A park in memory of Israel Friedlander, who was killed in the Ukraine while heading a Joint Distribution Committee mission in 1922, was planted today on Mt. Scopus, paid for with funds contributed to the Jewish National Fund by students in the Friedlander classes of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University, paid tribute to Prof. Friedlander’s profound influence on American Jewish education. Dr. Friedlander’s widow and Menachem M. Ussishkin, president of the J.N.F., also spoke. Friedlander’s seven-year-old grandson planted the first of seven trees. The park is situated near the Students’ Hostel overlooking Jerusalem.
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