The Zionist Organization of America announced the election of forty American delegates to attend the biennial World Zionist Congress which will be held in Basle, Switzerland, beginning August 30. The delegates were elected at the annual convention of the Zionist Organization held recently in Atlantic City.
The delegation, headed by Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization, consists of the following: Samuel Blitz, secretary; Henrietta Szold, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Judge Julian W. Mack, Mrs. Archibald Silverman, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Maurice Samuel, Mrs. Irma Lindheim, Judge William M. Lewis, Morris Rothenberg, Judge Hugo Pam, Nina Adlerblum, Abraham Goldberg, Rabbi Max Heller, Mrs. Frieda S. Ullian, Dr. S. Bernstein, Nathan D. Kaplan, Philip Wattenberg, Reuben Brainin, Meyer W. Weisgal, Dr. A. Coralnik, Dr. Harry Friedenwald, Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Gershon Agronsky, Charles A. Cowen, Rabbi Joseph Silverman, Rabbi Max Kline, Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Miss Sarah Kitay, Bernard G. Richards, Jacob Fishman, Judge Gustave Hartman, Samuel J. Rosenbloom, Benjamin Rabalsky, Carl Sherman, William Edlin. Harry P. Fierst, Leo Wolfson, Rabbi Barnett Brickner.
Alternate Delegates: Mrs. Rose Blondheim, Dr. J. Tennenbaum, Pearl Franklin, Mrs. Cyrus Levinthal, Bernard Shelvin, Mrs. Max Blumberg, Mrs. Harry P. Fierst, A. Liebowitz, Meyer Mintz, Rabbi Simon Greenberg, Louis A. Freed, Robert Silverman, Morris Neaman, Barret Rapaport, Lawrence Berenson, Abraham Tulin, Fanny B. Smith, Lillian Franklin, Mrs. Geo. Wyner, Mrs. Joseph Horowitz, ?. Samuel Boorstein, M. W. Norwalk, I. H. Rubin, Dr. Abraham Ball, Louis E. Rosen, Mrs. A. D. Burack, Ida Greenberg, Gertrude Oppenheim, Henry Eiser, Sam Kasle, Mrs. Louis Goldberg, Simon Berg, A. Z. Halpern, Benjamin Gross, Jacob Brandt, E. Hackner.
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