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Phineas Horowitz, Veteran British Zionist, Dies in London; Organized Anti-nazi Boycott

March 27, 1946
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Phineas Horowitz, veteran Zionist leader, and vice-president of the British Zionist Federation, died here today.

Horowitz was one of the organizers in 1933 of the anti-Nazi trade boycott, and was secretary of the World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League. He was the author of the “Jewish Question and Zionism,” an authoritative discussion of the Palestine problem.

The ship on which Horowitz was travelling to the United States in June, 1941, was torpedoed by a German submarine and he spent 20 minutes in the sea before being picked up by a lifeboat. In March, 1942, he became ill while in New York, and underwent an operation at Mt. Sinai Hospital there.

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