The New York campaign of the United Jewish Appeal, which will be inaugurated Sunday evening at the Hotel Commodore, will be given additional momentum at noon today when presidents and rabbis of Manhattan’s leading congregations meet at the Hotel Commodore to plan cooperation with the German Jewish relief drive, which has a quota of $1,200,000.
Names of the chairmen of twenty-five different trades, industries and professions which are in the midst of intensive campaign activities to assist the United Jewish Appeal were also announced yesterday. All these groups are under the direction of the Trades Council, of which Michael Schaap is chairman and Samuel Blitz, executive director.
Among those represented in today’s conference are Samuel Sternberg, Bernard Semel, William Fineberg, Elias A. Cohen, Harry N. Wessel, Isaac Siegel, Frederick Margarten and Morris Levin. Rabbis who will be at the conference are J. X. Cohen, Israel Goldstein, Ira Eisenstein, William Rosenblum, Elias Solomon, Leo Jung, Ernest Trattner, David de Sola Pool, Louis I. Newman, Nathan Stern, Milton Steinberg, Herbert S. Goldstein, Joseph Lookstein, Moses Hyamson, Edward Lissman, and Samuel Goldenson.
GROUP LEADERS
Following are the chairmen of the respective trade, industrial and professional groups:
F. William Greenfield, chairman, and Morley S. Wolfe, co-chairman; accountants; Ira A. Hirschmann, advertising; Leo C. Safir, bathrobes; Milton J. Greenebaum, buyers; Joseph Love, children’s and infants’ wear; Leo Del Monte, chairman, and I. J. Rubin, associate chairman, cloak and suit division; Lawrence Marx, cotton goods and textiles; Dr. Frank Levander, dental supplies; Hugo Baum, dolls; Isidore Soharfman, dresses; Herman L. Brooks, chairman, and Charles Oestreich, co-chairman, drugs and cosmetics; Edward Mandel, chairman, and Benjamin Veit, co-chairman, educators division; Dr. G. A. Lowenstein, food division; Jacob Karpen, chairman, and Jack Selig, co-chairman, furniture; Julius Michel, chairman, and Joseph Fischer, co-chairman, leather goods; Sigmund Thau, lighting fixtures; N. J. Richman, lines; Harold Jacobl, chairman, and Richard L. Blum, co-chairman, liquors; Charles D. Jaffee, men’s clothing; Max Pick, paints and chemicals; Herbert T. Rosenfeld, paper; Martin Bernstein, pillows; Samuel Levy, real estate; Leo Platt, ribbons, and Abraham Liebovitz, shirts.
Dr. G. A. Lowenstein, chairman of the food division of the Trades Council, has announced that a campaign dinner of that group will be held on Saturday evening, May 26 at the Hotel Commodore. The following contributions were announced at a meeting at the home of Dr. G. A. Lowenstein, where preliminary gifts were made by some of the workers in the food trade division:
Philip Wechsler and Son, $2,500; Dr. G. A. Lowenstein, $1,500; Abraham Krasne, $750; Leopold Buchsbaum, $500; E. Fink, S. S. Silver, Max Levy, Philip Mankowsky, Max Schmer, $250 each; Harry Damask, Julius Cohen, Arthur Sorin, $200 each; Lou Bandler, Emil Koref, Joseph Beck, Max Rosoff, Chester Gash, Louis Fischer, Ben Trotsky, Louis Soloway, $200 each; H. Schoenthal, $150.
TESTIMONIAL FOR COHEN
Sol Cohen will be tendered a testimonial dinner on Sunday evening, June 3, in the Beth Israel Community Center of Richmond Hill, in connection with the campaign of the United Jewish Appeal in Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills and Woodlawn.
Israel Silberman, president of the Community Center, is chairman of the committee. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland will be the guest speaker. Rabbi Silver is a boyhood friend of Mr. Cohen.
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