Charity and public bequests for $160,000 are listed in the will of Julius Levy, filed for probate in the Orphans Court yesterday. Mr. Levy died on Nov. 22.
The largest is $ 50,000 for Johns Hopkins University. The income from one half is to be used for general purposes and from the other half for the Medical School.
The sum of $25,000 was left to the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, and the same amount to the Chizuk Emunah Congregation of Baltimore.
Bequests of $10,000 each were made to the Baltimore Talmud Torah Society, the Baltimore Hebrew College and Teachers Training School, the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York. the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of New York and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Sums of $5,000 each are set aside for the Jewish Educational Alliance and the Jewish Home for Consumptives in Reisterstown.
Only the income of these bequests shall be used. The bequests are to be called the “Julius and Etta G. Levy Fund.”
Mr. Levy was President of M. S. Levy & Sons, founded by his father.
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