The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography

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American
T H E
C O N C I S E
D I C T I O N A R Y
Jewish
O F
Biography
JACOB RADER MARCUS, editor
JUDITH M. DANIELS, associate editor
HOW TO'USE
The Concise Dictionary of
American Jewish Biography
CONTENTS however, that we had accumulated hundreds upon
hundreds (probablythousands) ofbiographies for people
This Corzcise Dictionary consists of almost 24,000 brief
for whom we did not have obituaries. Many of these
biographies ofAmericanJews. Itisbyfar thelargestsuch
individuals had probablydied bythe end of1985, butwe
biographical dictionary ever undertaken. All of these
had no systematic way of determining who they were.
individuals are notable in that their names were taken
Rather than drop all these names, we decided we would
from standard sources for American Jewish biography.
include theinformationwe had from.oursources. So, the
These sources are listed in the bibliography. Additional
reader should note-ifthere is no death date given in a
information (and additional names) came froI!1 such
biography this signifies that we did not find an obituary
sources as Who Was Who inAmerica andNotableAmerican
for this person in oursources. We could, ofcourse, have'
Women.
addedsomedeathdatesfromourownpersonalknowledge
It should be emphasized that the names and the
or from the popular press (Leonard Bernstein, for
informationincludedhere comefrom theprintedsources
example), butwe decided thisinconsistencywould betoo
in the bibliography. We did not use.our judgment as to
confusingforthereader.
whichindividualstoincludeorexcludeandtheinformation
Similarly, oursources often did notindicatewhere
included is only the information available in the sources.
and/or when an individual was born. In that case, the
Whenthesourcesdisagreewitheachotheronsuchthings
designationb.*wasused.
as dates, the conflicting information is included. Each
entryconcludeswith a.listingofeverysourceweused.for
that entry. Thus, the reader can always go back to the TWO EXAMPLES
originaltocheckourinformation.
Below are two examples of entries from the Dictionary,
Many individuals were included in more than one
whichshouldhelpfamiliarizethereaderwithourformat.
ofour sources and we have combined their biographical
information here. However, there were some instances Aaron,AHoward;b.Buffalo,Feb28 1892.
wherewecouldnotbecertainaboutsingleordualidentity. LLBU Buffalo.• Lawyer,Buffalo;activeLegal
Inthesecaseswehaveentered bothcitationswithacross AidCOffi,JewishFednforSocialService;
authorinfield. • See:WWIAJ, 1926,1928,
reference [e.g. See entryaboveorSeeentrybelow].
1938.
Thereaderwillnotethatmanywomenareidentified
onlybytheir husband's name. For this we apologize, but From this biography of a fairly obscure individual, you
whenthisoccursitistheonlynameinformationavailable, canseethat his date ofdeathisnotin anyofoursources.
eveninsuchpublicationsas TheNew York Times. So, (a) he is still alive and over 100years old; (b) he died
Several of our most {:ommonly cited sources use after1985;or(c)hewasnotconsideredprominentenough
the word "communal" to designate activity within the at his death to receive an obituary in our sources. We
Jewish.community [as in communalldr]. A civic ldris one have used our own standard list of abbreviations in The
who is active within the general community. We have Con~ise Dictionary and they are listed on page xvii. The
followed thisdistinctionhere. . reader will note that all of the information in the entry
wastakenfrom thethreeissues ofWho's Who inAmerican
Jewrypublishedin1926, 1928,and 1938.
CUT-OFF DATE
We had originally intended to include in The Concise Adler,Cyrus;b.Van,Buren,AR,Sep13
1863;d.Apr71940.
Dictionary only those individuals who were deceased and
BACentralHighSchool(Philadelphia),BA,
weestablishedacutoffdateoftheendof1985.Wefound,
MA,U PA,PhDJohnsHopkins.•Natl
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communalldr,Orientalist,coIlpres,author; Cyrus Adler has one of the longest entries. It gives his
presDropsie,UnitedSynagogueofAm,JTS, exactdatesofbirthand death, thecompletehistoryofhis
AmJewishCom,professionalsoc;facultyJohns
education,andthemostimportantofhisaccomplishments.
Hopkins;assocdSmithsonian;fdrJewish
He appearsinnumerous sources. All ofthe abbreviations
PublicationSoc,AmJewishHistoricalSoc;
editorA]YB;representativeVersaillesPeace in the entry appear in our list ofabbreviations. The last
Con£;non-Zionistco-chrJewishAgency. • citationistohisobituaryinThe·NewYork Times.
See:]E;UJE;E];A]YB,6(1904-1905):54-55,
24:113,42:23-144,476;Eisenstadt,9;WWIA], JacobRaderMarcus
1926,1928,1938;BEOA];PAIRS, 37:451-154; JudithM.Daniels
WWWIA, 1;DAB,2;Detroit]ewishNews,June
7 1968;NYTimes,Apr81940,1:3.
PREFACE
After the Holocaust, America automatically assumed marginalJew-hewas proudly claimed ifhe had enjoyed .
culturalhegemonyinWorldJewry.Tomeetthechallenge adegreeofprominence.Almostanyrabbiorcantor, even
of cultural and spiritual leadership the AmericanJewish asmall-townminister, was deemed apersonality. Indeed,
Archives was established in 1947 on the campus of the whentheJewishPublicationSocietystartedtolistnotables,
HebrewUnionCollegeinCincinnatibythepresentwriter. theybeganwithrabbis and cantors (AmericanJewish Year
I setoutto collectdocuments and data throwinglighton Book, 1903-1904).
theJews ofthe Western Hemisphere; the United States InplanningThe ConciseDictionaryofAmericanJewish
communitieswereemphasized. Bythe 1990stheArchives Biography,wewere eagertoincludethe personalitieswho
had collected about 8,000,000 pages ofmaterial. In order graced the towns and cities in all parts of the United
to further the study of American Jewish history, a States;we did notlimitourselvestometropolitancenters.
semiannualmagazinewas published beginningin 1948;it (Itis interestingto notethat the editors ofVolume 39 of
carriedselectedlistsofaccessions. Intheyears 1971-1978 theAmericanJewish YearBook deemed asextonworthyof
the Archives published a five-volume Manuscript Catalog an obituary, brief as it was; the man had served a
ofthe American Jewish Archives; a microfiche edition of Milwaukee congregation for thirty years; many persons
newaccessionswas issued in 1991.As aids to researchers, arelistedsimplyas"communalworkers.")
detailedindexes-incard catalogform-were preparedof In this Concise Dictionary the effort was made to
a number of the country's most important Jewish include only deadJews; for avariety ofreasons there are
periodicals. In 1984Jewish Newspapers and Periodicals on many exceptions. When a Jewish Who's Who of living
MicrofilmwaspublishedbytheAmericanJewishPeriodical American personages was published in 1938-1939, itwas
Center, Cincinnati. In 1950 and 1960 censuses of assumedthattheywouldbedeadbythe 1990's.However,
seventeenth-andeighteenth-centuryAmericanjewrywere anumber ofthem listed in thatvolume survived into the
prepared. 1990's; all are included here; hence the reward ofthose
Thereisnoquestionth~tmostoftheJewsportrayed whohavesurvived;theycanenjoyreadingwhattheeditors
in America's standard biographical reference works are saidofthemintheirantemortemportrayals.
indeed notables as are those depicted in the several fine Individualswho had butoneJewishparentare also
Jewish multivolumed encyclopedias; nevertheless their deemed Jews as are converts to other faiths. Dr. Karl
criteria for notability are often mixed. Relatively few Landsteiner, a Nobel laureate in the area ofphysiology
women are included, "for women were given little and medicine, appears here. He was a convert to
recognition prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Christianity,.but a bornJew. Certainly not grateful for
Amendmentin 1920. Evenintheirobituariesin The New inclusioninanearlierJewishwork, hesuedthepublisher,
York Times women are often denoted by only their unsuccessfully. We have also included many persons as
husbands' names; women like Mrs. Maurice Rothschild Jews solely on the basis of their "Jewish" names;
(d. 1922) remain nameless; enfranchisement would undoubtedly we have made errors. European Jews,
ultimatelymakeadifference. refugees, who stayed in the States but a fewyears before
In the decades before and after the turn of the returningtoEuropeorAsiaarealsochronicled;theywere
nineteenth century,AmericanJewswereeagerto boastof American, ifonly for the time being.Jews who affiliated
theirimportantpersons.Althoughmostwereimmigrants, with various religious cults were always looked upon as
many of these newcomers had more than earned their Jews. Notable criminals have also found a haven in this
welcomehere.Anartistwhoreceivedanawardwassingled dictionary. If the Dictionary ofAmerican Biography can
out;pioneersinallregionswerelauded;veteranswhohad shelterJesseJames, theJews can do no less than provide
foughtinnationalwarswere, afterdecades,paraded.Even anasylumforArnoldRothstein, gamblerand bookmaker,
if an individual had little or no Jewish affiliation-a who was fatally wounded in a poker game in 1928. The
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criteria for acceptance in this lexicographical work are maynotbeknown; the date ofthe obituaryinthepapers
ethnic origin, notability, notoriety, and inclusion in one maynotbethe dateofdeath. Inmostinstances, however,
ofourJewishsources. we have sought to determine when the biographee died;
Thereis everyreasonto believethatonthebasisof we have turned to The New York Times, ·makinggood use
our sources it has been possible to assemble a relatively ofitstwopublishedobituaryindexvolumes.
inclusive corpus of American Jewry's notables. On the In copying a biography we have usually accepted
whole, the eighty-seven volumes of the American Jewish the givenspelling ofthe hometown, though the spellings
Year Book were most productive. Some Jews of repute in the original were often phonetic, and we did not
asked to submit biographical data refused to do so. This transliterateHebrewterms in accord withmodernusage.
is interesting; it is equally interesting to note that social We have allowed the biographees to spell as their minds
workerswere, onthewhole, notdeemednotables. Rabbis and educationprompted.Ifsome bios are brief-inmany
andcantorswere."WhenLeeK Frankel,onceaninstructor casesnotmorethanalineortwo-wearemerelycopying
at the UniversityofPennsylvania, told his friend the Rev. thesource,theonlyoneavailable.
Dr. Kaufmann Kohler of New York that he was going We have labored for over a decade to.produce this
into social work, the rabbi told him, rather sharply, that Concise Dictionary because it is our beliefthat it will save
responsiblesuccessfulmen did notworkfor the charities. students many hours of research. Statisticians studying
Frankelsucceededinbecomingone ofthecountry'smost AmericanJewish life and culturewill find that thousands
distinguishedsocialworkers. of biographies will provide them with a more than
Caveats. The editors of Who's Who in America adequate sampling for their studies. The data in these
believe that the data submitted by the biographees are volumes are rich in the areas ofeconomics, politics, the
accurate, thatpeoplearemeticulouswhenfillingouttheir professions, cultural anthropology, onomastics (names),
questionnaires. It is our opinion that some oftheJewish feminism, immigration, and genealogy. Comparisons can
biographies are not without embellishment: people get bemadebetweenfirst-generationnewcomersand natives,
younger; theygain degrees. Inaddition, somesources are allJews ofcourse. OnecantracethehistoryoftheJewish
generally less reliable than others;·thus the many-paged urban middle class since the seventeenth century; a
list of "Notable American Jews" in the American Jewish comparative study of immigrant achievers according to
Year Book, volume 24, is error-ridden. We assumed, their country of origin is well within the realm of
however, that mostlife stories are accurate as given. The possibility; a comparative study of the AmericanJewish
biographies in this Concise Dictionary are limited to the middle class, men and women, according to the
information printed in the selected reference works in geographical areas where they lived and prospered could
ourbibliography;whenthesources disagree, astheyoften beundertaken.Thisstudyalsowouldthrowlightonwhat
do, particularly about dates, we include the variants. We they did for their communities. The biographies include
hadneitherthestaffnorthefunds toundertakeadditional theeducation, training, and honorarydegreesreceived by
independentresearch. Someofthebiographies, especially the men and thewomen portrayed. We believe, too, that
thoseexcerptedfromthe manyvolumes ofWho Was Who there are enough biographies ofwomen to unearth some
inAmerica may, inadvertently, have included Gentiles. It ofthe lost history ofAmericanJewry's women. Though
is ourhopethattheirGentile, Christian, descendantswill somewhat limited, the data may be extensive enough to
not be indignant that their ancestors were numbered determine the contributions of the Central European
amongapeoplethatincludedMoses, King David, Isaiah, refugeeswhofledinthe 1930'sandsettledinthiscountry.
Jeremiah, the Maccabees, Jesus, Karl Marx, Sigmund "What did they do for the America that provided them
Freud, and Albert Einstein. Itis worthyofnote too, that withahaven?
many, ifnotmost, oftheJewsin Who Was Who.inAmerica This Concise Dictionary was actually begun in 1950
do not go out oftheir way to identify themselves as one when Earl Grollman, a student at the Hebrew Union
ofthe ChosenPeople. In general, theJewishbiographical College, published a paper on America's seventeenth
works tend to ignore Orthodox East European rabbis; centuryJews. This was followed by a largerworkbyDr.
since some were fine talmudists, this is regrettable. The Joseph Rosenbloom in 1960. That, in turn, was followed
writing style employed in this Concise Dictionary is by a master's thesis by David Zielonka in 1962. During
telegraphic, elliptical;wewereeagerto savespaceso asto the 1980's, graduate students of the seminary and the
includeas manybiographies aspossibleinthecompass of nearbyuniversityworkedcontinuouslyontheproject; the
one handy publication. But we did not skimp when it scholarshipfundsweregenerouslysuppliedbytheHebrew
cametocitingoursourcesfor everyindividual'sbiography. Union College. I forbear to mention all their
Because they are relatively numerous, they will enable names-althoughNinaMjagkij, SigurdAdickes, andAnn
researchers to secure additional information. No attempt Millinwereamongthem-lestIinadvertentlyforgetsome
was made to interpret the data; the facts must speak for ~ofthem.AaronLevine, aretiredexecutiveoftheFederated
themselves. The actual death date is not always given; it Department Stores and now co':"director ofthe Institute
Preface xv
forLearninginRetirementattheUniversityofCincinnati, deeply grateful for their largesse and their vision. Itwas
undertook the arduous task ofexcerpting the data on all this giftthatmadeitpossiblefor us to continueonevena
theJewish biographees in the eightvolumes ofWho Was larger scale. Melanie A. Miller did the computer work
Who inAmerica(thisofcourseincluded allJewsidentified magnificently, organizing and typing the biographies.
in the many volumes of the standard Who's Who in JudithM. Daniels, Lecturer in History at the University
America). At all times, the staffs ofthe AmericanJewish ofCincinnati, came aboard in the 1980's and took over
Archives and the Hebrew Union College Library were thetaskofchiefofstaff.Withoutherthisworkwouldnot
onlytoo eagerto beofassistance. exist. I prepared the data forhundreds ofbiographiesand
Finally, we received a matching grant from Jack checkedeveryfinal entryinthiswork.
Skirballand hiswifeAudreyMarxSkirballKenis. We are
JacobRaderMarcus
AmericanJewishArchives
HebrewUnionCollege, Cincinnati
. 1993
ABBREVIATIONS
admladmr: administration,administrator cotp: corporation nad: national
AFL: AmericanFederationofLabor CPA: CertifiedPublicAccountant NAWi NotableAmericanWomen
A]A: AmericanJewishArchives d: died NAWimodem: NotableAmericanWomen:
AI: AmericanIsraelite DAB: DictionaryofAmericanBiography TheModernPeriod
AJH: AmericanJewishHistory dept: department NYC: NewYorkCity
AJHQ: AmericanJewishHistorical dir: director NYTimes: NewYorkTimes
Quarterly dr: doctor org/orgs: organization!organizations
A}YB: AmericanJewishYearBook Eisenstadt: Eisenstadt,HakmeYisroelbe- orgr: organizer
Am: America!American Amerika ORT: OrganizationforRehabilitation
assnlassns: association!associations EJ: EncyclopaediaJudaica ThroughTraining
assocd: associated estd: established PAJHS:. PublicationsoftheAmericanJewish
HistoricalSociety
asst: assistant exec: executive
post-grad: post-graduate
atty: attorney fdr: founder
pres: president
b: born fedn: federation
pseud: pseudonym
bd: board Fink: Fink,BiographicalDictionaryof
BDEAJ: BiographicalDictionaryofEarly AmericanLaborLeaders RIETS: RabbiIsaacElchanan
TheologicalSeminary
AmericanJews found: foundation·
secy: secretary
BEOAJ: BiographicalEncyclopediaof Gottlieb: Gottlieb,Ohole-Schem
AmericanJews Heb: Hebrew soclsocs: society/societies
bIdr: builder HEW: DepartmentofHealth,Education supt: superintendent
bros: brothers & Welfare tchr: teacher
ca: circa Hgts: Heights U: university
CCARYB: CentralConferenceofAmerican ILGWU: InternationalLadiesGarment UJE: UniversalJewishEncyclopedia
RabbisYearbook WorkersUnion UN: UnitedNations
chr: chairman inst: institute/institution UNESCO: UnitedNationsEducational,
CIO: CongressofIndustrial IRS: InternalRevenueService Social&CulturalOrganization
Organizations JE: JewishEncyclopedia WPA: WorksProgressAdministration
civic: referstogeneralcommunity* JTA-DNB: Jewish TelegraphicAgency- WSJ: WallStreetJournal
co: company DailyNewsBulletin ~: WorldWarI
coIl: college ]TS: JewishTheologicalSeminary,NYC ~: WorldWarII
com: committee Idr: leader WWlAJ: Who'sWhoinAmericanJewry
conimnlcommr: commission! LI: LongIsland WWWIA: Who WasWhoinAmerica
commissioner med: medicaVmedicine YMCA: YoungMen'sChristian
communal: referstoJewishcommunity* mem: member Association
conf: conference mfr: manufacturer YM-YWHA: YoungMen's&Young
cong: congress mgr: manager Women'sHebrewAssociation
consult: consultant NAACP: NationalAssociationforthe
AdvancementofColoredPeople
*Several ofour most commo~yused sources used the word "communal" to designate
activitywithintheJewishcommunity[asincommunalldr].Acivicldrisonewhowasactive
withinthegeneralcommunity.Wehavefollowedthisdistinctionhere.
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d.Brooklyn,Mar201951. MDBellevueMedColI.•Physician,Ansonia,
Bldr,realtor,Brooklyn;presCityT~Payers CT;natlexeccomZionistOrgofAm;active Abel,Shneur;b.ca1870;d.NYC,'Mar2
Assn;dirHebFreeSchool;activehospital communalaffairs.• See:WWIA], 1928. 1925.
philanthropies.·See:A]YB, 53:523;WWIA], DirJewishNatlFund,Zionistworker,NYc.•
1938;NYTimes,Mar211951,33:4. Aaronson,Ralph;b.ca1860;d. See:A]YB,27:150.
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Aaron,LouisI;b.Prussia,Oct181840;d. Communalworker,Philadelphia.• See:A]YB, Abeles,HerbertR;b.Newark,Feb14
Pittsburgh,Dec311919. 16(1914-1915):161. 1898;d.WestOrange,NJ,Nov11960.
Abeles, IdaBlock(MrsAlbertAbeles) 4
Businessexec,communalldr,Newark;natIbd Abels,Simon;b.Lithuania,Jan101866;d. Rabbi,Cleveland.• See:A]YB, 20(1918
JointDistributionCom,NJComonDisplaced Brooklyn,May201950. J919):227.
Persons;presCouncilofJewishFednsand ToUS1887.•Bldr,realtor,developer,
WelfareFunds. • See:A]YB63:558;NITimes, Brooklyn;earlierbanker,Pittsburgh;active Abraham,Abraham;b.NYC,Mar91843;
Nov21960,39:4. synagog. • See:WWIA], 1926;NITimes,May d.NYC,June281911.
221950,21:4. Deptstorefdr,natIcommunalldr,philanthro
Abeles,IdaBlock(MrsAlbertAbeles);b. pist,NYC;presUnionofAmHebCongrega
Newark,Dec41883. Abelson,Alter;b.Miriampol,Lithuania, tions,JewishHospital;officerSocforthe
Communalworker,Orange,NJ;trustee July171880/1881;d.NYC,Dec201964. PreventionofCrueltytoChildren;donated
TheresaGrottaAidforConvalescents;active ToUS1887.·JTS.·Rabbi,poet,NYC, uniqueEgyptologylibrarytoCornell.• See:
AmJewishCongo• See:WWIA], 1938. earlierJerseyCity;hospitalchaplainforNYBd UJE;EJ(subAbraham);A]YB,7(1905
ofRabbis.•See: UJE;A]YB, 5(1903-1904):41, 1906):33,13(1911-1912):138(subAbrahams);
Abeles,JulianTheodore;b.LittleRock, 7(1905-1906):119,24:112,66:572; WWIA], PA]HS,22:199-100;WWWIA, 1;NITimes,
Dec251892;d.Mar1973. 1938;NITimes,Dec22 1964,27:4. June291911,-11:3.
UAR,LLBNYU...Lawyer,NYC;specialty:
motionpicture& musiccopyright;general Abelson,HaroldHerbert;b.NYC,Sep25 Abraham,Harris;b.ca1834;d.Nashville,
counseltradeassns. •See:WWWL4, 5; 1904. Oct181914.
NITimes,Mar71963,46:1. BSCCNY,MAPhDColumbia.• Confederateveteran,Nashville.• See:A]YB,
Psychologist,educator,NYC;faculty,dean 17(1915-1916):218.
Abeles,PeterAron;b.Oltenitza,Rumania, SchoolofEducation,CCNY;presprofessional
Feb151886;d.Sep1952. assn;authorinfield. •See:E];WWIA], 1938. Abraham,Henry;b.ca1835;d.New
ToNYC1895.·LLBNYU.•Lawyer, Orleans,Sep41910.
accountant,legislator,municipal& US Abelson,Isadore;b.Adanta,Feb21894. Cottonmerchant,NewOrleans.·See:A]YB,
customscourtjudge,NYc.• See:WWIA], BAU Georgia,JTS.• Communalsocial 13(1911-1912):135.
1938;NITimes,Sep13 1952,17:1. worker,Brooklyn;withJewishWelfareBd.•
See:WWIA], 1928. Abraham,Herbert;b.NYC,July91883;d.
Abelman,Max;b.Jassy,Jan261887;d. Apr41967.
Brooklyn,Oct171960. Abelson,LesterSidney;b.NiagaraFalls, CCNY,BSColumbia.•Mfr,NYC;chemical
ToNYC1892/1902.• DeWightSchoolof Dec181902;d.Nov51980. coexec,StLouis;WWIgovernmentservice.•
Accounting,MechanicsInstofNY,NYU JDU Chicago.•Distillingcoexec,Chicago; See:A]YB,24:112;WWIA], 1938;WWWIA.,
SchoolofPhilanthropy,NYU.•Public withBartonBrands.• See:WWW1A, 7. 4;NITimes,Apr51967,47:2.
relationsdir,civic& communalworker,
Brooklyn;execdirFednofJewishCharities; Abelson,LouisIrving;b.NYC,Aug51895. Abraham,HilleIJ;b.ca1842;d.San
dirpublicrelationsBrooklynJewi.shHospital; .CCNY,DDSColumbia.•Dentist,NYC; Francisco,Apr1917.
WWIfundraiser.· See:A]YB,63:558; officerAmJewishDentistsComforHebU, Rabbi.• See:A]YB, 19(1917-1918):263.
WWIA], 1926,1938;NITimes,Oct181960, professionalorgs;authorinfield. • See:
39:3. WWIA], 1938. Abraham,JosephHenry;b.Montgomery,
AL,Sep171870;d.NYC,June1954.
Abeloff,AbramJoseph;b.NYC,Mar19 Abelson,Nathan;b.Syracuse,Aug121883. MDUVA,post-gradVienna,Berlin.•
,1900. LLBSyracuseU. •LaWyer,municipaljudge, Laryngologist,instrumentdesigner,NYC;a
AB,MDColumbia.• Surgeon,NYC;author Syracuse;memBdofSupervisors;WWI fdrCollegeofSurgeons;facultyNYPolyclinic.
infield. • See:WWIA], 1938. governmentservice.•See:WWIA], 1938. •See:A]YB,24:112;WWIA], 1938;NITimes,
June41954,23:4.
Abelow,Robert;b.NYC,Dec291902;d. Abelson,Paul;b.Kovno,Sep271878;d.
May21978. NYC,Nov41953. Abraham,Lewis;b.London, 1825;d.
LLBStLawrenceU.• Lawyer,NYC;tchr ToNYC1892.•ABCCNY,LLB,PhD WashingtonDC,Dec30/311903.
NewSchool;wwnexecdirNatIWarLabor Columbia.•Notedlaborarbitrator,lawyer, ToCincinnati1841.•Publicist,lawyer,
Bd..•See:WWWL4,'7;NITimes,May41978, socialwelfareworker,laborunionimpartial communalworker,WashingtonDC;secyBd
II2:2. chr,NYC;afdrMadisonHouseSettlement; ofDelegatesonCivil& ReligiousRights;
officerJewishFarmersofAm;editor-in-chief officerB'naiB'rith;activeUnionofAmHeb
Abelow,Solomon;b.Brooklyn,July22 English-YiddishEncyclopedicDictionary;author/ Congregations.• See:UJE;A]YB,6(1904
1894;d.Feb1955. . lecturerinfield;WWIdraftbdchr.•See:E]; 1905):373;PA]HS, 32:117-118.
BSCornell,LLBBrooklynLawSchool.• UJE;A]YB,24:112,56:568;WWIA], 1928,
Lawyer,exportbroker,Brooklyn;mem 1938;NITimes,Nov51953,31:5. Abraham,MrsBenjaminL;~.Stry,Austria,
GovernorsCrimeConf;statecommander Sep261884.
JewishWarVeterans;presMeretzReliefAssn; Ableman,Benjamin;b.Philadelphia,Apr1 Communal& Zionistworker,Philadelphia;
activeDemocraticpolitics,veteransorgs; 1890. officerHadassah,UnitedPalestineAppeal,
WWIservice.• See:WWIA], 1938;NITimes, Merchant,farmowner,WPAadmr, NatICouncilofJewishWomen.·See:
Feb261955,15:2. Georgetown& Wilmington,DE.• See: WWIA], 1926.
WWIA], 1938(addenda).
Abels,Morris;b.RussianPoland,Mar Abraham,Sam;b.ca1886;d.Memphis,Jan
1876;d.AdanticCity,May81943. Abom,Milton;b.Marysville,CA,May18 261940.
Wholesalemerchant,Pittsburgh;prestrade 1864;d.NYC,Nov121933. Merchant,Memphis.• See:A]YB,42:476.
assn;trusteeFednofJewishPhilanthropies.• Theatrical& operaproducer,impresario,
See:WWIAJ, 1928;NITimes,May91943, Boston,NYC,Philadelphia;popularizedopera Abraham,Samuel;b.Budapest,Sep20
40:4. inUS.·See:A]YB,24:112,36:277;WWW1A, 1885.
1;DAB, 1;NITimes,Nov131933,17:1. . ToUS 1886.·PhG,PhC,DDSColumbia.·
Abels,MosesJS;b.Russia,Feb191887;d. Orthodontist,chemist,NYC;deanPost-Grad
NYC, 1959. Abom,Sargent;b.Boston,1866;d.Feb SchoolofOrthodontia& OralSurgery;bd
ToUS 1898.•ABCCNY,MAColumbia, 1956. HebOrphanAsylum,HebSheltering
ordainedJTS.•Rabbi,author,Zionist, Operaproducer,NYC.• See:A]YB,24:112; GuardianSoc,RebU;authorinfield;WWI
Brooklyn;earlierWilmington,DE,Altoona, NITimes, Feb71956,31:4.t service.·See:WWIA], 1926,1928,1938.
PA,LI;officerWilmingtonJuvenileCourt.•
See:WWIA], 1938;CCARYB. Abovitz,J;b.*;d.Cleveland,June261917. Abraham,Victor;b.Cincinnati,June12
1846.