Max Gottschalk, the foremost personality of the Belgian Jewish community for over a generation, died here last week at age 87. Gottschalk, a sociologist, served for nearly 20 years as president of the Belgian Consistory and was honorary president of the Central Jewish Social Fund, the local equivalent of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Gottschalk, who served as head of the Research Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Brussels, helped create the university’s Institute of Jewish Studies and the National Center for Higher Jewish Studies which he headed for 10 years till his 80th birthday.
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