Anton Kaufman, blind publisher of The Newark Jewish Chronicle and one of the most prominent leaders in Jewish affairs in New Jersey, lost his life in a fall from his eighth-floor room in the Robert Treat Hotel, here. The 65-year-old publisher is believed to have fallen out of a window of his room in attempting to lower the sash.
Mr. Kaufman lost his sight in 1931. He was born in Hungary and came to the United States immediately after being graduated from the University of Berlin in 1905. After working on several English and German language newspapers he established the Detroit Jewish Chronicle in 1914 and was its publisher until 1918. He founded The Newark Jewish Chronicle in 1921.
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