Israel Unterberg, banker, manufacturer, philanthropist and president of the Jewish Education Association, was buried yesterday in the Washington Cemetery of the Shearith Israel, Cypress Hills. He died Tuesday morning at his home.
Funeral services were held earlier in the morning at the Unterberg Memorial Building in the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. David de Sola Pool and Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan officiated. Approximately one thousand people thronged the auditorium to pay their last respects.
Among the honorary pallbearers were Judge Irving Lehman, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Borough President Samuel Levy, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Israel S. Chipkin, Felix M. Warburg, Bernard Semel and others.
Israel Unterberg, born in Lithuania December 15, 1863, received his early religious education at the home of his grandfather. At the age of ten he crossed the ocean to America where he received a public school training and then embarked on a commercial and philanthropic career.
TRIBUTE IS GIVEN
"His innumerable friends, his coreligionists, and the community at large have suffered a great loss through the death of Israel Unterberg. A devout Jew, he not only professed his religion but he lived it," was Felix M. Warburg’s tribute.
Israel S. Chipkin, director of the Jewish Education Association; Bernard Semel, honorary secretary of the Jewish Education Society; Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Judge Jonah J. Goldstein and Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, also paid tribute in messages.
Mr. Unterberg was seventy-one years old. He is survived by a widow, two sons, David and Clarence, and four daughters, Mrs. I. C. Rubin, Mrs. Edgar J. Nathan, Mrs. Milton J. Powell and Mrs. Samuel Derecktor.
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