Nathan Gesang, 63, president of the Zionist Federation of Argentine and a member of the Inter-American Jewish Council, died here. He was a director of the Keren Hayesod in Argentina.
Mr. Gesang was honored by leaders of Jewish organizations in New York during his visit to the United States in 1942 as a delegate to the Inter-American Jewish Conference called by the World Jewish Congress. He was of the opinion that the Jews of the American continent are now responsible for the future of the Jews of the entire world and advocated that ideological differences in American Jewish life be relegated to the background in order that Jewish unity might be achieved.
The Argentine Zionist leader was born in Cracow, Poland and studied at the local Yeshiva and later at the Lehranstat fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. He emigrated to Argentina in 1910 and became active in Zionist activities immediately.
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