Funeral services were held here yesterday at Emanu-El Synagogue for Max Fertig, actively identified with Jewish philanthropic and religious circles in New York City.
Mr. Fertig succumbed at the age of fifty-seven to an accidental overdose of medicine.
He founded Congregation Emanu-El of this city serving as its first president. Rabbi Elias Margolis of the congregation officiated at the services. Interment took place in Union Field Cemetery.
Mr. Fertig was a member of the boards of the Vaad Hakashruth and Y.M.-Y.W.H.A’s in this city as well as a member of Congregation Shaare Zedek of New York.
He was affiliated with the Zionist Organization and made numerous gifts to Palestine undertakings and philanthropic endeavors in New York.
Walter Lippman, political writer and publicist, was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters at the annual dinner of the organization.
Funeral services were held for Benjamin May, uncle of Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, who died at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital on Tuesday of heart disease.
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