Leading Zionist and other Jewish personalities from this country and Israel, as well as Americans prominent in general American life, will attend funeral services here tomorrow for Louis Lipsky. dean of American Zionism and outstanding leader of world Zionism for two generations, who died at his New York home Monday at the age of 86.
The services, previously scheduled to have been held in a private funeral chapel, will be held, instead, at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, 257 West 88th Street, at 11:30 a.m. The services will be conducted by Rabbi Ira Eisenstein and Rabbi Joachim Prinz. The eulogy will be spoken by Moshe Sharett, Israel’s former Prime Minister and ex-Foreign Minister, who is now chairman of the Jewish Agency executive.
LIST OF HONORABLE PALLBEARERS IS VERITABLE ‘WHO’S WHO’
Some of America’s and Israel’s most prominent personalities, constituting virtually a Who’s Who of Zionist and other Jewish leadership, including leading diplomats, were listed as honorary pallbearers. The list included:
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization; Mr. Sharett; former Sen. Herbert H. Lehman; Avraham Harman, Israel Ambassador to the United States; Michael S. Comay, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations; Dr. Dewey D. Stone, president, Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc.; Philip M. Klutznick, former national president of B’nai B’rith, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Meyer W. Weisgal, chairman of the executive council of the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth, who came here from Israel especially for the obsequies; Dr.Emanuel Neumann, chairman, American Section, the Jewish Agency; Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman, American Zionist Council.
Also Rabbi Max Nussbaum, president of the Zionist Organization of America; Louis Segal, general secretary of the Farband Labor Zionist Order; Dr. Mordecai Kaplan, founder of the Reconstructionist Movement; Samuel Daroff. president of the American Jewish League for Israel; Albert Schiff, president, Jewish National Fund; Ezra Shapiro, former president, American Jewish League for Israel.
Also Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Abraham A. Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, executive vice-president of that organization; Rabbi Philip Bernstein, chairman, American Israel Committee for Public Affairs; Congressman Emanuel Celler; Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Harry Scherman, chairman of the board of the Book of the Month Club; William Salzman, chairman of the Standard Bag Company; Victor Whitehorn, president, Eastern Life Insurance Company, and others.
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