APPENDICES I. ANNIVERSARIES AND CELEBRATIONS

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1 APPENDICES NOTE: The following are selected as the most important among the item9 of these groups, complete lists of which are contained in the SUMMARY OF EVENTS OF JEWISH INTEREST, published quarterly by the Bureau of Jewish Social Research, New York City. I. ANNIVERSARIES AND CELEBRATIONS UNITED STATES October 23-25, Philadelphia, Pa.: Celebration of one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of founding of RODEPH SHALOM CONGRE- GATION. November 13, Washington, D. C: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of the birth of Louis D. BRANDEIS. December 14, New York City: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of the birth of Louis MARSHALL. AUSTRIA May 6, Vienna: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of the birth of SIEGMUND FREUD. July 15, Vienna: Celebration of eightieth anniversary of the birth of ADOLF SCHWARZ, rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary, teacher and author. BRITISH EMPIRE February 1, London: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of the birth of LUCIEN WOLF. FRANCE July 7, Paris: Celebration of seventieth anniversary of the birth of ISRAEL LEVI, chief rabbi of France, author and Jewish leader. September 4, Strassbourg: Celebration of centenary of the birth of CHARLES NETTER (JACOB KOPPEL). GERMANY September 17, Berlin: Celebration of seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of JAMES SIMON, president of Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden and member of council of Jewish Colonization Association. NETHERLANDS February 21, Amsterdam: Commemoration of 250th anniversary of death of BARUCH SPINOZA. 112

2 A SURVEY OF THE YEAR II. APPOINTMENTS, HONORS AND ELECTIONS UNITED STATES BACHARACH, ISAAC, Atlantic City, N. J., re-elected to United States BERGER, VICTOR L., Milwaukee, Wis., re-elected to United States BLOOM, SOL, New York City, re-elected to United States House of Representatives, Nov. 2, CARDOZO, BENJAMIN, New York City, elected Chief Justice, Court of Appeals, New York, Nov. 2, CELLER, EMANUEL, New York City, re-elected to United States House of Representatives, Nov. 2, COHEN, WM. W., New York City, elected to United States House of Representatives, Nov. 2, DICKSTEIN, SAMUEL, New York City, re-elected to United States GOLDER, BENJAMIN M., Philadelphia, Pa., re-elected to United States JACOBSTEIN, MEYER, Rochester, N. Y., re-elected to United States KAHN, MRS. FLORENCE P., San Francisco, Cal., re-elected to United States OTTINGER, ALBERT, New York City, re-elected Attorney General, New York State, Nov. 2, SABATH, ADOLPH, Chicago, 111., re-elected to United States House of Representatives, Nov. 2, SIROVICH, WILLIAM I., New York City, elected to United States House of Representatives, Nov. 2, STROOCK, MOSES J., New York City, elected Chairman of Board of Higher Education, May 26, WOLFE, SAMUEL HERBERT, re-appointed brigadier-general, reserve corps, United States Army, approved by Senate, May 17, BRITISH EMPIRE DUVEEN, SIR JOSEPH, London, created Baronet, Jan. 1, HEAPS, J. A., Winnipeg, re-elected to House of Commons, Sept. 14, JACOBS, S. W., Montreal, re-elected to House of Commons, Sept. 14, READING, LORD (RUFUS ISAACS), London, made Marquis of Reading, April 21, FRANCE REINACH, SALOMON, Paris, elected president of Academie des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres de l'lnstitute de France, Jan., ROTHSCHILD, HENRI DE, Paris, promoted Commander of Legion of Honor, April,

3 114 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK GERMANY BADT, HERMANN, appointed Director of the Cabinet of Prussia, Oct. 24, HERZ, GUSTAVE, Halle, and JAMES, FRANK, Goettingen, awarded jointly by Swedish Academy of Science, Nobel prize in physics, March, WARBURG, EMIL, professor and former president of the Physico-Technical Institute, Berlin, received from the President of the Republic medal inscribed "EMIL WARBURG, the Founder of German Experimental Physics, March 8, " HUNGARY BARACS, MARCELL, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, BRODYM, ERNST, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, DESI, GEZA, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, FABIAN, BELA, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, GSL, EUGEN, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, GYOERKI, EMMERICH, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, LOEW, EMANUEL, Szegdin, elected to House of Lords. PROPPER, ALEXANDER, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, REICH, KOPPEL, Budapest, elected to House of Lords. ROTHENSTEIN, MORITZ, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, SANDOR, PAUL, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, SZABO, EMMERICH, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, VARNAY, DANIEL, elected to the National Assembly, Dec. 8-16, ROUMANIA EBNER, MEYER, Czernowitz, elected to Chamber of Deputies, May 25, GHENDRICK,, elected to Chamber of Deputies, May 25, GUTNIK,..., elected to Chamber of Deputies, May 25. NIEMIROWER,, Bucharest, elected senator, May 25, WEISZ, LEIPOL, elected to Chamber of Deputies, May 25. WURMBRAND,..., Jassy, elected to Chamber of Deputies, May 25, ZIRELSOHN,, Kishineff, elected senator, May 28, SWEDEN CASSEL, GVSTAV, Stockholm, elected president of the Swedish Academy of Science, April,

4 A SURVEY OF THE YEAR III. SPECIAL BEQUESTS AND GIFTS UNITED STATES BROWN, FREDERICK, New York City, donates $100,000 to United Jewish Campaign for New York's quota, April 25 May 9, ELIAS, HENRY F., New York City, bequests 150,000 to Blythedale Home, Valhalla, N. Y., Hebrew Orphan Asylum, N. Y. C, and Montefiore Home; $12,500 to non-jewish charities, and residuary estate to Mount Sinai Hospital, June 9, Fox, WILLIAM, New York City, donates $250,000 to United Jewish Campaign for New York's quota, April 25 May 8, FRANK, HENRY L., Chicago, 111., bequests $600,000 to the Michael Reese Hospital; $20,000 to the Illinois Training School for Nurses, $25,- 000 for a monument in memory of Ephraim Lessing in South Side Park, and $705,000 to other charities, April 8, GUGGENHEIM, ISAAC (Estate), New York City, donates $100,000 to Sydenham Hospital for building fund, Jan. 29, GUGGENHEIMER, MRS. MAX, Lynchburg, Va., bequests $25,000 for Jewish Institute of Religion, New York City; 100,000 to trustees for reconstruction work in Palestine, and $500,000 and residue of estate of $1,243,000 to Memorial Hospital, Lynchburg, Va., for child's and maternity hospital, March 12, HECHT, ISRAEL, Philadelphia, Pa., bequests upon death of wife estate valued at $500,000 $1,000,000 for the Samuel and Henrietta Hecht Foundation to Furnish Free Coal to the Poor, July, HERMAN, ALEXANDER, New York City, bequests $100,000 to Mt. Sinai Hospital, $100,000 to Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases, $50,000 to Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, $50,000 to Hebrew Orphan Asylum, $25,000 to Beth Israel Hospital, $70,000 to eight other Jewish organizations, and $15,000 to Charity Organization Society, Dec. 27, HEYMAN, MRS. HANNAH, New York City, bequests, $200,000 to the Jewish Institute of Religion and $25,000 to the Free Synagogue, April 4, JEITLES, HARRY A., Philadelphia, Pa., bequests approximately $200,- 000 to Federation of Jewish Charities, Philadelphia, Pa., January, LAMPORT, NATHAN, New York City, donates $100,000 to Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for building fund, Dec. 19, LAVANBURG, FRED L., New York City, donates $250,000 to Henry Street Settlement, Nov. 26, LEVY, JULIUS, Baltimore, Md., bequests $50,000 to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., $25,000 to Associated Jewish Chanties, $25,000 to ChizukEmunah Congregation, $60,000 to seven educational and charitable organizations; and establishes the Julius and Etta Levy Fund of $50,000 for Baltimore Hebrew College and Training School, Baltimore Talmud Torah Society, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dec. 15, MASTBAUM, JULES E., Philadelphia, Pa., bequests $100,000 to Federated Loan Society and $100,000 to Federation of Jewish Charities, Dec. 13,

5 116 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK MAYER, HENRY, New York City, bequests 810,000 to Mt. Sinai Hospital and United Hebrew Charities; $5,000 to Lebanon Hospital Association of the City of New York and Jewish Working Girls Vacation Society, $7,500 to eight Jewish organizations, S4.000 to six non-jewish organizations, and residue valued at $800,000 for founding and maintaining Mayer Rest, a lodging house for the poor and needy, Oct. 26, OCHS, MR. AND MRS. ADOLPH S., New York City, donates S200,000 for Hebrew Unio College Endowment Fund of $5,000,000, May, 1926, donates $25,000 to United Jewish Campaign for New York's quota, April 25 May 9, OSTROSKI, AMELIA, San Francisco, Cal., bequests $20,000 to Jewish Associated Cha ities of San Francisco; S6.000 to Hebrew Home for Aged, $16,000 to non-jewish charity, and Ostroski Fund of from $200,000 to SI,000,000 to Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization, December, RATSHESKY, A. C, Boston, Mass., donates 5100,000 to Beth Israel Hospital for Building Fund of $1,000,000, March 7, ROSENWALD, JULIUS, Chicago, 111., donates $3,000,000 for museum of industrial art, Aug. 16, SALOMON, LIONEL J., Brooklyn, N. Y., bequests estate valued at $2,692,578 (including 8287,000 in trust for relatives during their lifetime) to the New York Foundation as "a permanent endowment fund," April 28, S HINASI, LEON, New York City, donates 8100,000 to Sydenham Hospital for building fund, Jan. 29, SHIMAN, ISAAC, New York City, bequests to Montefiore Hospital, New York City, $250,000 and (conditionally) trust funds of $500,000 and $200,000, January, STRAUS, NATHAN, New York City, donates S 100,000 to Hadassah Medical Organization for Nathan and Lina Straus Health Center at Jerusalem, Dec. 25, TILLES, C. A., establishes trust fund of $1,000,000 for the care of disadvantaged or helpless boys and girls, January, WARBURG, FELIX M., New York City, donates S400,0:0 and WARBURG, MRS. FELIX M., New York City, donated S to United Jewish Campaign for New York's quota, April 25 May 9, BRITISH EMPIRE BARON, BERNHARD, London, donates 25,000 to Keren Hayesod, July 4, 1926, 25,000 to Jewish and non-jewish charities in celebration of his seventy-sixth birthday, Dec. 5, 1926, 25,000 to London Hospital and Pathological Institute, Jan. 20, DAVID, MORTIMER B., Paris, France, donates S25O,OOO to Young Men's Hebrew Association for building, Montreal, and $50,000 (conditionally), for building at West End, Sept. 9,

6 A SURVEY OF THE YEAR IV. NECROLOGY UNITED STATES ADLER, JACOB P., actor and producer, New York City, aged 71, March 31, BAMBERGER, SIMON, former governor, Salt Lake City, Utah, aged 79, Oct. 7, BLOOMGARDEN, SOLOMON (pseud.: Yehoash), poet and translator, New York City, aged 56, Jan. 10, BRENNER, ROSE, president of the National Council of Jewish Women and communal leader, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 42, April 5, EMBER, AARON, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University, and author, Baltimore, Md., aged 48, June 1, FRAUENTHAL, HENRY W., New York City, surgeon, communal worker and founder of Hospital for Joint Diseases, aged 65, March 11, GROSSMAN, LOUIS, Cincinnati, O., rabbi, former professor of eudcation at the Hebrew Union College, and author, Long Beach, Cal., at Detroit, Mich., aged 63, Sept. 21, HOFFHEIMER, HENRY M., former judge of Superior Court, State of Ohio, Cincinnati, 0., aged 58, Dec. 9, HOUDINI, HARRY, (Hardeen), theatrical performer (magician), New York City, at Detroit, Mich., aged 52, Oct. 31, KAHN, MAX, physician and discoverer of intarvin, aged 39, April 9, KOHNS, LEE, former President of New York Board of Trade and Transportation, and civic and communal leader, New York City, aged 63, Jan. 18, LONDON, MEYER, lawyer, former congressman, and labor leader, New York City, aged 55, June 6, MASTBAUM, JULES E., president Stanley Company of America, communal and civic leader, aged 55, Dec. 7, MOSES, ISAAC S., rabbi and author, New York City, aged 79, Dec. 2, MOSESSOHN, NEHEMIAH, rabbi and editor, New York City, aged 73, Dec. 10, SELIKOWITZ, GEORGE, professor of Oriental languages, author, editor, and journalist, New York City, aged 67, Nov. 28, STRAUS, OSCAR S., diplomatist, author, and communal leader, former secretary of Commerce and Labor, and former Ambassador to Turkey, New York City, aged 76, May 3, STRAUSS, SELIGMAN J., judge and communal worker, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., aged 73, May 3, SUNSTEIN, A. J., communal leader, Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 66, Dec. 8, WOLF, HORACE J., rabbi and communal leader, Rochester, N. Y., aged 41, Feb. 17, ZEVIN, ISRAEL J., (pseud. Tashrak), editor and humorist, Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 54, Oct. 5,

7 118 AMERICAN JEWISH YEAR BOOK BRITISH EMPIRE BEARSTED, \ is< OUNT (Marcus Samuel), oil magnate and communal leader, London, aged 7-3, Jan. 17, DAVIS, ISRAEL, publisher and author, London, aged 80, Jan. 21, MYERS, SIR ARTHUR, former mayor of Auckland, New Zealand, and minister of Defence, of Finance, and of Railways and Munitions, London, aged 59, Oct. 2, SAMUEL, SIR Sri ART M., former member of Parliament, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and communal leader, London, aged 70, May 13, 192o. ZANGWILL, ISRAEL, author, playwright and Jewish leader. London, aged 62, Aug. 1, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA SPIEGEL, LUDWIG, professor of civil law and member of Upper House, Prague, at Marienbad, aged 62, Aug. 14, DENMARK BRANDES, GEORG (MORRIS COHEN), author and literary critic Copenhagen, aged 85, Feb. 19, FRANCE YINAVER, MAXIM, lawyer, author, member of the first imperial duma of Russia, and civic and communal leader, aged 64, Paris, Oct. 12. YUSHKEVICH, SEMION, novelist and playwright, Paris, aged 59, Feb. 12, GERMANY BRESSLAU, HARRY, former professor at the University of Strassbourg, historian and author, Heidelberg, aged 78, November, BREUER, SOLOMON, rabbi, President of the Association of Orthodox Rabbis, President of the Independent Union of Orthodox Jews, member of the Rabbinical Council of Agudath Israel, and author, Frankfort a. M., aged 76, July 19, NATHAN, PAUL, vice-president of the Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden and communal leader, Berlin, aged 70, March 15, SONNENFELD, HUGO, jurist and communal leader, Berlin, aged 63, March 1, HUNGARY YASZONYI, WILHELM, deputy, former Minister of Justice, Budapest, at Baden, Germany, aged 58, May 29, ITALY LUZZATTI, LUIGI, Cabinet Minister and Premier, at Rome, aged 86, March 29, 1927.

8 A SURVEY OF THE YEAR ') LATVIA COHEN, MEIR SIMHAH, rabbi, author and Jewish leader, Dwinsk, aged 73, August 13, NETHERLANDS PALACHE, ISAAC VAN JUDA, Chief Rabbi of Portuguese Community, Amsterdam, aged 69, Dec. 1, PALESTINE AHAD HA'AM (Asher Ginzburg), author and leader, Tel Aviv, aged 71, Jan. 1, POLAND ROKEACH, ISSACHAR DOB, hasidic rabbi, Belz, aged 75, Oct. 29, SWITZERLAND GUGGENHEIM, HERMANN, former president of the Jewish community of Zurich and of the Union of Jewish Communities of Switzerland, Zurich, aged 68, April,

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