American Jewish Congress Forms Memorial Committee
Plans are being made for the holding of a large memorial mass-meeting in honor of the late Israel Zangwill, according to an announcement of the American Jewish Congress.
A special committee is being formed, representative of every circle of Jewish life, the detailed arrangements to be carried out with the aid of the Jewish Council of Greater New York and the local branch of the Congress, of which Dr. Mordecai Soltes is Chairman. Eminent men in literary and public life and leaders of thought, Jewish and non-Jewish, will be asked to address this mass-meeting which will be held in some large auditorium in New York City on about August 31st, or after “sh’loshim,” the traditional Jewish thirty days of mourning.
Organizations wishing to take part in the arrangements were asked to communicate with the office of the American Jewish Congress.
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