Canadian Hadassah will raise a fund of $50,000 for Zionist activities in Palestine in honor of the sixtieth birthday of Mrs. A. J. Freiman, president of the organization, the organization decided last night at its annual convention in the Royal York Hotel. Mrs. Freiman is ill at her home in Ottawa and was unable to attend the convention.
She was unanimously re-elected president of Canadian Hadassah.
Mrs. Freiman’s annual report was read by her daughter, Mrs. Alexander.
The Italian Jew, Giuseppe Fi# was active in the fight for the #eration of Italy, fighting behi# the barricades at Milan in 18# later in the army of Charles Albert where he organized a regiment of bersaglieri and with Garibaldi in the freeing of southern Italy.
Ludwig August Frankl’s poem hailing the Vienna revolution of 1848 enjoyed an enormous vogue while he himself fought against the government in the students’ legion.
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