Dr. Ignatz Steinhardt, Vice-President of the Union of Roumanian Jews and also Vice-President of the Kultusgemeinde in Bucharest, died to-day in Vienna at the age of 62, according to telegraphic information received here.
Dr. Steinhardt spent his last weeks in a sanatorium in Purkersdorf, near Vienna. He was one of the most prominent leaders of the Jews in Roumania.
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