The estate of Rabbi Hyman G. Enelow, for more than twenty-two years a spiritual leader of Congregation Emanu-El, was appraised yesterday at the office of the State Transfer Tax Department at $38,168 gross and $16,337 net. The principal asset of the estate was miscellaneous property valued at $16,322.
Rabbi Enelow’s library, which was bequeathed to the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was valued at $13,778. Other volumes left to the Jewish Publication Society of America, in Philadelphia, were valued at $25.
Four relatives and friends of Dr. Enelow received $1,100 in small bequests. His secretary, Bertha Toplon, of 235 West Seventy-sixth street, received $3,000. Dr. Enelow’s sister, Mrs. Lena Mann, of San Diego, Cal., and a brother, Ben Enelow, of Chicago, received $1,500 each.
Another brother, Max, of Chicago, received the residue of the estate, valued at $2,052. Max Enelow and the Fifth Avenue Bank were named executors of the estate.
Dr. Enelow died February 6, aboard the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Australia, of a heart attack. He was fifty-seven.
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