Outstanding philanthropists, jurists, and other communal leaders of Greater New York will attend the funeral services this morning for Isaac Parshelsky, philanthropist, who died Monday at 59.
The services will be held at eleven o’clock at the Brooklyn Hebrew Home and Hospital for the Aged, 813 Howard street, Brooklyn, one of the many institutions to which which Mr. Parshelsky had contributed heavily during his life. Rabbi Israel Levinthal of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, will conduct the Orthodox Jewish religious service. Burial will be in Acacia Cemetery, Woodhaven, Queens.
About 800 leaders of various organizations with which Mr. Parshelsky was intimately associated are expected to attend the funeral. Among these will be heads of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish Charities, on whose board he had served twenty years, and heads of most of the twenty-five constituent agencies of that Federation.
Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, president of the Brooklyn Jewish Federation; Edward Lazansky, presiding Justice of the Appellate Division and past president of the Federation; Assistant District Attorney Ralph K. Jacobs, secretary of the Federation; and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, executive director, will represent the Brooklyn Jewish community chest officially at the funeral. All were also close personal friends of Mr. Parshelsky.
Among others who will attend the funeral are Herman S. Bach-rach, president of the Brooklyn Bar Association; Supreme Court Justice Charles C. Lockwood, and John J. Curtin.
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