Representatives of leading Jewish institutions joined here yesterday evening in a dinner tribute to Joshua Rocker, editor, publisher, communal worker and Zionist, who is celebrating his seventieth birthday.
Coming to Cleveland forty-five years ago, Rocker was a tradesman for a time but soon turned to other pursuits. He established the first Yiddish printshop in Cleveland, from which there sprang in time several small weeklies and then the Jewish Daily Press, which later became the present Cleveland Jewish World, only Yiddish daily in Cleveland. His journalistic apprenticeship was with the Hebrew Hamelitz (before Rocker came to the United States) and with New York publications, including the Tageblatt.
Rocker was one of the founders of the Talmud Torah movement in Cleveland and is a Zionist of long standing. One of his primary interests is in Chassidism, about which he has written several books.
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