Dr. Joseph L. Tenenbaum, surgeon, author, and one of the foremost leaders in Zionism and general defense of Jewish rights, died here today. He was 74.
Born in Galicia, and educated there, he came to the United States in 1920. In 1919, he was a member of the Jewish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference that followed World War I. He was a founder and past president of the World and American Federations of Polish Jews; former chairman of the executive committee and vice-president of the American Jewish Congress; national chairman of the Joint Boycott Council from 1933 to 1941; very active in the leadership of the Zionist movement; and a prominent Hebraist.
He was a member of the American Medical Association, a prominent urologist, and a member of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many works included books on economics, international affairs, and against Hitlerism. He had been decorated by the Austrian and the Polish Governments.
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