Funeral services were held here Thursday for Max Robert Schrayer, a leader in national and local Jewish affairs and an insurance executive. He died here Wednesday at age 83.
Schrayer served on the boards of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Jewish Publication Society and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He was a former general chairman of the Combined Jewish Appeal of Metropolitan Chicago and the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago. He served on the board of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Other posts he held included the presidency of the Chicago Federation of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and two congregations.
In 1956, he was co-chairman in the Chicago-area Religion and American Life campaign, a nonsectarian program emphasizing the importance of worship by families.
In 1964, he led a delegation of 12 leaders of the Jewish community on a mission to France, Poland, Morocco, Austria and Israel to determine how local funds were aiding rehabilitation and immigration there.
He was chairman of Associated Agencies, Inc., an insurance business, and was its president for 10 years.
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