Abraham G. Duker, who has been affiliated with the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America during the past seven years, has been awarded the Miller Foundation Fellowship in Jewish History at Columbia University. He plans to sail for Poland to continue his researches in the field of Polish history. He has studied under the direction of Professors Salo Baron and Carlton J. H. Hayes in the Graduate School of Columbia University, during the past three years.
Congregation Beth Israel of Portland, the oldest Jewish institution in the Pacific Northwest, will celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary May 4-5-6.
Governor Julius L. Meier is president of the Congregation, and Dr. Henry J. Berkowitz is Rabbi.
The celebration is being opened by a congregational dinner presided over by Governor Meier. Adolphe Wolfe, whose eighty-fifth birthday falls upon the congregational anniversary, is chairman of the Anniversary Committee. Mr. Wolfe is an honorary member of the Board of American Hebrew Congregations. Roscoe C. Nelson is acting as master of ceremonies at the dinner.
The speakers at the special services to be held Friday evening, May 5, and Saturday morning, May 6, are: Rabbi Samuel Koch, Seattle; Rabbi Irving F. Reichert, San Francisco; Rabbi Adolph Fink, Spokane; and Rabbi Max J. Merritt, Berkeley, Cal.
Congregation Beth Israel was founded by pioneers in 1858. Most of the early Jewish settlers came across the plains by wagon train and founded their Congregation when there were only 1,200 people living in Portland.
Abraham G. Duker, who has been affiliated with the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America during the past seven years, has been awarded the Miller Foundation Fellowship in Jewish History at Columbia University. He plans to sail for Poland to continue his researches in the field of Polish history. He has studied under the direction of Professors Salo Baron and Carlton J. H. Hayes in the Graduate School of Columbia University, during the past three years.
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