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Memorial for Brandeis to Be Established in Palestine

October 17, 1941
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A memorial to the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis will be established in Southern Palestine, it was announced today at a session of the small Zionist Actions Committee convoked for the purpose of eulogizing the two late Zionist leaders M. M. Ussishkin and Justice Brandeis. Representatives of all leading Jewish institutions in Palestine attended the session.

The assembly hall of the Jewish Agency, where the session was held, was decorated with black-draped portraits of Ussishkin and Brandeis. The chair on which Ussishkin sat for the last seven years as president of the Jewish National Fund was similarly draped in black. Heshel Farbstein, former member of the World Zionist Executive and oldest surviving member of the first Zionist Congress, wept as he opened the session. “Who will replace those two?” he asked pointing to the portraits. Eulogies were delivered by Dr. J. L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University; Berl Katznelson, editor of the Davar; Siegfried Hoofien, director of the Anglo-Palestine Bank; Isaac Grunbaum, member of the Zionist Executive; Dr. Abraham Granovsky of the Jewish National Fund, and by representatives of other Zionist institutions.

At the afternoon meeting Henrietta Szold recalled the first steps toward Zionism that had been taken by Justic, Brandeis and the influence he had on American Jewish life. Other speakers were: Zalman Rubashov, Palestine labor leader; Rabbi Meir Berlin, Mizerchi leader; and Bernard Joseph, legal adviser to the Jewish Agency. In Brandeis and Ussishkin.

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