Funeral services for Dr. Jacob Billikopf, Jewish philanthropic and labor arbitration leader who died here yesterday at the age of 67, will be held on Wednesday, it was announced today. For the last 45 years he held important executive positions in Jewish social service organizations.
A native of Lithuania, he came to this country at the age of 14. He held executive positions in Jewish social welfare groups in Cincinnati, Milwaukee and Kansas City. He was also executive director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of this city. In recent years he was labor relations director of department stores in Philadelphia. In 1942 he was awarded a citation by the alumni of the University of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1903, for “service to the community, nation and the world.”
Formerly he was president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Workers and of the National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare. Shortly after World War I, he directed a $25,000,000 drive to aid Jewish war sufferers. He was the son-in-law of the late Louis Marshall, well-known American Jewish leader.
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