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JEWISH NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THEUNITED STATES

1 National Organizations organized after April 1, 1930, are not included in this list.

ALEPH ZADIK ALEPH OF THE B'NAI B'RITHOrg. 1924. OFFICE: 650 Omaha National Bank Bldg., Omaha, Neb.Seventh Annual International Convention, July 12-14, 1930, Oak-

land, Cal.Chapters 140. Members, 5,000.PURPOSE: Mental, moral and physical development of Jewish youth.

Inculcation of Jewish ideals.SUPREME ADVISORY COUNCIL: Pres., Sam Beber, Omaha, Neb.; First

Vice-Pres., Jacob J. Lieberman, Los Angeles, Cal.; Second Vice-Pres.,Julius J. Cohn, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Third Vice-Pres., Joseph Herbach,Philadelphia, Pa., Treas., Harry Lapidus, Omaha, Neb.; Sec, I. F.Goodman, Omaha, Neb.; Ex. Sec, Philip M. Klutznick, Omaha, Neb.;Asst. Exec. Sec, Julius Bisno, Omaha, Neb.; Alfred M. Cohen, Cincin-nati, O.; Wilfred B. Feiga, Worcester, Mass.; Hyman M. Goldstein,Washington, D. C.; Leo Kaminsky, Indianapolis, Ind.; Joseph Karesh,San Francisco, Cal.; Henry Monsky, Omaha, Neb.; I. M. Rubinow,Cincinnati, O.; Aaron Tollin, Chester, Pa.; Isadore Weiss, Oakland, Cal.

ALEXANDER KOHUT MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONOrg. 1926. OFFICE: 1185 Park Avenue, New York City.

Annual Meeting, March 27, 1930, New York City.Number of Branch Societies, 5.PURPOSE: TO promote original research and to publish works bearing

upon Jewish literature and related subjects.OFFICERS: Pres., Hon. Julian W. Mack; Vice-Pres., Alexander Marx;

Sec, Julius Bewer; Treas., Albert Tallmer; Exec. Dir., George A. Kohut;Exec. Sec. for America, Benjamin Barondess; Exec. Sec. for Europe, Dr.Emil Damask.

ALPHA EPSILON PHI WOMEN'S FRATERNITYOrg. 1909. OFFICE: 2026 Broadway, New Orleans, La.

Biennial Convention, July 26th—30th, 1929. Mackinac Island, Mich.Next Biennial Convention, July 6-10, 1931, Asheville, N. C.Members, 2,160.PURPOSE: TO foster close friendship between members, to stimulate

the intellectual, social and spiritual life of the members, and to countas a force through service to others.

OFFICERS: Dean, Bertha Wolbrette Feitel; Scribe, Aline LazardRoos, New Orleans, La.; Field Sec, Elizabeth Eldridge, San Antonio,

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Texas; Exec. Sec, Louise W. Wolf, New Orleans, La.; Sub-Dean,Gertrude Friedlander Markel, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Treas., Irma LoebCohen, Cleveland, O.; Ritualist, Lucy Cooper; Historian, BeatriceFeingold, N. Y. C.; Editor, Viola Land Rusnak, Chicago, 111.; AlumnaeSec, Martha Kaplan Freedman, Brooklyn, N. Y.

ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITYOrg. 1913. OFFICE: Woolworth Bldg., New York City.

Eighteenth Annual Convention, Dec. 26-29, 1931, Philadelphia, Pa.Chapters, 21. Alumni Clubs, 12. Members, 1,940.PURPOSE: An intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity, maintaining an

educational and social service.OFFICERS: Supreme Master, Max S. Schrieber; Supreme Lieutenant

Master, Lester Harwood Block; Supreme Scribe, J. George Greenberg;Supreme Exchequer, Alexander L. Grossman; Supreme Historian, AlvinAppel; Exec. Sec, Lester Harwood Block, 233 B'way, N. Y. C.

ALPHA MU SIGMA FRATERNITYOrg. 1914. OFFICE: 327 W. 84th, New York City.

Annual Convention, Dec. 24-28, 1930, New Haven, Conn.Members, 850.PURPOSE: TO foster and perpetuate the fraternal spirit among its

personnel, to cultivate and promote an ideal social relationship amongthem, to voluntarily give aid to fraters in distress and to perpetuate theideals which gave origin to its existence.

OFFICERS: Hon. Grand Prior, Irving H. Fisher, Brooklyn, N. Y.;Grand Prior, Morton M. Grossman; Grand Vice-Prior, LawrenceLevitas; Grand Chancellor of the Exchequer, Milton S. Abramson, N.Y. C ; Grand Scribe, Leon S. Imrey, 124 Remington, New Rochelle, N.Y.; Grand Historian, David Miller, Portsmouth, N. H.; Chairman Bd.of Trustees, Abba A. Orlinger, Brooklyn, N. Y.

ALPHA OMEGA FRATERNITYOrg. 1907, Inc., 1909. OFFICE: Secretary, 419 Boylston, Boston, Mass.

Twenty-fourth Annual Convention, Dec. 25-27, 1931, Buffalo, N. YChapters, 25. Alumni Clubs, 9. Members, 2,500.PURPOSE: TO uphold the highest standards of the dental profession,

further the causes of Judaism and to promote fraternalism.OFFICERS: Chancellor, Henry Brown, N. Y. C.; Vice-Chancellors,

Edward Pressman, Philadelphia, Pa.; Max Rabinovich, San Francisco,Cal.; Leonard Sidlow, Detroit, Mich.; Supreme Scribe, A. M. Flaschner,419 Boylston, Boston, Mass.; Quaestor, J. W. Malkinson, Hartford,Conn.; Editor, Joseph Gruber, Detroit, Mich.; Historian, Max Soifer,Hartford, Conn.; Marshall, M. D. Wolfsohn, Buffalo, N. Y.; Macer,H. H. Goldberg, Buffalo, N. Y.

ALPHA ZETA GAMMA DENTAL FRATERNITYOrg. 1910. OFFICE: 55 E. Washington, Chicago, 111.

Annual Convention, Feb. 2, 1931, Chicago, 111.Members, 1684. Chapters, 12.

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PURPOSE: For professional and social betterment of members.OFFICERS: Supreme Grand Master, M. Schneider; Supreme Grand

Treas., B. Krohn; Supreme Grand Scribe, A. D. Newberger; SupremeGrand Fin. Scribe, R. Friedman.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DROPSIE COLLEGEOrg. 1924. OFFICE: Broad and York, Philadelphia, Pa.

Annual Meeting, March 8, 1931, Philadelphia, Pa.Members, 41.PURPOSE: TO advance the interests of the Dropsie College and further

spirit of friendship among its graduates.OFFICERS: Pres., Solomon Grayzel, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-Pres.,

William Chomsky, Philadelphia, Pa.; Sec.-Treas., Joseph Reider, Broadand York, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE HEBREW UNION COLLEGEOrg. 1889. Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, O.

Annual Meeting, June 17, 1931, Wauwausee, Ind.Members, 200.PURPOSE: TO promote welfare of the Hebrew Union College and to

strengthen fraternal feeling among graduates of the college.OFFICERS: Pres., Emil Leipziger, New Orleans, La.; Vice-Pres.,

Eugene Mannheimer, Des Moines, la.; Sec, Ira E. Sanders, Capitol HillApts., Little Rock, Ark.; Treas., Solomon Bazell, Louisville, Ky.;Historian, Julian B. Feibelman, Philadelphia, Pa.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE JEWISH INSTITUTEOF RELIGION

Annual Meeting, March 17, 1931, New York City.OFFICERS: Pres., J. X. Cohen, N. Y. C.; Vice-Pres., Maurice A.

Hirshberg, Chicago, 111.; Treas., Baruch Braunstein, N. Y. C.; Sec,Morton M. Berman, N. Y. C.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE TRAINING SCHOOLFOR JEWISH SOCIAL WORK

Org. 1927. OFFICE: 71 West 47th, New York City.Annual Meeting, Oct. 12, 1930, New York City.PURPOSE: TO maintain friendly relationships among the members; to

maintain cordial relations with the Training School; to support its aimsand aid its development; to aid in the maintenance and developmentof professional standards.

OFFICERS: Pres., Herman Jacobs; Eastern Vice-Pres., Elsie Lakoff;Mid-Western Vice-Pres., Sam'l Levine; Eva Sackeroff; Western Vice-Pres., Charles Schottland; Treasurer, Moses Beckelman; Sec, EstherDavison.

AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR JEWISH RESEARCHOrg. 1920, Inc., Dec. 20, 1929. OFFICE: Philadelphia, Pa.

Members, 285; Honorary members, 5.


PURPOSE: The furtherance of Jewish learning through periodicalmeetings at which learned papers shall be presented and discussed; theformulation and carrying into effect of scholarly undertakings of aco-operative character; the issuance of publications; the promotion ofrelations of fellowship and co-operation between scholars and learnedorganizations in America and those in other countries; furnishingopinions upon scholarly projects submitted to the Academy; andthrough such other means as may, from time to time, be determinedby the Academy.

OFFICERS: Pres., Louis Ginzberg, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., AlexanderMarx, N. Y. C ; Treas., Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Cincinnati, O.; Corr. Sec,David S. Blondheim, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Rec.Sec, Leo Jung.

AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF HEBREW TEACHERS COLLEGEOF JERUSALEM

Org. May, 1925. OFFICE: 50 E. 58th, New York City.PURPOSE: TO secure contributions for Hebrew Teachers College of

Jerusalem and to advance its purpose in America.OFFICERS: Chairman, Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.; Treas.,

Israel Unterberg; Sec, David de Sola Pool; Exec. Sec, J. Max Weis,N. Y. C ; and Alfred M. Cohen, Alexander M. Dushkin, Harry P.Fierst, Israel Goldstein, George A. Kohut, Arthur M. Lamport, LouisLipsky, Solomon Lowenstein, Julian W. Mack, Henrietta Szold,Stephen S. Wise.

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY,JERUSALEM, PALESTINE

Org. 1925. OFFICE: 71 W. 47th, New York City.PURPOSE: TO disseminate information about the Hebrew University,

and to promote interest in and support of its activities.OFFICERS: Chairman, Felix M. Warburg; Yice-Chairman, Julian W,

Mack, Walter E. Meyer; Treas., Maurice Wertheim; Sec, Elisha M.Friedman; Chairman Office Comra., Solomon Lowenstein; Director.David Tannenbaum.

AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEOrg. Nov. 11, 1906; Inc., March 16, 1911. OFFICE: 171 Madison Ave.,

New York CityFor report, see p. 339.

AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESSOrg. 1920. OFFICE: 33 West 42nd, New York City.

Eighth Session, Oct. 19-20, 1930, Washington, D. C.Delegates, 400.PURPOSE: TO further and promote the full rights of Jews; to safeguard

and defend such rights wherever and whenever they are either threat-ened or violated; to deal generally with all matters relating to andaffecting specific Jewish interests.


OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Dr. Stephen S. Wise; Pres., Bernard S.Deutsch; Vice-Pres., Wm. M. Lewis, Nathan D. Perlman, Carl Sherman,Mrs. Archibald Silverman, Robt. Szold, Baruch Zuckerman; ChairmanAdministrative Committee, Nathan D. Perlman; Chairman ExecutiveCommittee, Joseph Tenenbaum; Treas., Jacob Leichtman, Ex. Dir.,B. G. Richards, 33 W. 42nd St., N. Y. C.

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYOrg. 1892. OFFICE: N. E. Cor. Broadway & 122d, New York City.

Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting, Nov. 14-15, 1931, New York City.Members, 450.Has issued thirty-two volumes of publications and an index to publica-

tions 1-20. Maintains a collection of books, manuscripts, and historicalobjects in its rooms in the building of the Jewish Theological Seminary,Jacob H. Schiff Memorial Library, N. E. Cor. Broadway and 122d,N. Y. C.

OFFICERS: Pres., Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-Pres., Simon W. Rosendale, Albany, N. Y.; David Philipson, Cincinnati,O.; Richard J. H. Gottheil, Max J. Kohler, N. Taylor Phillips, N. Y. C ;Treas., Henry S. Hendricks; Librarian, Edw. D. Coleman; Curator,Leon Huhner; Cor. Sec, Albert M. Friedenberg, 116 Nassau Street,N. Y. C ; Rec. Sec, Abraham A. Neuman, Philadelphia, Pa.

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT AGRICULTURAL CORPORATION

Org. July, 1924. OFFICE: 7 Hanover, New York City.PURPOSE: TO assist and give material aid to Jews to engage in agri-

cultural pursuits and to settle upon the land in Russia, and to act as theoperative agency in Russia of the American Society for Jewish FarmSettlements in Russia, Inc., and to render other constructive aid toJews in Russia.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Pres., Joseph A. Rosen; Vice-Pres., E. A.Grower; and S. E. Lubarsky, Bernard Kahn, D. J. Schweitzer.

AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE

Org. Nov. 24, 1914. OFFICE: 7 Hanover, New York City.PURPOSE: Distribution of funds for the relief and rehabilitation of

Jews overseas.MAJOR ACTIVITIES: Economic reconstruction directly and in co-opera-

tion with the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation; child care,medical, cultural-religious, vocational training, etc.

OFFICERS: Chairman, Felix M. Warburg; Vice-Chairman, HerbertH. Lehman, James N. Rosenberg; Treas., Paul Baerwald; Assoc. Treas.,Geo. W. Naumburg; Comptroller, Mrs. Jonah J. Goldstein; Sec, Jos.C. Hyman.

AMERICAN MEMBERS OF COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN JOINT RECON-STRUCTION FOUNDATION: Felix M. Warburg, Herbert H. Lehman,Bernard Flexner, Peter Wiernik, Meyer Gillis, Leonard G. Robinson;Sec, Jos. C. Hyman.


DIRECTOR FOR EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE: Dr. Bernhard Kahn.DIRECTOR FOR RUSSIA: Dr. Joseph A. Rosen.

AMERICAN JEWISH PHYSICIANS' COMMITTEE

Org. May 24, 1921. OFFICE: 106 E. 85th, New York City.Tenth Annual Meeting, May 12, 1930, New York City.Members, about 1,000.PURPOSE: TO build a medical college and hospital in connection with

the Hebrew University in Palestine.OFFICERS: Pres., Nathan Ratnoff; Vice-Pres., Meyer R. Robinson

and Albert A. Epstein; Treas., Harry E. Isaacs; Sec, Israel S. Wechsler,N. Y. C ; Chairman, Exec. Comm., Emanuel Libman, N. Y. C.

AMERICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE WORLD UNIONFOR PRESERVING HEALTH OF JEWS

Org. May 10, 1929. OFFICE: 1919 Madison Ave., New York City.Annual Convention, Jan, 11, 1931, New York City.Members, 28.PURPOSE: TO promote health, hygiene and sanitation among East

European Jews.OFFICERS: Chairman, Milton J. Rosenau; Vice-Chairman, Emanuel

Libman; Sec.-Treas., J. J. Golub.

THE AMERICAN ORTOrg. 1922. OFFICE: 220 Fifth Ave., New York City.

PURPOSE: Promotion of technical trades and agriculture among theJews in Eastern and Central Europe.

OFFICERS: Chairman, Murray Levine; Chairman Exec. Com., HenryMoskowitz; Vice-Chairmen, Edward Lazansky, Joseph Baskin, Louis B.Boudin, Samuel Ellsberg, Gustave Hartman, B. C. Vladeck; Treas.,Morris Berman; Hon. Sec, Herman Bernstein; Exec. Sec, EzekielRabinowitz.

AMERICAN PRO-FALASHA COMMITTEEOrg. Aug. 1922; Inc., 1923. OFFICE: 305 Broadway, New York City.

PURPOSE: The educational and religious rehabilitation of the FalashaJews of Abyssinia.

OFFICERS: Hon. Chairman, Cyrus Adler, Philadelphia, Pa.; Chair-man, Norman Salit; Vice-Chairmen, Mordecai M. Kaplan, NathanStern, Peter Wiernik; Treas., S. Herbert Golden; Hon. Sec, IsaacLandmann, Elias L. Solomon, N. Y. C.; Executive Director, JacquesFaitlovitch.

WOMEN'S DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN PRO-FALASHA COMMITTEEOrg. February 1, 1930.

OFFICERS: Hon. Chairman. Mrs. Rebekah Kohut; Chairman, Mrs.Nathaniel Levy; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Herbert S. Goldstein, Mrs.Samuel Spiegel; Treas., Mrs. Eva Levy; Fin. Sec, Mrs. Max J. Branden-burger; Rec Sec, Mrs. David Kass.


AMERICAN RELIEF SOCIETY FOR THE YEMENITE TEWS OFJERUSALEM, PALESTINE, INC.

Org. Feb. 3, 1928. OFFICE: 196 Henry, New York City.Members, 1,000.PURPOSE: TO extend assistance to Yemenite Jewish poor and to

Yemenite Jewish institutions in Jerusalem, Palestine.OFFICERS: Treas., David Freiberger; Sec, A. Gabli. Committee:

Reuben Arbib, G. Bublick, Mordecai Danzis, Samson Erdberg, JacobFischman, David Freiberger, Harry Friedenwald, Jacob Goell, Jos.Solomon Houred, Maximilian Hurwitz, Leo Jung, Max N. Koven,Solomon Lamport, Israel Levinthal, Wm. Levy, Jos. Lookstein, Davidde Sola Pool, Israel Rosenberg, Michael Salit, Norman Salit, JudaSeltzer, Elias L. Solomon, Peter Wiernick, Stephen S. Wise.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR JEWISH FARM SETTLEMENTSIN RUSSIA, INC.

Org. Nov. 13, 1928. OFFICE: 7 Hanover, New York City.Operative Agency in Russia: American Jewish Joint Agricultural

Corporation (Agro-Joint). Dir., Joseph A. Rosen.PURPOSE: TO encourage, aid. and facilitate the creation, development

and increase of farm settlements among the Jews in Russia.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Julius Rosenwald and Felix M. Warburg;

Pres., James N. Rosenberg; Treas., Paul Baerwald; Associate Treas.,Lewis L. Strauss; Sec, Joseph C. Hyman.

AMERICAN ZION COMMONWEALTHOrg. 1914. OFFICE: 111 Fifth Av., New York City.

Last Annual Convention, June, 1930.Members, 6,000.PURPOSE: Acquisition and sale of Palestinian land and securities.OFFICERS: Pres., David Freiberger; Vice-Pres., Louis Germain; Treas.,

Morris Weinberg; Sec, S. Kobak, N. Y. C.

AVUKAH, AMERICAN STUDENT ZIONIST FEDERATIONOrg. June, 1925. OFFICE: 1133 Broadway, New York City.

Fifth Annual Convention, Dec. 24-28, 1930, Boston, Mass.Members, 1,200. Chapters, 34.PURPOSE: TO conduct Zionist educational activity in American

universities and colleges.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Max Rhoade, Washington, D. C ; Pres., Sam-

uel M. Blumenfield, Chicago, 111.; Vice-Pres., Mitchell S. Fisher, N. Y.C ; Sidney Jacobi, N. Y. C ; Maurice B. Pekarsky, N. Y. C ; Hon.Treas., Charles Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Treas., R. Lewin-Epstein,N. Y. C ; Hon. Sec, James Waterman Wise, N. Y. C ; Exec. Sec, Geo.M. Hyman.

BARON DE HIRSCH FUNDOrg. Feb. 9, 1891; Inc., 1891. OFFICE: 233 Broadway, New York City.

Fortieth Annual Meeting, Feb. 1, 1931, New York City.


PURPOSE: Endowed by Baron and Baroness de Hirsch in sum of$3,800,000. Americanization and assimilation of Jewish immigrants,their instruction in trades and agriculture and promotion of agricultureamong them.

ACTIVITIES: 1. Aid to agriculture through the Jewish AgriculturalSociety, N. Y. C , and the granting of scholarships to agriculturalschools. 2. Baron de Hirsch Trade School, N. Y. C , which offers freetrade instruction. 3. Immigration aid port work through subsidizedsocieties. 4. The town of Woodbine, N. J., which was founded by itin 1891.

OFFICERS: Pres., S. G. Rosenbaum; Vice-Pres., Arthur H. Sulzberger;Treas., Simon F. Rothschild; Hon. Sec, Max J. Kohler, 25 W. 43d.,N. Y. C.

B'NAI B'RITHOrg. Nov. 1, 1843. OFFICE: 9 W. 4th, Cincinnati, O.

Thirteenth Quinquennial Convention, April 27—May 1, 1930, Cin-cinnati, O.

Members, 75,000.Lodges, 602 (399 in North America, 203 in Europe, Asia, and Africa).Districts, 15 (7 in the United States).Institutions founded by the Order in the United States: HEBREW

ORPHANS' HOME, Atlanta, Ga.; B'NAI B'RITH CEMETERY, Chicago, 111.;FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU, Chicago 111.; JEWISH WIDOWS' AND OR-PHANS' HOME, New Orleans, La.; TOURO INFIRMARY, New Orleans, La.;HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM, Yonkers, N. Y.; JEWISH ORPHANS' HOME,Cleveland, O.; B'NAI B'RITH FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU, Pittsburgh,Pa.; RELIEF COMMITTEE, Hot Springs, Ark.; B'NAI B'RITH CLUB, SanFrancisco, Cal.; HOME FOR JEWISH ORPHANS, LOS Angeles, Cal.; IMMI-GRANT SCHOOLS at Kalamazoo, Mich., and Memphis, Tenn.; SABBATHSCHOOLS, at Houghton, Mich.; Trenton, N. J.; Sharon, Pa.; and Madi-son, Wis.; B'NAI B'RITH ORPHANAGE, at Erie, Pa.; LEO N. LEVI HOS-PITAL, Hot Springs, Ark.; BOY'S VACATION CAMP, Chicago, 111.; SOCIALSERVICE BOYS SUMMER CAMP, Minneapolis, Minn.; B'NAI B'RITHHILLEL FOUNDATIONS at Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio,Michigan, California, West Virginia, Texas, and Cornell University;NATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTIVES, Denver, Colo.;MEXICO IMMIGRATION BUREAU; and numerous other institutions.

OFFICERS: Pres., Alfred M. Cohen, Cincinnati, O.; First Vice-Pres.,Lucius L. Solomons, San Francisco, Cal.; Second Vice-Pres., ArchibaldA. Marx, New Orleans, La.; Treas., Jacob Singer, Phila., Pa.; Sec,I. M. Rubinow, Cincinnati, 0 .

B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL FOUNDATION COMMISSIONOrg. 1923, OFFICE: Electric Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Foundations, 8.PURPOSE: The maintenance of foundations devoted to social and

religious work among students at the university.ADMINISTRATORS: Acting Dir., Louis Mann, 4600 S. Parkway, Chi-

cago, 111.; Fred Bernstein, Alfred M. Cohen, A. B. Freyer, Solomon


Goldman, James G. Heller, Edward L. Israel, Nathan Krass, Joseph L.Kun, Edgar C. Levey, Joseph Rosenzweig, I. M. Rubinow, E. J.Schanfarber, Philip L. Seman, Abba Hillel Silver, Morris D. Waldman.

BUREAU OF JEWISH SOCIAL RESEARCH, INC.Org. April, 1919. OFFICE: 71 W. 47th, New York City.

Merger of Bureau of Philanthropic Research of New York City, andField Bureau of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, and sup-ported by funds provided by the New York Foundation, HofheimerFoundation, Federations of Jewish Philanthropies throughout thecountry, private contributions, and fees for seryice.

PURPOSE: Research into problems of Jewish social and communalwork in the United States and in other centers of Jewry throughoutthe world, with a view to improving their programs of social work andto integrating them with general social work activities.

OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Adolph Lewisohn; Pres., David M. Heyman;Vice-Pres., Lee K. Frankel, Felix M. Warburg; Treas., Walter N.Rothschild; Sec, Solomon Lowenstein; Ex. Dir., H. L. Lurie.

CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBISOrg. July 9, 1899. OFFICE: Cincinnati, O.

Forty-second Annual Convention, June 17-21, 1931 Lake Wawasee,Ind.

Members, 268.Has issued thirty-nine volumes of its Year Book; and besides, the

Union Prayer Book; the Union Hymnal; the Union Haggadah; Prayersfor Private Devotion; Army Ritual for Soldiers of the Jewish Faith(1916); and various other publications.

OFFICERS 1930-1931: Pres., Morris Newfield, Birmingham, Ala.;Vice-Pres., Samuel H. Goldenson, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Treas., Felix A.Levy, Chicago, 111.; Rec. Sec, Isaac E. Marcuson, Macon, Ga.; Cor.Sec, Harry S. Margolis, St. Paul, Minn.

COUNCIL OF YOUNG ISRAEL AND YOUNG ISRAELSYNAGOGUE ORGANIZATIONS

Org. 1912. OFFICE: 120 Wall, New York City.Annual Convention, June 19-22, 1931, Asbury Park, N. J.Members, 8,000.PURPOSE: TO promote traditional Judaism and to further the religious

and cultural development of the American Jewish youth.OFFICERS: Pres., Edward S. Silver; Vice-Pres., J. David Delman;

Esther Garfunkel; Treas., Chas. Levine; Fin. Sec, David Lowenkron;Rec. Sec, Sadie Wachtelkenig; Ex. Dir., Harry Bluestone.

COUNCIL ON AMERICAN JEWISH STUDENT AFFAIRSOrg. 1925. OFFICE: New York City.

PURPOSE: Advisory body for discussion of problems of interest toJewish students at American colleges and universities, and presentation


of such recommendations as the Council shall deem wise, proper andconstructive, educational and otherwise.

OFFICERS: Chairman, Harold Riegelman, N. Y. C ; Sec.-Treas.,Aaron E. Stein, 22 W. 77th St., N. Y. C.

DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATELEARNING

Org. 1905. Inc. May 20, 1907. Broad and York, Philadelphia, Pa.Incorporated in State of Pennsylvania.Invested funds about $900,000.LIBRARY: Volumes and pamphlets, 39,250.OFFICERS: Pres., Cyrus Adler; Vice-Pres., Horace Stern; Treas., D.

Hays Solis-Cohen; Sec, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Phila., Pa.BOARD OF GOVERNORS: The Officers, and Arthur Bloch, Philadelphia,

Pa.; Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.; Isaac Gerstley, Louis Gerst-ley, Howard S. Levy, Simon Miller, A. S. W. Rosenbach, Edwin Wolf,Philadelphia, Pa.

FACULTY: Pres., Cyrus Adler (M. A., Pennsylvania; Ph. D., JohnsHopkins; D. H. L. Hebrew Union College; D. Litt., Pennsylvania);Professor in charge of the Biblical Department, Max L. Margolis (M. A.,Ph. D., Columbia); Professor in charge of the Rabbinical Department,Solomon Zeitlin (Th. D., Ecole Rabbinique; Ph. D., Dropsie); AssociateProfessor Historical Department, Abraham A. Neuman (M. A., Colum-bia; H. L. D., Jewish Theological Seminary of America); AssociateProfessor Department of Egyptology, Nathaniel J. Reich, (Ph. D.,Vienna); Instructor Biblical Department and Librarian, Joseph Reider(B. A., College of the City of New York; Ph. D., Dropsie); Instructor inArabic, Solomon L. Skoss (M. A., Denver; Ph. D., Dropsie).

THE EX-PATIENTS' TUBERCULAR HOMEOF DENVER, COLO.

Org. 1908. OFFICE: 505 Interstate Trust Building, Denver, Colo.Home located at 8000 E. Montview Blvd., Denver, Colo.Members, 55,000. Auxiliaries, 4.PURPOSE: TO care for patients who have been discharged from a

Tubercular Sanatorium or Hospital, who are in need of further treat-ment, and to rehabilitate these patients so that they will again becomeself-respecting and self-supporting citizens.

OFFICERS: Pres., Max Bronstine; Vice-Pres., Harry Stern; Sec, A. M.Blumberg, P. O. Box 1768; Treas., Morris Binstock.

FEDERATION OF AMERICAN JEWS OFLITHUANIAN DESCENT

Org. Nov., 1928. OFFICE: 63 Fifth Ave., New York City.PURPOSE: TO extend co-operation to the Jews of Lithuania.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres.j Wm. M. Lewis; Pres., Henry Hurwitz; Vice-

Pres., (United States); A. B. Cohen, Edward M. Chase, AlexanderIsserman, Meyer Kreeger, Israel Matz, Herman L. Winer; Vice-Pres.,


(Canada); Lyon Cohen, A. B. Freiman, S. Kronick; Treas., LeviRokeach; Sec, Mordecai Katz.

FEDERATION OF HUNGARIAN JEWS IN AMERICAOrg. Nov. 1 1909. OFFICE: 145 Nassau, New York City.

Tenth Convention, May 25-26, 1930, New York City.Members, 36,000. Societies, 107.PURPOSE: TO promote the political, educational, social and religious

interests of the Hungarian Jews here and in Hungary.OFFICERS: Pres., Samuel Buchler; Vice-Pres., Bernard Price; Treas.,

Alexander Altman; Acting Sec, Dorothy Buck, N. Y. C.

FEDERATION OF ORTHODOX RABBIS OF AMERICA, INC.Org. 1926. OFFICE: 252 E. Broadway, New York City.

PURPOSE: To promote Judaism in America and to help the "Agunoth"in Europe.

ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE: L. Oartenhaus, S. L. Hurwitz, I.Maierovich, J. Peimer, B. S. Trainin; Exec. Sec, Aaron Dym.

FEDERATION OF PALESTINE JEWSOrg. July, 1929. OFFICE: 38 Park Row (Room 501) New York City.

Annual Convention, July 6, 1930, New York City.Members, 1,000. Branches, 15.PURPOSE: TO extend assistance to Palestinian Jews in America and

Canada, and to promote the upbuilding of Palestine.OFFICERS: Pres., J. M. Charlop; Treas., U. Felshin; Sec, Jacob L.

Moinester, 38 Park Row, New York City.

FEDERATION OF POLISH JEWS IN AMERICAOrg. 1908. OFFICE: 32 Union Square, New York City.

Twenty-third Annual Convention, June 6-7, 1931, Asbury Park, N. J.Members, 15,000.PURPOSE: TO cultivate and maintain friendly relations and co-opera-

tion among the Landsmannschaften in America; To extend assistance tothe Jews of Poland; To promote cultural activities among affiliatedsocieties; To extend medical assistance to members.

Publishes a bi-monthly, in Yiddish and English, Der Verband.OFFICERS: Pres., Benjamin Winter; Hon. Vice-Pres., Jacob Glad-

stone, Chas. Green; Vice-Pres., M. Halpern, A. Harris, Herman B.Oberman, Sol Rosenfeld, Alfred Rosenstein, J. Stofsky; Treas., JacobLeichtman; Sec, David Trautman; Exec. Dir., Z. Tygel.

HADASSAHTHE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION

Org. 1912. OFFICE: 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.Sixteenth Annual Convention, Oct. 26-28, 1930, Buffalo, N. Y.Chapters, 304. Sewing Circles, 900.Junior Hadassah Groups, 220.PURPOSE: TO promote Jewish institutions and enterprises in Pales-

tine, and to foster Zionist ideals in America.


OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Henrietta Szold; Pres., Mrs. Edward Jacobs,N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., Pearl Franklin, Chicago, III., Mrs. Samuel Halprin,Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Henry Harris, San Francisco, Cal., Mrs. RobertSzold, Pelham, N. Y.; Treas., Mrs. S. J. Rosensohn; Sec, Mrs.Moses P. Epstein, N. Y. C.

HEBREW SHELTERING AND IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETYOF AMERICA

OFFICE: 425 Lafayette, New York City.An amalgamation of the Hebrew Sheltering House Association,

organized Nov., 1888, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, organized1901.

Twenty-second Annual Meeting, March 1, 1931, New York City.Contributors, over 100,000.PURPOSE: TO facilitate the lawful entry of Jewish immigrants at the

various ports in the United States, to provide them with temporaryassistance, to prevent them from becoming public charges, to discouragetheir settling in congested cities, to prevent ineligibles from immigratingto the United States, to foster American ideals, and to instil in them aknowledge of American history and institutions, and to make betterknown the advantages of desirable immigration and, in conjunctionwith other organizations, to maintain offices in European countries forthe purpose of advising Jewish emigrants concerning conditions in landsof immigration, and to prepare them for life in these new countries;and, in the lands of immigration other than the United States, to meetthem upon arrival, shelter them and enable them to become self-supporting therein.

OFFICERS: Pres., Abraham Herman, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., AdolphCopeland, Chicago, III.; Harris Poorvu, Boston, Mass.; Aaron Benjamin,N. Y. C ; H. H. Cohen, Phila., Pa.; Max Meyerson, Newark, N. J.;Jacob Massel, N. Y. C ; Israel Silberstein, Baltimore, Md.; NathanSchoenfeld, N. Y. C ; Harry K. Wolff, San Francisco, Cal.; Treas.,Harry Fischel, N. Y. C ; Hon. Sec, James Bernstein; General Manager,Isaac L. Asofsky, N. Y. C.

HEBREW THEOLOGICAL COLLEGEOrg. 1921. OFFICE: 3448 Douglas Blvd., Chicago, 111.

Ninth Annual Meeting, Jan. 13, 1931, Chicago, 111.Graduates, Rabbinical Course, 1928, 12.Whole number of Graduates, Rabbinical Course, 31.Graduates, Teachers' Course, in 1928, 4.Whole number of Graduates, Teachers' Course, 20.PURPOSE: An Institution for Higher Jewish Learning, and the pro-

motion and perpetuation of Traditional Judaism in America, giving itsstudents the opportunity to become well prepared Rabbis, Teachers,and Leaders of American Israel.

OFFICERS: Pres., Saul Silber; Vice-Pres., A. I. Cardon, Mrs. WilliamLavin, Samuel Levin; Treas., Louis Bomash; Rec Sec, M. Perlstein;Fin. Sec, J. L. Rubin; Exec Sec, Samuel S. Siegel.

FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE: Pres., Rabbi Saul Silber, President of theFaculty and Lecturer in Homiletics; Professor in Talmud and Codes,


Rabbi Chaim Yitzok Korb, Professor in Bible Jewish History andPhilosophy, Meyer Waxman; Instructors in Talmud: Rabbi Ch.Regensberg, Rabbi Ch. Rubinstein, Rabbi Z. Starr; for Codes, Rabbi A.Soladar; for Bible, Hebrew Grammar and History, Rabbi A. Shulman;Hebrew Grammar and Literature, A. Soladar; for Public Speaking, J. R.Tysen; Teachers' Institute: Bible, Hebrew Literature and History, A.Soladar; Hebrew Grammar, Composition and Pedagogy, S. Soladar;Preparatory Dept.; Instructor in Talmud, Rabbi N. Bar, Rabbi N.Kaplan; Bible and Talmud, Rabbi N. Sax, Rabbi Soladar; Bible JewishHistory and Talmud, Rabbi M. Schultz; Elementary Hebrew andGrammar, S. Soladar; Hebrew and Jewish History, A Braude; Dean andLibrarian Rabbi Jacob Greenberg.

HEBREW UNION COLLEGEOrg. 1875, Inc., Cincinnati, 0.

Maintained by the UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONS(q. v.) until 1926.

Chartered separately under the laws of the State of Ohio, with theUnion of American Hebrew Congregations recognized as a patronizingbody.

LIBRARY: Printed volumes, about 86,000; manuscripts, over 2,000.Fifty-sixth Commencement, May 30, 1931, graduates Rabbinical

Course in 1931, 15; whole number of graduates, 331.School for Teachers in New York City, established 1923. Graduates

1931, 15; whole number of graduates, 146.OFFICERS: Chairman, Board of Governors, Alfred M. Cohen,

Cincinnati, O.; Vice-Chairman, Maurice J. Freiberg, Cincinnati, O.;Treas., Carl E. Pritz; Sec, Benj. Mielziner, Cincinnati, O.

FACULTY: Julian Morgenstern, Ph.D. (Heidelberg), President,Professor of Bible and Semitic Languages; Moses Buttenwieser, Ph.D.(Heidelberg), D.H.L. (Hebrew Union College), Professor of BiblicalExegesis; Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Ph.D., Professor of Talmud; HenryEnglander, Ph.D., Professor of Mediaeval Jewish Exegesis; IsraelBettan, D.D., (Hebrew Union College), Professor of Homiletics andMidrash; Abraham Cronbach, D.D. (Hebrew Union College), Professorof Jewish Social Studies; Jacob Mann, M.A., Litt. D. (London), Pro-fessor of Jewish History and Literature; Samuel S. Cohon, Rabbi(Hebrew Union College), Professor of Jewish Theology; Abraham Z.Idelsohn, Professor of Jewish Music and Liturgy; Z. Diesendruck, Ph.D.(Vienna), Professor of Jewish Philosophy; Jacob R. Marcus, Ph.D.(Berlin), Associate Professor of Jewish History; Sol. B. Finesinger,Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), Instructor in Rabbinics; Sheldon H. Blank,Ph.D. (Jena), Instructor in Hebrew Language and Bible; NelsonGlueck, Ph.D. (Jena), Instructor in Hebrew Language and Bible;Abraham N. Franzblau, M.A., Instructor in Jewish Education; ShalomB. Maximon, Registrar; Lawrence E. B. Kahn, M.A. Rabbi (HebrewUnion College), Heinsheimer Fellow; Adolph S. Oko, Librarian; SpecialInstructors, David Philipson, D.D. (Hebrew Union College), LL.D.(Cincinnati), D.H.L. (Hebrew Union College), Lecturer on the Historyof the Reform Movement; Jacob S. Golub, Ph.D. (New York Univer-sity), Lecturer on Jewish Education; Cora Kahn, B.A., Instructor in


Elocution; Clarence C. Abrams, B.S. (Cincinnati), Physical Director;Corresponding Members of the Faculty: Aaron Hahn (1887); DavidDavidson (1892).

HISTADRUTH IVRITHOrg. 1916. Re-org. 1922. OFFICE: 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Convention, June 29—July 1, 1930, Cleveland, O.Societies, 103. Members, 3,130.PURPOSE: Development of Hebrew culture and Hebrew language.OFFICERS: Chairman Exec. Comm., Ab. Goldberg; Chairman Adm.

Comm., A. Spicehandler; Treas., Boris Margolin; Sec, S. K. Mirsky.

INDEPENDENT ORDER B'RITH ABRAHAMOrg. Feb. 7, 1887. OFFICE: 37-7th, New York City.

Forty-fifth Annual Convention, June 7-9, 1930, Saratoga Springs,N. Y.

Members, 100,000. Lodges, 505.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Nathan D. Perlman; First Deputy Grand

Master, Isidore Apfel; Second Deputy Grand Master, Wm. Bluestein;.Grand Sec, Max L. Hollander, Grand Treas., I. Frankel.

INDEPENDENT ORDER BRITH SHOLOMOrg. Feb. 23, 1905. OFFICE: 506-508 Pine, Philadelphia, Pa.

Twenty-sixth Annual Convention, June 14-16, 1931, Atlantic City,N. J.Members, 21,350. Lodges, 156.

OFFICERS: Grand Master, Hon. William M. Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa.;Vice-Grand Master, Moses N. Helfgott, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Grand Sec,Martin O. Levy; Asst. Grand Sec, Adolph Rosenbaum; Grand Treas.,Jacob Edelstein, Philadelphia, Pa.

INDEPENDENT ORDER FREE SONS OF ISRAELOrg. Jan. 18, 1849. OFFICE: 257 W. 93d., New York City.

Triennial Convention, May 30, 1930, Atlantic City, N. J.Districts, 2. Lodges, 62. Members, 8,564.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Samuel Sturtz; First Deputy Grand

Master, Simon M. Goldsmith; Second Deputy Grand Master, Sol Kahn;Third Deputy Grand Master, Isaac G. Simon; Grand Treas., LeoBenjamin; Grand Sec, Henry J. Hyman; Controller, David H. M.Weynberg; Counsel, Maurice B. Blumenthal; Medical Director, IsraelL. Feinberg.

INDEPENDENT WESTERN STAR ORDEROrg. Feb. 13, 1894. OFFICE: 1127 Blue Island Ave., Chicago, 111.

Last Annual Convention, June 22, 1930, Chicago, 111.OFFICERS: Grand Master, H. Waiss, Detroit, Mich.; Grand Sec, I.

Shapiro, 1127 Blue Island Ave., Chicago, 111.


INDEPENDENT WORKMEN'S CIRCLE OF AMERICA, INC.Org. Dec. 28, 1906. OFFICE: 86 Leverett, Boston, Mass.

Twenty-first Annual Convention, May 29—June 1, 1931, Boston,Mass.

Members, 5,933. Number of Branches, 85.OFFICERS: Chairman, Louis J. Hyson, Roxbury, Mass.; Vice-Chair-

man, Abraham Trucktman, Revere, Mass.; Treas., Samuel Wilcon,Brookline, Mass.; Rec. Sec, William Rivkin, Dorchester, Mass.; Gen.Sec, Morris H. Tubiash, Dorchester, Mass.

IOTA ALPHA PI SORORITYOrg. 1902. OFFICE: Chalfonte Hotel, New York City.

Convention, Dec. 20-25, 1930, New York City.Chapters in United States and Canada, 700.PURPOSE: TO establish and maintain a Society among women who

are members of colleges or universities, and to maintain a scholarshipfund for needy students at the various universities.

OFFICERS: Dean, Amelie Spiegel Rothschild; Treas., Elva W. Slate,N. Y. C.; Sec, Lucie Schumer.

JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, INC.Org. Feb. 12, 1900. OFFICE: 301 E. 14th, New York City.

Thirty-first Annual Meeting, Feb. 10, 1931, New York City.BRANCH OFFICES: Chicago, 111.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Ellenville, N. Y.PURPOSE: The encouragement of farming among Jews in the United

States.OFFICERS: Pres., Lewis L. Strauss; Vice-Pres., Eugene S. Benjamin;

Treas., Francis F. Rosenbaum; Sec, Reuben Arkush, N. Y. C ; GeneralManager, Gabriel Davidson.

JEWISH CHAUTAUQUA SOCIETYOrg. April 29, 1893. OFFICE: 1305 Stephen Girard Bldg., 21 S. 12th,

Philadelphia, Pa.Forty-second Assembly, Dec. 25-29, 1929, Buffalo, N. Y.Members, 4,000.OFFICERS: Chancellor, Louis Wolsey, Phila., Pa.; Vice-Chancellors

Harry W. Ettelson, Memphis, Tenn.; Louis Mann, Chicago, 111.; HonPres., Abram I. Elkus, N. Y. C ; Pres., Arthur A. Fleisher, Phila., Pa.Vice-Pres., Joseph J. Greenberg, Phila., Pa.; Marvin Nathan, Phila.Pa.; Treas., Emil Selig, Phila., Pa.; Sec, Jeannette Miriam Goldberg.

JEWISH CONSUMPTIVE, AND EX-PATIENTS RELIEFASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA

Org. Sept. 28, 1912. OFFICE: 411 Lincoln Bldg., 742 South Hill, LosAngeles, Cal.

Sanatorium at Duarte, Cal., and Ex-Patients Home at Belvedere, Cal.Auxiliary Societies, 32. Members, 75,000.PURPOSE: TO maintain a sanatorium of 150 beds for treatment of

pulmonary tuberculosis, and Ex-Patients Home of 60 beds, providingafter-care for those discharged from the Sanatorium as "quiescent."


OFFICERS: Pres., Moses I. De Vorkin; Vice-Pres., AbrahamHor-witz, Joseph A. Rosenkranz, Harry Sherr; Fin. Sec, Samuel Tierman;Treas., Irving H. Hellman; Exec. Dir., Abr. Shohan, Los Angeles, Cal.

JEWISH CONSUMPTIVES' RELIEF SOCIETY OF DENVEROrg. Jan. 2, 1904. Inc. June 25, 1904. Denver, Colo.

Contributors, 100,000. Capacity, sanatorium, 300 beds.Auxiliary Societies, 11.Publishes: The Hatikvah; and J.C.R.S. Bulletin.OFFICERS: Pres., Philip Hillkowitz. 236 Metropolitan Bldg.; Vice-

Pres., I. Rude; H. J. Schwartz; Jos. Durst; Treas., Louis Stern; Sec,Lewis I. Miller; Asst. Sec, Ben Friedland, P. O. Box 537.

JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIONOrg. Oct. 1, 1922. OFFICE: 40 West 68th, New York City.

PURPOSE: A school of training for the Jewish Ministry, Researchand Community Service. Graduate School and Department of Ad-vanced Studies.

Incorporated in the State of New York—invested funds, $500,000.Library—35,000 volumes; 6,500 pamphlets.Sixth Commencement, May 24, 1931; Graduates, 5; total number of

graduates, 47.Students, 63.OFFICERS: Pres., Stephen S. Wise; Chairman Bd. of Trustees, Julian

W. Mack; Treas., H. M. Kaufman; Asst. Treas., Frederick L. Guggen-heimer; Hon. Sec, Nathan Straus, Jr.; Sec, Gertrude Adelstein;Bursar, J. X. Cohen.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Julian W. Mack, Abram I. Elkus, Mrs. NormanS. Goetz, Sidney E. Goldstein, Richard Gottheil, N. Y. C ; M. E.Greenebaum, Chicago, 111.; Albert M. Greenfield, Phila., Pa.; FrederickL. Guggenheimer, N. Y. C; Joseph Hagedorn, Phila., Pa.; Walter S.Hilborn, N. Y. C ; Edmund I. Kaufmann, Washington, D. C ; H. M.Kaufmann, N. Y. C ; Louis Kirstein, Boston, Mass.; Geo. A. Kohut,Leon Lauterstein, N. Y. C.; Gerson B. Levi, Chicago, 111.; Joseph M.Levine, Louis I. Newman, N. Y. C ; Mrs. Sol. Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh,Pa.; Nathan Straus, Jr., Joseph Stroock, Israel N. Thurman, AlbertValensi, Samuel Wasserman, Stephen S. Wise, N. Y. C.

FACULTY: President and Professor of Practical Theology and Hom-iletics, Stephen S. Wise, Ph.D., LL.D. (Columbia); Professor of Ethicsand Philosophy of Religion, Henry Slonimsky, Ph.D. (Marburg); Deanand Asst. Professor of Hebrew, Harry S. Lewis, M.A. (CambridgeUniversity); Professor of Bible and Semitic Philosophy, Julian J.Obermann, Ph.D. (University of Vienna); Professor of Talmud, ChaimTchernowitz, Ph.D. (Wurzburg); Professor in Social Service, Sidney E.Goldstein, B.A. (University of Cincinnati); Professor of Hebrew andLiterature, Nisson Touroff, Ph.D. (Lausanne); Professor of History,Salo Baron, Ph.D. (University of Vienna); Assoc. Professor in HebrewLanguage and Literature and Acting Librarian, Shalom Spiegel, Ph.D.(Vienna); Asst. Professor in Bible and Hellenistic Literature, RalphMarcus, Ph.D (Columbia).


INSTRUCTORS: Instructor in Music, Abraham W. Binder; Instructorin Public Speaking, Windsor P. Daggett, Ph.D.; Honorary Instructor inTalmud, Moses Marcus.

LECTURERS: Samson Benderly, B.A. (American University of Beirut);Isaac B. Berkson, M.A., Ph.D. (Columbia); Homiletics, Nathan Krass,B. H. L., Litt. D.; Louis I. Newman, Ph.D. (Columbia); Jewish Liter-ature and Philosophy, Harry A. Wolfson, Ph.D. (Harvard).

LIBRARY STAFF: Acting Librarian, Shalom Spiegel; Asst. Librarian,Isaac Kiev; Clerk, Mary Nover Kiev.

DIRECTOR OF FIELD ACTIVITIES: Morton M. Berman.SECRETARY: Gertrude Adelstein.

JEWISH MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETYOrg. 1925. OFFICE: 9 E. 40th, New York City.

Members, 700.PURPOSE: TO establish and maintain a hospital (Hastings Hillside

Hospital) to be devoted to the medical or surgical care and treatmentof persons suffering from incipient and curable mental and nervousdisorders, and the prevention of insanity.

OFFICERS: Pres., Israel Strauss; Vice-Pres., Irving Blumenthal;Treas., Arthur Frankenstein; Sec, Mrs. Marcus Loewenstein.

JEWISH MINISTERS CANTORS' ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAOrg. June 1, 1900. OFFICE: 945 Fox, New York City.

Members, 400.PURPOSE: TO uplift the profession and give aid to cantors in need

and to their families.OFFICERS: Pres., Jacob Rapaport; Vice-Pres., Maurice Erstling;

Sec, Louis D. Wein; Treas., M. Aranoff, N. Y. C.

JEWISH NATIONAL WORKERS' ALLIANCE OF AMERICAOrg. 1912. OFFICE: 189 Second Ave., New York City.

Twelfth Biennial Convention, May 17-21, 1930, Montreal, Can.Branches, 139. Members, 7,615.PURPOSE: Fraternal, Social, Beneficial, and Educational Order.OFFICERS: Pres., Meyer L. Brown; Vice-Pres., I. Applebaum; Treas.,

Nathan Zvirin; Sec, Louis Segal, N. Y. C.

JEWISH PALESTINE EXPLORATION SOCIETY(American Committee)

Org. 1922. OFFICE: 50 E. 58th, New York City.Members, 306.PURPOSE: Conducts extensive excavations in special localities in

Palestine under the joint supervision of the Jewish Palestine ExplorationSociety and the Hebrew University.

OFFICERS: Chairman, Elisha M. Friedman, N. Y. C ; Vice-Chairman,Rabbi D. de Sola Pool; Treas., Arthur L. Malkenson; Sec, J. MaxWeis, N. Y. C.


JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICAOrg. June, 1888. OFFICE: S. E. Cor. Broad and Spring Garden,

Philadelphia, Pa.For the Report of the Forty-third Year of The Jewish Publication

Society of America, see p. 403.

JEWISH SABBATH ALLIANCE OF AMERICA, INC.Org. 1905. OFFICE: 302 E. 14th, New York City.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting, May 18, 1930, New York City,PURPOSE: TO promote the observance of the Seventh Day Sabbath

in every possible way and manner. To secure employment for Seventh,Day Observers where they need not desecrate the Sabbath. To protectand defend the Seventh Day observing storekeepers against the strictSunday Laws, always working to secure proper exemption for themunder such laws.

OFFICERS: Pres., Bernard Drachman; Vice-Pres., Isser Reznik;Treas., R. L. Savitzky; Exec. Sec, Wm. Rosenberg, 302 E. 14th,N. Y. C.

JEWISH SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY POALE ZION OF UNITEDSTATES AND CANADA

Org. 1905. OFFICE: 1133 Broadway, New York City.Seventeenth Convention, Oct. 23-27, 1929, Buffalo, N. Y.Members, 5,000.PURPOSE: TO rebuild Palestine as a Jewish Homeland on socialistic

bases, to participate in the labor movement in America, and to maintaineducational institutions for Jewish youth in America.

OFFICERS: General Sec, B. Locker; Treas., S. Siegel, N. Y. C.

JEWISH THEATRICAL GUILD OF AMERICA, INC.Org. 1924. OFFICE: 1560 Broadway, New York City.

Members, 2,000.PURPOSE: Perpetuating Judaism in the theatre; to aid sick and unfor-

tunate; to build memorial hall.OFFICERS: Pres., William Morris, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., Eddie Cantor,

Hollywood, Cal.; George Jessel, S. Silverman, N. Y. C.; Treas., HugoRiesenfeld; Sec, Harry Cooper; Fin. Sec, Fred Block; Field Sec, L.Haskell, 200 W. 90th St., N. Y. C.

JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAOrg. 1886. NEW BUILDINGS: Broadway to 122d and 123d; OFFICE

AND RABBINICAL DEPARTMENT: 531 VV. 123rd, New York City.Incorporated in State of New York. Invested Funds for Seminary,

$4,078,167.35 inclusive of Brush Foundation and New Building Fundsfor Teachers' Institute, $310,276.90; for Library, $544,048.07. Library:Printed volumes, 105,000; Manuscripts, 6,000.'

Thirty-seventh Commencement, June 7, 1931.


Graduates, Seminary, 23. Total number of graduates, Seminary,254. Graduates, Teachers' Institute, Teachers' Training Course, in1931, 34. - s -

Extension Course, in 1931, 2.Whole number of graduates, Teachers Institute, Teachers' Training

Course, 440, Teachers' Institute, Extension Course, 62.OFFICERS OF THE BOARD: Chairman Board of Directors, Sol. M.

Stroock; Hon. Sec, Henry S. Hendricks; Treas., Arthur Oppenheimer;Assoc. Treas., Lewis L. Strauss, N. Y. C.

DIRECTORS (for life): Adolph Lewisohn, Felix M. Warburg, Sol. M.Stroock, Irving Lehman, Israel Unterberg, N. Y. C.; Philip S. Henry,Asheville, N. C.; Cyrus Adler, Philadelphia, Pa.; Henry A. Dix, N. Y.C ; (Term expiring 1932): Max Drob, William Fischman, Lewis L.Strauss, N. Y. C.; Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md. (Term expiring1933): William Prager, N. Y. C ; William Gerstley, Philadelphia, Pa.;(Term expiring 1934): Arthur Oppenheimer, Jacob Kohn, Henry S.Hendricks, N. Y. C.; J. Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.; Isidor S. Morri-son, Milton Rubin, N. Y. C.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Sol. M. Stroock, Chairman; Cyrus Adler,Felix M. Warburg.

FACULTY: President, Cyrus Adler, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins); Professorof Talmud, Louis Ginzberg, Ph.D. (Heidelberg); Professor of History,Alexander Marx, Ph.D. (Koenigsberg); Professor of Homiletics, Mor-decai M. Kaplan, M.A. (Columbia); William Prager, Professor ofMediaeval Hebrew Literature, Israel Davidson, Ph.D. (Columbia);Professor of Codes, Moses Hyamson, B.A., LL.D. (University ofLondon); Sabato Morais Professor of Biblical Literature and Exegesis,Jacob Hoschander, Ph.D. (Marburg); Associate Professor of Hebrew,Morris D. Levine, M.A. (Columbia); Associate Professor of Theology(Solomon Schechter Foundation), Louis Finkelstein, Ph.D. (Columbia);Instructor, Boaz Cohen, Ph.D. (Columbia); Instructor in Hazanuth,Israel Goldfarb, B.S. (Columbia); Hazan, M. Jacobson; Instructor inPublic Speaking, Walter O. Robinson.

REGISTRAR: Israel Davidson.SECRETARY: JosejJIh B. Abrahams.LIBRARY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA, Incor-

porated in State of New York, 1924.OFFICERS OF THE LIBRARY BOARD: Pres., [Vacant]; Vice-Pres.,

Cyrus Adler; Hon. Sec, Sol. M. Stroock; Treas., Arthur Oppenheimer;Assoc. Treas., Lewis L. Strauss.

DIRECTORS OF LIBRARY: Cyrus Adler, Philadelphia, Pa.; LouisBamberger, Newark, N. J.; William Gerstley, Philadelphia, Pa.; IrvingLehman, Mortimer L. Schiff, Felix M. Warburg, Sol. M. Stroock,N. Y. C ; A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, Pa.; Max Drob, N. Y. C.

LIBRARY STAFF: Librarian, Alexander Marx; Assistant Librarian,Boaz Cohen; Cataloguers, Israel Shapiro, Saul Gittelsohn, Isaac Riv-kind; Assistants in Library, Michael Shapiro, Abraham Duker; LoanDepartment, Mary Fried; Secretary to Librarian, Anna Kleban.

TEACHERS INSTITUTE: Dean, Mordecai M. Kaplan. Instructors:Morris D. Levine, Joseph Bragin, Paul Chertoff, Zevi Scharfstein,Joshua Ovsay, I. S. Chipkin, Hillel Bavli, Benjamin Silk, S. E. Gold-


farb, Samuel Dinin, Morris Schussheim, Robert Gordis, David W.Pearlman, S. Pollack, Isaac Silberschlag, K. W. Whiteman, Ari A. Kutai,Reuben Leaf, Judith Kaplan, Simha Rubinstein, Max Slavin, AnnaGrossman, Joshua H. Neumann, Miriam Ephraim.

COMMITTEE ON TEACHERS INSTITUTE: Chairman, Sol. M. Stroock,Cyrus Adler, Mordecai M. Kaplan, Irving Lehman, Israel Unterberg,Felix M. Warburg.

JEWISH VALOR LEGIONOrg. Feb. 1921. OFFICE: 1775 Broadway, New York City.

Members, 638.PURPOSE: Welfare of the Ex-Service men of Jewish faith; compilation

of records of Jewish soldiers in American army in World War.OFFICERS: Commander, Sydney G. Gumpertz; Sr. Vice-Commander,

Benjamin Kaufman; Jr. Vice-Commander, Herman Bush; Adjutant,Nat. P. Ruditsky, N. Y. C.

JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE UNITED STATESOrg. 1894, Inc. 1920. OFFICE: 18 Tremont, Boston, Mass.

Annual Convention, July 3-6, 1930, Providence, R. I.Next Annual Convention, July 2-5, 1931, Philadelphia, Pa.Posts, 31. Members, 20,000.PURPOSE: TO maintain allegiance to the United States of America;

To uphold the fair name of the Jew; To foster comradeship; To aidneedy comrades and their families; To preserve the records of patrioticservice of Jews; To honor the memory and shield from neglect the gravesof our heroic dead.

OFFICERS: Past Commanders-in-Chief, Maurice Simmons, N. Y. C ;Morris J. Mendelsohn, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Julius S. Berg, N. Y. C ;Cammander-in-Chief, Harold Seidenberg, Boston, Mass.; Senior Vice-Commander-in-Chief, Herman M. Davis, Providence, R. I.; JuniorVice-Commander-in-Chief, David M. Goldberg, Cleveland, Ohio;Judge Advocate General, Saul Adelman, N. Y. C.; Surgeon General,Herman J. Ballen, N. Y. C ; Adjutant General, William Berman,Boston, Mass.; Quartermaster General, Jacob Reitzfeld, N. Y. C ;Chaplain-in-Chief, Rabbi Abraham Nowak, Cleveland, Ohio; HonoraryChaplain-in-Chief, Rabbi Edward Lissman, N. Y. C.; Chief of Staff,Maxwell Cohen, Boston, Mass.; National Liaison Officer, Edward M.Rodin, N. Y. C ; Editor-in-Chief, Abraham Millen, Boston, Mass.

JEWISH WELFARE BOARDOrg. 1917. OFFICE: 71 W. 47th, New York City.

Amalgamated with Council of Young Men's Hebrew and KindredAssociations, July 1, 1921.

Affiliated National Organizations, 15. State and Regional Organiza-tions, 6. Constituent Societies, 254.

PURPOSE: TO stimulate the organization and to assist in the activitiesof Jewish Community Centers, including Young Men's Hebrew Asso-ciations, Young Women's Hebrew Associations, and kindred organiza-tions, and to co-operate with similar bodies in the development of


Judaism and good citizenship. To promote the welfare of soldiers, sailorsand marines in the service of the United States and disabled veteransand especially to provide for men of the Jewish faith in the Army andNavy adequate opportunity for religious worship and hospitality ofJewish communities adjacent to military and naval posts.

OFFICERS: Pres., Irving Lehman, N. Y. C : Vice-Pres., Felix M.Warburg, N. Y. C ; Jacob M. Loeb, Chicago, 111.; Jacob K. Newman,N. Y. C ; M. C. Sloss, San Francisco, Cal.; Sec, Joseph Rosenzweig,N. Y. C ; Treas., Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, N. Y. C.; Exec. Dir.,HarryL. Glucksman.

KAPPA NU FRATERNITYOrg. June 12, 1911. OFFICE: 33 Tyler, Rochester, N. Y.

Fourteenth Annual Convention, Dec, 1930—Jan. 2, 1931, Boston,Mass.

Chapters, 15. Members, 1,500.PURPOSE: A Greek-letter brotherhood for college men of Jewish

consciousness.OFFICERS: Pres., Garson Meyer, Rochester, N. Y.; Vice-Pres., Milton

Greenebaum, Saginaw, Mich.; Treas., Goodman Sarachan, Rochester,N. Y.; Sec, Harry K. Herschman, Washington, D. C.

LAMBDA DELTA BETA FRATERNITYOFFICE: 1215 Swetland Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio.OFFICERS: Chancellor, A. L. Glaser; Vice-Chancellor, F. H. Feingold;

Bursar, Benjamin Kasner; Master of Scrolls, H. Bluffstone; Bailiff, H.C. Wedren.

LEAGUE FOR SAFEGUARDING THE FIXITY OF THESABBATH AGAINST POSSIBLE ENCROACHMENT

BY CALENDAR REFORM

Org. 1929. OFFICE: 1459 Lexington Ave., New York City.Constituent Organizations, 55.OFFICERS: Pres., Moses Hyamson; Vice-Pres., Sol. Bloom, Bernard

Drachman, M. S. Margolies, Albert Ottinger, Abram Simon, StephenS. Wise; Chairm. of Executive Committee, William Lieberman; Treas.,Harry Schneiderman; Sec, Isaac Rosengarten.

LEO N. LEVI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

Org. 1911. OFFICE: Hot Springs, Ark.Maintains the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital.Members, 1,500.OFFICERS: Pres., A. B. Frey, St. Louis, Mo.; Hon. Vice-Pres., Dan

Daniel, Shreveport, La.; Vice-Pres., J. K. Hexter, Dallas, Tex.; Treas.,D. Burgauer, Hot Springs, Ark.; Sec, A. B. Rhine, Hot Springs, Ark.;Chairman, Bd. of Managers, M. Klyman, Hot Springs, Ark.


THE MENORAH ASSOCIATION, INC.Org. Dec. 29, 1929. OFFICE: 63 Fifth Ave., New York City.

PURPOSE: The study and advancement of Jewish culture and ideals.BOARD OF GOVERNORS: Honorary: Judge Irving Lehman; Chairman

of the Board, Frederick F. Greenman; Treas., S. W. Straus; Chancellor,Henry Hurwitz; Sec, Harry Starr, N. Y. C.

INTERCOLLEGIATE MENORAH ASSOCIATION

Org. January 2, 1913.Societies, 51.PURPOSE: The study and advancement of Jewish culture and ideals

in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.OFFICERS: Chancellor, Henry Hurwitz; Pres., Theodore H. Gordon;

Vice-Pres., L. E. Abremovich, Dorothy C. Adelson, Herzl Friedlaender,Lewis H. Weinstein; Sec.-Treas., Bernard J. Reis; Corr. Sec, FrancesGrossel.

MENORAH EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCEOrg. Dec. 29, 1918, and composed of University teachers.

PURPOSE: TO foster and guide Menorah education in American col-leges and universities and among university graduates and other menand women in the general community interested in Jewish culture andideals.

OFFICERS: Chairman, Prof. Nathan Isaacs, Harvard University,School of Business; Vice-Chairman, Prof. Wm. Popper, University ofCalifornia; Sec.-Treas., Adolph S. Oko, Hebrew Union College Library.

THE MIZRACHI ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA

Org. June 5, 1912. CENTRAL BUREAU: 31 Union Sq., New York City.Convention, Oct. 26-28, 1930, Baltimore, Md.Members, 20,000. Organizations, 298.PURPOSE: Rehabilitation of Palestine in the spirit of Jewish Torah

and Traditions. Fundamental principle: The land of Israel, for thepeople of Israel, in the spirit of the Law of Israel.

OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Meyer Berlin; Pres., Gedalia Bublick; Vice-Pres., E. Inselbuch, Wolf Gold; Treas., Max Nadler.

MIZRACHI YOUTH OF AMERICA (MIZRACHI HATZOIR)Org. May, 1920. OFFICE: 31 Union Sq., New York City.

Tenth Annual Convention, May 30—June 1, 1931, New York City.Members, 3,500.PURPOSE: TO organize groups of the Jewish youth, both senior and

junior, to spread Judaism and a love for Jewish knowledge, to acquaintthe Jewish youth with the national aspirations of the Jews, and tostrive for the rehabilitation of Palestine in accordance with Jewishtraditions on the basis of Torah V'avodah, Torah and Labor.

OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Meyer Berlin; Pres., Isidore Epstein; Vice-Pres., Eva Aronson, Max Hagler, Harry Karp; Treas., Benj. L. Hillson;Sec, Jennie Kottler.


MU SIGMA FRATERNITYOrg. 1906, Inc., 1925. OFFICE: 300 Riverside Drive, New York City.

Twenty-fourth Annual Convention, Dec. 24-26,1930, New York City.Twenty-fifth Annual Convention, Dec. 26-27, 1931, New York City.OFFICERS: Grand Lumen, Jerome S. Lippe, N. Y. C ; Grand Filium,

Herbert Pick, Newark, N. J.; Grand Fiscus, Samuel Peckerman, N. Y.C ; Grand Scriba, Michael Kaplan, N. Y. C ; Grand Ossa, NormanHerzig, N. Y. C ; Grand Ora, Lester Lasker, Jersey City, N. J.; GrandCo-ordinator, Daniel Schonfeld, Jamaica, L. I.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITYCENTER SECRETARIES

Org. 1918. OFFICE: 71 W. 47th, New York City.Twelfth Annual Convention, June 4-7, 1930, Boston, Mass.Thirteenth Annual Convention, June 7-10, 1931, Camp Scopus, Lake

George, N. Y.Members, 150.PURPOSE: TO foster and develop an interest in Jewish Center work

and to promote friendly and helpful relations among Jewish CommunityCenter workers.

OFFICERS: Pres., E. J. Londow, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., MauriceBisgyer, Washington, D. C.; M. H. Chaseman, Albany, N. Y.; Wm.Pinsker, Savannah, Ga.; Rose Sugarman, Columbus, Ohio; Sec.-Treas.,Wm. Cohen, 4910 14th Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

NATIONAL CANTORS AND MINISTERS LEAGUE

Org. 1928. OFFICE: 104 2nd Ave., New York City.Annual Convention, July 20, 1929, New York City.Members, 175.PURPOSE: TO organize all cantors, to open first Cantors Seminary.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Zeidel Rovner; Director, Asher Chassin; Sec,

Isadore Schoen; Chairman Board of Directors, A. Ch. Landman.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICEOrg. 1899 as National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United

States. OFFICE: 71 W. 47th, New York City.Thirty-second Annual Conference, June 13-15, 1931, Minneapolis,

Minn.Members, 250. Societies, 500 individuals.PURPOSE: TO discuss the problems of Jewish social work, to promote

reforms in its administration and to provide uniformity of action andco-operation in all matters pertaining to the development of Jewishphilanthropic and communal activities, without, however, interferingwith the local work of any constituent society.

OFFICERS: Pres., Philip L. Seman, Chicago, 111.; Vice-Pres., Mary E.Boretz, N. Y. C.; Hyman Kaplan, San Francisco, Cal.; Dudley D.Sicher, N. Y. C ; Sec, George W. Rabinoff, N. Y. C ; Treas., FerdinandS. Bach, St. Louis, Mo.


NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR JEWISH EDUCATIONOFFICE: Room 407, 330 S. 9th, Philadelphia, Pa.

PURPOSE: TO further the creation of a profession of Jewish education,to improve the quality of Jewish instruction, and to develop professionalstandards in Jewish education.

OFFICERS: Pres., Alexander M. Dushkin, Chicago, 111.; Treas., B.Isaacs, Detroit, Mich.; Sec, Mordecai Soltes, N. Y. C ; Executive Com-mittee: I. Abrams, Pittsburgh, Pa.; S, Benderly; I. S. Chipkin, N. Y. C ;B. Edidin, Buffalo, N. Y.; A. H. Friedland, Cleveland, Ohio; E. Gam-oran; Jacob S. Golub, Cincinnati, Ohio; L. L. Honor, Chicago, 111.;L. Hurwich, Boston, Mass.; M. M. Kaplan; J. B. Pollak, N. Y. C ; B.Rosen, Philadelphia, Pa.; Z. H. Scharfstein; A. P. Schoolman, N. Y. C ;Publishes Jewish Education.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN

Org. Sept. 1893. OFFICE: 625 Madison Ave., New York City.Twelfth Triennial Convention, Jan., 1930, Los Angeles, Cal.Sections, 232, Junior Auxiliaries, 84.The Council and its Sections are engaged in Religious, Social Welfare,

Civic and Educational Work. Its activities are promoted throughDepartments of Civics and Community Co-operation, Education,Extension and Field Service, Farm and Rural Work, Finance and Bud-get, Service for Foreign-Born, Junior Auxiliaries, Legislation, Peace,Religion and Religious Education, Social Service, and Vocational Guid-ance and Employment. Official publication, "The Jewish Woman,"issued quarterly, Estelle M. Sternberger, Editor-in-Chief.

OFFICERS: (1929-1932) Pres., Mrs. Joseph E. Friend, 1807 PalmerAve., New Orleans, La.; First Vice-Pres., Mrs. Alvin L. Bauman, St.Louis, Mo.; Second Vice-Pres., Mrs. Arthur Brin, Minneapolis, Minn.;Third Vice-Pres., Mrs. Sydney M. Cone, Pikesville, Md.; Treas., Mrs.Nathan Eisenmann, New Orleans, La.; Rec. Sec, Mrs. I. K. E. Prager,Boston, Mass.; Exec. Sec, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, 625 MadisonAve., N. Y. C.

NATIONAL FARM SCHOOL

Inc. April 10, 1896. SCHOOL AND FARMS: Farm School, Bucks Co., Pa.OFFICE: 1701 Walnut, Philadelphia, Pa.

Thirty-third Annual Meeting, Oct. 12, 1930, Farm School, BucksCo., Pa.

Thirty-first Annual Graduation, March 22, 1931.PURPOSE: TO train Jewish Youth in practical and scientific agricul-

ture, and agricultural callings.OFFICERS: Chairman Board of Trustees, Hart Blumenthal; Pres.,

Herbert D. Allman; Vice-Pres., Jos. H. Hagedorn; Treas., Isaac H.Silverman; Sec, Miss E. M. Bellefield, 1701 Walnut, Philadelphia, Pa.;Dean, C. L. Goodling, Farm School, Pa.


NATIONAL FEDERATION OF TEMPLE BROTHERHOODSOrg. 1923. OFFICE: Merchants' Bldg., Cincinnati, O.

Fourth Biennial Convention, Jan. 18-21, 1931, Philadelphia, Pa.Societies, 123.PURPOSE: TO stimulate interest in Jewish worship, Jewish studies,

social service and other kindred activities. To co-operate with Unionof American Hebrew Congregations in its national plans.

OFFICERS: Pres., Charles P. Kramer, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., Joseph L.Kun, Philadelphia, Pa.; Wilford M. Newman, Chicago, 111.; Treas.,Albert C. Weihl, Cincinnati, Ohio; Exec. Sec, George Zepin, Cincinnati,Ohio; Asst. Exec. Sec, Louis I. Egelson, Cincinnati, Ohio: Arthur L.Reinhart, Cincinnati, Ohio.

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF TEMPLE SISTERHOODSOrg. Jan. 1913. OFFICE: Merchants' Bldg., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ninth Biennial Assembly, Jan., 1931, Philadelphia, Pa.Societies, 342.PURPOSE: Closer co-operation between the various Sisterhoods.The work of the Federation is conducted under the following Commit-

tees: Co-operation, Religion, Religious Schools, Propaganda, Scholar-ships, Union Museum, Uniongrams, and State or District Federations,Student Activities, Peace, Literature for Jewish Sightless and YoungFolk's Temple Leagues, I. M. Wise Memorial Programs.

OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Mrs. Abram Simon, Washington, D. C ; Pres.,Mrs. Maurice Steinfeld, St. Louis, Mo.; First Vice-Pres., Mrs. HenryNathan, Buffalo, N. Y.; Second Vice-Pres., Mrs. Adolph Rosenberg,Cincinnati, O.; Third Vice-Pres., Mrs. Albert J. May, N. Y. C ;Fourth Vice-Pres., Mrs. David Lefkowitz, Dallas, Texas; Rec. Sec,Mrs. Joseph Stolz, Chicago, 111.; Treas., Mrs. Jos. M. Herman, Boston,Mass.; Parliamentarian, Mrs. Ben Loewenstein; Exec. Sec, Helen L.Strauss, Cincinnati, O.

NATIONAL HOME FOR JEWISH CHILDREN AT DENVER

Org. June 12, 1907. OFFICE: West 19th Ave., at Julian St.,Denver, Colo.

Annual Convention, May 3, 1931, Denver, Colo.Members, 85,000.Auxiliary Societies, 15.PURPOSE: TO shelter children of tuberculous parents, who come to

Denver seeking restoration of health.OFFICERS: Pres., Mrs. J. N. Lorber; Vice-Pres., Mrs. B. Willens, Mrs.

S. Francis, Mrs. M. Lifshutz; Fin. Sec, Louis Stern; Treas., SamuelIsaacson; all of Denver, Colo.; National Exec. Dir., Wm. R. Blumen-thal, 907 Flatiron Bldg., N. Y. C.

NATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL AT DENVER

Org. Dec. 10, 1899. OFFICE: 3800 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, Colo.Thirtieth Annual Meeting, June 14, 1931, Portland, Ore.


Contributors, 125,000 Individuals; 75 Federations; 200 Lodgesand Societies. Capacity, 350; buildings, 16. Collected (1929-1930)$402,037.53.

Patients treated to July 1, 1930, 6,500.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Louis D. Beaumont, N. Y. C.; Pres., Wm. S.

Friedman, Denver, Colo.; Vice-Pres., Harry H. Lapidus, Omaha, Neb.;Morton May, St. Louis, Mo.; B. Flesher, Denver, Colo.; Herman Wile,Buffalo, N. Y.; Harmon August, N. Y. C.; E. J. Schanfarber, Columbus,O.; Treas., Ben. Altheimer; Asst. Treas., Paul Felix Warburg, N. Y. C ;Sec, Mrs. C. Pisko, 3800 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, Colo.; NationalSupervisor, Samuel Schaefer, Denver, Colo.

NATIONAL LEGAL FRATERNITY LAMBDA ALPHA PHIOrg. 1919. OFFICE: 1000 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Newark, N. J.

Annual Convention, August, 1931, Asbury Park, N. J.Members, 400.PURPOSE: TO inculcate in Jewish members of the Bar the highest

principles of legal ethics in order to maintain the respect of the Bench,Bar and Public.

OFFICERS: Supreme Chancellor, Sidney L. Jacobi, N. Y. C.; SupremeVice-Chancellor, Allan Farber, Newark, N. J.; Morris Rifkin, Denver,Colo.; Supreme Keeper of the Exchequer, David M. Engelson, N. Y. C ;Supreme Archon, Michael G. Alenick, Newark, N. J.; Supreme Histor-ian, Nathan Herbsman, N. Y. C.

NU BETA EPSILON FRATERNITYOrg. 1919. OFFICE: 1701 W. Madison, Chicago, 111.

Convention, May 13, 1930, Chicago, 111.Next Convention, Dec. 26-28, 1931, Chicago, 111.Members, 350.PURPOSE: Greek Letter Fraternity for Jewish students at credited

Law Schools.OFFICERS: Founder and Hon. Grand Chancellor, Barnet Hodes;

Grand Chancellor, Reginald A. Barnett; Vice-Grand Chancellor, Robt.R. Scher; Grand Scribe, Harvey Cousens; Grand Master of Rolls, AllenWolf; Grand Master of Exchequer, Wm. J. Robinson; Grand Marshall,Geo. Kaplan.

OMICRON ALPHA TAU FRATERNITYOrg. 1912. OFFICE: 535 High, Newark, New Jersey.

Annual Convention, Dec. 29-31, 1930, New Brunswick, N. j .Next Annual Convention, Dec. 29-31, 1931, New York City.Chapters, 14. Members, 1,250.PURPOSE: Greek-letter college fraternity for Jewish students.OFFICERS: Grand Chancellor, Joseph Rubinstein, Buffalo, N. Y.;

Vice-Grand Chancellor, Seymour Bernstein, Chicago, 111.; J. J. Rosen-berg, N. Y. C ; Grand Scribe, Sidney C. Heyman, Newark, N. J.; GrandBursar, Nathan Perselay, Newark, N. J.


ORDER KNIGHTS OF JOSEPHOrg. Feb. 14, 1896. OFFICE: 1122 Standard Trust Bldg.,

Cleveland, Ohio.Twenty-seventh Convention, Aug. 22, 1926, Buffalo, N. Y.Members, 10,587. Lodges, 68.OFFICERS: Supreme Commander, H. A. Rocker, Cleveland, O.; First

Supreme Vice-Commander, A. Fishman, Chicago, 111.; Second SupremeVice-Commander, L. Gottlieb, Buffalo, N. Y.; Third Supreme Vice-Commander, Max Lazaer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Supreme Sec, D. J. Zinner,Cleveland, 0.; Supreme Treas., Jos. C. Bloch, Cleveland, O.; Endow-ment Treas., A. Silberman, Cleveland, O.

ORDER SONS OF ZIONOrg. April 19, 1908. OFFICE: 1133 Broadway, New York City.

Twenty-second Annual Convention, June 20-22, 1931, Long Branch,N. J.

Camps, 55. Members, 3,206.PURPOSE: Fraternal and Zionistic.OFFICERS: Nasi, Isaac Allen; Segan Rishon, Jacob I. Steinberg;

Segan Sheni, Bernard Hollander; Gisbor, David Podolsky; Maskir,Louis Weiss; Counsel, Alazar Kushner; Chief Medical Examiner,Solomon Neumann.

ORDER OF THE UNITED HEBREW BROTHERSOrg. Nov. 15, 1915. OFFICE: 5 Columbus Circle, New York City.

Quinquennial Convention, October, 1930, New York City.Members, 5,000.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Meyer Greenberg, 5 Columbus Circle;

Vice-Grand Master, Samuel Hirsh; First Deputy Grand Master, Alb.Halle; Grand Sec, Kallman Flus, N. Y. C.

ORT RECONSTRUCTION FUND

Organized 1924, and affiliated with the American Ort.OFFICE: 220 5th Ave., New York City.

PURPOSE: TO reconstruct the lives of the Jews of Eastern Europe inco-operation with the various national governments, by extending longterm credit to the Jews for the purchase of machines and tools of trade:by extending similar credits to relatives in America and elsewhere whowish to help their kin in Eastern Europe by purchasing machines forthem; by opening and conducting trade schools for Jews, both youngand adult, and helping to place the graduates in permanent positions;and by helping to establish Jewish families on farms and furnishingthem, on credit, with the necessary farm machinery and seeds.

OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Adolph Lewisohn; Pres., Howard S. Cullman;Treas., Paul Felix Warburg; Hon. Sec, Herman Bernstein; ChairmanExec. Com., Henry Moskowitz.


PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC.Org. 1914. OFFICE: 110 E. Lexington, Baltimore, Md.

Sixteenth Annual Convention, Dec. 29, 1930—Jan. 1, 1931, Boston,Mass.

Chapters, 38. Members, 2,318.PURPOSE: Jewish student fraternal relationships in certain American

Colleges and Universities where established.OFFICERS: Pres., Maurice Levitan, Washington, D. C ; Vice-Pres.,

Herbert Robinson, Cambridge, Mass.; Deputy Vice-Pres., Percy Car-mel, Hampton, Va.; Milton Klein, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Joseph Leyinson,Chicago, 111.; Isidore A. Lobel, Brookline, Mass.; Manuel M. Steinberg,Philadelphia, Pa.; Alfred L. Tuvin, Baltimore, Md.; Sec, AlexanderGoodman, Baltimore, Md.; Asst. Sec, Milford F. Schwartz, Washing-ton, D. C ; Treas., Sigmund Danzansky, Washington, D. C ; Sergeantat Arms, Ellis L. Arenson, Baltimore, Md.; Editor, Emanuel Emroch,Richmond, Va.

PHI BETA DELTA FRATERNITYOrg. 1912. OFFICE: 67 W. 44th, New York City.

Convention, Dec. 26-28, 1930, Atlantic City, N. J.Members, 2,100. Chapters, 28; Alumni Clubs, 10.OFFICERS: Pres., Isaac Marks, Jr., N. Y. C ; Eastern Vice-Pres.,

Isadore S. Wachs, Philadelphia, Pa.; Western Yice-Pres., GrahamSusman, Denver, Colo.; Sec, Harold Baer, N. Y. C.; Treas., DavidBaumgarten, N. Y. C ; Historian, Harry Kalker, Philadelphia, Pa.;Delegates; Aurel Rosin, Arcadia, Fla.; Samuel V. Goldfarb, Los Angeles,Cal.; Louis Winer, Hammond, Ind.; Leonard Jacobs, N. Y. C ; NormanBierman, St. Louis, Mo.

*THE PHI BETA FRATERNITYOrg. 1920. OFFICE: 111-11 Liberty Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I.

Tenth Annual Convention, Aug. 25-29, 1929, Hartford, Conn.Members, 1,200. Chapters, 26.PURPOSE: A national Jewish fraternity with chapters located in High

and Preparatory Schools, for boys meeting for educational, social andfraternal purposes.

OFFICERS: Hon. Grand Superior, Louis L. Shapiro, Lancaster, Pa.;Grand Superior, Harry Perlmutter, Newark, N. J.; 1st Grand Vice-Superior, Frank Weiner, Chicago, 111.; 2nd Grand Vice-Superior, MartyGosch, Philadelphia, Pa.; Grand Secretary, Herman Cipnic, 111-11Liberty Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I.; Grand Bursar, Edward Olderman,Philadelphia, Pa.; Grand Editor, Morris, J. Eschay, X. Y. C ; GrandMarshal, David Rice, Newark, N. J.

PHI DELTA MU FRATERNITY, INC.Org. 1920. OFFICE: 11 Park Place, New York City.

Annual Convention, Dec. 28, 1930, New York City.Members, 300.


PURPOSE: TO promote the intellectual, social and spiritual status ofJewish students at colleges in the United States and Canada.

OFFICERS: Chancellor, Harry Kisver; Vice-Chancellor, Jack Sperling;Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert C. Grossman; Historian, Ralph T.Heymsfeld; Keeper of the Scrolls, Harold Boxer;Sec, Benjamin Levine,1911 New York Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

PHI EPSILON PI FRATERNITYOrg. 1904. OFFICE: 520 Lewis Tower, Philadelphia, Pa.

Convention, Dec. 29-31, 1930, Pittsburgh, Pa.Members, 3,000.OFFICERS: Grand Superior, Louis M. Fushan, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Grand

Vice-Superior, Jesse Acker, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Grand Treas., EmanuelW. Wirkman, Philadelphia, Pa.; Grand Secretary, Charles H. Fleish-man, Philadelphia, Pa.; Members of Grand Council, Edward Davis,Philadelphia, Pa.; Eugene G. Zacharias, Atlanta, Ga.

PHI LAMBDA KAPPA MEDICAL FRATERNITYOrg. 1907. OFFICE: 1941 S. 9th, Philadelphia, Pa.

Next Convention, Dec. 25-27, 1931, Cleveland, O.Members, 1,600.OFFICERS: Grand Superior, J. Allen Yager, N. Y. C ; Grand Scribe,

Wm. Steinberg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Grand Guardian Exchequer, I. Wm.Gash, Philadelphia, Pa.

PHI SIGMA DELTA FRATERNITYOrg. 1909. OFFICE: 111 W. 46th, New York City.

Annual Convention, Dec. 22-25, 1929, New York City.Members, 2,000.PURPOSE: Promote brotherhood, friendship, good-fellowship, and

good character.OFFICERS: Pres., Benjamin A. Etler; Vice-Pres., Joseph Kruger,

Treas., Melvin L. Levi; Sec, Benjamin Potar.

PHI SIGMA SIGMA SORORITYOrg. 1913. OFFICE: 1528 Pratt Blvd., Chicago, 111.

Biennial Convention, 1930, Cincinnati, Ohio.Chapters, 20. Members, 1,215.PURPOSE: TO create a spirit of sisterhood among its members; to

promote close friendships; to develop character; to advance justice andto be philanthropic.

OFFICERS: Grand Archon, Belle F. Quitman, Philadelphia, Pa.; GrandVice-Archon, Natalie Kahn, Cincinnati, Ohio; National Tribune, Rose J.Lidschin, Chicago, 111.; National Bursar, Gertrude A. Berson, Syracuse,N. Y.


PI TAU PI FRATERNITYOrg. November, 1909.

Annual Conclave, Dec. 26-30, 1930. Birmingham, Ala.Members, 600. Chapters. 30.PURPOSE: TO bring into closer relation and promote sociability among

the Jewish young men of the country and to aid the less fortunate.OFFICERS: Pres., Mervin A. Blach, Birmingham, Ala.; Vice-Pres.,

Edw. F. Stern, Seattle, Wash.; Treas., Gilmore G. Kahnweiler, Chicago,111.; Sec, Rudolph M. Singer, Jr., 5400 Harper Ave., Chicago, 111.;Editor, Roy G. Rosenthal, Seattle, Wash.; Historian, Yale S. Kroloff,Omaha, Neb.; Chaplain, Philip D. Bookstaber, Harrisburg, Pa.; SeniorCounsellor, Irvin M. Shlenker, Monroe La.; Junior Counsellor, MoeTonkon, Portland, Ore.; Past Pres., Theo. M. Rotschild, Evansville,Ind.

PROBUS CLUB NATIONALOrg. 1926. OFFICE: Worcester, Mass.

Members, 500.PURPOSE: TO promote and participate in communal and civic activi-

ties; to foster social and intellectual ideals; to encourage friendshipamong its members in local clubs and other clubs of the organization.

OFFICERS: Pres., Allen E. Price, Worcester, Mass.; Vice-Pres., JacobCaplan, New Haven, Conn.; M. J. Josolowitz, Springfield, Mass.; HarrySchwartz, Hartford, Conn.; Treas., Nathan Gruber, Hartford, Conn.;Sec, Harry L. Shapiro, 390 Main, Worcester, Mass.

PROGRESSIVE ORDER OF THE WESTOrg. Feb. 13, 1896. OFFICE: 406-7-8 Frisco Bldg., 9th and Olive,

St. Louis, Mo.Convention, July 21-23, 1929, Philadelphia, Pa.Members, 10,347.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Joseph Schiller, Chicago, 111.; Vice-Grand

Master, I. D. Goldberg, St. Louis, Mo.; Endowment Treas., Win, H.Goldman, St. Louis, Mo.; Grand Counsellor, Louis Joffie, Chicago, 111.;Grand Sec, Morris Shapiro, St. Louis, Mo.

RABBI ISAAC ELCHANAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ANDYESHIVA COLLEGE

Org. 1896. Charter amended 1928, to permit the organization of theYeshiva College, authorized by the Regents of the University of theState of New York to give courses leading to the degrees of B. A. andB. S. OFFICE: 186th St. and Amsterdam Ave., New York City.

Incorporated in State of New York. Invested funds about $2,400,000.LIBRARY: Printed volumes, 24,000, manuscripts, small collection.Entire number of graduates, Rabbinical course, 136, Teachers'

Institute, 107.PURPOSE: TO disseminate Jewish knowledge; to train rabbis and

teachers; to present in a Jewish atmosphere general courses leading todegrees of B. A. and B. S.


OFFICERS: Pres., M. S. Margolies; Treas., M. Gottesman; Chairman,Yeshiva College Council, Samuel Levy.

FACULTY: Seminary: Pres. and Professor of Codes, B. Revel, Ph.D.;Professor of Talmud, M. Soloveitchik; Professor of Bible, Chaim Heller;Instructors of Talmud; B. Aronowitz; A. Burack; J. Kaplan, M.A.; L.Levin; R. Mirski; S. Olshevsky; M. Poleyeff; S. Rackovsky; J. Weill;Prof, of Homiletics, Herbert S. Goldstein, M.A.; Asst. Prof, of Homil-etics, Joseph H. Lookstein; Instructor of Bible, N. Klotz, Ph.D.; Asst.Prof, of Hebrew, P. Churgin, Ph.D.; Lecturer in Jewish History,Solomon Zeitlin, Ph.D.

LIBRARY STAFF: Librarian, S. Gandz, Ph.D.; Assistant, R. Grossman,B.A.REGISTRAR: Samuel L. Sar.FACULTY: Yeshiva College: Pres., B. Revel, Ph.D.; Dean and Prof,

of Biology, S. R. Safir, Ph.D.; Instructor in German, B. Drachman,Ph.D.; Librarian, S. Gandz, Ph.D.; Asst. Prof, of Mathematics, J.Ginsberg, M.A.; Instructor in Physical Education, A. B. Hurwitz,M.A.; Instructor in Chemistry, M. L. Isaacs, Ph.D.; Prof, of JewishEthics, Leo Jung, Ph.D.; Lecturer in Physiology, R. Kurzrok, M.D.,Ph.D.; Professor of Public Speaking, Erastus Palmer, M.A.; Instructorin Psychology, B. L. Rosenbloom, M.A.; Instructor in Physics, J. R.Silverman, Ph.D.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY: Henry E. Garrett, Ph.D., Asst. Prof, of Psy-chology, Columbia Univ.; I. Husik, Professor of Philosophy, U. of P.;C. F. Horne, Ph.D., Prof, of English, C. C. N. Y.; S. Liptzin, Ph.D.,Instructor in German; Louis W. Max, Ph.D., Asst. Prof, of Psychology,N. Y. U.; N. P. Mead, Ph.D.; Professor of History, C. C. N. Y.; J.Pearl, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Latin, Brooklyn, C. C. N. Y.; S. A.Rhodes, Ph.D., Instructor in French, C. C. N. Y.; Joseph T. Shipley,Ph.D., Instructor of English, School of Education, C. C. N. Y.

RABBINICAL ASSEMBLY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICALSEMINARY OF AMERICA

Org. July 4, 1901.Annual Convention, July 7-9, 1930, Tannersville, N. Y.Members, 201.OFFICERS: Pres., Israel H. Levinthal, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Vice-Pres.,

Jacob Kohn, N. Y. C.; Rec. Sec., Leon Lang, Newark, N. J.; Cor. Sec,Simon Greenberg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treas., Benj. H. Birnbaum,Chicago, 111.

RABBINICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE HEBREWTHEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

Org. 1925. OFFICE: 3448 Douglas Blvd., Chicago, 111.Annual Convention, Aug. 24-27, 1930, Chicago, 111.Members, 42.OFFICERS: Pres., Wm. Miller, 532 S. 5th, Terre Haute, Ind.; Vice-

Pres., Oscar Z. Fassman, Tulsa, Okla.; Treas., David Rosenblum, SouthHaven, Mich.; Sec, Leonard C. Mishkin, New Orleans, La.


RABBINICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE YESHIVAOrg. 1921. OFFICE: 186th and Amsterdam Ave., New York City.Annual Convention, July 8-9, 1930, New York City.Members, 110.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Bernard Revel; Pres., Nachman H. Ebin,

Brooklyn, N. Y.; Vice-Pres., Shepard Baum, Albany, N. Y.; A. D.Burrack, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. M. Charlop, N. Y. C ; Sec.-Treas., Solo-mon Reichman, 571 E. 170th, N. Y. C ; Chairman Exec. Comm., BenZion L. Rosenbloom, N. Y. C.

SEPHARDIC BROTHERHOOD OF AMERICA, INC.Re-org. 1921. OFFICE: 20 W. 114th, New York City.

Annual Convention, April, 1931.Members, 900. Branches, 5.PURPOSE: TO promote the industrial, social, educational and religious

welfare of its members and to engage in philanthropic endeavors forthe welfare of Sephardic immigrants.

OFFICERS: Pres., Henry J. Perahia; Vice-Pres., Marius Pilo; Treas.,Albert Y. Nathan; Fin. Sec, Bension Grottas; Sec, Hyman M. Nadjari.

SIGMA ALPHA MU FRATERNITYOrg. Nov. 26, 1909. OFFICE: 120 W. 44th, New York City.

Twenty-first Annual Convention, Dec. 29-31, 1930, New York City.Twenty-second Annual Convention, Dec. 29-31, 1931, New Orleans,

La.Chapters: Undergraduates, 37; Alumni Clubs, 30.Members, 3,300.PURPOSE: Greek-letter College Fraternity for Jewish Students.OFFICERS: Pres., Franklin A. Alter; Vice-Pres., Samuel Rabin;

Treas., Bernard W. Cohen; Sec, James C. Hammerstein; Consuls,Harry S. Dasch, Nathan R. Feldman, Adolph M. Friedman, Allen E.Rivkin.

SIGMA DELTA TAU SORORITYOrg. 1917. OFFICE: 25 Delham Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.

Next Convention, Dec. 1932.Chapters, 13. Members, 700.OFFICERS: Pres., Miriam S. Levy, Philadelphia, Pa.; Vice-Pres.,

Leah A. Kartman, Chicago, 111.; Treas., Helen \Y. Morris, Columbus,Ohio; Sec, Mildred E. Wallens, Buffalo, N. Y.

SIGMA EPSILON DELTA FRATERNITYOrg. 1901. OFFICE: 294 New York Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Convention, Dec 26-28, 1930, New York City.Members, 700.PURPOSE: TO promote the highest excellence in the science and art

of dentistry and its collateral branches; to bring about a closer ac-quaintance among the student body and graduates through fraternalco-operation.


OFFICERS: Grand Master, D. M. Arkin, N. Y. C ; Grand Chaplain,Saul Goodman, Nutley, N. j . ; Grand Scribe, Jerome A. Boley, Brook-lyn, N. Y.; Grand Treas., M. A. Heckler, N. Y. C ; Grand Historian,Benj. Jacobs, Newark, N. J.

SIGMA OMEGA PSI FRATERNITYOrg. 1916. OFFICE: 2 Lafayette (Room 1013), New York City.

Annual Convention, Dec. 25-29, 1930, New York City.Chapters, 20.Members, 1,725.PURPOSE: Greek letter college fraternity for Jewish students and to

foster the spirit of true friendship, love and self-sacrifice and assistance toeach other.

OFFICERS: Grand Superior, Henry W. Holzman, N. Y. C ; GrandVice-Superior, Philip Cowin, Boston, Mass.; Grand Scribe and Comp-troller, Frederick Katz, 2 Lafayette, N. Y. C ; Grand Conclave Rep.,Sidney Korn, N. Y. C.

SIGMA TAU EPSILON FRATERNITYOrg. 1923. OFFICE: 1320 Park Ave., New York City.

Annual Convention, January, 1931, New York City.Members, 450.Chapters, 8.PURPOSE: TO instill and inculcate the learnings of the Torah and

Jewish ideals amongst men of the Jewish faith in American colleges anduniversities.

OFFICERS: Grand Chancellor, Chauncey Ingram; Grand Vice-Chan-cellor, William H. Weiss; Grand Exchequer, Philip H. Kirschenbaum;Grand Scribe, Robert Sokol.

SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL OF AMERICAOrg. 1925. OFFICE: 11 W. 42d, New York City.

Members, 36.PURPOSE: TO take council together for the sacred purpose of preserv-

ing and fostering Judaism; composed of representatives of national,congregational and rabbinical organizations of America for the purposeof speaking and acting unitedly and furthering such religious interestsas the constituent organizations and the Council have in mind.

CONSTITTENT ORGANIZATIONS: The Union of Orthodox Jewish Con-gregations of America, The Rabbinical Council of the Union of OrthodoxJewish Congregations of America, Union of American Hebrew Congrega-tions, Central Conference of American Rabbis, United Synagogue ofAmerica, and Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

OFFICERS: Chairman, Elias L. Solomon; Vice-Chairman, Albert D.Wald, Samuel Schulman; Treas., Ben. Altheimer; Sec, Israel Goldstein,Sec. to the Board, J. B. Pollak, N. Y. C.

TAU DELTA PHI FRATERNITYOrg. 1910. OFFICE: 521 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Annual Convention, Dec. 28-31, 1930, New York City.


Members, 1,750. Chapters, 19.OFFICERS: Grand Consul, M. H. Blinken, Yonkers, N. Y.; Grand

Quaestor, Irving Brown, N. Y. C.; Grand Counsellor, Herman L.Baskin, N. Y. C ; Grand Scribe, Irving H. Jurow, N. Y. C ; Editor ofPyramid, Herbert F. Simons, Chicago, 111.

TAU EPSILON PHI FRATERNITYOrg. Oct. 19, 1910, Inc., 1917. OFFICE: 618 W. 113th, New York City.

Convention, Dec. 28, 1930—Jan. 1, 1931, Boston, Mass.Chapters, 31 Undergraduate; 10 Alumni Clubs, Members, 2,800.PURPOSE: TO foster the spirit of true brotherly love and self-sacrifice.OFFICERS: Consul, Julius M. Breitenbach; Vice-Consuls, Wm. S.

Lipman, Henry Semans, Herbert T. Singer; Quaestor, Irving Golembe;Tribune, Alfred J. Kleinberger; Asst. Tribune, Nathaniel W. Gold;Editor, Geo. H. Bernstein; National Auditor, Howard Simon.

TAU EPSILON RHO FRATERNITYOrg. 1919. OFFICE: 322 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

Undergraduate Chapters, 11; Graduate Chapters, 4.Members, 500.PURPOSE: Legal fraternity with undergraduate chapters in accredited

day law schools and graduate chapters in cities.OFFICERS: Supreme Chancellor, Manuel Levine, Cleveland, 0.;

Supreme Exec. Chancellor, Jerome W. Moss, Cleveland, O.; SupremeVice-Chancellor, Solomon Eisen, Toronto, Canada; Supreme Master ofthe Rolls, Baruch A. Feldman, Cleveland, O.; Supreme Bursar andPledgor, George Slesinger, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Supreme Historian, ElwoodEnglander, Philadelphia, Pa.; Supreme Scribe, Allan Greenberg, Bos-ton, Mass.; Members of Supreme Council: George Slesinger, Pittsburgh,Pa.; Manuel Levine, Cleveland, O.; Jerome W. Moss, Cleveland, 0.;Baruch A. Feldman, Cleveland, O.; Jack A. Persky, Cleveland, 0.;Benjamin Marcus, Detroit, Mich.; Solomon Eisen, Toronto, Canada;Harry Rubenstein, Wilmington, Del.

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR JEWISH SOCIAL WORK

Org. Mar. 26, 1925. OFFICE: 71 W. 47th, New York City.PURPOSE: TO provide facilities for the initial training of Jewish

Social workers by offering a course of graduate study lasting twoacademic years, to provide facilities for the further training and prepara-tion of such workers as are already in the field of Jewish Social Work,and to build up a literature on Jewish communal life.

COURSE OF STUDY: TWO academic years.ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS: A college degree.LIBRARY: 3,000 volumes.FIFTH COMMENCEMENT, June 10, 1931.GRADUATES, 14. Total number of graduates to date, 74.TOTAL NUMBER OF REGULAR AND SPECIAL STUDENTS TO DATE, 350.NUMBER OF STUDENTS NOW ENROLLED—44.FACULTY: 15 permanent members, and 20 special lecturers.


OFFICERS: Pres., Louis E. Kirstein, Boston, Mass.; Vice-Pres., LeeK. Frankel, N. Y. C ; Fred M. Butzel, Detroit, Mich.; Treas., I. EdwinGoldwasser; Chairman Exec. Com., Felix M. Warburg; Dir., M. J.Karpf; Asst. Dir., Frances N. Harrison, N. Y. C.

UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONSOrg. 1873. OFFICE: Cincinnati, O.

Thirty-second Council, January, 1931, Phila., Pa.Thirty-third Council, 1933, Savannah, Ga.Members, 286 congregations.PURPOSE: TO maintain the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, O.,

an institution for educating rabbis; to promote religious instructionand encourage the study of the tenets and history of Judaism.

Four Departments: I. Executive and Financial: Chairman of Exec.Bd., Ludwig Vogelstein, N. Y. C ; Hon. Pres., Charles Shohl, Cincin-nati, O.; II. Board of Finance: Chairman, David A. Brown, N. Y. C ;III. Hebrew Union College: Chairman, Board of Governors, Alfred M.Cohen, Cincinnati, O.; Julian Morgenstern, President, Cincinnati, O.;IV. Board of Managers of Synagogue and School Extension: Chairman,Julius W. Freiberg; Dir., George Zepin, Cincinnati, O.

EXECUTIVE BOARD FOR 1931: Chairman of Exec. Bd., Ludwig Vogel-stein, N. Y. C.; Hon. Pres., Charles Shohl, Cincinnati, O.; Vice-Pres.,Julius Rosenwald, Chicago, 111.; Marcus Rauh, Pittsburgh, Pa.; MauriceD. Rosenwald, Washington, D. C ; Jacob W. Mack, Cincinnati, O.; Sec,George Zepin; Asst. Sec, Jacob D. Schwarz, Merchants Bldg., Cin-cinnati, Ohio.

UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OFAMERICA

Org. June 8, 1898. OFFICE: 50 W. 77th, New York City.Twenty-ninth Convention, March 16-18, 1929, New York City.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Bernard Drachman: Julius J. Dukas; M. S.

Margolies; H. Pereira Mendes; Pres., Herbert S. Goldstein; Vice-Pres.,C. Joshua Epstein, Harry Roggen, N. Y. C.; Samuel Feuerstein,Maiden, Mass.; Israel S. Gomborov, Baltimore, Md.; Rabbinical Vice-Pres., Leo Jung; Treas., Arthur I. Levine; Recording Sec, Albert Wald;Financial Sec, Morris Engelman; Corr. Sec, Harry G. Fromberg,N. Y. C .

UNION OF ORTHODOX RABBIS OF UNITED STATESAND CANADA

Org. Tammuz 24, 5662 (1902). OFFICE: 214 E. Broadway,New York City.

Twenty-eighth Annual Convention, May 11-13, 1931, Belmar, N. J.Members, 375.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., I. Rosenberg; M. S. Margolies, N. Y. C ;

B. L. Levinthal, Philadelphia, Pa.; B. Revel, N. Y. C ; Pres., L. Silver,Springfield, Mass.; Vice-Pres., J. Konvitz, Newark, N. J.; Ch. I. Bloch,Jersey City, N. J.; I. Siegel, Jersey City, N. J.; Joseph Rosen, Passaic,


N. J.; R. Katz, Bayonne, N. J.; Treas., Ch. B. Notelovitz, Harrisburg,Pa.; Sec, L. Seltzer; Chairman Ex. Com., J. Levinson, Brooklyn, N. Y.;Chairman Ex. Com. for Western States, Ch. F. Epstein, St. Louis, Mo.

UNION OF SEPHARDIC CONGREGATIONSOrg. March 3, 1929. OFFICE: 99 Central Park West, New York City.

PURPOSE: The promotion of the religious interests of Sephardic Jews.OFFICERS: Pres., David de Sola Pool, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., Solomon

Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.; Capt. William Sebag-Montefiore,Montreal, Canada; Samuel Coen, N. Y. C ; Treas., Mathew J. Levy,N. Y. C ; Sec, Simon S. Nessim.

UNITED ORDER "TRUE SISTERS"Org. April, 1846, as Independent Order of True Sisters.

OFFICE: 150 W. 85th, New York City.Eightieth Annual Convention of the Grand Lodge, Dec. 1-3, 1930,

New York City.Lodges, 34. Members, 12,000.Publishes a monthly, The Echo, editor, Mrs. Esther Davis.OFFICERS: (For December, 1929, to December, 1931) Grand Mon-

itress, Mrs. Amelia Oppenheimer; Grand Pres., Mrs. Henriette N. Prin-stein; Grand Vice-Pres., Mrs. Rose Deutschberger, Mrs. Martha Gould;Grand Sec, Mrs. Fanny M. Marx; Grand Financial Sec, Mrs. JuliaLevy; Grand Treas., Mrs. Hermine Breitenfeld; Grand Mentor, Mrs.Bertha Grad; Grand Warden, Mrs. Bertha Levis.

UNITED ROUMANIAN JEWS OF AMERICAOFFICE: 799 Broadway, New York City.

Twenty-second Annual Convention, Jan. 18, 1931, New York City.PURPOSE: TO further, defend and protect the interests of the Jews

in Roumania, to work for their civic and political emancipation and fortheir economic reconstruction and rehabilitation; and to represent andfurther the interests of the Roumanian Jews in the United States andCanada.

OFFICERS: PrC3., Leo Wolfson; Vice-Pres., Peter Ferester, BrunoBerk, Abraham Hirsh, Samuel Kanter, Aaron D. Braham, JacquesWeiss, Julius Klepper; Treas., H. Haimowitz; Sec, Herman Speier.

UNITED SYNAGOGUE OF AMERICAOrg. Feb. 23, 1913. OFFICE: 531 W. 123rd, New York City.

Nineteenth Annual Convention, April 26-28, 1931, Atlantic City,N. J.

PURPOSE: The promotion of traditional Judaism in America.FOUNDER: Solomon Schechter.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Elias L. Solomon, N. Y. C ; Pres., Louis J.

Moss, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Vice-Pres., Louis Ginzberg; H. J. Reit; JacobKohn, N. Y. C ; H. P. Kopplemann, Hartford, Conn.; Rec. Sec, Sol.Mutterperl, N. Y. C ; Cor. Sec, Chas. I. Hoffman, 624 High, Newark,


N. J.; Treas., Israel Silberman, N. Y. C ; Executive Director, SamuelM. Cohen, N. Y. C.

UPSILON LAMBDA PHI FRATERNITYOrg. 1916; Inc. 1917. OFFICE: C/O Samuel A. Feir, 500 Fifth Ave.,

New York City.Thirteenth Annual Convention, Aug. 30—Sept. 2, 1930, Montreal,

Canada.Fourteenth Annual Convention, August 4-7, 1931, Asbury Park, N. J.Chapters, 33. Members, 1,800.PURPOSE: An International Fraternity open to male students of the

Jewish faith, in attendance at the high and preparatory schools, withthe steadfast purpose of uniting the brothers, spiritually, socially andfraternally, by means of a better understanding of the cardinal principlesof Judaism.

OFFICERS: Master Ulp, Samuel A. Feir, 201 W. 89th, N. Y. C ;Deputy Ulp, Joseph M. Feinberg, Elizabeth, N. J.; Financial Ulp,Edward S. Basch, N. Y. C.; Secretarial Ulp, Leon Podolsky, Philadel-phia, Pa.; Executive Board Members: Augustus S. Dreier, LesterMiller, Elliot H. Robinson.

WOMEN'S BRANCH OF THE UNION OF ORTHODOXJEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA

(Affiliated with the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America)Org. April 19, 1924. OFFICE: 186th and Amsterdam Ave.,

New York City.PURPOSE: The uniting of all the Orthodox women and organizations

of the country into one strong body; the intensification and furtheranceof Orthodox Judaism in the home, the religious school, amongst studentsin institutions of higher learning; the dedication of a dormitory for thespreading of knowledge necessary for the understanding and practice ofOrthodox Judaism through the circulation of religious and culturalliterature; assistance in the organization of Sisterhoods and in thesolution of their problems; providing scholarships for needy students ofthe Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Yeshiva of America; maintaining a HebrewTeachers' Training School for Girls.

OFFICERS: Pres., Mrs. Herbert S. Goldstein; Hon. Vice-Pres., Mrs.Joseph Mayer Asher, Mrs. Moses Hyamson, Mrs. N. Taylor Phillips,Vice-Pres., Mrs. Isidore Freedman, Mrs. Leo Jung, Mrs. Harry Fischel,Mrs. Bernard Revel, Mrs. Abraham Levitan; Treas., Mrs. AdolphSchwarcz; Cor. Sec, Mrs. Edwin Kaufman; Rec. Sec, Mrs. RalphHarte.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR PALESTINEOrg. 1927. OFFICE: 1274 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Annual Meeting, May 6, 1931, New York City.Members, 1,000.Branches, 9.PURPOSE: TO assist the working woman and girls in Palestine by

providing them with YWHA's and in other ways.


OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Mrs. Richard Gottheil; Pres., Mrs. RoseBlumenthal; Vice-Pres., Mrs. A. P. Kaplan, Mrs. D. L. Isaacs, Mrs.Wm. Prince; Ch. Ex.Bd., Mrs. Charles Hyman; Fin. Sec, Mrs. LeoKaplan; Exec. Sec, Mrs. I. S. Danziger; Treas., Mrs. Isaac Tumpowsky.

WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUEOF AMERICA

Org. Jan. 21, 1918. OFFICE: 531 W. 123d, New York City.Fourteenth Annual Convention, April 26-28, 1931, New York City.PURPOSE: TO advance traditional Judaism by furthering Jewish

education among women and children by creating and fostering Jewishsentiment in the home, by promoting the observance of Jewish dietarylaws and home ceremonials, Sabbath and Festivals, and by generallystrengthening the religious institutions of the home.

FOUNDER: Mrs. Solomon Schechter.OFFICERS: Hon. Pres., Mrs. Chas. I. Hoffman, Newark, N. J.; Pres.,

Mrs. Samuel Spiegel, N. Y. C ; Vice-Pres., Mrs. Cyrus Adler, Phila-delphia, Pa.; Mrs. Israel Davidson, N. Y. C ; Mrs. Benj. Davis, Chicago,111.; Mrs. Joseph Herzog, N. Y. C ; Sarah Kussy, Newark, N. J.; Mrs.Morris Lurie, Mrs. Alexander Marx, N. Y. C ; Treas., Mrs. Philip Gold-berg, N. Y. C ; Rec. Sec, Mrs. Jacob Minkin, N. Y. C.

WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION FOR THE PIONEER WOMENOF PALESTINE

Org. 1926. OFFICE: Room 1023, 1133 Broadway, New York City.Third Convention, Oct. 16-19, 1930, Detroit, Mich.Members, 3,000.PURPOSE: TO help pioneer women's co-operatives in Palestine; to

train women to participate fully in all phases of social and economiclife; to do cultural work among its groups; to help to maintain theJewish schools.

OFFICERS: Treas., Mrs. R. Siegel; Sec, Mrs. N. B. Zuckerman, 1133Broadway.

THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLEOrg. Sept. 4, 1900. OFFICE: 175 East Broadway, New York City.Thirty-first Convention, May 3-9, 1931, Washington, D. C.Members, 75,000.PURPOSE: Fraternal insurance and mutual aid.OFFICERS: Pres., N. Chanin; Treas., B. Wolff; Sec, Joseph Baskin.

YOUNG JUDAEAOrg. 1908. OFFICE: 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Twenty-third Annual Convention, June, 1931, Long Branch, N. J.Number of Circles, 600.PURPOSE: TO advance the cause of Zionism; to further the mental,

moral and physical development of the Jewish youth; and to promoteJewish culture and ideals.


OFFICERS: Pres., Israel Goldstein; Vice-Pres., Mrs. Archibald Silver-man; Treas., Louis P. Rocker; Exec. Dir., Mrs. A. H. Vixman.

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LEAGUE OF THE UNITED SYNAGOGUEOF AMERICA

Org. 1921. OFFICE: 531 W. 123d, New York City.Next Convention, Nov. 27-30, 1931, New York City.Members, 15,000. Societies, 130.PURPOSE: TO bring the Jewish youth nearer to traditional Judaism

and to the Synagogue.OFFICERS: Pres., Harry J. Goebel, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Vice-Pres.,

Edward I. Aronoff, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Leon S. Lang, Newark, N. J.;Maxwell J. Mangold, N. Y. C ; David I. Siegel, Toronto, Ont.; HarrySilverstein, Boston, Mass.; E. Chas. Sydney, Freeport, L. I., Treas.,Samuel Rabin, Jamaica, L. I., Sec, Wilma Shenker, Jamaica, L. I.

YOUNG POALE ZIONOrg. 1915. OFFICE: 1133 Broadway, New York City.

Eighth Annual Convention, Sept. 1929, Washington, D. C.Members, 1,500. Branches, 45.PURPOSE: Junior Socialist and Zionist education and activities.OFFICER: Sec, M. Cohen.

ZETA BETA TAU FRATERNITYOrg. 1898; Inc. 1907. OFFICE: 551 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Thirty-second Annual Convention, Dec. 29, 1929—Jan. 1, 1930, St.Louis, Mo.

Next Annual Convention, Dec. 28-31, 1931, Boston, Mass.Members, 4,600.Ranking as an intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity with chapters

in thirty-four universities and colleges, and graduate clubs in thirty-three of the principal cities of the United States.

OFFICERS: Sup. Pres., Wm. S. Evans, N. Y. C ; Sup. Vice-Pres.,Rollin G. Osterweis, New Haven, Conn.; Sup. Sec, B. J. Scheinman,Los Angeles, Cal.; Sup. Treas., Herbert E. Steiner, N. Y. C ; Sup.Historian, Jack I. Wagenheim; General Sec, Leon D. Dover, 551 FifthAve., N. Y. C.

ZIONIST LABOR PARTY "HITACHDUT ZEIRE ZION"OF AMERICA

Org. 1920. OFFICE: 25 E. 7th, New York City.Annual Convention, Dec. 7-11, 1930, Cleveland, O.Members, 2,000.PURPOSE: TO help in creating a Jewish free working community

in Palestine and to renew the life of the Jewish people in the Diasporaon the basis of work and Hebrew culture.

OFFICERS: Exec. Sec, Abraham Spierer; and A. Brener, L. Glantz,Hayim Greenberg, D. Rebelsky, L. Rubinstein, D. Wertheim.


ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAOrg. 1897; Re-org. 1918. OFFICE: 111 Fifth Ave., New York City.Thirty-third Annual Convention, June 29—July 1, 1930, Cleveland,

Ohio.Members, 65,000.PURPOSE: TO stimulate interest in the rebuilding of Palestine as the

Jewish National Home, and to foster interest in the Jewish renaissance.Constituent Organizations: Hadassah, Order Sons of Zion.Affiliated Organizations: Young Judaea, Avukah, Junior Hadassah.PUBLICATIONS: The New Palestine, a weekly for members, in English.OFFICERS: Hon. Chairman, Julian W. Mack, N. Y. C.; Hon. Vice-

Chairman, Louis Lipsky, N. Y. C ; Chairman, Robert Szold, N. Y. C;Vice-Chairman, Abba Hillel Silver, Cleveland, O.; Members of theAdministration: Israel B. Brodie, Abraham Goldberg, Jacob de Haas,N. Y. C ; James G. Heller, Cincinnati, O.; Mrs. Edward Jacobs, N. Y.C.;Wm, M. Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa.; Louis Lipsky, Julian W. Mack.Emanuel Neumann, Louis I. Newman, Nathan Ratnoff, Samuel J.Rosensohn, Morris Rothenberg, Nelson Ruttenberg, N. Y. C ; AbbaHillel Silver, Cleveland, O.; Robert Szold, Abraham Tulin, StephenS. Wise, N. Y. C ; Treas., Morris Weinberg, N. Y. C ; Assoc. Treas.,Harry P. Fierst. Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

LIST OF FEDERATIONS FOR PHILANTHROPICWORK, 1930

In 1930, a total of 54 communities reported the existenceof 55 city federations for the support of philanthropic work;1

New York City has two such bodies, one for the Boroughsof Manhattan and the Bronx, and the other for Brooklyn.Of the 55 federations, 36, or two-thirds, are members of com-munity chests, while the remaining 19 obtain their revenuesdirectly from the Jewish public.

During 1930, the 55 federations disbursed a total of$16,205,685. Of this amount $12,008,136 (74%) was dis-bursed by the 19 independent federations, and $4,197,549by the 36 which are members of community chests. In 1930,the 55 federations had a total of 466 constituent societies.

In the following table the independent federations areindicated by an asterisk (*).

1 For a definition of "federation" as employed in this table, and for further detailsregarding this type of organization, the reader is referred to The Communal Organisa-tion of the Jews in the United States, 1927, by H. S. Linfield, American Jewish Committee,1930, 122-125, 183.

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JEWISH MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS OF THEUNITED STATES

PAST

ANSORGE, MARTIN C , 1882- . Rep. from N. Y., 1921-1922.BENJAMIN, JUDAH PHILIP, 1812-1884. Sen. from La., 1853-1861.BERGER, VICTOR, 1860-1929. Rep. from Wis., 1911-1913, 1923-1929.CANTOR, JACOB A., 1854-1920. Rep. from N. Y., 1913-1915.COHEN, WILLIAM W., 1874- . Rep. from N. Y., 1927-1929.EINSTEIN, EDWIN, 1842-1906. Rep. from N. Y., 1879-1881.EMERICH, MARTIN, 1847-1922. Rep. from 111., 1903-1907.FISCHER, ISRAEL F., 1858- . Rep. from N. Y., 1895-1899.FRANK, NATHAN, 1852-1930. Rep. from Mo., 1889-1891.GOLDFOGLE, HENRY M., 1856-1929. Rep. from N. Y., 1901-1915,1919-

1921.GOLDZIER, JULIUS, 1854-1925. Rep. from 111., 1893-1895.GUGGENHEIM, SIMON, 1867- . Sen. from Colo., 1907-1913.HART, EMANUEL B., 1809-1897. Rep. from N. Y., 1851-1853.HOUSEMAN, JULIUS, 1832-1891. Rep. from Mich., 1883-1885.JACOBSTEIN, MEYER, 1880- . Rep. from N. Y., 1923-1929.JONAS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1834-1911. Sen. from La., 1879-1885.KAHN, JULIUS, 1861-1924. Rep. from Cal., 1889-1902, 1905-1924.KRAUSS, MILTON, 1866- . Rep. from 111., 1917-1922.LESSLER, MONTAGUE, 1869- . Rep. from N. Y., 1902-1903.LEVIN, LEWIS CHARLES, 1808-1860. Rep. from Pa., 1845-1851.LEVY, DAVID. See YULEE, DAVID LEVY.

LEVY, JEFFERSON MONROE, 1852-1924. Rep. from N. Y., 1899-1901,1911-1915.

LITTAUER, Lucius NATHAN, 1859- . Rep. from N. Y., 1897-1907.LONDON, MEYER, 1871-1926. Rep. from N. Y., 1915-1917, 1921-1923.*MARX, SAMUEL, 1867-1922. Rep. from N. Y., 1922.MAY, MITCHELL, 1871- . Rep. from N. Y., 1899-1901.MEYER, ADOLPH, 1842-1908. Rep. from La., 1891-1908.MORSE, LEOPOLD, 1831-1892. Rep. from Mass., 1877-1885, 1887-1889.PERLMAN, NATHAN D., 1887- . Rep. from N. Y., 1920-1927.

*Died before taking his seat.261


PHILLIPS, HENRY MYER, 1811-1884. Rep. from Pa., 1857-1859.PHILLIPS, PHILIP, 1807-1884. Rep. from Ala., 1853-1855.PULITZER, JOSEPH, 1847-1911. Rep. from N. Y., 1885-1886.RAYNER, ISADOR, 1850-1912. Rep. from Md., 1887-1895. Sen. from

Md, 1905-1912.ROSENBLOOM, B. L., 1880- . Rep. from Wheeling, W. Va., 1921.ROSSDALE, ALBERT B., 1878- . Rep. from N. Y., 1921-1922.SIEGEL, ISAAC, 1880- . Rep. from N. Y., 1915-1922.SIMON, JOSEPH, 1851- . Sen. from Ore., 1897-1903.STRAUS, ISIDOR, 1845-1912. Rep. from N. Y., 1894-1895.STROUSE, MYER, 1825-1878. Rep. from Pa., 1863-1867.VOLK, LESTER DAVID, 1884- . Rep. from N. Y., 1921-1923.WOLF, HARRY B., 1880- . Rep. from Md., 1907-1909.YULEE, DAVID LEVY, 1811-1886. Del. from Fla., 1841-1845. Sen. from

Fla., 1845-1851, 1855-1861.

PRESENT

(MEMBERS OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS)

BACHARACH, ISAAC, Republican, Representative, Atlantic City, 1915-BLOOM, SOL., Democrat, Representative, New York City, 1923—CELLER, EMANUEL, Democrat, Representative, New York City, 1923-DICKSTEIN, SAMUEL, Democrat, Representative, New York City, 1923-GOLDER, BENJAMIN M., Republican, Representative, Philadelphia, 1924-KAHN, FLORENCE PRAG (MRS. JULIUS), Republican, Representative,

San Francisco, 1925-SABATH, ADOLPH J., Democrat, Representative, Chicago, 1907-SIROVICH, WM. I., Democrat, Representative, New York City, 1926-

JEWISH AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERSOF THE UNITED STATES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES

The following is a list of Jews who have served as ministers or ambas-sadors of the United States to foreign countries. It does not includepersons who have served, or are now serving, as consuls, except whenconsuls were clothed with diplomatic power, as in the cases of MordecaiM. Noah, Benjamin F. Peixotto and Simon Wolf. In the compilationof this list, the Jewish Encyclopedia, the American Jewish Year Book,and the Register of the Department of State for 1930 were consulted.

BELMONT, AUGUST, (1816-1890), New York, Charge d'Affaires in theNetherlands, May 24, 1853; Minister Resident, June 29, 1854.

BERNSTEIN, HERMAN, (1876- ), New York City, Minister to Al-bania, 1929-

EINSTEIN, LEWIS, (1877- ), New York City, Minister to CostaRica, July 6, 1913 to June 1921; Minister to Czecho-Slovakia,October 8, 1921-

ELKUS, ABRAM I., (1867- ), New York City, Ambassador to Turkey,July 21, 1916 to 1917

GUGGENHEIM, HARRY F., (1890- ), New York City, Ambassadorto Cuba, October 10, 1929-

HIRSCH, SOLOMON, (1839-1902), Portland, Oregon, Minister to TurkeyMay 16, 1889 to 1892.

KAUFMAN, DAVID E., (1883- ), Philadelphia, Pa., Minister to Bolivia,March 7, 1928-January 9, 1930; Minister to Siam, June 12, 1930-

KORNFELD, JOSEPH S., (1876- ), Toledo, Ohio, Minister to Persia,November 9, 1921 to September 1, 1924.

MORGENTHAU, HENRY, (1856- ), New York City, Ambassador toTurkey, September 4, 1913 to July, 1916.

MORRIS, IRA NELSON, (1875- ), Chicago, 111., Minister to Sweden,July 13, 1914 to April 15, 1923.

NOAH, MORDECAI MANUEL, (1785-1851), New York City, Consul toTunis, 1813-1816.

OTTERBOURG, MARCUS, (1827-1893), Milwaukee, Wis., Consul toMexico City, August 1861 to July 1, 1867; Minister to Mexico,July 1-21, 1867.

PEIXOTTO, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, (1834-1890), San Francisco, Cal.,Consul General to Roumania, 1870 to 1876.

RATSHESKY, A. C , (1864- ), Boston, Mass., Minister to Czecho-slovakia, January 1930-

STRAUS, OSCAR S., (1850-1926), New York City, Minister to Turkey,March 24, 1887 to 1888; June 3, 1898 to 1900: Ambassador toTurkey, May 17, 1909 to December 11, 1920.

WOLF SIMON, (1836-1923), Washington, D. C, Agent and Consul Gen-eral to Egypt, June 30, 1881- , 1882.

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JEWISH JUDGESOF UNITED STATES AND STATE COURTS

Following is a list of Jews who have served, or are now serving, asjudges in the courts of the United States, or of the various states. Thisdoes not include persons who have been, or are, judges of county, city,or municipal courts. In the compilation of this list, such authorities asthe Jewish Encyclopedia, Publications of the American Jewish HistoricalSociety, the American Jewish Year Book, and Who's Who in AmericanJewry were consulted. The list was compiled by Mr. Bernard Postalof New York City.

A. UNITED STATES COURTSSupreme Court

BRANDEIS, LOUIS D. (1856- ), Boston, Mass., appointed 1916.

Circuit CourtsALTSCHULER, SAMUEL J. (1859- ), Chicago, 111., appointed 1915.MACK, JULIAN W. (1866- ), Chicago, 111., appointed 1910.MAYER, JULIUS M. (1865-1925), New York City, appointed 1912.

District CourtsADLER, SIMON (1867- ), Rochester, N. Y., appointed 1927.BONDY, WILLIAM (1871- ), New York City, appointed 1923.GALSTON, CLARENCE G. (1876- ), New York City, appointed 1929.HOLLZER, HARRY A. (1880- ), Los Angeles, Cal., appointed 1931.MOSCOWITZ, GROVER M. (1886- ), New York City, appointed 1925.SIMONS, CHARLES C. (1876- ), Detroit, Mich., appointed 1923.SULZBACHER, Louis (1842-1915), Kansas City, Mo., appointed Judge

of Supreme Court of Porto Rico 1900, U. S. District Court IndianTerritory 1904, resigned 1909.

TRIEBER, JACOB (1853-1927), Little Rock, Ark., appointed 1900, reap-pointed 1903.

WOLF, ADOLF GRANT (1869- ), Washington, D. C , associate Justiceof Supreme Court of Porto Rico, appointed 1904.

B. STATE COURTS

A rkansasFRAUENTHAL, SAMUEL, (1864- ) , Supreme Court,

appointed 1909-1913.264

JEWISH JUDGES 265

CaliforniaLYONS, HENRY A., (1810-1872) San Francisco, Supreme Court, elected

1849-1852, Chief Justice 1852.HEYDENFELDT, SOLOMON, (1816-1890), San Francisco, Supreme Court,

1852-1857.SLOSS, MARCUS C , (1869- ), San Francisco, Supreme Court, ap-

pointed and elected 1906, reelected 1910, resigned 1919

IllinoisFRIEND, HUGO M. (1882- ), Chicago. Appellate Court, appointed

iy5uMACK, JULIAN W., (1866- ), Chicago, Appellate Court, appointed

1909-1911.STEIN, PHILIP, (1844-1922), Chicago, Appellate Court, appointed 1903-

1905, Chief Justice 1905-1922.

IowaSALINGER, BEN. I., (1861-1931), Carroll, Supreme Court, 1915-1921.

LouisianaMOISE, EDWIN WARREN, (1811-1868), New Orleans, appointed Judge

Confederate State Court 1861-1865.DINKELSPIEL, MAX, (1844-1927), Court of Appeals,

appointed 1913-1922.Massachusetts

LOURIE, DAVID A., (1878-1930), Boston, Superior Court, appointed1924-1930.

PINANSKI, ABRAHAM, (1887- ), Boston, Superior Court, appointed1930-

MichiganBUTZEL, HENRY M.( (1871- ), Detroit, Supreme Court, appointed

1929 Chief Justice 1930, reelected 1931.New Jersey

KALISCH, SAMUEL, (1851-1930), Newark, Supreme Court, appointed1911 reelected 1918 and 1925-1930.

New YorkCourt of Appeals

CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N., (1870- ), New York City, appointed ActingJudge Court of Appeals 1914, appointed Judge, 1917, elected 1917,elected Chief Justice 1926.

ELKUS, ABRAM I., (1867- ), New York City, appointed 1929,resigned 1920.

LEHMAN, IRVING, (1876- ), New York City, elected 1924.


Supreme CourtBIJUR, NATHAN, (1862-1930), New York City, 1909-1930.CARDOZO, BENJAMIN N., (1870- ), New York City, 1913-1914.COHN, ALBERT, (1885- ), New York City, 1929-ERLANGER, MITCHELL L., (1857- ), New York City, 1906-1927,

retiredFRANKENTHALER, ALFRED, (1881- ), New York City, 1926-GIBBS, Louis D., (1880-1929), New York City, 1924-1929.GOLDSMITH, IRVING I., (1881- ), Saratoga Springs, N. Y., 1927-

1930 resignedGREENBAUM, SAMUEL, (1854-1930), New York City, 1914- , Ap-

pellate Division, appointed 1920, resigned 1923.HARRIS, SAMUEL J., (1877- ), New York City, 1924-HIRSCHBERG, MICHAEL HENRY, (1847- ) Newburgh, 1896-1917,

presiding justice 1904-1917, retired.LAZANSKY, EDWARD, (1872- ), New York City, 1917-LEHMAN, IRVING, (1876- ), New York City, 1908-1922.LEVENTRITT, DAVID, (1845-1926), New York City, 1898-1908.LEVY, AARON J., (1881- ), New York City, 1923-LEWIS, HARRY E., (1880- ), New York City, 1922-MAY, MITCHELL, (1870- % ), New York City, 1922-MILLER, Julius, (1880- * ), New York City, 1930-PLATZEK, M. WARLEY, (1854- ), New York City, 1907-1924, retiredPROSKAUER, JOSEPH M., (1877- ), New York City, 1923-1930,

resigned.SHIENTAG, BERNHARD, (1887- ), New York City, 1929-SHERMAN, HENRY L., (1870- ), New York City, 1927-UNTERMEYER, IRWIN, (1886- ), New York City, 1929-WASSERVOGEL, ISIDOR, (1875- ), New York City, 1920-

Rhode Island

HAHN, J. JEROME, (1868- ), Providence, Supreme Court, 1931-

JEWISH GOVERNORS

PAST

ALEXANDER, MOSES, 1853- , Governor of Idaho, two terms, 1915—1919.

BAMBERGER, SIMON, 1847-1926, Governor of Utah, 1917-1921. (Firstnon-Mormon Governor of Utah.)

EMANUEL, DAVID, 1744-1808, Governor of Georgia, 1801.'SOLOMON, EDWARD S., 1836-1913, Governor of Washington Territory,

1870-1874.

PRESENT

MEIER, JULIUS L., 1874- , elected Governor of Oregon, 1930.

SELIGMAN, ARTHUR, 1873- , elected Governor of New Mexico, 1930.

1 Authorities differ as to whether Emanuel was elected, or, by virtue of his beingPresident of the Senate, became Governor "in the interim before a new election tookplace.'' (See' 'First Jew to Hold the Office of Governor'' by Leon Hilhner in Publicationsof the Amercan Jewish Historical Society, Vol. 17, pp. 192, 193.

267

JEWS WHO HAVE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE

ASSER, TOBIAS MICHAEL CAREL, born, April 28, 1838, Amsterdam,Netherlands; died, July 29, 1913, The Hague; awarded prize in1911 for peace propaganda of long standing.

BARANY, ROBERT, born, April 22, 1876, Vienna, Austria; awarded prizein medicine, 1914, for researches on physiology and pathology ofthe auditory canal.

BERGSON, HENRI, born, October 18, 1859, Paris, France; awarded prizein literature in 1928, for philosophical writings.

BRAUN, KARL FERDINAND, born, June 6, 1850, Fulda, Germany; diedApril 20, 1918, New York; awarded prize in physics, 1909, forresearches in wireless telegraphy.

EHRLICH, PAUL, born, May 14, 1854, Strehlen, Silesia, Germany; died,August 20, 1925, Homburg (v. d. H.), awarded prize in medicine,1908, for researches in trypan-red for sterilization.

EINSTEIN, ALBERT, born, May 14, 1879, Ulm, Wuerttemberg, Germany;awarded prize in physics in 1921, for researches in astro-physics.

FRANCE, JAMES, born August 26, 1882, Hamburg, Germany; awardedprize in physics, 1925; for researches in theories of atoms.

FRIED, ALFRED H., born, November 11, 1864, Vienna, Austria; diedMay 5, 1921, Vienna; awarded prize in 1911, for comprehensivepeace propaganda.

HABER, FRITZ, born, December 9, 1868, Breslau, Germany; awardedprize in Chemistry, 1918, for researches on the synthesis of ammonia.

HERTZ, GUSTAV, born July 22, 1887, Hamburg, Germany; awardedprize in physics, 1925, for researches in theories of electrons.

LANDSTEINER, KARL, born, June 14, 1868, Vienna, Austria; awardedprize in medicine, 1930, for discoveries in classifying different typesof human blood.

LIPPMANN, GABRIEL, born, August 16, 1845, Hallerich, Luxemburg;died, July 13, 1921; awarded prize in physics, 1908, for researchesin color photography.

MEYERHOFF, OTTO, born, April 12, 1884, Hannover, Germany; awardedprize in medicine, 1922, for researches in the transformation ofenergy in the muscles.

MICHELSON, ALBERT ABRAHAM, born, December 19, 1852, Strelno,Prussia; died, May 9, 1931, Pasadena, Cal.; awarded prize inphysics, 1907, for researches with spectroscopy and interferometer.

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JEWS WHO HAVE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE 269

WALLACH, OTTO, born, March 27, 1847, Koenigsberg, East Prussia,Germany; awarded prize in chemistry, 1910, for researches inessential oils and terpenes.

WILI.STAETTER, RICHARD, born, August 13, 1872, Carlsruhe, Baden;awarded prize in chemistry, 1915, for researches in alkaloids(atropin and cocaine), aniline dyes and vegetable coloring matters

ZSIGISMONDO, RICHARD, born, April 1, 1865, Vienna, Austria; died,September 23, 1929, Goettingen, Germany; awarded prize inchemistry, 1925, for researches in Colloid chemistry.

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