At a testimonial dinner Sunday night at the Concourse Plaza Hotel in the Bronx, N. Y., to Benjamin Benenson, $100,000 was contributed to the drive of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies by Mr. Benenson and the guests. Mr. Benenson gave $20,000.
Among the speakers were Joseph V. McKee, President of the Board of Aldermen; Albert Goldman, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, and Assistant Corporation Counsel M. Maldwin Fertig.
Mr. McKee said: “The Jews of New York are great business men; they are successful in public life, they are great financiers; but when all is said and done they will be known first and foremost for their great love to do the thing we know as real charity.”
Dr. Nathan Krass, rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, made an appeal for the Federation drive.
Among the contributors were: Sam Minskoff, $10,000; Louis E. Altschut, Stuart Hirschman and Maurice Muller, $5,000 each; Jacob Levy, Samuel H. Golding, Jacob and Emil Leitner, Mrs. L. M. Blumstein, $2,500 each: Joseph Zager, M. Smoleroff, M. Polsky, Sobel Brothers, M. Grossman, Ely Maran, Shulman Brothers, Phillip Wattenburg, Maurice Siegel, M. Rubin, Max Schneider, Joseph Lefe, Fred Lefe, Abel King, Phillip Perlman, Isidore Teitelbaum, Russell and Albert Goldman, Jack Selig and Nathan Wilson, $1,000 each.
European and American soloists of distinction will participate in a concert of Hebrew music, announced for Carnegie Hall on Sunday evening, December 26, Artists of the opera houses of Kiev and Warsaw, the Petrograd Imperial Symphony, the New York Symphony and the New York Institute of Musical Art, are to present the program, which is under the direction of Lazare Saminsky, musical director of New York’s Temple Emanu-El Several of the soloists were participants in the work of the Petrograd Hebrew Folksong Society, the historical organization which first collected and published Jewish folk music.
Eugenia Erganow, soprano, who comes from operatic appearance in Petrograd, Moscow, Warsaw, Liov and Berlin, will contribute songs in Jewish to the program Leon Cortille, who came to America as a member of the Polish Opera Company and is now soloist at the Temple Emanu-El, will give songs ascribed to famous rabbis and cantors. Four pianists to take part in the program are Ignacc Hilsberg, Isidor Gorn, Max Barnett and William Sauber. Yascha Fishberg, formerly of the Petrograd Imperial Symphony and Gdal Saleski, will also be heard.
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