Schools of ORT throughout the world will commemorate tomorrow the 25th anniversary of the death of Dr. Leon Bramson, the first chairman of the executive board of the World ORT Union.
ORT schools in Marseilles and New York have been named in memory of Dr. Bramson who died in Marseilles at the age of 72 in 1941. Born in Russia, he was active in the Society for the Propagation of Culture among the Jews of Russia and first secretary general of the Jewish Colonization Association.
In 1906 he was elected to the first Duma, the first Russian Parliament under the Czars and was from then on a leader in the struggle to eliminate inequalities and discrimination against Jews.
He had been one of the top leaders of the ORT for more than 35 years and remained chairman of the World ORT Union’s executive committee until his death. Together with the late Dr. David Lvovitch and Dr. Aron Syngalowski, he laid the basis for ORT programs in the United States in 1922.
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