Abe L. Sudran of Kansas City, Mo., has been appointed executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Essex County, it was announced here today by Martin Jelin, president of the Council. Mr. Sudran, who is currently executive director of the Jewish Federation and Council of Greater Kansas City, will succeed the late Herman M. Pekarsky, who died in September. He will assume his new post about March 1.
A staff committee of three, which has been supervising the affairs of the JCC, United Jewish Appeal, Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish News since Mr. Pekarsky’s death, will continue performing that function until the arrival of Mr. Sudran. Before coming to Kansas City, Sudran served for three years as associate director of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago. Following a year of study in social service at the University of Bordeaux under a French Government fellowship and graduate training in social service at the University of Chicago, he began his Jewish welfare career in Chicago. Later he served in Cleveland as first director of the Jewish Vocational Service, before accepting his Detroit post.
In addition to these key posts in four of the major cities of the midwest, Mr. Sudran has been active in many other aspects of Jewish and general community affairs. In Kansas City, he was a leading member of the board of Health and Welfare Council for many years. He was a member of the Governor of Ohio’s Commission on Vocational Adjustment, and of the Occupational Planning Commission of Greater Cleveland.
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