Z.O.A. President Pays Tribute to Lewin-epstein

Tribute to the memory of Elihu Lewin-Epstein, one of the founders of the colony Rehoboth and a veteran of the Zionist movement, who died at Bad Nauheim, Germany, in his sixty-ninth year, was paid by Morris Rothenberg, President of the Zionist Organization of America, in a statement he issued yesterday.

The late Mr. Lewin-Epstein, a member of the Board of Directors of the Jewish National Fund at the time of his death, had in the course of his residence in the United States during the past thirty years served in many capacities on administrative bodies of the Zionist Organization of America and on the Boards of numerous agencies dedicated to the development of Palestine as the Jewish National Home.

“With the death of Mr. Lewin-Epstein a unique figure disappears from the Zionist scene,” Mr. Rothenberg stated. “His life, spent in Eastern Europe, in Palestine and in the United States, was an exemplary expression of the high ideals which had animated the generation of pioneers who laid the foundation of the Jewish renascence in Palestine as well as for the creation of a vital and strong Jewish life in the United States. Rehoboth, one of the first and oldest colonies in Palestine, will forever stand as a monument to his vision, devotion and practical idealism; the record of the numerous endeavors in which he was engaged in this country in behalf of Palestine as well as in behalf of important Jewish causes is likewise eloquent testimony to the useful life which had been interrupted, to the regret and sorrow of American Zionists.”