Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Ben Rosen, executive director of the American Association for Jewish Education, who died at his home here yesterday of a heart ailment. He was 50 years old. Mr. Rosen became ill on a western tour for the association.
From 1921 until he took the post he held at death Mr. Rosen was director of the Associated Talmud Torahs of Philadelphia, the central agency for Jewish education in that city. Earlier he had served for two years as supervisor of instruction for the Boston Bureau of Jewish Education. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Rosen attended Teachers College, Columbia University, and Harvard University, receiving a master of education degree from the latter in 1921. He completed his Jewish educational course at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1913.
He made surveys of Jewish educational activities in several cities, including Cleveland, Detroit, New York and Baltimore. Since 1934 he had been chief editor of “Jewish Education,” published by the National Council for Jewish Education, of which he was secretary in 1927 and president in 1929.
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