Miss Isabella Freedman, sixty-four, philanthropist and active in nearly every branch of social welfare, died Wednesday after a long illness in her home, No. 300 Park Avenue, New York City.
One of Miss Freedman’s chief interests and one which occupied much of her time and energy was the Andrew Freedman Home, at 166th Street and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx, founded by her brother the late Andrew Freedman, to provide a home for persons who had been wealthy and accustomed to luxury, but were living in penury.
She established and was associated with more than twenty welfare and religious institutions. She founded the Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood, also the Welfare Island Synagogue, Belfree House, the Widowed Mothers’ Fund and Inwood House. She was connected with the Jewish Working Girls’ Vacation Society, the Sisterhood of Religious Schools, and the National Council of Jewish Women.
Funeral services will be held today at Temple Emanu-El. A brother, Daniel B. Freedman, survives her.
BREVITIES
The William M. R. French scholarship of $1,000 for travel in Europe given annually to a student of the Chicago Art Institute was awarded to a Jewish girl. Miss Marion Gentelson, for her model of “The Prodigal Son.” Thirty-two students entered the competition.
A concert of Yiddish music, with well known concert stars participating in the program, will be given at Camegie Hall, on the evening of Decoration Day, May 30th, under the auspices of “The Day”.
The concert is being arranged for the benefit of Camp Vacamat, near Whiteport, N. Y., where each year five hundred boys and girls whose homes are in congested tenements enjoy a holiday of two weeks or more “The Day” has maintained this camp for four years. Two thousand children are given a vacation at the camp each year.
This concert, in addition to aiding Camp Vacama:, will conclude the season of radio broadcasting of Jewish music, which has been given under the auspices of “The Day”, through Station WMCA. The concluding concert will be broadcasted from Carnegie Hall.
“I am the most pro-Jewish Gentile in the world,” said Mayor Walker Monday night at the monthly dinner of the Institutional Synagogue, 37 West 116th Street, New York and placed a yarmulke on his head.
“The only Jew for whom I have neither honor nor respect, is he who is ashamed of his race and religion. The Jew who is proud of his creed finds a friend in me.
“But I cannot countenance any religion, group of sect whose exponents are so fanatic in their beliefs that they have to hide their faces behind pillow slips.”
Twenty-five public and private social agencies concerned with the problem of child welfare have organized themselves into a section of the Welfare Council of New York to pool their experiences and ideas and to correlate their afforts, it was announced by William Hudson, executive director of the Welfare Council.
Berman J. Fagan, chief probation officer of the Children’s Court, was elected chairman of the new section. The Executive Committee includes Mrs. A. A. Friedlander, of the Council Home for Jewish Girls.
Among the organization are: Brooklyn Jewish Social Service Burean. Council Home for Jewish Girls and Jewish Board of Guardians, instead of the studio of WMCA.
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