A testimonial dinner in honor of the Hakoah Soccer team will be tendered at the Pennsylvania Hotel on June 1, on the eve of the team’s departure from the United States.
Benny Leonard is the chairman of a committee which includes representatives of all factions of New York Jewry to honor the Jewish players. Mr. Leonard has on many previous occasions during his career given the proceeds of his bouts for social and philanthropic purposes.
The following are on the Hakoah Testimonial Dinner Committee: Hon. Henry Morgenthau, Hon. Irving Lehman, Hon. Grover M. Moscowitz. Hon. Abram I. Elkus, George Jessel, Samuel J. Bloomingdale, Mrs. Jacob Wertheim, Hon. Nathan Perlman, Herman Conheim, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. Stephen Wise. B. K. Marcus, Felix Fuld, Herman Bernstein, Joseph Barondess, David Bressler, Hon. Dr. Louis I. Harris, Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Benjamin Winter. John Simons. Louis Wiley. Hon. W. W. Cohen, David A. Brown. Hon. Emanuel Celler. Joseph Durst. Max N. Koven, James J. Brooks. Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom, Dr. Solomon Lowenstein. Louis Bamberger, Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Mrs. Paul Gottheil. Max J. Kohler. Mrs. Isaac Kubie. Hon. Morris Bloch, Jacob Fishman. Jacob Landau. W. Z. Spiegelman. Hugo Riesenfeld. Dr. Bela Schick. Abraham Bricken. Morris E. Gossett, Samuel C. Lamport. Arthur Lehman. Harold Riegelman. Sigmund Saxe. Dr. Frederick Fischerauer. Theodore B. Racoosin. David Shapiro. Alexander Bernstein. Abraham Herman. Dr. A. J. Rongy, Mrs. Moses Stroock. Samuel Mason, Samuel Bienstock. I. Monteflore Levy, Hon. Jacob Panken. Morris Rothenberg, Dr. Otto Clogau, Emanuel Neumann, Hon. Albert Goldman, Israel Friedkin, S. Dingol. Samuel Ogenblick, John L. Bernstein, Hon. Louis B. Brodsky. Louis Lipsky, Dr. J. Margoshes, Mrs. Irma Lindheim. Hon. Max Levine. Adolph Stern. Meyer W. Weisgal, David N. Mosessohn. Morris Zukor. Isidore D. Morrison. Edgar J. Nathan. Jr., Harry F. Schlacht, Mrs. Samuel Lamport. Dr. Isaac Landmann, Jonah J. Goldstein, Dr. Jaroslav Novak. Robert Szold, Thaddeus Marynowski, Martin Beck, Hugh Grant Straus, Dr. Nathan Krass, Hon. Otto Rosalsky, A. Tuvim.
Leading Jews of the East Side were guests at dinner Monday night of Max Bernstein, proprietor of Libby’s Hotel, the first modern Jewish hotel on the East Side, which was opened to the public yesterday. The hotel is at Delancey and Chrystie Streets. The hotel will serve kosher food. It was elected at a cost of $3,000,000.
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