave £258,000), onoccasion of Golden Wedding, April 29, 1936.

MONTEFIORE, SIR FRANCIS, London, England, bequeathes $500,000for charitable purposes of which $50,000 is bequeathed to the Spanishand Portuguese Synagogue; announced, October 4, 1935.

OCHBERG, ISAAC, Capetown, Union of South Africa, donates $50,000to Hebrew University, Jerusalrm, in memory of daughter, for estab-lishment of a Department of Agriculture, May 11, 1936.

RALSTEIN, JOHN, Filabuso, South Africa, donates £3,000 for erectionof an Old Men's Home in Bulawayo, February, 1936.

ROTHSCHILD, BARONESS ADELAIDE DE, Paris, France, bequeathestwo thousand pieces of rare art to the Louvre, July 10, 1935.

ROTHSCHILD, BARON EDMOND DE, Paris, France, bequeathes twentythousand engravings and seven thousand drawings to Louvre Museum,November, 1934.

ROTHSCHILD FAMILY, London, England, donate £90,320 to theCouncil for German Jewry, appeal for £1,000,000, April, 1936.

ROTHSCHILD, JAMES A. DE, London, England, donates £4,000 to theLondon Jewish Hospital, appeal for £100,000, November, 1935.

ROTHSCHILD, LADY EMMA LOUISA, London, England, bequeathesfreehold property in Tring, with eight cottages and £5,000 on trust toform the "Louisa Cottages Charity," the cottages to be used as alms-houses by aged or infirm poor persons, employees of the Tring ParkEstate, July, 1935.

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SACHER, MR. AND MRS. HARRY, London, England. See MARKS,MR. AND MRS. SIMON.

SASSOON, SIR DAVID J. (Charity Trust Fund), Bombay, India, createsspecial scholarship for Jewish boys and girls, by setting aside 50,000rupees for the purpose, to be known as the "Sir David Sassoon Scholar-ship," August 28, 1935.

SCHLESINGER, EUGEN MAXIMILIAN, Hampstead, England, bequeathesestate gross value of £130,636: £325 to six organizations, and subjectto wife's life interest, four-tenths of residue of property in equal sharesto the Jewish Board of Guardians, December, 1935.

SCHLESINGER, ISIDORE W., Johannesburg, Union of South Africa,donates £10,000 prize money for the Schlesinger African Air race fromLondon to Johannesburg to celebrate the opening of the Empire Exhibi-tion on September 15th, in Johannesburg, June, 1936.

SELIGMAN FAMILY, London, England, donate £8,000 to Council forGerman Jewry, appeal for £1,000,000, May, 1936.

SHAWZIN, MARK, Muizenberg, Union of South Africa, bequeathes£5,000 to the Hebrew University; £2,000 each to the Jewish Home forthe Aged, and to the Ladies' Christian Home, Cape Town; and £1,000to the South African Jewish Board of Guardians, Cape Town, December,1935.

SIEFF, MR. AND MRS. I. M., London, England, See Marks, Mr. andMrs. Simon.

SOUSSON, JACOB, Algiers, Algeria, donates 250,000 francs to com-munity of Algiers for establishment of a free hotel and municipalkitchen for poor and destitute, October, 1935.

WOLFSON, ISAAC, London, England, donates £12,900 to the Councilfor German Jewry, appeal for £1,000,000, April, 1936.

NECROLOGY

UNITED STATES

AARON, MAX N., manufacturer, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa.,aged 67, November 14, 1935.

ADAMS, NICHOLAS, comedy actor, New York City, aged 64, October23, 1935.

ADELBERG, ABRAHAM, civic and communal worker, Mayor (1928-1933), Cedarhurst, L. I., N. Y., aged 62, June 3, 1936.

ADLER, EMANUEL D., communal leader, Milwaukee, Wis., at Phoenix,Ariz., aged 81, April 3, 1936.

ADLER, HERMAN MORRIS, criminologist, professor of Psychiatry atthe University of California, perfected the "lie detector," Major inMedical Corps of United States Army in World War, San Francisco,Cal., at Boston, Mass., aged 59, December 7, 1935.

AISHISKIN, EZEKIEL, rabbi, author, scholar, Zionist worker, Detroit,Mich., aged 69, September 6, 1935.

ALBERT, JACOB, former head of shoe firm, communal worker, NewYork City, aged 67, July 25, 1935.

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ALLEN, AMELIA J., educator and communal worker, Philadelphia,Pa., July 15, 1935.

ALTMAN, MRS. HENRY, civic and social leader, Buffalo, N. Y., aged76, June 8, 1936.

ALTSCHUL, CHARLES, second lieutenant field artillery, Army Reserve,New York City, air fatality near Goodwin, Ark., aged 23, January 14,1936.

AMES, MRS. LENA, active in organization of after-school recreationalgroups, New York City, aged 50, November 11, 1935.

AMSTER, MORRIS, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 69, April5, 1936.

ANSBACHER, SOLOMON L., formerly communal worker of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in New York City, aged 89, October 17, 1935.

ARONSON, MRS. EVA M., communal worker, Seattle, Wash., aged 73,June 30, 1936.

ASHKENAZI, SAMUEL, communal and Zionist worker, New York City,aged 60, October, 1935.

BAAR, JESSE, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., at Miami, Fla.,aged 50, April 9, 1936.

BACHARACH, BENJAMIN, realtor, banker, civic, communal and philan-thropic worker, Atlantic City, N. J., aged 71, June 18, 1936.

BACHRACH, IRVING, realtor, communal and philanthropic worker,New York City, aged 67, June 3, 1936.

BACHRACH, MENDEL, educational worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., at Jeru-salem, Palestine, aged 77, December 7, 1935.

BAER, LOUIS, merchant, communal worker, Boston, Mass., at Man-chester, N. H., aged 71, September, 1935.

BAMBERGER, MRS. SIMON, communal worker, Salt Lake City, Utah,aged 72, May 21, 1936.

BAUMANN, SIDNEY J., merchant, communal worker, New York City,aged 65, February 5, 1936.

BECKER, MARTIN, civic worker, Chicago, 111., aged 84, July 6, 1935.BEER, MORRIS ABEL, teacher and poet, New York City, aged 47,

February 7, 1936.BELBER, AARON SELIG, communal worker, manufacturer, Philadel-

phia, Pa., aged 59, February 15, 1936.BENSINGER, BENJAMIN E., manufacturer, communal worker, Chicago,

111., aged 67, November 27, 1935.BERNSTEIN, GEDALIA, pioneer settler and communal worker, Chelsea,

Mass., aged 79, January 6, 1936.BERNSTEIN, HERMAN, editor, author, former United States Minister

to Albania, New York City, at Sheffield, Mass., aged 59, September 1,1935.

BERNSTEIN, SAMUEL, SR., banker, merchant, civic and communalworker, Kingston, N. Y., July 26, 1935.

BETTMANN, HENRY W., physician, instructor in college of medicine,civic worker, Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 67, December 6, 1935.

BINDER, SHALOM, hazzan, Hebrew scholar, communal worker, NewYork City, aged 76, March 2, 1936.

BLACK, HERMAN, editor and publisher, communal worker and philan-thropist (formerly Milwaukee, Wis.), Chicago, 111., aged 68, November9, 1935.

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BOBROW, JACOB, importer and wholesale fur dealer and philanthropist,New York City, aged 55, October 15, 1935.

BONART, JOSEPH, merchant, communal worker, Galveston, Tex., aged79, April, 1936.

BRAGER, ALBERT A., merchant, communal and civic worker, Balti-more, Md.; aged 76, March 27, 1936.

BRAKER, LEON, real estate broker, communal worker, Philadelphia,Pa., aged 71, February 8, 1936.

BRASLAU, SOPHIE, grand opera star and concert singer, New YorkCity, aged 43, December 22, 1935.

BRAVER, MOSES ISAAC, rabbi, Sioux City, la., April, 1936.BRIL, ISAAC L., rabbi, author and editor, Zionist worker, New York

City, aged 61, March 2, 1936.BROWN, MEYER, communal and Zionist worker, Kansas City, Mo.,

aged, 62, June 12, 1936.BUCHMAN, ALBERT, architect, New York City, aged 76, April 15, 1936.

BUCHSBAUM, SIGMUND, retired realtor, communal worker, Philadel-phia, Pa., aged 76, April 30, 1936.

BULOVA, JOSEPH, watch manufacturer, New York City, aged 83,November 18, 1935.

BURKAN, NATHAN, lawyer, political leader, New York City, aged 56,June 6, 1936.

CASTON, JOSEPH, Sephardic communal leader, Seattle, Wash., aged57, January, 1936.

CHASAN, MRS. ETHEL, communal and Zionist worker, New York City,November, 1935.

CLARK, BERNARD J., former prison warden, active in fraternal organi-zations, New York City, aged 67, February 3, 1936.

COHEN, ARTHUR A., communal worker, Worcester, Mass., aged 66,June 25, 1936.

COHEN, MRS. BARNET, communal worker, Elizabeth, N. J., May 19,1936.

COHEN, HARRY, sergeant, United States Army, served in severalIndian campaigns, San Diego, Cal., October, 1935.

COHEN, JOHN, research expert at Mount Sinai Hospital, aviationinstructor during World War, New York City, aged 44, January 24,1936.

COHEN, LEO, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 54, June 8,1936.

COHEN, SIDNEY S., film leader, and communal worker, New YorkCity, aged 50, December 12, 1935.

COHEN, ZALMAN, communal worker, Detroit, Mich., aged 68, May14, 1936.

COHN, MRS. SARA, communal worker, Memphis, Tenn., aged 85,April 30, 1936.

COOK, MRS. CECILIA, veteran member of staff of American Hebrew,civic and communal worker, Long Beach, L. I., N. Y., aged 67, July 7,1935.

COOPER, MORRIS, lawyer and author, edited "Code of Civil Proce-dure," New York City, aged 75, November 14, 1935.

DAVIS, LOUIS, retired real estate executive, communal worker, NewYork City, aged 82, July 30, 1935.

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DE ROY, ISRAEL, founder of chain stores, diamond cutter, Pittsburgh,Pa., aged 89, December 6, 1935.

DEUTSCH, BERNARD S., lawyer, president of Board of Aldermen, presi-dent of the American Jewish Congress, New York City, aged 51,November 21, 1935.

DEUTSCHBERGER, MRS. ROSE HARRIS, communal worker, New YorkCity, April 27, 1936.

DEVORKIN, MOSES I., physician, social worker, Los Angeles, Cal.,aged 73, June 13, 1936.

DREIFUS, JACOB S., communal worker and philanthropist, Philadel-phia, Pa., aged 88, September 28, 1935.

DREYFOOS, MAX, physician, active in Babies Milk Fund Drives,Cincinnati, Ohio, aged 58, September 3, 1935.

DREYFUS, MRS. SARAH LANDMAN, former teacher, social worker andcommunal leader, welfare worker in World War, Elmira, N. Y.p aged44, March 11, 1936.

ECKSTEIN, LOUIS, opera patron, magazine publisher, bank president,Chicago, 111., aged 70, November 21, 1935.

EHRENBURG, GREGORY ELI, physician, specialist on tuberculosis,Denver, Colo., aged 64, May 17, 1936.

EHRLICH, WALTER L., art connoisseur, authority on early Americanpaintings, New York City, aged 57, February 2, 1936.

EINSON, MORRIS M., lithographer, Zionist and communal worker,Yonkers, N. Y., at Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 53, April 13, 1936.

EISENDRATH, SIMEON D., architect, former Commissioner of Buildingsof Chicago, 111., Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 68, November 27, 1935.

EITAN, ISRAEL, author, scholar, teacher, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 56,October 11, 1935.

ENGELMAN, MRS. MORRIS, communal worker, New York City, aged63, December 19, 1935.

FALK, FREDERICK, physician, Major Medical Corps, United StatesArmy, in World War, Seattle, Wash., aged 60, November 28, 1935.

FARBER, WILLIAM, communal worker, Chicago, 111., aged 68, August17, 1935.

FARSCHLEISER, BENJAMIN, motion picture producer, Hollywood, Cal.,April, 1936.

FEIST, FELIX, F., motion picture manager and distributor, New YorkCity, aged 52, April IS, 1936.

FEUER, ABRAHAM, rabbi, organizer of Jewish farm colony in Canadain 1910, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 84, March 11, 1936.

FIRESTONE, SAMUEL J., JR., physician, Captain Medical Corps, U. S.Army in World War, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 41, March 3, 1936.

FLESHER, BERTHOLD, communal worker, Denver, Colo., aged 64,September 19, 1935.

FOREMAN, MILTON J., lawyer, former Major-General in Illinois Na-tional Guard, Spanish-American War veteran, Chicago, 111., aged 72,October 16, 1935.

FRANK, MRS. BERNARD, former teacher and communal worker, LongIsland City, N. Y., aged 51, July 2, 1935.

FRANK, EDGAR K., cotton converter, naval veteran of Spanish-American War, New York City, aged 61, July 13, 1935.

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FRANKEL, S. W., publisher, originator and director of Fine Arts Ex-position at Rockefeller Center (November, 1934), New York City, aged59, October 22, 1935.

FREIDSON, SIMON B., newspaper man, Boston, Mass., aged 79, March22, 1936.

FRIED, MAX, rabbi, New York City, at Brighton Beach, N. Y., aged78, September 7, 1935.

FRIEDERMAN, SOLOMON JACOB, rabbi, Boston, Mass., at Jerusalem,Palestine, aged 73, January, 1936.

FRIEDMAN, EDWARD, president of chain stores, communal worker, NewYork City, aged 58, June 21, 1936. .

FRIEDMAN, HERMAN, founder of knitting industry, Cleveland, Ohio,aged 80, December 11, 1935.

FRIEDMAN, Louis, fur merchant, communal worker, New York City,aged 68, January 6, 1936.

FRIEDMAN, MAX, civic and communal worker, Richmond, Va., aged65, March 27, 1936.

FYNE, SHEFTEL, rabbi, Philadelphia, Pa., April 20, 1936.GALIN, RIVKAH, Yiddish poetess, New York City, aged 45, August 8,

1935.GALLANT, ABRAHAM N., rabbi, author and talmudist, New York City,

aged 60, February 22, 1936.GARLICK, MRS. REBECCA, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged

73, August 12, 1935.GELFMAN, HYMAN, communal and Zionist worker, Springfield, Mass.,

aged 87, December 16, 1935.GELIEBTER, PHILIP, educational director of Workmen's Circle, Brook-

lyn, N. Y., aged 51, December 14, 1935.GELLHORN, GEORGE, gynecologist, president of American,Gyneco-

logical Society (1915), St. Louis, Mo., aged 65, January 25, 1936.GELLIS, ISAAC, rabbi and chaplain, educator, New York City, aged

69, October 22, 1935.GLADSTONE, BENJAMIN, assemblyman, World War veteran, communal

worker, New York City, aged 39, December 13, 1935.GODDIN, MRS. DORA F., civic and communal worker, New York City,

aged 71, April 16, 1936.GOLD, EDWARD, communal worker, New York City, aged 51, June 17,

1936.GOLDBERG, MAX, communal worker and philanthropist, Pittsburgh,

Pa., aged 75, July 27, 1935.GOLDBERGER, NORMAN, brewery head, communal worker, New York

City, aged 52, March 3, 1936.GOLDENBERG, ISAAC, merchant, Washington, D. C, aged 62, July 1,

1935.GOLDMARK, RUBIN, composer, department head at Juilliard School of

Music, New York City, aged 64, March 6, 1936.GOLDSCHMIDT, MRS. LINA, art critic (refugee from Nazi Germany),

New York City, at Newfoundland, N. J., aged 46, August 26, 1935.GOLDSCHMIDT, WILLIAM, lawyer, communal worker and philanthropist,

Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 67, September 30, 1935.GOODMAN, HERMAN, leather merchant, Chattanooga, Tenn., aged 91,

March 10, 1936.

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GOTTHEIL, RICHARD JAMES HORATIO, scholar, teacher of Semiticlanguages, author, Zionist leader, New York City, aged 73, May 22,1936.

GREENDLINGER, LEO, prominent accountant, and a founder of a largebusiness school, New York City, aged 56, October 11, 1935.

GREENWALD, MRS. ROSALIND R., communal and civic worker, Phila-delphia, Pa., aged 73, October 21, 1935.

GUGGENHEIMER, SAMUEL H., lawyer, author, communal worker, NewYork City, aged 66, March 30, 1936.

GUTH, BENJAMIN B., rabbi, New York City, aged 79, September 12,1935.

GUTMANN, BERNHARD, artist, founder of Silvermine Art Colony nearNew Canaan, Conn., New York City, aged 66, January 23, 1936.

GUTTMAN, ISRAEL, former Chief Rabbi of Kamenetz-Podolsk, Russia,and rabbi, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 78, March 2, 1936.

HARMATI, SANDOR, conductor, composer and lecturer, fellow in musicat Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson; New York City, aged 43,April 4, 1936.

HAYS, MRS. RACHEL H., communal and philanthropic worker, Pleas-antville, N. Y., aged 81, February 27, 1936.

HERTZ, AARON D., pioneer builder, communal worker, Cleveland, O.,aged 65, May, 1936.

HEXTER, CLARENCE G., motion picture pioneer, Philadelphia, Pa.,May 30, 1936.

HINDIN, WILLIAM, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 73,December 30, 1935.

HIRSCHENSOHN, CHAIM, rabbi, author, Zionist leader, Jersey City,N. J., aged 79, September 15, 1935.

HIRSH, WILLIAM A., SR., communal worker, Chicago, 111., at MackinacIsland, aged 64, September 17, 1935.

HOLZMAN, ASHER, banker, communal worker, New York City, aged71, May 2, 1936.

HURWITZ, ISAAC S., rabbi, scholar, Zionist worker, Hartford, Conn.,aged 67, December 30, 1935.

HYDE, ABRAHAM R., manufacturer and communal worker, Dorchester,Mass., July 31, 1935.

HYMAN, HENRY, communal worker, member of Board of Education,Dover, N. J., aged 91, November, 1935.

HYMAN, MAX, trade union organizer, public official, Brooklyn, N. Y.,aged 57, September 26, 1935.

ISAACS, BENDET, merchant, communal worker, New York City, aged70, March 30, 1936.

ISAACSON, CHARLES D., journalist, writer and lecturer on music,Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 44, February 15, 1936.

ISAACSON, ISADORE, rabbi, Hollywood, Cal., aged 47, June 1, 1936.ISRAEL, ABRAHAM, pioneer settler, communal worker, Worcester,

Mass., aged 72, December 7, 1935.JESSAR, BEN ZION, rabbi, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 76, January 30,

1936.JOFFE, JOSHUA A., rabbi, teacher, retired member of faculty of

Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City, in Freiburg,Germany, aged 73, December 23, 1935.

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JOSEF, EMANUEL, Civil War veteran, Buffalo, N. Y., aged 100, April 18,1936.

JOSEPH, WILLIAM, communal worker, Houston, Tex., May 12, 1936.KAAS, ANDREW, former prominent jeweler of Philadelphia, Pa., at

Atlantic City, N. j . , aged 81, February 7, 1936.KAHN, MRS. HATTIE, civic, communal and Zionist worker, Wash-

ington, D. C, at Miami Beach, Fla., aged 66, March 24, 1936.KAHN, JOSEPH, former teacher, rabbi, author and lecturer, Detroit,

Mich., aged 90, July 20, 1935.KAHN, LEO, jeweler, communal worker, New Brunswick, N. J., aged

48, July 10, 1935.KAHN, MAURICE, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 57,

November 19, 1935.KALISH, BEN ZION, physician, Zionist worker, St. Louis, Mo., Decem-

ber, 25, 1935.KANTROWITZ, MORRIS, State contractor and builder, Albany, N. Y.,

aged 63, August, 1935.KASINDORF, MRS. MIRIAM, poetess, communal worker and phil-

anthropist, New York City, aged 65, September 6, 1935.KASTOR, SHIRLEY S., former member of State Legislature, merchant,

Evanston, Wyo., aged 41, April, 1936.KATZ, SIEGRIED E., psychiatrist, instructor, New York City, aged

45, December 14, 1935.KAUFMAN, DAVID, merchant, communal worker, Harrisburg, Pa.,

aged 78, April, 1936.KIRSCHBERG, JULIUS I., pioneer merchant, president of Chamber of

Commerce, Port Angeles, Wash., November, 1935.KISER, SOL S., retired banker, civic and communal worker, Indianap-

olis, Ind., aged 77, November 12, 1935.-KLEBANOW, LEO, printer, World War veteran, held Distinguished

Service Cross and Oak Leaf Cluster, New York Citv, aged 40, January 1,1936.

KOESTLER, MORRIS, communal worker, Elizabeth, N. J., aged 86,January 24, 1936.

KOTKINS, ABE J., manufacturer, communal worker, Seattle, Wash.,aged 49, June 13, 1936.

KRAEMER, JACOB, communal and Zionist worker, Newark, N. J.,December, 1935.

KREIELSHEIMER, MAX, pioneer settler, merchant, Seattle, Wash.,aged 65, November 13, 1935.

KROW, EUGENE, civic and communal worker, McKeesport, Pa.,aged 60, September 14, 1935.

KUGELMAN, JULIUS, merchant, "dean of Forty-second Street,"member of Commission on Municipal Statistics, (1898), New YorkCity, aged 84, June 12, 1936.

KUPPENHEIMER, Louis B., industrialist, communal worker andphilanthropist, Chicago, 111., aged 78, February 1, 1936.

KURMAN, JMANDEL, rabbi, Atlantic City, N. J., aged 75, August 17,1935.

KUSSY, MRS. NATHAN, civic and communal worker, Newark, N. J.,aged 59, December 26, 1935.

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LAMPORT, SOLOMON, communal and Zionist worker, and philanthro-pist, New York City, aged 65, January 25, 1936.

LANGSDORF, MORRIS K., manufacturer, communal worker, Phila-delphia, Pa., aged 85, February 25, 1936.

LEBENSOHN, MAYER HARRIS, physician communal worker, Chicago,111., aged 72, June 27, 1936.

LEDERER, EMIL, steamship arbiter, New York City, in Vienna,Austria, aged 57, October 17, 1935.

LEDERER, JOSEPH, communal worker, Beaumont, Tex., aged 45,March, 1936.

LEHMAN, ALBERT CARL, steel founder, civic and communal worker,inaugurated art award, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 57, July 24, 1935.

LEHMAN, ARTHUR, banker, civic and communal leader and phil-anthropist, New York City, aged 63, May 15, 1936.

LEVI, DAVID A., battalion chief of fire department, Rochester, N. Y.,aged 64, June 19, 1936.

LEVINE, MORRIS D., rabbi, Professor of Hebrew and Bible at theJewish Theological Seminary of America, New York City, aged 54,December 8, 1935.

LEVINSON, DAVID, Zionist worker, retired manufacturer, New YorkCity, aged 71, January 26, 1936.

LEVITT, LOUIS, rabbi, Pine Brook, N. J., aged 77, August 3, 1935.LEVY, ADELINE R., communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., August 27,

1935.LEVY, EPHRAIM B., communal worker and philanthropist, Lawrence,

L. I., N. Y., aged 79, October 7, 1935.LEVY, PHILIP, newspaper man and theatrical manager, Allentown,

Pa., aged 63, September 21, 1935.LEWIN, MRS. HANNAH, communal worker, Maiden, Mass., aged 73,

July 30, 1935.LIBERMAN, MRS. SARAH, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged

74, October 16, 1935.LIPMAN, DAVID, communal leader, Seattle, Wash., aged 80, March

23, 1936.LIPSITCH, I. IRVING, former social worker in New York; director of

Federation of Jewish Welfare, Los Angeles, Cal., aged 51, December 28,1935.

LIPSKY, MRS. RACHEL, commuual worker, Rochester,, N. Y., aged 96,March 13, 1936.

LOEB, DANIEL, lawyer, civic and communal worker, World Warveteran, Jersey City, N. J., aged 43, January 24, 1936.

LOEB, HORACE, banker, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged68, December 1, 1935.

LOEB, LOUIS, communal worker, Akron, Ohio, aged 82, October 29,1935.

LOITER BARNET, communal and philanthropic worker, Lynn, Mass.,aged 72, June, 21, 1936.

LOWENGART, IGNATZ, pioneer merchant, Portland, Ore., aged 75,April 28, 1936.

LUBIN, MRS. ISADOR, author, editor, authority on progressive educa-tion, Washington, D. C, aged 36, November 15, 1935.

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LUBIN, SIMON J., agriculturist and economist, member of NationalLabor Board, San Francisco, Cal., aged 59, April 15, 1936.

MAGID, A., communal worker, St. Louis, Mo., aged 63, March 30,1936.

MARGOLIS, GABRIEL WOLF, rabbi, author and scholar, dean ofOrthodox rabbinate in America, New York City, aged 87, September 8,1935.

MARKS, JOSEPH, civic worker, former postmaster at Covington, Ky.,Memphis, Tenn., aged 76, October 12, 1935.

MARX, MRS. FANNY MENLINE, communal worker, New York City,aged 63, November 28, 1935.

MARX, LEON, violinist, former concert master of Chicago OperaCompany, Chicago, 111., aged 60, August 4, 1935.

MAYER, EDWIN, textile merchant, communal worker, New York City,aged 68, July 10, 1935.

MENDEL, LAFAYETTE BENEDICT, nutrition expert, author, editor,professor of physiological chemistry at Yale University, awarded goldmedal of American Institute of Chemists, (1927) and Conne Medal(1934) of New York Chemists Club, New Haven, Conn., aged 63,December 9, 1935.

MENKEN, MRS. ALICE DAVIS, penologist, author, communal leader involunteer social work, New York City, aged 66, March 23, 1936.

MEYER, JACOB I., rabbi, chaplain at Northeastern Federal Peniten-tiary, Hazleton, Pa., aged 42, April 18, 1936.

MIELZINER, LEO, portrait painter, New York City, at Truro, Mass.,aged 65, August 11, 1935.

MOND, HERMAN, physician, heart specialist, teacher of cardiology,New York City, aged 44, September 17, 1935.

MORAIS, HENRY S., rabbi, journalist, at New York City, aged 75,September 21, 1935.

MOSES, SOL, manufacturer, communal worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged81, February 22, 1936.

NEMET, GEZA, former professor at University at Berlin, heart spe-cialist, New York City, aged 40, March 1, 1936.

NEWHOUSE, ELVIRA SOLIS, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa.,June 5, 1936.

NEWHOUSE, FLORENCE M., communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa.,January 22, 1936.

NEWMAN, JACOB WARREN, communal worker, prominent obstetricianand child specialist, New Orleans, La., aged 61, May 1, 1936.

NEWMAN, MRS. JENNY, communal worker, Detroit, Mich., aged 66,May 19, 1936.

ORGLER, SABIN, revivalist preacher, Brooklyn, N. Y., November8, 1935.

OSHANSKY, Louis, communal worker, New York City, aged 67,October 18, 1935.

PERLMAN, FRANK, communal and civic worker, Memphis, Tenn.,aged 49, March 20, 1936.

PEYSER, NATHAN, educator, school principal, member of State Com-mission on Crime and Delinquency, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 48, May 8,1936.

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PFEFFER, Alter Saul, rabbi, scholar, former head of Union of OrthodoxJewish Congregations, New York City, aged 62, April 10, 1936.

PINANSKI, NATHAN, communal and philanthropic worker, formermember of Massachusetts Prison Board, Boston, Mass., aged 73,February 14, 1936.

PIZA, MRS. JOSHUA, communal leader, edited first Jewish prayer bookprinted in Braille, New York City, aged 83, September 12, 1935.

PODLASKY, HARRY BERNARD, communal worker, physician, roent-genologist, professor at medical school, World War veteran (Captain),Milwaukee, Wis., aged 52, November 3, 1935.

POLAKOFF, SOL, labor leader, New York City, aged 60, August 4, 1935.POLOZKER, ISAAC L., psychiatrist, clinical professor at college of

medicine, Detroit, Mich., aged 61, August 21, 1935.POLSKY, MORRIS, shipping head of American Palestine line, Zionist

worker, philanthropist, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 70, March 11, 1936.PRENSKY, MRS. JOSEPH, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged

67, December 9, 1935.RABINOVITCH, SAMUEL, leader in social work, executive director for

twenty-three years of Brooklyn United Jewish Aid Societies, New YorkCity, aged 55, January 23, 1936.

RABINOWITZ, SAMUEL, rabbi, scholar, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 67,April 6, 1936.

RABINOWITZ, WILLIAM, pioneer settler, communal worker, Seattle,Wash., aged 66, January, 1936.

RAFALOWSKY, MRS. LYNETTE GOTTLIEB, concert pianist, member ofstaff of Juilliard School of Music, New York City, September 16, 1935.

RANSOHOFF, MRS. JOSEPH, communal worker, Cincinnati, Ohio, aged78, July 20, 1935.

RAPPORT, GEORGE L., pharmacist, a founder of the Connecticut Col-lege of Pharmacy and former head of State Association, Hartford, Conn.,aged 60, February 1, 1936.

RATNER, HARRY, major, member of Hoover American Relief Com-mission to Belgium and Poland, Pittsburgh, Pa., February 29, 1936.

REGENBOGEN, VIGDOR, rabbi, Hassidic leader, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged72, August 9, 1935.

RHODES, SIDNEY H., Mayor, Deal, N. J., aged 56, March 2, 1936.RICE, JACOB J., communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 88, April

7, 1936.RICHMAN, CHARLES LEHMAN, philanthropist, Cleveland, Ohio, at

Los Angeles, Cal., aged 64, March 12, 1936.RIPPNER, MRS. JENNIE, social worker, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 64,

February 2, 1936.ROCKER, SAMUEL, communal leader, founder and editor of Jewish

World, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 71, March 18, 1936.ROGERS, HARRIS, manufacturer, communal worker and philan-

thropist, New York City, aged 92, May 24, 1936.ROSALSKY, OTTO A., judge, communal leader, New York City, aged

62, May 11, 1936.ROSENBERG, ABRAHAM, labor leader, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 65,

December 4, 1935.ROSENBERG, LUDWIG, merchant, communal worker, New York City,

at Atlantic City, N. J., aged 63, June 28, 1936.

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ROSENBLATT, MRS. SARAH, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged83, November 22, 1935.

ROSENBLOOM, MRS. RACHEL LEAH, communal worker, Denver, Colo.,aged 69, November 13, 1935.

ROSENBLUM, ADOLPH, communal worker, active in B'rith Sholom,Philadelphia, Pa., aged 67, February 3, 1936.

ROSENFELD, HECTOR, retired business executive, internationallyknown puzzle-maker, Flushing, N. Y., aged 77, December 10, 1935.

ROSENFIELD, MORRIS, pioneer settler, Dallas, Tex., aged 79, March15, 1936.

ROSENSTEIN, N., optometrist, civic, communal and professionalworker, Durham, N. Car., aged 59, May, 1936.

ROSENTHAL, BENJAMIN JEFFERSON, merchant, civic worker andphilanthropist, established preventorium for tubercular children inArgonne, France, Chicago, 111., aged 68, May 14, 1936.

ROSENTHAL, EDWARD, publisher and book-binder, Cincinnati, Ohio,aged 58, March 10, 1936.

ROSENTHAL, MAURICE I., surgeon, civic and communal worker, FortWayne, Ind., aged 66, December 24, 1935.

ROSENTHAL, MAX, physician, gynecologist, a founder of SydenhamHospitel, New York City, aged 71, April 3, 1936.

ROSENTHAL, NOAH, rabbi, Kingston, N. Y., aged 53, April 2, 1936.ROSEWATER, MRS. THERESA R., communal and social worker,

Cleveland, Ohio, aged 71, February 17, 1936.ROTHAFEL, SAMUEL LIONEL (Roxy), radio and motion picture

entrepreneur, New York City, aged 53, January 13, 1936.ROTHSCHILD, MARCUS ADOLPHUS, physician, author, heart specialist,

president of New York County Medical Society, Major in MedicalCorps in World War, New York City, aged 42, February 16, 1936.

ROTHSCHILD, SIMON FRANK, merchant, department store executive,communal and civic worker, New York City, aged 74, January 5, 1936.

SACHS, ED., pioneer merchant and civic leader, Alamo City, Tex.,aged 81, July 3, 1935.*

SAGAL, LOUIS M., theatre manager, communal worker, New Haven,Conn., aged 62, December 30, 1935.

SAGOFF, PHILIP, communal and Zionist worker, Cambridge, Mass.,April 12, 1936.

SAMUELS, CESAR, communal worker, philanthropist, Los Angeles,Cal., aged 84, July, 1935.

SAMUELS, SAMUEL N., fur manufacturer, advisor to Coolidge Adminis-tration on fur industry, philanthropist and communal worker, NewYork City, aged 57, February 3, 1936.

SCHAPIRO, HERMAN, former interpreter in City Supreme Court, micro-photographer, Baltimore, Md., aged 60, January 1, 1936.

SCHAYER, MILTON M., editor, communal and civic worker, Denver,Colo., aged 60, December 18, 1935.

SCHINDLER, KURT, musician, founder of MacDowell Chorus (ScholaCantorum) several years choir master at Temple Emanu-El, authorityon folk-music, New York City, aged 53, November 16, 1935.

* Date of publication of news item.

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SCHLOSS, ELI, civic and communal worker, Indianapolis, Ind., aged61, April 21, 1936.

SCHNADIG, JACOB, furniture manufacturer, communal worker, Chicago,111., aged 59, July 12, 1935.

SCHNITZLER, ISIDORE, concert violinist, New York City, aged 76,October 17, 1935.

SCHWABACHER, Louis A., civic, communal and philanthropic worker,San Francisco, Cal., aged 66, August 1, 1935.

SCHWARTZ, MRS. HANNAH, communal worker, San Francisco, Cal.,aged 82, October, 1935.

SCOTT, MAX, merchant, communal worker, New York City, aged 63,June 17, 1936.

SELIG, EMIL, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 91, May 10,1936.

SELKIN, ALEXANDER, real estate operator, communal, philanthropic,and Zionist worker, New York City, aged 67, March 30, 1936.

SESSLER, CHARLES, bibliophile and bookseller, founder and honorarypresident of Dickens Fellowship, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 81, September4, 1935.

SHOTTENFELS, MRS. MINA, dean of the United Order of True Sisters,New York City, aged 87, July 24, 1935.

SHPALL, AARON S., educator and journalist, New Orleans, La., aged55, August 30, 1935.

SIDENBERG, MRS. HENRY, communal worker, New York City, aged89, January 2, 1936.

SIMON, ROBERT E., civic worker and philanthropist, New York City,aged 58, September 7, 1935.

SINGER, JACOB, lawyer, former official, communal and educationalworker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 76, May 28, 1936.

SLOANE, MRS. CECELIA WOLF, communal worker, Los Angeles, Cal.,aged 76, June 18, 1936.

SNEIDER, SOLOMON, poet, pedagogue and translator, Los Angeles,Cal., aged 39, January, 1936.

SOLOVEI, JACOB, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 69, August21, 1935.

SOUZA, MRS. KITTIE, nurse overseas in World War, Port Chester,N. Y., May 21, 1936.

SPEAKER, HENRY M., graduate rabbi, principal emeritus of GratzCollege, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 67, July 30, 1935.

SPELLMAN, LOUIS E., merchant, communal worker, Larchmont,N. Y., aged 63, January 7, 1936.

SPIERS, RICHARD N., artist and designer of stained glass windows,Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 63, May 29, 1936.

SPITZ, LEOPOLD, lawyer, communal leader, New York City, aged 48,October 21, 1935.

STEIN, JACOB W., merchant, civic and communal worker, East Liver-pool, Ohio, aged 64, June 29, 1935.

STEIN, MRS. JULIUS, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 60,May 30, 1936.

STEIN, SALO, rabbi, chaplain at public institutions, aged 60, June 51936.

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STEIN, MORRIS L., rabbi and communal worker, Port Chester, N. Y.,aged 69, July 15, 1935.

STIEGLITZ, ALBERT, stock-broker, philanthropist, New York City,aged 79, April 28, 1936.

STRAHL, ROBERT, realtor, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged87, August 1, 1935.

STRANSKY, JOSEF, musician and art collector, former conductor ofNew York Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City, aged 61, March6, 1936.

STRAUS, LEWIS, manufacturer, communal worker and philanthropist,New York City, aged 67, December 18, 1935.

STRAUSS, MALCOLM, author, artist, illustrator, World War veteran"Royal Flying Corps," New York City, aged 53, April 10, 1936.

STRAUSS, NATHAN, former head of provision chain, philanthropist,Brooklyn, N. Y., April 6, 1936.

SUTRO, CHARLES W., financier, San Francisco, Cal., aged 71, April26, 1936.

TERR, JACOB, Yiddish playwright, New York City, aged 84, October30, 1935.

TOLEDANDO, PHINEAS H., importer and exporter, New York City,aged 80, June 30, 1936.

TUHOLSKE, M. C, physician, communal worker, Akron, Ohio, April,1936.

UNGERLEIDER, M., rabbi, Chicago, 111., 1934.*UNTERBERG, MRS. ISRAEL, communal leader and philanthropist,

New York City, aged 67, December 10, 1935.VEIT, ADOLPH N., mayor, civic and communal worker, Livingston,

Mont., aged 67, August, 1935.WEINER, HARRY, dentist, former head of Kings County Dental

Society, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 43, June 17, 1936.WEISS, SANDOR, civic worker, Passaic, N. J., aged 89, September 3,

1935.WEISS, SIMON B., rabbi, Duquesne, Pa., November 16, 1935.WEISSMAN, REUBEN, Yiddish playwright and producer, New York

City, aged 81, February 24, 1936.WEITZENKORN, MRS. JENNIE LIVINGSTON, communal worker, Wilkes-

Barre, Pa., May 26, 1936.WEYL, JULIUS S., printer, communal worker, Philadelphia, Pa., aged

65, December 22, 1935.WIEDER, HENRY S., physician, teacher, Philadelphia, Pa., aged 54,

April 22, 1936.WIENER, JACOB I., communal worker, Jamaica, L. I., N. Y., aged 60,

February 28, 1936.WIERNIK, PETER, editor-in-chief, Jewish Morning Journal, Yiddish

daily, author, communal worker, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 70, February12, 1936.

WINTHROP, MOSES H., public official, Minneapolis, Minn., aged 57March 6, 1936.

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WOLFE, WALTER BERAN, author, sculptor, psychiatrist, lieutenantWorld War, New York City, in motor accident in Switzerland, aged 35,August 15, 1935.

WOLFF, ARNOLD, military telegrapher in Civil War, Chicago, 111.,aged 90, February, 1936.

WOLFF, ARTHUR JACOB, physician, municipal bacteriologist, Hartford,Conn., aged 81, June 22, 1936.

WOLFF, HENRY F., lawyer, public official, New York City, aged 58,July 28, 1935.

WOLFNER, HENRY, physician, honored by St. Louis Medical Societyfor outstanding achievements, St. Louis, Mo., aged 74, July 11, 1935.

WOLLMAN, HENRY, lawyer, communal and civic worker and philan-thropist, New York City, aged 76, March 13, 1936.

YOULIN, ISAAC, communal worker, Los Angeles, Cal., aged 55,February 14, 1936.

ZIMMAN, HARRY B., former mayor, councilman, city commissioner,communal worker, Omaha, Neb., aged 57, February 29, 1936.

OTHER COUNTRIES

AARONI, EPHRAIM, oldest Jew in Palestine, Haifa, Palestine, aged 116,September 25, 1935.

ABRASHKIN, JEHUDA LEIB, talmudic scholar, a founder of the JewishColony Rivera, Buenos Aires, Argentine, aged 80, June, 1936.

Abravanel, S., communal leader, Paris, France, aged 64, October,1935.

ACKERMAN, MRS. RACHEL, oldest Jewess in Poland, Warsaw, Poland,aged 111, January 23, 1936.

ADLER, YEHUDA LEON, Major, Warsaw, Poland, aged 43, April, 1936.AGHION, CESAR, bank president, Knight of Legion of Honor, Alexandria,

Egypt, aged 60, December, 1935.ALBU, SIR GEORGE, mining pioneer, former Consul-General for Den-

mark, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 78, December 27,1935.

ALEXANDER, BERNARD, solicitor, justice of the peace, communalleader, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 63, November 19,1935.

ALUF, ALEXANDER SAMOILOVITCH, neurologist and head of KazanMedical Institute, member of faculty of Second Moscow State Univer-sity, Moscow, Russia, aged 50, July 24, 1935.

ANCONA, UGO, Senator, Minister of Communications, Rome, Italy,aged 63, June 22, 1936.

ANGEL, ISAAC, communal worker, London, England, August 13, 1935.ANGEL, SOL S., communal worker, Nottingham, England, aged 36,

July 16, 1935.ANKAWA, RAPHAEL, Chief Rabbi, named by French government

president of the Haut Tribunal Rabbinique (1918); awarded cross ofchevalier of the Legion of Honor (1929), Sale, Morocco, aged 87, August26, 1935.

ARTOM, ERNESTO, Senator, Rome, Italy, aged 67, November 13, 1935.ASCH, NAHUM, Chief Rabbi, author and talmudist, Czestochowa,

Poland, aged 75, May 12, 1936.

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BARANY, ROBERT R., surgeon, winner of 1914 Nobel Prize for Medicine,Upsala, Sweden, aged 59, April, 1936.

BARNET, ZORACH, Zionist leader, a founder of the Hovevei Zion,Petach Tikvah, Palestine, aged 94, October IS, 1935.

BEHRENS, CLIVE, Major, communal worker, Malton, England, aged64, September, 1935.

BERKOWICZ, MICHAEL, Zionist worker, collaborator of Theodor Herzl,Szezyrk (Silesia), Poland, aged 70, July, 1935.

BERLINER, , financial expert and champion of Jewish rights,Vienna, Austria, aged 55, February, 1936.

BLANK, MAURICE, communal worker, Stockport, England, aged 32,August 22, 1935.

BLATTNER, LUDWIG, inventor of the "Blattner-phone" Elstree,England, October 29, 1935.

BLAU, LUDWIG, authority on the Bible, talmudist, professor ofSemitic languages, Budapest, Hungary, aged 75, March 26, 1936.

BLOCH, MONTAS, merchant and communal worker, Cape Town,Union of South Africa, aged 80, June, 1935.

BLOOM, MRS. L., communal worker, Grimsby, England, aged 71,April, 1936.

BLUBSTEIN, JACOB, Zionist, educator and orator, Tel Aviv, Palestine,aged 55, October 3, 1935.

BLUMENTHAL, ABRAHAM, former member of City Council, Montreal,Canada, aged 75, January 19, 1936.

BOGOROZ, VLADIMIR (pseud. Tan) ethnographer and author, formerrevolutionist, Leningrad, Russia, aged, 70, May 11, 1936.

BOROCHOV, ABE JACOB, rabbi, Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 87, April28, 1936.

BRANDVEIN, ZANVIL, talmudist and scholar, Czernowitz, Roumania,aged 40, September 12, 1935.

BRAUDE LOUIS, Deputy Mayor, communal workerand Zionist, Salis-bury, South Rhodesia, South Africa, aged 58, June 13, 1936.

BRAUN, LUDWIG, heart specialist, president of Union of JewishDoctors of Austria, President District 12, International Order B'naiB'rith, Vienna, Austria, aged 69, May 9, 1936.

BRODNITZ, JULIUS, lawyer, communal leader, a founder of CentralVerein der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin, Germany, aged 69, June 17,1936.

CARO, NICODEM, chemist, inventor, Rome, Italy, aged 64, July 5, 1935.CASSEL, ISRAEL, Zionist worker, engineer, a founder of Hadar Ha

Carmel, Haifa, Palestine, aged 65, February 22, 1936.CITROEN, ANDRE, engineer, automobile magnate, munition maker,

Paris, France, aged 57, July 3, 1935.CLEIMAN, ISRAEL, served in Jewish Battalions under General Allenby,

pioneer newspaper man, secretary of the American Consulate, Jerusalem,Palestine, aged 37, December 27, 1935.

COEN, MATTIA, member of Consular service in Near East and BalkanCountries, holder of Order of Santi Maurizzio e Lazzaro, Rome, Italy,aged 84, May, 1936.

COFFINAS, NISSIM M., communal worker, Athens, Greece, November,1935.

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COHEN, DAVID, communal worker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England,aged 79, August 10, 1935.

COHEN, MRS. HARRIS, communal worker, London, England, Decem-ber, 1935.

COLLINS, EDWIN, minister, author, included in Civil list by lateKing George, London, England, aged 79, June 8, 1936.

COUZIN, ABRAHAM, scholar and communal worker, Johannesburg,Union of South Africa, aged 68, March 18, 1936.

COWEN, SIR FREDERIC HYMEN, composer and conductor, London,England, aged 83, October 6, 1935.

DANZIGER, MARCUS, communal worker, Manchester, England, aged73, July 4, 1935.

DAVIS, JEANETTE, educator and communal worker, Birmingham,England, aged 79, July 21, 1935.

DEUTSCHLANDER, SAMUEL, noted Goethe scholar and authority,author and educator, founder of Beth Jacob schools of the AgudathIsrael, Vienna, Austria, aged 47, August 8, 1935.

DREYFUS, ALFRED, Colonel, innocent victim of conviction for treason,imprisoned on Devil's Island in 1894, cleared in 1906, Paris, France,aged 75, July 12, 1935.

DREYFUS, CHARLES, J. P., scientist, civic and communal worker,Manchester, England, at Mentone, France, aged 87, December, 1935.

EDER, MONTAGUE DAVID, Zionist leader, author, physician, authorityon psychoanalysis, London,-England, aged 70, March 30, 1936.

EHRENBERG, ALEXANDER, expert on Jewish matters at Ministry ofInterior and former Government Press Censor, Warsaw, Poland, aged60, September 1935.

EPSTEIN, HIRSCH, communal leader of Lomza, Poland, (suicide) atBialystok, Poland, aged 62, February 18, 1936.

ETTINGER, SALOMON, lawyer and social worker, Warsaw, Poland,aged 62, November 26, 1935.

FAINER, MRS. C. B., communal worker, Montreal, Canada, January24, 1936.

FEINGOLD, ABRAHAM, rabbi and scholar, Moscow, Russia, aged 62,May 20, 1936.

FEINSTEIN, BERTHA, communal worker, Harrismith, Orange FreeState, South Africa, aged 52, February, 1936.

FELDSTEIN, MOSHE, social and Zionist worker, Warsaw, Poland, aged81, June 29, 1936.

FINKLESTONE, SAUL HARRY, educator, Zionist and communal worker,Sheffield, England, aged 66, August 27, 1935.

FLAPPEN, JACOB, poet and author, Grassia, Cordova, aged 38, March,1936.

FUCHSGELB, GUIDO, communal worker, Vienna, Austria, aged 59,July, 1935.

GANS, LEO, Nestor of chemical industry, honorary citizen, Frankforta.M., Germany, aged 92, September 14, 1935.

GERZON, EDUARD, merchant and philanthropist, Knight of Order ofNetherlands Zion; Officer of Orange Nassau Order, Amsterdam, Nether-lands, aged 73, September 3, 1935.

GETZ, AARON, Zionist pioneer, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa,aged 63, March 12, 1936.

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GOLDBERG, ISAAC LOEB, pioneer Zionist (Hovevei Zion) and philan-thropist, Tel Aviv, Palestine, at Zurich, Switzerland, aged 75, September16, 1935.

GOLDBERG, JOSEPH ELIEZER, rabbi, Warsaw, Poland, aged 56,September, 1935.

GOLDBERG, L., civic and communal worker and philanthropist,Worcester, Union of South Africa, aged 57, August 4, 1935.

GOLDMANN, PAUL, journalist (refugee from Germany), Vienna,Austria, aged 70, September 26, 1935.

GOLDSTINE, SAMUEL J., communal worker, active in work for blind,New York City and Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 66, September 26, 1935.

GOLOMB, DAVID, "Amdur Ilui," author, published commentary onthe Talmud, Hove, England, aged 74, December, 1935.

GORDON, SALOMON, rabbi and author, Druskienniki, (near Grodno),Poland, aged 95, July 1, 1935.

GOTSMAN, ABRAHAM JOSEPH, communal and Zionist worker, educator,Krugersdorp, South Africa, aged 42, January 15, 1936.

GRADENWITZ, OTTO, former professor of law at Heidelberg University,Berlin, Germany, aged 75, August, 1935.

GRONEMANN, MRS. SONIA, Zionist leader (German refugee), Tel Aviv,Palestine, aged 52, March 24, 1936.

GULSKI, ISRAEL LEIB, rabbi, former head of Lomza Yeshiva, Lomza,Poland, aged 90, December, 1935.

GUNZBURG, ALFRED, BARON, philanthropist, communal leader, Paris,France, aged 71, April 6, 1936.

HAAS, ROBERT, member of the League Secretariet, member of Frenchdelegation to the Peace Conference; Secretary General of the LyttonCommission examining into Manchukuo, Geneva, Switzerland, aged44, November 4, 1935.

HAGER, SZRILCHE ISRAEL, gaon, rabbi, Oradea Mare (Transylvania),Roumania, aged 73, June 3, 1936.

HAHN, AUGUSTE FEUCHTWANGER, physician, , Palestine, Septem-ber, 1935.

HAINISCH, MRS. MARIANNE, mother of Michael Hainisch, presidentof Austria (1920-1928), aged 97, May 5, 1936.

HARRIS, SAMUEL, communal worker, Toronto, Canada, aged 69,March 12, 1936.

HASKELL-COHEN, MRS. FRADELLE, former lawyer and teacher inNew York City, Zionist, communal worker, Haifa, Palestine, aged 52,January 2, 1936.

HASSELL, LOUIS, communal worker, Birmingham., England, aged74, April 23, 1936.

HEILBRON, MYER J., educator and communal worker, Hove, England,aged 87, October 24, 1935.

HENRIQUES, MRS. -ADA RACHEL Q., communal worker, London,England, aged 73, May 16, 1936.

HENRY, MRS. ROSE MABEL (MAY) LINDO, social and communalworker, London, England, aged 69, August 9, 1935:

HERBSTEIN, MORITZ, communal and Zionist worker, participated infirst Italian expedition in Abyssinia (1887), and in German East AfricanCampaign, Cape Town, Union of South Africa, October 19, 1935.

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HERSCH, BENZION S., communal leader and Zionist worker, Johannes-burg, Union of South Africa, aged 50, July 16, 1935.

HESCHEL, ISRAEL MAYER, Hassidic rabbi, Vienna, Austria, September30, 1935.

HIJMAN, H. J., member of City Council, journalist and philanthropist,Rotterdam, Netherlands, aged 68, September 3, 1935.

HIMMELFARB, JACOB, judge, communal leader, member of JewishAgency for Palestine, Warsaw, Poland, aged 64, July 11, 1935.

HIRSCH, HERMAN, German Zionist leader, , Palestine, aged 50,October, 1935.

HIRSCHMANN, JACOB, communal and Zionist worker, pioneer settler,Pietersburg (Northern Transvaal) South Africa, September 25, 1935.

HOCH, MRS. ROSA, communal worker, Liverpool, England, August14, 1935.

HOLLAENDER, LUDWIG, lawyer, communal leader, editor of CentralVerein Zeitung, Munich, Germany, aged 59, February 10, 1936.

HURWITZ, BARUCH, rabbi and communal leader, Alexot, Lithuania,October, 1935.

IMIANITOFF, SIMON, physician, awarded several distinctions of a highorder by Belgian Government after the War, Antwerp, Belgium, aged70, December, 1935.

ISAACS, RUFUS DANIEL (Marquess of Reading), Chief Justice ofEngland and Viceroy of India, London, England, aged 75, December30, 1935.

ISRAEL, BERTHOLD, department store owner, communal and philan-thropic worker, Berlin, Germany, aged 68, July,25, 1935.

JACOBS, MONTAGUE EMANUEL, communal worker, Newport, England,aged 74, September, 1935.

JAFFE, HILLEL, pioneer physician, Haifa, Palestine, aged 72, January18, 1936.

JASCALEVICH, ALEJANDRO A., philosopher, psychologist, essayist,Vice-Rector at National School of Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentine, aged42, June 26, 1936.

KAHN, BORUCH WIRGILI, labor leader and educator, Wilno, Poland,aged 52, January, 1936.

KALISZ, JERACHMIEL, "wonder rabbi," Amschinow, Poland, aged 58,January 27, 1936.

KAPLAN, MAURICE, rabbi, Toronto, Canada, aged 68, July 24, 1935.KARMINSKI, EUGENE, leading international banker, decorated with

Spanish Order of Isabella; Officer of the French Legion of Honor,London, England, aged 77, October 26, 1935.

KEKSKEMETI, LEOPOLD, Chief Rabbi, Oradea Mare, Transylvania,Roumania, aged 71, June, 1936.

KING, SOLOMON, pioneer merchant and realtor, Toronto, Canada,aged 68, November 2, 1935.

KLAEGER, EMIL, professor, editor of Neue Freie Presse, Vienna,Austria, June, 1936.

KLEEBINDER, ERNST, editor Wiener Sonn-und Monlagszeitung, Vienna,Austria (suicide), May 7, 1936.

KLUMEL, MEIR, former president of Polish Zionist Federation, TelAviv, Palestine, aged 62, February 19, 1936.

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KNER, ISADOR, printer and publisher, Gyoma, Hungary, aged 76,August 27, 1935.

KOOK, ABRAHAM ISAAC HACOHEN, Chief Rabbi, Jerusalem, Palestine,aged 69, September 1, 1935.

KOOTCHER, MORRIS, philanthropist, Windhoek, Southwest Africa,at Cape Town, Union of South Africa, December 12, 1935.

KRAEMER, ARCADY (AARON), former revolutionary leader and afounder of the Jewish Labor Party, (Bund), Vilna, Poland, aged 70,September 20, 1935.

KRAUS, KARL, playwright, critic, essayist, Vienna, Austria, aged 65,June 15, 1936.

KRETZMER, NATHAN, attorney, Zionist worker, Johannesburg, Unionof South Africa, aged 31, January 18, 1936.

LANDAU, MENACHEM ELIMELECH (Dzikiewer Rebbe) rabbi, Strikow,Poland, at Warsaw, Poland, aged 78, February 12, 1936.

LANGDON, MRS. ADA, J. P., communal worker, active during WorldWar, Manchester, England, aged 68, December 7, 1935.

LANDSBERG, FREDERICK, communal leader and philanthropist, recip-ient of silver jubilee medal, Victoria, B. C , Canada, aged 76, July, 1935.

LANGER, JOSEPH, German author, Paris, France, aged 59, August,1935.

LARA, ISIDORE DE, musician, and composer, Paris, France, aged 78,September 2, 1935.

LASAKY, BELA, musical composer, Vienna, Austria, November 2, 1935.LAZARUS, KARL, farmer, fought in Anglo-Boer War, Bethal, Union

of South Africa, August, 1935.LAZARUS, SAMUEL O., communal worker, Norwood, England, aged

75, November, 1935.LEBOVICH, FELIX C , former president of Ashkenazi Council, honorary

Judge assessor at the Mixed Tribunal, decorated by Spanish Govern-ment, Cairo, Egypt, at Vienna, Austria, aged 57, August 5, 1935.

LEE, ARTHUR, physician, councillor, communal and civic worker,Bournemouth, England, aged 38, November 15, 1935.

LEJEUNE, JULES, pioneer settler of Kimberley and the Rand, Johan-nesburg, Union of South Africa, aged 90, February 14, 1936.

LEON, LEWIS, communal worker, Manchester, England, aged 70,November 24, 1935.

LESKI-KOPROWSKI, LEON, Zionist worker, journalist and editor,Warsaw, Poland, aged 45, July 9, 1935.

LESZCHINSKI, JOSEPH, Zionist worker, labor leader and journalist,Warsaw, Poland, aged 51, July 30, 1935.

LEVI, EDWARD, communal worker, Commandant, United ServicesBrigade, Swansea, Wales, June 19, 1936.

LEVI, JOSEPH, first Jewish settler in Cork, Ireland, aged 104, April,1936.

LEVI, SYLVAIN, historian, orientalist, member of faculty of theSorbonne, communal leader, president of the Alliance Israelite Univer-selle, Paris, France, aged 72, October 31, 1935.

LEVIANSKY, WILLIAM TELFER, communal worker, London, England,aged 76, April 26, 1936.

LEVIN, ESTHER, centenarian, London, England, aged 102, May 15,1936.

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LEVITT, MRS. B., communal and educational worker, Montreal,Canada, April 23, 1936.

LEVY, ISAAC, communal worker and Talmudic scholar, Llanhilleth,South Wales, October, 1935.

LEVY, JOSEPH LIONEL, communal and philanthropic worker, Man-chester, England, aged 75, September 16, 1935.

LEVY, MOISE, journalist, Salonika, Greece, at Paris, France, aged41, December, 1935.

LEWIS, MORRIS, communal worker, Leeds, England, aged 70, January4, 1936.

LICHTENHEIN, SAMUEL E., sports leader, Montreal, Canada, aged65, June 21, 1936.

LIEBOWITZ, S., communal and Zionist worker, Kirkwood, C. P.,South Africa, February 15, 1936.

LIIXIMAN, BENJAMIN, communal worker, Nottingham, England,aged 73, March 30, 1936.

LIPSCHITZ, MAURICE SABSE, pioneer Zionist, communal 'leader,justice of the peace, Oudtshoorn, South Africa, aged 68, August 13, 1935.

LITOVITCH, ISRAEL, minister, talmudist, Aberavon and Port Talbot,England, aged 67, January 9, 1936.

LOEBELRITTER, BERNARD, Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam, Netherlands,aged 80, December 22, 1935.

LORIE, MAX, pioneer Zionist leader, Antwerp, Belgium, aged 62,February 28, 1936.

LOWENSTEIN, O. B., communal and social worker, Commandant inSouth African War, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa, January, 1936.

Lwowicz, YERUCHAM, talmudist, rabbi, head of Yeshiva, Mir,Poland, aged 62, June, 1936.

LYON-CAEN, CHARLES, jurist, official of Institut de France, Paris,France, aged 92, September 18, 1935.

LYONS, MRS. ANNE, communal worker, Edinburgh, Scotland, aged72, June, 1936.

MALACH, LEIB, novelist, poet and playwright, Paris, France, aged 42,June 19, 1936.

MARCUS, ISAAC, communal worker, Cork, Ireland, May 21, 1936.MATATHIAS, NISSIM, lawyer, communal leader, Athens, Greece, at

Vienna, Austria, aged 60, September, 1935.MAYER, , colonel, communal worker, Algiers, Algeria,'aged 86,

November 4, 1935.MENACHE, ISAAC, communal leader, Demotica, Greece, February,

1936.MENDELSOHN, OSCHER, ex-Senator, member of Central Council of

Agudath Israel, Warsaw, Poland, aged 62, September 30, 1935.MENKIN, JULIUS B., rabbi and author, Durban, Union of South

Africa, aged 71, July 16, 1935.MICHAELIS, GEORG, official translator and interpreter-in-chief of the

Bank for International Settlements, Basle, Switzerland (refugee fromGermany), June, 1936.

MICHAELSON, ASSUR, artist, exhibited at Royal Academy, Lossie-mouth, England, aged 65, February 13, 1936.

MILLEM, MAURICE, instituted under name "Ray Smith" loan librarieswithout a deposit, London, England, July 24, 1935.

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MONTE, CRESCENZO DEL, communal worker, historian and antiquarian,Rome, Italy, aged 68, October, 1935.

MONTEFIORE, FRANCIS ABRAHAM, baronet, communal Sephardicleader and Zionist, London, England, aged 74, July 1, 1935.

MOSSERI, DONALD N., banker, Cairo, Egypt, aged 45, November7, 1935.

MUGGIA, ATTILIO, professor, Royal School of Engineering, Directorof Royal School of Industrial Chemistry, communal leader, Bologna,Italy, aged 76, March, 1936.

NACHEMSOHN, JOSEPH, art dealer, Zionist leader, Stockholm, Sweden,March, 1936.

NADEL, , scholar, lecturer at Dorpot University, authority onEastern languages, Director of the Hebrew Gymnasium, Riga, Latvia,at Moscow, Russia, aged 38, February 11, 1936.

NATHAN, SIR CHARLES S., C. B. E., developer of trade in Australia,Perth, Australia, aged 66, June, 1936.

NETTER, ARNOLD, physician, former professor at University of Parisand of University of Strasbourg, communal leader, president of AllianceIsraelite Universelle, Paris, France, aged 81, March 1, 1936.

NIRENSTEIN, MAURITZIO, educator, economist, literateur, BuenosAires, Argentine, aged 58, July, 1935.

NUCHEMZE, , rabbi, Rachmistrivki, , at Jerusalem, Palestine,aged 85, February 25, 1936.

OLANITSKIE, HARRIS, communal worker, Manchester, England, aged66, August, 1935.

OSMOS, JACOB A., Zionist worker, educator, Athens, Greece, aged 73,February, 1936.

OSTERSETZEN, ISIDORE, communal leader, Brodi, Poland (assassinated),May, 1936.

PAPPENHEIM, BERTHA, author, feminist leader and crusader againstwhite slave traffic, New Isenburg, Germany, aged 77, June 4, 1936.

PECK, HARRIS, communal worker, Monmouthshire, England, aged85, June 3, 1936.

PERLS, MRS. MINNA, communal worker, Hull, England, aged 83,February, 1936.

PIERCE, ASHER, communal and Zionist worker, and philanthropist,Montreal, Canada, aged 68, May 18, 1936.

PINELES, FRIEDRICH, professor of internal medicine and a director ofthe Kaiser Franz Josef Ambuatorium, author, Vienna, Austria, aged68, March 6, 1936.

POLAK, J., former sub-director of public and civil works in the DutchEast Indies, The Hague, Netherlands, aged 68, October 30, 1935.

PORTUGAL, MRS. SARAH, communal worker, London, England, July,1935.

PRELOOKER, JAAKOFF, poet and author, founder of the New Israelmovement in Russia, Hastings (Sussex), England, aged 75, October 24,1935.

PRICE, HARRIS LEWIS, minister emeritus, Hampstead, England, aged72, December 23, 1935.

RABINOWITSCH-KEMPNER, LYDIA, professor, bacteriologist, author,Berlin, Germany, aged 64, August 3, 1935.

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RAKOUS, VOJTECH, author, Prague, Czechoslovakia, aged 73, August,1935.

RATNER, MICHAEL, financial director of Agro-Joint organization forsettling Jews, Moscow, Russia, aged 44, March 26, 1936.

RITTER, B. L., Chief Rabbi, Rotterdam, Netherlands, aged 79,December 29, 1935.

ROBACK, MYER MOSES, Zionist, communal worker, talmudist,Montreal, Canada, aged 63, September 27, 1935.

ROBINS, MRS. HESTER, communal worker, Councillor, O. B. E.,Plymouth, England, January 5, 1935.

ROKEACH, LEIBUSCH, rabbi, member of Chassidic dynasty, Warsaw,Poland, aged 85, August 7, 1935.

Roos, PH., communal leader, Coevorden, Netherlands, aged 86,October, 1935.

ROSE, JULIAN, comedian, London, England, aged 66, September 13,1935.

ROSEMAN, MYER, communal and Zionist worker, munitions officerin World War, Plymouth, England, February 5, 1936.

ROSEN, JOSEPH, rabbi, "Rogachever Gaon," Rogachev, Russia, aged76, March 5, 1936.

ROSENBERG, Y., rabbi, communal leader, Montreal, Canada, aged75, November, 1935.

ROSENTHAL, NYMAN (Reb Nachman), communal worker, London,England, aged 92, May 2, 1936.

ROTNOWSKI, LEOPOLD, president of the Polish-American Chamber ofCommerce, Warsaw, Poland, aged 65, October 15, 1935.

SALOMONS, DAME LAURA JULIA, communal worker, Tunbridge Wells,London, England, aged 80, November 23, 1935.

SANDBERG, LUDWIG, councillor-at-law, Eberswalde (near Berlin),Germany (suicide), aged 72, February 18, 1936.

SANDERS, A., communal leader, Rotterdam, Netherlands, aged 81,December 18, 1935.

SANDOR, PAUL, economist, member of Parliament, Budapest, Hungary,aged 75, February 6, 1936.

SASSOON, MRS. FLORA, talmudist, communal worker, London, England(formerly Bombay, India), aged 79, January 15, 1936.

SCHAAP, PHILIP H., film magnate, social and philanthropic worker,Amsterdam, Netherlands, December, 1935.

SCHOR, CHAIM, rabbi, chaplain for forty-two years, with rank ofColonel, Komona, Roumania, aged 68, June, 1936.

SEBAG-MONTEFIORE, MRS. WILLIAM, communal worker, V. A. D., inWorld War, Montreal, Canada, aged 50, January 12, 1936.

SEGAL, ABRAM, scientist, secretary of the Institute of Organic Chem-istry, Moscow, Russia, aged 40, July 4, 1935.

SEGAL, JACQUES, war-time liaison officer between French and BritishMilitary forces in Paris and Syria, Paris, France, aged 59, October 31,1935.

SEIGLER, MRS. DORA, philanthropic worker, Montreal, Canada,aged 75, June 28, 1936.

SHER, JACOB, communal worker, Durban, South Africa, February2, 1936.

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SILVERBUSCH, DAVID JESAIA, Hebrew author, former editor of Ha-or(Vienna), Jerusalem, Palestine, aged 81, March 1, 1936.

SIMHA, ASCHER, rabbi, communal leader, Salonika, Greece, at Paris,France, aged 72, January, 1936.

SLUTSKY, GREGORY, Zionist worker, engineer, Brussels, Belgium,aged 56, May, 1936.

SOKOLOW, NAHUM, Zionist leader and past president of the WorldZionist Organization, scholar and author, London, England, aged 74,May 17, 1936.

SOLOMON, ADA, educator, London, England, aged 61, September 28,1935.

SPIEGLER, GUSTAV, director of Phoenix Insurance Company, presidentof Austrian Maccabi Association, Vienna, Austria, aged 51, April 12,1936.

SPIELMAN, SIR MEYER ADAM, educator, communal and Zionist worker,knighted (1928), London, England, aged 79, January 13, 1936.

SPRAD, ALTER, rabbi, Ostrow (Volhynia), Poland, aged 80, October,1935.

STEINMAN, JACOB, communal worker, Southend, England, aged 61,August 3, 1935.

STERN, ALFRED, author, historian, professor of History of ZurichTechnical Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, aged 90, April 6, 1936.

STERN, LEOPOLD, retired cattle dealer, Army officer in World War,(suicide in Miinchen-Gladbach prison), Germany, aged 67, August,1935.

STODEL, JACOB, Nestor of antiquarians, Amsterdam, Netherlands,aged 78, September, 1935.

STRNAD, OSCAR, architect, professor at the Kunstgewerbeschule,Vienna, Austria, aged 57, September, 1935.

SUPERVIA, MME. CONCHITA (MRS. BEN RUBENSTEIN), operaticprima donna, London, England, aged 36, March 30, 1936.

TEITCH, MOSHE, author and poet, Moscow, Russia, aged 53, October29, 1935.

TUCHOLSKY, KURT, anti-Nazi writer, refugee from Germany, (suicide),Hindaas, Sweden, December 20, 1935.

UMANSKI, MOSES, communal and Zionist worker, physician, formerofficer in Russian Army, London, England, aged 74, May 11, 1936.

VALENTINE, NATHANIEL P., communal worker, London, England,aged 84, December, 1935.

VAN PRAAG, DAVID, communal worker, London, England, aged 60,December 30, 1935.

VEVIORKA, ABRAHAM, writer, dramatist, critic, Kiev, Russia, aged48, December 8, 1935.

WEISKOPF, MOISE, rabbi, communal worker, Paris, France, aged 99,February, 1936.

WELLNER, MRS. HENRI, communal worker, Zionist leader, Antwerp,Belgium, aged 56, April, 1936.

WERTHEIMER, SOLOMON AARON, rabbi, author, Jerusalem, Palestine,August, 1935.

WHITE, SAMUEL, communal and philanthropic worker, Dublin,Ireland, November, 1935.

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WILENSKY, JUDAH LEIB, former rabbi in Russia, Zionist worker, afounder of the Hovevei Zion movement, Haifa, Palestine, aged 65,September 17, 1935.

WINTER, LEO, social-democratic leader, member of Austrian Parliament(1907), first Minister of Social Security of the Czechoslovak Republic,Prague, Czechoslovakia, aged 59, August 29, 1935.

WISLICKI, WACLAW, member of Sejm, president of Central JewishMerchants Association, Warsaw, Poland, aged 53, October 3, 1935.

WRESCHNER, JACOB, rabbi and author, Franfort a.M., Germany,aged 70, September 5, 1935.

•WRESCHNER, MEYER, Danish authority on law, Chief Advocate ofthe Supreme Court of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, aged 55,June 11, 1935.

YANOFSKY, SAMUEL, journalist on editorial staff of Moment, Warsaw,Poland, aged 45, July 20, 1935.

YOFFE, CHAIM, South African Zionist leader, Tel Aviv, Palestine,aged 51, October 16, 1935.

ZHYTLOWSKY, MICHAEL, social welfare worker, Vilna, Poland, aged61, October 26, 1935.

ZIFF, ISAAK, rabbi, Lwow, Poland, aged 70, November 7, 1935.ZISHA, I. MORDCHI, rabbi, Trisker, Roumania, aged 76, April, 1936.ZODIJ, J., first stenographer of the Dutch Parliament and author of

the Groote shorthand system, The Hague, Netherlands, July 16, 1935.ZOLKIE, ABRAHAM, communal worker, Dublin, Ireland, July, 1935.

* Omitted, from Vol. 37.