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NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 129

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

[An asterisk (*) before the name of an organization indicatesthat no response was received from the Secretary or other officeraddressed for data; in the absence of an official response, theywere taken from the public prints or other available sources. Theheadquarters of the following four National Organizations couldnot be reached: Independent Order Bris Achim, IndependentOrder of American Hebrews, Jewish League, and MaccabeanLeague.]

ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLEBALTIMORE BRANCH

The Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Branch of the AllianceIsraelite Universelle was held March 19, 1905.

OFFICERS: President, Dr. Harry Friedenwald; Vice-President, Simon Dalsheimer; Treasurer, William Levy;Secretary, B. H. Hartogensis, 401 Union Trust Building,Baltimore, Md.

DIBECTORS: Rabbi A. Guttmacher, Rabbi William Rose-nau, Rabbi Charles A. Rubenstein, Rabbi H. W. Schnee-berger, Rev. A. Kaiser, Isaac Davidson, Silas M. Fleischer,Lewis J. Cohen, T. Silberman, Dr. Joseph Blum, M. S.Levy, L. Kaufman, J. Rotholtz, L. Schiff, Benjamin Cohen,Jonas Hamburger, and Louis B. Kohn.

BOSTON BRANCH NO. 1.The Annual Meeting of the Boston Branch No. 1 of the

Alliance Israelite Universelle was held December 4, 1904.OFFICERS: President, Lee M. Friedman; Treasurer, Na-

than Waxman; Secretary, Philip Rubenstein, 30 Court.DIRECTORS: The Officers, and J. J. Silverman, Benjamin

Levy, Isaac Rosnosky, Harry Liebman, Bernard M. Wolf,George Ehrenfried, Isador Phillips, David A. Ellis, DanielFrank, Meyer Bloomfield, Max Mitchell, Henry H. Leven-son, David A. Lourie, Moses M. Morse, Ferdinand Strauss,Mrs. Jacob H. Hecht, Mrs. Julius Andrews, Mrs. AdolphEhrlich, Mrs. Charles Weil, Miss Frances Stern, MissIsabel Hyams.

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BOSTON BRANCH NO. 2.The Second Boston Branch of the Alliance Israelite Univer-

selle was established December 1, 1904. The first meet-ing for the election of permanent officers and directorswas held January 4, 1905.

OFFICERS: President, J. B. Reinherz; Vice-President, R.Finkelstein; Treasurer, M. J. Cohen; Financial Secre-tary, J. Heller; Recording Secretary, S. B. Freidson, 42Salem, Boston, Mass.

DIRECTORS: S. Lipsky, J. Linenthal, N. L. Greenblatt,S. Cobelinsky, and J. Richmond.

ELMIRA BRANCHThe last Annual Meeting of the Elmira Branch of the Alliance

Israelite Universelle was held in April, 1904.OFFICERS: President, Benjamin F. Levy, 124 Lake; Vice-

Presidents: S. J. Friendly and Harris Levine; Treasurer,Theodore Lande; Secretary, Dr. Jonas Jacobs.

HOBOKEN BRANCHThe Annual Meeting of the Hoboken Branch of the Alliance

Israelite Universelle was held July 4, 1905.OFFICERS: President, A. C. Fisher, Vice-President, Dr.

A. Friedman; Treasurer, Rev. Nathan Wolf; RecordingSecretary, Jacob Shapiro; Financial Secretary, A. Vogel,316 Second.

JERSEY CITY BRANCH

The Annual Meeting of the Jersey City Branch of the AllianceIsraelite Universelle was held January 5, 1905.

OFFICERS: President, Ignatz Heyman; Vice-President,Harry Babchin; Treasurer, S. Kleinhaus; Secretary, Dr.B. S. Pollak, 241 Grove. '

TRUSTEES: A. Konegsberg, M. Klein, S. Roedler, andA. J. Goldstein.

NEW YORK BRANCH

No report. Secretary, S. P. Frank, 177 High, Brooklyn, N. Y.

PHILADEUHIA BRANCH

OFFICERS: President, Moses A. Dropsie (deceased);Vice-President, D. Sulzberger, 336 North 3d; Treasurer,A. M. Frechie.

DIRECTORS: The Officers, and David Teller, RaphaelBrunswick, A. M. Kohn, Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, LeviMayer, Louis Gerstley, and J. I. Burnstein.


WOBCESTEB BRANCH.

The Annual Meeting of the Worcester Branch of the AllianceIsraelite Universelle was held December 25, 1904.

OFFICERS: President, Barnett Wolkowich, 193 Front;Treasurer, Samuel Morill; Secretary, Max Feiga.

AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYThe Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the American Jewish His-

torical Society was held February 27-28, 1905, in Cincinnati, 0.OFFICERS: President, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Washington, D. C; "Vice-

Presidents: Honorable Simon W. Rosendale, Albany, N. T.; Rev.Dr. B. Felsenthal, Chicago, 111.; Professor Charles Gross, Cam-bridge, Mass., and Professor Richard J. H. Gottheil, New York;Treasurer, Honorable N. Taylor Phillips, New York; Curator, LeonHiihner, New York; Corresponding Secretary, Max J. Kohler, 42Broadway, New York; Recording Secretary, Dr. Herbert Frieden-wald, 915 North 16th, Philadelphia, Pa.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: The Officers, and Honorable Mayer Sulz-berger, Philadelphia, Pa.; Professor Morris Jastrow, Philadelphia,Pa.; Professor J. H. Hollander, Baltimore, Md.; Honorable SimonWolf, Washington, D. C; John Samuel, Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. Dr.David Philipson, Cincinnati, 0.; Henry Cohen, Galveston, Tex.;Professor Morris Loeb, New York; Joseph Jacobs, New York;Honorable Oscar S. Straus, New York, ex offlcio, as Past-presidentof the Society.

BARON DE HIRSCH FUNDTRUSTEES: Julius Goldman, New York, President; Jacob H.

Schiff, New York, Vice-President; Emanuel Lehman, New York,Treasurer; Eugene S. Benjamin, New York, Honorary Secretary;Nathan Bijur, New York; Henry Rice, New York; Abraham Abra-ham, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William B. Hackenburg, Philadelphia, Pa.;Mayer Sulzberger, Philadelphia, Pa.

GENERAL AGENT: Professor H. L. Sabsovich, 45 Broadway, NewYork.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE BARON DE HIRSCH TRADE SCHOOL:Alfred R. Wolff, Chairman; Charles B. Meyers, A. S. Solomons,J. Ernest G. Yalden, and Julian Isaacs.

The Baron de Hirsch Trade School graduated 102 pupils inJune, 1905.


SUPERINTENDENT OF THE WOODBINE LAND AND IMPROVEMENT COM-PANY: Bernard A. Palitz.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL AT WOODBINE :Dr. Julius Goldman, Chairman; Dr. Julius Sachs, Dr. C. E. Leete,New York; Professor Charles S. Phelps, Connecticut; Professor H.L. Sabsovich, New York.

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL: Dr. H. H. Bal-lard, Woodbine, N. J.

The Agricultural School graduated 56 pupils, March 26, 1905.

THE CENTRAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN RABBISThe Sixteenth Annual Convention of the Central Conference of

American Rabbis was held July 2-6, 1905, in Cleveland. OOFFICERS: President, Joseph Stolz, Chicago, 111.; Vice-President,

David Philipson, Cincinnati, O.; Treasurer, Charles S. Levi, Peoria,111.; Recording Secretary, Samuel Hirschberg, Milwaukee, Wis.;Corresponding Secretary, Tobias Schanfarber, 4049 Grand Boule-vard, Chicago, 111.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The Officers, and Joseph Krauskopf,Philadelphia, Pa.; Louis Grossman, Cincinnati, O.; Moses Gries,Cleveland, O.; S. Schulman, New York; Adolf Guttmacher, Balti-more, Md.; S. Hecht, Los Angeles, Cal.; Leo M. Franklin, Detroit,Mich.; David Marks, Atlanta, Ga.; and Joseph Silverman, NewYork.

COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMENThe Third Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish

Women was held December 2-11, 1902, in Baltimore, Md.OFFICERS: President, Hannah G. Solomon (Mrs. Henry), Chi-

cago, 111.; First Vice-President, Pauline H. Rosenberg (Mrs. Hugo),Allegheny, Pa.; Second Vice-President, Mrs. Moses Goldenberg,Baltimore, Md.; Treasurer, Rebecca Judah (Mrs. J. B.), Louisville,Ky.; Auditor, Mrs. Ben Lowenstein, Cincinnati, O.; Recording Sec-retary, Gertrude Berg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Corresponding Secretary,Sadie American, 448 Central Park West, New York.

DIRECTORS: (1903-1909) Mrs. Eli Strouse, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs.M. Landsberg, Rochester, N. Y.; Mrs. M. C. Sloss, San Francisco,Cal.; Mrs. M. Schwab, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Seraphine Pisko, Den-ver, Colo. (1900-1906) Miss Mary Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.; MissJeannette Goldberg, Jefferson, Tex.; Mrs. Joseph Ransohoff, Cin-cinnati, O. To fill unexpired terms: Mrs. Jacob Hecht, Boston,Mass.; Mrs. Melida Pappe, Sioux City, la.

CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES: Religion, Miss Evelyn


Kate Aronson, San Francisco, Cal.; Philanthropy, Miss Rose Som-merfeld, New York; Junior Sections, Miss Jeannette Goldberg,Jefferson, Tex.; Religious Schools, Mrs. Joseph Steinem, Toledo,0.; Reciprocity, Miss Mary Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa.

EDUCATIONAL LEAGUEThe Ninth Annual Meeting of the Educational League was held

July 9, 1905, in Cleveland, O.OFFICERS: President, Rabbi Moses J. Gries, Cleveland, O.; Vice-

President, Nathan Cohn, Nashville, Tenn.; Treasurer, Dr. S.Wolfenstein, Cleveland, O.; Secretary, Alfred A. Benesch, Educa-tional League, Cleveland, 0.

BOARD OF GOVERNORS: The Officers, and Selma Altheimer, St.Louis, Mo.; Myrtle Baer, Milwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. Rosalie Cohen,Columbus, O.; Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, Detroit, Mich.; Philip W.Frey, Evansville, Ind.; Mrs. Michael Heller, Cleveland, O.; HenryGreenebaum, Chicago, 111.; Simon Greenebaum, Cincinnati, O.Minnie Halle, Cleveland, O.; Sol S. Kiser, Indianapolis, Ind.Louis S. Levi, Cincinnati, O.; Martin A. Marks, Cleveland, O.Beatrice Moss, Cleveland, O.; Emil Nathan, Memphis, Tenn.; MrsJacob Ottenheimer, Cincinnati, O.; Sidney Pritz, Cincinnati, O.;Bertha Rosenfeld, Cleveland, O.; Anna Roth, Toledo. O.; RabbiIsaac L. Rypins, St. Paul, Minn.; Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber,Chicago, 111.; Helen H. Schwab, St. Louis, Mo.; E. F. Westheimer,St. Joseph, Mo.; Rabbi Louis Wolsey, Little Rock, Ark.; (sixvacancies to be filled).

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS: Samuel Grab-felder, Louisville, Ky.

FEDERATION OF AMERICAN ZIONISTSThe Eighth Annual Convention of the Federation of American

Zionists was held June 16-20, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pa.OFFICERS: President, Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.;

Vice-President, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, New York; Treasurer, E. W.Lewin-Epstein, New York; Secretary, Rev. Dr. J. L. Magnes, 503Lafayette Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.

CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES: Maccabsean, D. H. Lieberman; Jew-ish Colonial Trust, N. T. Phillips; National Fund, L. D. Living-ston; Organization, Louis Lipsky; Propaganda, A. H. Fromenson;Education, D. Blaustein; all of New York.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Henry Jackson, Pittsburg, Pa.; J.de Haas, New York; Dr. I. Friedlaender, New York; C. W. Lon-don, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. B. L. Gordon, Philadelphia, Pa.,- S. Abel,


New York; William Morris, Philadelphia, Pa.; A. Kolinsky, Cleve-land, O.; Rahbi Dr. A. M. Radin, New York; Leon Zolotkoff,Chicago, 111.; Rabbi Dr. P. Klein, New York; Rabbi M. M. Eichler,Philadelphia, Pa.; I. Kahanowitz, Greensburg, Pa.; A. Goldberg,New York; A. Hurwitz, Boston, Mass.

HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS : Rabbi B. Levinthal, Philadelphia,Pa.; Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, New York; Miss HenriettaSzold, New York; George Tunkle, Augusta, Ga.; Rabbi A. M.Ashinsky, Pittsburg, Pa.; Rabbi Dr. B. Felsenthal, Chicago, 111.;Rabbi Dr. S. S. Wise, Portland, Ore.; Dr. B. L. Singer, Philadel-phia, Pa.; Rev. Dr. S. Schaffer, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. Max Schloes-singer, Cincinnati, O.; Rev. H. Masliansky, New York; Rabbi MaxHeller, New Orleans, La.

MIZRACHI

The Mizrachi Societies, the conservative wing of the Zionistorganization, held two meetings during 1904-1905: January 5-7,1905, at New York, and June 17-20, 1905, at Philadelphia. Theorgan of the Society is " The Sabbath Journal."

The New York Societies maintain a Hebrew Kindergarten at 87East Broadway.

OFFICERS: President, Rabbi Dr. Philip Klein; Secretary, J. H.Luria, 133 Monroe, New York.

DIRECTORS: Rabbi A. H. Erschler, Philadelphia, Pa.; RabbiJacob Gutman, Jersey City, N. J.; Rabbi H. Hirschensohn, Hobo-ken, N. J.; Rabbi J. L. Levin, Detroit, Mich.; Rabbi M. S. Sivitz,Pittsburg, Pa.; Rabbi A. M. Ashinsky, Pittsburg, Pa.; and A. Fein,N. Roggen, and Henry Harris, the last three of New York.

ORDER KNIGHTS OF ZION

The Seventh Annual Convention of the Order Knights of Zionwas held January 2, 1905, in Chicago, 111. The organ of theOrder is " Zion Messenger."

OFFICERS: Grand Master, Leon Zolotkoff, 936 Stock ExchangeBldg., Chicago, 111.; First Vice-Grand Master. Nathan D. Kaplan,Chicago. 111.; Second Vice-Grand Master, J. Miller, Bay City,Mich.: Grand Treasurer, I. Natkin, Chicago, 111.; Grand Orators:Miss Esther Weinshenker, Chicago. 111.: L. J. Delson, Chicago, 111.;Harris Horwich, Chicago, 111., and S. B. Komaiko, New York;Grand Secretary, D. P. Pollock, 47 Johnson, Chicago, 111.

POALEI ZION

The Poalei Zion of America, the radical wing of the nationalistparty, organized themselves in the United States in 1903. Thefirst convention was held April 29-May 1 in Philadelphia, 23 dele-gates being present from 12 societies in Baltimore, Md.; Boston,


Mass.; Chicago, 111.; Jersey City, N. J.; Kansas City, Mo.; Mont-real, Canada; New York; Philadelphia, Pa.; Pittsburg, Pa.; St.Louis, Mo.; Toronto, Canada; and Trenton N. J. The organ ofthe Societies is " Die Neue Stimme," a quarterly journal.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Herman Adelston, Philadelphia, Pa.; S.Schneir, Philadelphia, Pa.; B. Shpritz, Baltimore, Md.; S. Albert,Boston, Mass.; J. Appelbaum, Abraham Goldberg, L. Feifmacher,J. Auerbach, all of New York.

Secretary, A. Feifmacher, 304 Fifth, New York.

HEBREW SABBATH SCHOOL UNION OF AMERICA.The Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Hebrew Sabbath School

Union of America was held January 16, 1905, in Chicago, 111.The committee appointed to report on the president's message

recommended that the president, in the Council of the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Congregations, urge the amalgamation of thesetwo organizations, so that the work of the Hebrew Sabbath SchoolUnion might henceforth be under the supervision of the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Congregations. The suggestion was adopted,and the work of the Hebrew Sabbath School Union of Americawill hereafter be done by the Committee on Religious Educationof the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (which see).

* INDEPENDENT ORDER AHAWAS ISRAELThe Fifteenth Annual Convention of the Independent Order

Ahawas Israel was held in Baltimore, Md., July 23-25, 1905.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Simon Friedman, New York; First

Deputy Grand Master, Louis Morris, Philadelphia, Pa.; SecondDeputy Grand Master, Max Lefkowitz, New York; Grand Treas-urer, Samuel Hunken, New York; Grand Messenger, AbrahamNagelberg, New York; Chairman of Finance, S. Lefkowitz, NewYork: Chairman of Endowment Committee, S. Prince, New York;Grand Secretary, L. Herman, Germania Bank Building, 190 Bow-ery, New York.

INDEPENDENT ORDER BRITH ABRAHAMThe Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Independent Order

Brith Abraham was held May 21-23, 1905, in Boston, Mass.OFFICERS: Past Grand Master, Herman Herschkowitz, New

York; Grand Master, Max Stern, New York; First Deputy Grand


Master, Max Schwartz, New York; Second Deputy Grand Master,Lewis H. Schwartz, Lawrence, Mass.; Grand Treasurer, Sam. D.Reich, New York; Grand Messenger, Moses Gross, New York;Grand Secretary, Jacob Schoen, 37 Seventh, New York.

CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES: Finance, Sam. Weiss; Endowment,H. Mahler; Law, Max Eckman; Appeal, M. L. Hollander; State ofthe Order, Herman Kaufman; Printing, M. Korn; Ritual, AdolphMoschkowitz; Charity, Adolph Rosenbaum; all of New York.

COUNSEL TO THE ORDER: Leopold Moschcowitz, New York.

INDEPENDENT ORDER B'RITH SHOLOMThe First Annual Convention of the Independent Order B'rith

Sholom was held in Philadelphia, Pa., July 30-31, 1905. FoundedDecember 18, 1904. Number of lodges 14.

OFFICERS: Grand Master, Morris Rosenberg, 716 N. Franklin,Philadelphia, Pa.; First Deputy Grand Master, Joseph Rosen-feldt; Second Deputy Grand Master, Samuel Berkowitz; GrandTreasurer, B. F. Miller; Endowment Treasurer, Dr. Louis S.Rubinsohn; Grand Secretary, Jacob Margolies, 501 Pine; all ofPhiladelphia.

CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES: Finance, Morris Rosenbaum; Char-ity, Solomon C. Kraus; Law, Leo Belmont; Endowment, BernhardEnglander; State of the Order, Ralph Aaronson; Reserve Fund,Dr. George Slominsky; Appeals, Jacob Ginsburg; Propaganda,Adolph Rosenblum; Ritual, Isaac Stein; Printing, Morris Haber;Supplies, Martin O. Levy.

COUNSELLOR TO ORDER: Samuel Englander.

INDEPENDENT ORDER FREE SONS OF ISRAELThe Fourth Quinquennial Convention of the Independent Order

Free Sons of Israel was held at Atlantic City, N. J., May 18, 1902.OFFICERS: Grand Master, M. S. Stern; First Deputy Grand

Master, S. Hoffheimer; Second Deputy Grand Master, AdolphFinkenberg; Third Deputy Grand Master, Adolph Pike; GrandTreasurer, Louis Frankenthaler; Chairman Committee on Endow-ment, Henry Lichtig; Grand Secretary, Abraham Hafer, 1161Madison Av.; all of New York.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Benjamin Blumenthal, Isaac Hambur-ger, Julius Harburger, Henry Jacobs, Maurice S. Keller, RaphaelRosenberger, and Herman Stiefel, all of New York; WilliamBookheim, Albany, N. Y.; M. S. Meyerhoff, Philadelphia, Pa.;Charles M. Obst, Boston, Mass.; Henry M. Shabad, Philip Stein,and Isaac A. Loeb, of Chicago, 111.


COUNSEL: Samuel B. Hamburger, 141 Broadway, New York.CHAIRMAN ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE: Henry Lichtig, New York.

INDEPENDENT ORDER FREE SONS OF JUDAHThe Eighth Biennial Convention of the Independent Order Free

Sons of Judah was held April 10, 1904, in New York.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Isidor Byk, New York; First Deputy

Grand Master, Isaac Grossman, New York; Second Deputy GrandMaster, N. Geller, New York; Grand Treasurer, Victor Steiner,Bergen Beach, L. I.; Grand Secretary, Sigmund Fodor, 141 Sec-ond, New York.

OFFICE OF THE GRAND LODGE: 78 Second Av., New York.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF B'NAI B'RITHThe Quinquennial Convention of the Constitution Grand Lodge

of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith was held March 19, 1905,in New Orleans, La.

OFFICERS: President, Adolf Kraus, Chicago, 111.; Chancellor,Julius Bien, New York; First Vice-President, Jacob B. Klein,Bridgeport, Conn.; Second Vice-President, Lucius L. Solomons,San Francisco, Cal.; Treasurer, Jacob Furth, Cleveland, O.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The Officers, and Simon Wolf, Washing-ton, D. C; Jacob Singer, Philadelphia, Pa.; Rabbi E. N. Calisch,Richmond, Va.; Philip Stein, Chicago, 111.; Joseph Hirsh, Vicks-burg, Miss.

SECRETARY OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Alex. B. Seelenfreund,1248 Tribune Building, Chicago, 111. Clerk, Emanuel Hertz, 723Lexington Av., New York.

INDEPENDENT ORDER OF TRUE SISTERS(UNABHANGIGER ORDEN TREUE SCHWESTERN)

The Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Inde-pendent Order of True Sisters (Unabhangiger Orden TreueSchwestern) was held May 23, 1905, in New York.

Over one hundred delegates were present. The Order has amembership of 2541, belonging to fourteen lodges in Albany, N. Y.;Boston, Mass.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; Chicago, 111.; Newark, N. J.; NewHaven, Conn.; New York (7); and Philadelphia, Pa. Since thefoundation of the Order $144,281.36 has been paid out to 722widows, the present fund for widows being $12,785.71 (May, 1905).The aggregate funds of all the lodges are $75,147.50. The Orderpublishes a monthly paper called " Ordens Echo."


OFFICERS: Grand Monitress, Rosa Levi; Grand President, LenaB. Weingart; Grand Vice-President, Rosalie Eisner; Grand Treas-urer, Sarah Markewitz; Grand Mentor, Frieda Bloch; Grand War-den, Rose Baran; Grand Secretary, Bianca B. Robitscher, 238 West131st; all of New York. •

* INDEPENDENT ORDER OP UNITED HEBREWSThe First Annual Convention of the Independent Order of

United Hebrews was held on June 4, 1905, in Boston, Mass.OFFICERS: Grand Master, H. S. Cohen; First Deputy Grand

Master, I. Polack; Second Deputy Grand Master, L. Lemon;Grand Treasurer, M. I. Cohen; Counsel to Order, Joseph S.Spencer; Grand Secretary, D. Weiss.

INDEPENDENT ORDER SONS OF BENJAMINThe Fifteenth Biennial Convention of the Independent Order

Sons of Benjamin was held in New York, February 19-22, 1905.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Abraham Rosenberg, New York; First

Deputy Grand Master, Louis Lindeman, New York; Second Dep-uty Grand Master, Joseph Sabath, Chicago, 111.; Counsel to theOrder, Mitchel Levy, New York; Grand Treasurer, H. R. Meyer,New York; Grand Messenger, Samuel Ascher, New York; GrandSecretary, L. B. Franklin, 209 East 69th, New York.

* INDEPENDENT ORDER SONS OF JACOBThe Independent Order Sons of Jacob was organized in Janu-

ary, 1905, and incorporated June 19, 1905, with headquarters atPhiladelphia. It has 12 lodges, aggregating 800 members. Itsfirst convention will be held August 27-28, 1905, at Philadelphia.

OFFICERS: Grand Master, Julius Moskowitz; First Deputy, Abra-ham Martelsky; Grand Secretary, Joseph Klein.

INDEPENDENT WESTERN STAR ORDERThe Twelfth Annual Convention of the Independent Western

Star Order was held June 25-26, 1905, in Chicago, 111.OFFICERS: Grand Master, William A. Jonesi, Chicago, 111.; Vice

Grand Master, H. M. Barnett, Chicago, 111.; First Deputy GrandMaster, H. Schlomovitz, Milwaukee, Wis.; Second Deputy GrandMaster, N. Harris, St. Louis, Mo.; Grand Endowment Treasurer,S. Steiner, Chicago, 111.; Grand General Fund Treasurer, L. Rosen-


berg, Chicago, 111.; Grand Secretary, I. Shapiro, 183 West 12th,Chicago, 111.

CHAIBMEN OF COMMITTEES: State of the Order, D. Shapiro;Endowments, A. Kallish; Finance, A. Seelenfreund; Laws, J. S.Mehlman; Appeals, Julius Frankel; Reserve Endowment, I. Rus-sakov; Printing, Dr. M. Ehrlich; Intellectual Advancement, N.Friedman; Uniform Rank, D. Brownstein.

ISRAELITE ALLIANCE OF AMERICANo report. Secretary, S. P. Frank, 177 High, Brooklyn, N. Y.

THE INDUSTRIAL REMOVAL OFFICEOFFICERS: Chairman, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, New York; Vice-

Chairman, Nathan Bijur, New York; Secretary, Eugene S. Benja-min, 49 Lafayette Place, New York.

DIRECTORS: The Officers, and Max Senior, Cincinnati, O.; JacobFurth, Cleveland, O.

GENERAL MANAGER: David M. Bressler, New York; AssistantManager, Morris D. Waldman. Address: 174 Second Av., NewYork.

AGENCIES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING TOWNS:Albany, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Birmingham, Ala.;Cincinnati, O.; Cleveland, O.; Columbus, O.; Detroit, Mich.; In-dianapolis, Ind.; Kansas City, Mo.; Louisville, Ky.; Memphis,Tenn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Nashville, Tenn.;Omaha, Neb.; Pittsburg, Pa.; Pueblo, Colo.; Rochester, N. Y.;Rock Island, 111.; South Bend, Ind.; St. Louis, Mo.; Toledo, O.;Youngstown, O.

THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL AIDSOCIETY

OFFICERS: President, Cyrus L. Sulzberger; Vice-President, Eu-gene S. Benjamin; Treasurer, Engene Meyer; Secretary, Percy S.Straus, care of R. H. Macy and Company, Broadway and 34th;all of New York.

DIRECTORS : The Officers, and Mark Ash, Morris Loeb, and AlfredJaretzki, all of New York.

GENERAL MANAGER: William Kahn, 174 Second Av., New York.


THE JEWISH AGRICULTURISTS' AID SOCIETY OF AMERICAThe Fifth Annual Meeting of the Jewish Agriculturists' Aid

Society of America was held January 30, 1905, in Chicago, 111.OFFICERS: President, Adolph Loeb; Vice-President, Morris Weil;

Treasurer, Edward Rose; Secretary, Hugo Pam; CorrespondingSecretary, Dr. A. R. Levy, 507-511 S. Marshfleld Av.; all ofChicago, 111.

DIRECTORS: The Officers, and Israel Cowen, Harry Hart, Rev. Dr.Emil G. Hirsch, Jacob L. Kesner, Adolph Moses, David M. Pfael-zer, J. Rappaport, Julius Rosenwald, Emanuel F. Selz, and MiltonL. Strauss, all of Chicago.

ADVISORY BOARD: Joseph Basch, Louis Becker, Eli B. Felsenthal,Oscar J. Friedman, Maurice W. Kozminski, Herman Landauer,I. S. Lurie, Max M. Markwell, Benj. Rosenberg, Morris S. Rosen-wald, Toby Rubovits, Dr. H. H. Schuhmann, David Simon, LeoStraus, and David Wormser.

JEWISH CHAUTAUQUA SOCIETYThe Ninth Summer Assembly of the Jewish Chautauqua Society

was held at Atlantic City, N. J., July 9 to 30, 1905.OFFICERS: Chancellor, Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, Philadelphia;

President, George W. Ochs, Philadelphia; Vice-President, IsraelCowen, Chicago; Treasurer, Alfred H. Newburger, Philadelphia;Secretary, Isaac Hassler, 1033 Chestnut, Philadelphia.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Emil Selig, Mrs. Eva Coons, Miss CorinneB. Arnold, Louis Gerstley, Mrs. Rose Frank, Mrs. Charles Heidel-berger, Mrs. Fannie Muhr, Clarence K. Arnold, Edward Wolf,Perry Frankel, and Mrs. Joseph H. Rubin, of Philadelphia; Wil-liam Popper, Jacob H. Schiff, and Sol. Sulzberger, New York;Simon Wolf, Washington, D. C ; Mrs. Eli Strouse, Baltimore;Joseph Hirsch, Atlanta, Ga.; and Samuel Grabfelder, Louisville,Ky. ,s

EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL: Max Herzberg, D. W. Amram, CharlesS. Bernheimer, Charles E. Fox, Rabbi Julius H, Greenstone, Dr.Lewis Steinbach, and Miss Ella Jacobs, of Philadelphia; the Rev.Dr. Maurice H. Harris, Dr. Richard Gottheil, Dr. Lee K. Frankel,Professor Morris Loeb, Miss Julia Richman, and Miss Rose Som-merfeld, of New York; Rabbi Gerson B. Levi, Helena, Ark.; theRev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Chicago; the Rev. Dr. Joseph Stolz,Chicago; Rabbi Harry Levi, Wheeling, W. Va.; Rabbi AbramSimon, Washington, D. C ; the Rev. Kaufmann Kohler, Cincin-nati; the Rev. Moses Gries, Cleveland, O., and the Rev. William S.Friedman, Denver, Colo.

HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS: Adolph S. Ochs, Milton Goldsmith,


and Charles Hartman, of New York; Mrs. Jacob C. Hecht, Boston;Max Senior, Cincinnati; Mrs. S. L. Frank, Baltimore; Mrs. Jona-than Rice, St. Louis, Mo.; the Rev. Dr. Jacob Voorsanger andMrs. M. S. Sloss, of San Francisco; I. Isenberg, Wheeling, W. Va.;Louis Bamberger, Newark, N. J.; Rev. Dr. Max Heller, NewOrleans; Jacques Loeb, Montgomery, Ala.; Mrs. S. Lesser, Au-gusta, Ga.; Mrs. Alexander Friend, Dallas, Tex.; William J. Berko-witz, Kansas City, Mo.; Isaac L. Blout, Washington, D. C ; andJosiah Cohen, Pittsburg.

THE JEWISH CONSUMPTIVES' RELIEF SOCIETYDENVER, COLO.

Incorporated June 25, 1904, by Rabbi E. H. Hillkowitz, Mrs.C. D. Spivak, and A. Kobey.

Dedication of building, September 4, 1904. Number of tentsDecember 31, 1904, fifteen; number of patients treated up to De-cember 31, 1904, twenty.

Tributary Societies in Baltimore, Md.; Camden, N. J.; Chicago,111.; Cincinnati, O.; Cleveland, O.; Denver, Colo.; Hartford,Conn.; Kansas City, Mo.; Leavenworth, Kan.; New York; Omaha,Neb.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Providence, R. I.; Rochester, N. Y.; St.Joseph, Mo.; St. Louis, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.; San Francisco, Cal.;Savannah, Ga.; Sioux City, la.; and Waterbury, Conn.

The First Annual Meeting of the Jewish Consumptives' ReliefSociety was held January 29, 1905, in Denver, Colo.

Total receipts, $7049.98; expenditures up to December 31, 1904,$5083.69.

OFFICERS: President, Dr. Philip Hillkowitz; Vice-President,M. S. Radetsky; Treasurer, Dr. Adolph Zederbaum; Secretary,Dr. C. D. Spivak, 1421 Court Place; all of Denver, Colo.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Herman Herschkowitz, Grand Master, In-dependent Order B'rith Abraham, New York; S. Bloomgarden,S. L. Bresler, M. L. Caplan, Henry Cohen, S. Grimes, Dr. PhilipHillkowitz, A. Judlowitz, Rabbi C. H. Kauvar, Louis Levy, LouisLipshitz, J. Marinoff, M. S. Radetsky, Harry Silverstein, Dr. C. D.Spivak, Joe Washer, Sol. Weiss, Sol. Wolf, and Dr. Adolph Zeder-baum, all of Denver, Colo.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, Chairman; HenryCohen, Legal Adviser; Dr. C. D. Spivak, Secretary; S. Bloomgar-den, Louis Lipshitz, M. S. Radetsky, Harry Silverstein, and Dr.Adolph Zederbaum.

ADMISSION AND DISMISSION COMMITTEE: M. S. Radetsky, Chair-man; Dr. C. D. Spivak, Secretary; Joe Washer.

MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD: Dr. Adolph Zederbaum, Chairman;Dr. Louis Rosenwasser, Secretary; Dr. C. D. Spivak.

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THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICAFor THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA, see REPOET

OF THE SEVENTEENTH YEAR (after p. 271).

THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAThe Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Jewish Theological Seminary

of America was held March 20, 1904, in New York.The Commencement was held June 18, 1905, in New York.

There were two graduates.OFFICERS: President, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Washington, D. C ; Vice-

President, Newman Cowen, New York; Honorary Secretary, IrvingLehman, New York; Treasurer, Daniel Guggenheim, New York.

DIRECTORS: {For life) Jacob H. Schiff, Daniel Guggenheim,Simon Guggenheim, Felix M. Warburg, Philip S. Henry, LouisMarshall, Adolph Lewisohn, all of New York; Mayer Sulzberger,Philadelphia, Pa.; Cyrus Adler, Washington, D. C ; Adolphus S.Solomons, Washington, D. C ; {term expires in 1906) NewmanCowen, Simon M. Roeder, Irving Lehman, Samuel Greenbaum,Morris Loeb, all of New York; William Gerstley, Philadelphia,Pa., and Harry Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Louis Marshall, Chairman; Jacob H.Schiff, Daniel Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, Simon M. Roeder,together with the President and the Vice-President, ex oflicio.

FACULTY: President and Professor of Jewish Theology, Pro-fessor Solomon Schechter, M. A., Litt.D. (Cantab.); SabatoMoraisProfessor of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Israel Fried-laender, Ph. D. (Strassburg); Professor of Talmud, Louis Ginz-berg, Ph. D. (Heidelberg); Professor of History, Alexander Marx,Ph. D. (Konigsberg); Professor of Homiletics, Reverend JosephMayor Asher, B. A., M. A. (Owens College, Victoria University,Manchester); Instructor in the Bible and Hebrew Grammar andActing Reader in the Codes, Bernard Drachman, Ph. D. (Heidel-berg) ; Instructor in the Talmud, Joshua A. Joff§; Instructor,Israel Davidson, Ph. D. (Columbia); Hazan and Instructor inHazanut, Reverend Simon Jacobson; Tutor of Elocution, Gren-ville Kleiser.

LIBRARY STAFF: Principal Librarian, Professor AlexanderMarx; Assistant Librarian, George Alexander Kohut.THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

The Fifth Annual Reunion of the Alumni Association of theJewish Theological Seminary was held June 19, 1905, in NewYork.


OFFICERS: President, M. M. Eichler, Boston, Mass.; Vice-Presi-dent, Dr. Joseph H. Hertz, Johannesburg, South Africa; Treas-urer, Leon Blmaleh, Philadelphia, Pa.; Recording Secretary, B. C.Bhrenreich, 1914 North Franklin, Philadelphia, Pa.; Correspond-ing Secretary, Nathan Wolf, Hoboken, N. J.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: The Officers, and C. H. Kauvar, Denver,Colo.; Rudolph I. Coffee, New York; Elias L. Solomon, Paterson,N. J.; Michael Fried, Pittsburg, Pa.; Morris Mandel, Allentown,Pa.; and S. Reich, Bradford, Pa.

THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWISH CHARITIES INTHE UNITED STATES

The Third Biennial Meeting of the National Conference of Jew-ish Charities in the United States was held May 24-27, 1904, inNew York.

OFFICERS: President, Julian W. Mack, Chicago, 111.; Vice-Presi-dents: Bernard Ginsberg, Detroit, Mich.; and Mrs. Jacob Wirth,St. Paul, Minn.; Treasurer, O. H. Rosenbaum, Pittsburg, Pa.;Secretary, Solomon Lowenstein, Hebrew Orphan Asylum, 138thand Amsterdam Av., New York.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The Officers, and Max Senior, Cincin-nati, O.; Max Herzberg, Philadelphia, Pa; Nathan Bijur, NewYork; the Rev. Dr. I. L. Leucht, New Orleans, La.; Dr. J. H. Hol-lander, Baltimore, Md.; the Rev. Dr. Samuel Sale, St. Louis, Mo.;A. W. Rich, Milwaukee, Wis.

THE NATIONAL FARM SCHOOLThe Eighth Annual Meeting and Pilgrimage of the National

Farm School was held October 2, 1904, in Doylestown, Pa.The Fourth Annual Commencement of the School was held

June 4, 1905. There were six graduates.OFFICERS: President, Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf, Germantown,

Pa.; Vice-president, Morris A. Kaufmann, Philadelphia, Pa.;Treasurer, Isaac H. Silverman, Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary,Harry Felix, 262 Apsley, Germantown, Pa.

DIRECTORS: The Officers, and Hart Blumenthal, Adolph Eich-holz, Simon Friedberger, Alfred M. Klein, Howard A. Loeb, JacobL. Loeb, Isaac H. Silverman, Joseph N. Snellenburg, Harry Tutel-man, Abraham Israel, M. A. Kaufmann, Isaac Herzberg, JacobCartun, Arnold Kohn, and I. Feldenheimer, all of Philadelphia,Pa.


THE NATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTIVESThe Executive Committee of the National Jewish Hospital for

Consumptives, Denver, Colo., held its Annual Meeting July 26,1905, at Atlantic City, N. J.

OFFICERS: President, Samuel Grabfelder, Louisville, Ky.; FirstVice-President, Sol. W. Levi, Cincinnati, O.; Second Vice-Presi-dent, Louis Gerstley, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treasurer, Benj. Alt-heimer, St. Louis, Mo.; Secretary, Alfred Muller, 521^-526 Ernstand Cranmer Building, Denver, Colo.; Field Secretary, AlfredPatek, Denver, Colo.

TRUSTEES AT DENVER: Rabbi W. S. Friedman, Meyer Friedman,Simon Guggenheim, and Mrs. S. Pisko.

ORDER B'RITH ABRAHAMThe Twenty-third Biennial Convention of the Order B'rith

Abraham was held May 8-11, 1905, in Baltimore, Md.OFFICERS: Grand Master, Samuel Dorf, New York; First Deputy

Grand Master, A. Heller, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Second Deputy GrandMaster, I. Gerson, Toledo, O.; Third Deputy Grand Master, EmilMantel, Indianapolis, Ind.; Grand Treasurer, M. S. Shill, NewYork; Grand Secretary, Leonard Leisersohn, Florence Building,Second Av. and First, New York.

CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES: Endowment, Simon I. Kopelman,New York; Laws, Josiah W. Levy, Hartford, Conn.; Lectures, A.Spiegel, New York; State of the Order, Alexander Katzky, Brook-lyn, N. Y.; Trust Funds, H. B. Isaacson, New York; Printing,Morris M. Green, New York; Relief, Louis Rose, New York; Re-serve, William Lippman, Albany, N. Y.; Rituals, D. Grody, Syra-cuse, N. Y.; Appeals, George Pollock, Baltimore, Md.; Finance,George Sacks, New York.

COUNSEL TO THE OBDER: Henry M. Goldfogle, New York.

ORDER KESHER SHEL BARZELThe Biennial Convention of District Grand Lodge No. 1 of the

Order Kesher Shel Barzel was held February 21, 1904, in NewYork.

OFFICERS: Grand President, A. N. Rotholtz, New York; FirstGrand Vice-President, J. Ankel, New York; Second Grand Vice-President, S. Cahn, New Haven, Conn.; Grand Treasurer, CharlesMarks, Jersey City, N. J.; Chairman Board of Endowments, L. S.Davidson, New York; Treasurer Board of Endowments, N. Cowen,New York; Secretary, Moses Greenbaum, 452 Fifth Av., New York.


The Grand Lodge of District No. 3, Order Kesher Shel Barzel,disbanded in April, 1905.

ORDER KNIGHTS OF JOSEPHThe Sixth Annual Convention of the Order Knights of Joseph

was held August 21-23, 1904, in St. Louis, Mo.OFFICERS: Supreme Commander, Ike White, Cincinnati, 0.

(elected by the Executive Committee to fill the unexpired term ofSamuel Fine, Cincinnati, deceased); First Supreme Vice-Com-mander, J. H. Marks, Chicago, 111.; Second Supreme Vice-Com-mander, Napoleon Meyer, Buffalo, N. Y.; Third Supreme Vice-Commander, Harry Adelstein, Cleveland, O.; Supreme Treasurer,Harry Bernstein, Cleveland, O.; Supreme Secretary, D. J. Zinner,36 Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O.

CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES: Finance, M. S. Freiberger, Cleve-land, O.; Endowment, N. L. Holstein, Cleveland, O.

SUPREME COUNSELLOR: Joseph C. Bloch, Cleveland, O.

PROGRESSIVE ORDER OF THE WESTThe Tenth Annual Convention of the Progressive Order of the

West was held January 29-February 2, 1905, in St. Louis, Mo.OFFICERS: Grand Master, B. Frank, St. Louis, Mo.; First Deputy

Grand Master, R. Yatter, St. Louis, Mo.; Second Deputy GrandMaster, Nathan Koffman, Kansas City, Mo.; Third Deputy GrandMaster, Max Long, Chicago, 111.; Grand Treasurer, H. Elbert, St.Louis, Mo.; Endowment Treasurer, M. Goldwasser, St. Louis, Mo.;Grand Secretary, Gus Cytron, Fraternal Building, Room 9,Eleventh and Franklin Av., St. Louis, Mo.

SOCIETY OF AMERICAN CANTORSThe Second Annual Meeting of the Society of American Cantors

since its reorganization (the twelfth since its formation) washeld May 22, 1905, in New York.

OFFICERS: President, A. Kaiser, Baltimore, Md.; Vice-President,S. Rappaport, New York; Treasurer, Ed. Kartschmaroff, NewYork; Secretary, William Loewenberg, 1842 North 13th, Philadel-phia, Pa.; Assistant Secretary, J. D. Marmor, New York.

EXECUTIVE BOARD : The Officers, and D. Cahn, H. Goldstein, Theo.Guinsberg, H. L. Martin, all of New York, and E. J. Stark, SanFrancisco, Cal.


SOUTHERN RABBINICAL ASSOCIATIONThe Third Annual Convention of the Southern Rabbinical As-

sociation was held January 3-7, 1905, in New Orleans, La.OFFICEBS: President, I. Lewinthal, Nashville, Tenn.; Vice-Presi-

dent, Moses P. Jacobson, Shreveport, La.; Treasurer, Louis Wol-sey, Little Rock, Ark.; Secretary, Moise Bergman, 2001 Prytania,New Orleans, La.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The Officers, and Henry Barnstein,Houston, Tex.; W. Willner, Meridian, Miss.; Edward S. Levy,Selma, Ala.

THE UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGREGATIONSThe Nineteenth Council of the Union of American Hebrew Con-

gregations was held January 17-19, 1905, in Chicago, 111.EXECUTIVE BOARD: Samuel Woolner, Peoria, 111., President;

Louis J. Goldman, Cincinnati, O., Vice-President; Louis Krohn,Cincinnati, O., Treasurer; Benjamin Altheimer, St. Louis, Mo.;Isaac W. Bernheim, Louisville, Ky.; Bernhard Bettman, Cincin-nati, O.; Henry M. Butzel, Detroit, Mich.; Josiah Cohen, Pitts-burg, Pa.; Solomon Fox, Cincinnati, O.; Julius Freiberg, Cincin-nati, O.; Joseph Goetz, Newark, N. J.; Nathan Hamburger, Mil-waukee, Wis.; Harry Hart, Chicago, 111.; Lewis Heinsheimer, Cin-cinnati, O.; Abram J. Katz, Rochester, N. Y.; Samuel Katz,Omaha, Neb.; Adolf Kraus, Chicago, 111.; Moritz Loth, Cincinnati,O.; Baruch Mahler, Cleveland, O.; Morris Newburger, Philadel-phia, Pa.; Abram Oppenheimer, Buffalo, N. Y.; Sigmund Rhein-strom, Cincinnati, O.; Samuel M. Schafer, New York; Jacob H.Schiff, New York; Emil Selig, Philadelphia, Pa.; Charles Shohl,Cincinnati, O.; Julius Straus, Richmond, Va.; Isaac Strouse, Bal-timore, Md.; Solomon Sulzberger, New York; Julius Weis, NewOrleans, La.

SECEETABT: Lipman Levy, Commercial Tribune Bldg., Cincin-nati, O.

BOABD or MANAGEES OF SYNAGOGUE AND SCHOOL EXTENSION: LouisKrohn, 528 Walnut, Cincinnati, O., Chairman; Sol. Fox, Cincin-nati, O.; Louis J. Goldman, Cincinnati, O.; Lewis Heinsheimer,Cincinnati, O.; Moritz Loth, Cincinnati, O.; Sigmund Rheinstrom,Cincinnati, O.; Charles Shohl, Cincinnati, O.; Samuel Woolner,Peoria, 111.

COMMITTEE ON RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: David Philipson, 852 Lin-coln Av., Cincinnati, O., Chairman; H. G. Enelow, Louisville, Ky.;Charles S. Levi, Peoria, 111.; L. M. Franklin, Detroit, Mich.;George Zepin; Simon Greenebaum, Cincinnati, O.; Jacob Otten-heimer, Cincinnati, O.


BOABD OF DELEGATES ON CIVIL RIGHTS: Simon Wolf, 700 Four-teenth Street, Washington, D. C, Chairman; Milton L. Anfenger,Denver, Colo.; Ralph Bamberger, Indianapolis, Ind.; Isaac Bear,Wilmington, N. C ; David Benjamin, Kansas City, Mo.; D. Blau-stein, New York; Josiah Cohen, Pittsburg, Pa.; Morris M. Conn,Little Rock, Ark.; Nathan Cohn, Nashville, Tenn.; Israel Cowen,Chicago, 111.; Harry Cutler, Providence, R. I.; Felix J. Dreyfous,New Orleans, La.; Henry S. Frank, Butte, Mont.; Nathan Frank,St. Louis, Mo.; Jacob Furth, Cleveland, O.; Louis J. Goldman, Cin-cinnati, O.; Joseph B. Greenhut, Peoria, 111.; William B. Hacken-burg, Philadelphia, Pa.; Isaias W. Hellman, San Francisco, Cal.;Joseph Hirsh, Vicksburg, Miss.; Morris Horkheimer, Wheeling,W. Va.; Rev. Theo. F. Joseph, Seattle, Wash.; Rev. B. L. Levin-thai, Philadelphia, Pa.; Moritz Loth, Cincinnati, O.; Rev. DavidMarx, Atlanta, Ga.; T. M. Mordecai, Charleston, S. C ; M. War leyPlatzek, New York; Edward Rosewater, Omaha, Neb.; Isaac Ros-nosky, Boston, Mass.; David Rothschild, Davenport, la.; CharlesH. Schwab, Chicago, 111.; Lewis Seasongood, Cincinnati, O.; AlfredSelligman, Louisville, Ky.; Rev. Abram Simon, Washington, D. C.;Charles C. Simons, Detroit, Mich.; Lucius L. Solomons, San Fran-cisco, Cal.; Samuel Ullman, Birmingham, Ala.; Henry Wallen-stein, Wichita, Kan.; Jonas Weil, Minneapolis, Minn.; Sol. Weil,Goldsboro, N. C ; Leo Wise, Cincinnati, O.; Edwin Wolf, Philadel-phia, Pa.; Samuel Woolner, Peoria, 111.

ISAAC M. WISE MEMOBIAL FUND NATIONAL COMMITTEE: Louis J.Goldman, S. W. Corner 3d and Vine, Cincinnati, O., Chairman; Sol-omon Fox, Cincinnati, O., Vice-Chairman; Louis I. Aaron, Pitts-burg, Pa.; Louis Barkhouse, Louisville, Ky.; Julius Freiberg, Cin-cinnati, O.; Rev. Moses J. Gries, Cleveland, O.; Daniel Guggen-heim, New York; Philip Hamburger, Pittsburg, Pa.; Rev. Dr. EmilG. Hirsch, Chicago, 111.; Leopold Keiser, Buffalo, N. Y.; BaruchMahler, Cleveland, O.; Louis Marshall, New York; Elias Michael,St. Louis, Mo.; Myer Oettinger, Cincinnati, O.; A, W. Rich, Mil-waukee, Wis.; Seligman Schloss, Detroit, Mich.; Samuel Straus,Cincinnati, O.; Isaac Strouse, Baltimore, Md.; Rev. Dr. Jacob Voor-sanger, San Francisco, Cal.; Julius Weis, New Orleans, La.; Sam-uel Woolner, Peoria, 111.

HEBREW UNION COLLEGE

The Commencement Exercises of the Hebrew Union College wereheld June 17, 1905, in Cincinnati, O. There were four graduates.

BOARD OF GOVEBNOBS: Bernhard Bettmann, Cincinnati, O., Presi-dent; Edward L. Heinsheimer, Cincinnati, O., Vice-President;Rev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Alfred M. Cohen,Cincinnati, O.; Nathan Drucker, Cincinnati, 0.; Julius Freiberg,Cincinnati, O.; Samuel Grabfelder, Louisville, Ky.; SimonGreenebaum, Cincinnati, O.; Harry M. Hoffheimer, Cincinnati, O.;


Alfred M. Klein, Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf,Philadelphia, Pa.; Jacob Kronacher, Cincinnati, O.; Rev. Dr. MaxLandsberg, Rochester, N. Y.; Rev. Dr. J. Leonard Levy, Pittsburg,Pa.; Max B. May, Cincinnati, O.; Myer Oettinger, Cincinnati, O.;Jacob Ottenheimer, Cincinnati, O.; Rev. Dr. David Philipson, Cin-cinnati, O.; Emil Pollak, Cincinnati, O.; Rev. M. Samfleld, Mem-phis, Tenn.; Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman, New York; Louis Stern,New York; Rev. Dr. Joseph Stolz, Chicago, 111.; Rev. Dr. JacobVoorsanger, San Francisco, Cal.

SECRETABY: Isaac Bloom, P. O. Box 266, Cincinnati, O.FACULTY: President and Professor of Historical and System-

atic Theology and Hellenistic Literature, the Rev. Dr. Kauf-mann Kohler; Professor of Jewish History and Literature, theRev. Gotthard Deutsch, Ph. D.; Professor of Homiletics, RabbiDavid Philipson, D. D.; Professor of Pedagogics and Ethics, RabbiLouis Grossmann, D. D.; Professor of Biblical Exegesis, Max L.Margolis, Ph.D.; Professor of Talmud (Registrar), the Rev.Ephraim Feldman, B. D.; Professor of Jewish-Arabic Philosophy,the Rev. Henry Malter, Ph. D.; Instructor in Bible, Targum, andCommentators, the Rev. S. Mannheimer, B. A.; Instructor inBible Exegesis and Aramaic, Moses Buttenwieser, Ph. D.; Instruc-tor in Biblical History and Literature (Librarian), Max Schloes-singer, Ph.D.; Tutor in Elocution (to be appointed).

ALTJMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE HEBEEW UNION COLLEGEThe Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association of the Hebrew

Union College was held in Cleveland O., July 4, 1905.OFFICEES: President, Charles S. Levi, Peoria, 111.; Vice-Presi-

dent, Leo M. Franklin, Detroit, Mich.; Historian, David Lefko-witz, Dayton, O.; Treasurer, I. E. Marcuson, Sandusky, O.; Secre-tary, Emil W. Leipziger, 706 South 5th, Terre Haute, Ind.

THE UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS INTHE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

The Second Biennial Convention was held June 21, 1903, in NewYork.

OFFICERS: President, Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes, New York;Vice-Presidents: Rev. Meldola De Sola, Montreal, Canada; L. N.Dembitz, Louisville, Ky.; Dr. H. Friedenwald, Baltimore, Md.;Treasurer, Jacob Hecht, New York; Secretaries: Albert Lucas, 56West 105th, New York; J. Buchhalter, and Isidore Hershfleld,New York.

TBUSTEES: The Officers, and Rev. H. Abramowitz, Montreal,Canada; Dr. Cyrus Adler, Washington, D. C; David W. Amram,


Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. A. M. Ashinsky, Pittsburg, Pa.; Rev. J. H.Greenstone, Philadelphia, Pa.; Rev. Dr. C. H. Kauvar, Denver,Colo.; Rev. M. Z. Margolies, Boston, Mass.; Rev. Dr. S. Schaffer,Baltimore, Md.; Rev. Dr. H. W. Schneeberger, Baltimore, Md.;Rev. Hyman S. Shoher, Boston, Mass., and Dr. Joseph Baum, Ga-briel Davidson, Jacob de Haas, Rev. Dr. B. Drachman, Julius J.Dukas, Henry P. Goldstein, Jacob M. Guedalla, Dr. Henry Illoway,Rev. Philip Jaches, Rev. Dr. P. Klein, Rev. Henry S. Morals, Dr.M. Neustaedter, Simon Roeder, Henry V. Rothschild, and Dr.Abraham L. Wolbarst, all of New York.

UNITED ORTHODOX RABBIS OF AMERICAThe Fourth Annual Convention of the United Orthodox Rabbis

of America was held July 30-August 2, 1905, at Springfield, Mass.OFFICERS: Honorary President, A. J. G. Lesser, Cincinnati, O.;

President, S. E. Jaffe, New York; Vice-Presidents: S. H. Wein,New York, and B. L. Levinthal, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treasurer, D.Ginzberg, Rochester, N. Y.; Secretary, Jehudah P. Israelite, 80Pearl, Chelsea, Mass.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The Officers, and A. A. Rosin, NewHaven, Conn.; M. Z. Margolis, Boston, Mass.; Gershom Ravinson,Cleveland, O.; M. S. Sivitz, Pittsburg, Pa.; and A. L. Zarchy,Louisville, Ky.

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