To Mark 70th Anniversary of Henri Sliosberg

Baron Alfred Gunzbourg has agreed to preside at a social committee formed to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Henri Sliosberg, the wellknown Russian-Jewish advocate and social worker of Petrograd. A number of Jewish leaders of Paris will participate in that committee and a series of events is planned to mark the anniversary which falls at the beginning of 1933.

Mr. Sliosberg was born in 1863, in Poltawa. He made his studies in St. Petersburg university and later in Germany and France; he became a barrister and also a noter research worker of law. It was at that time that he commenced his activities in favor of the Jewish emancipation. In 1891 he participated as a member of a committee of the American Congress for study of the causes of Jewish emigration. The results of his work were incorporated into the so called Webster Report to the Congress.

A close collaborator of the Baron Horace Gunzbourg he played an eminent role in the ritual murder trial of Blondes in Wilno in 1900. He was also engaged in the enquiry into the pogroms of Kishinev and Homel and was connected with the Jewish Colonization Ass’n (J.C.A.) work in Russia from 1893 onwards. At one time the president of the Jewish community of Petrograd, he was also known for his general activity, and Stolypin, the Russian Minister, appointed him State-Councillor. In 1920 he fled from Russia and settled in Paris, where he is continuing his activity in amelioration of the conditions of immigrant circles. He has made several journeys to the United States.