Funeral services were held today for Rabbi George Lieberman, rabbi emeritus of the Central Synagogue of Nassau County and a leading activist on behalf of Soviet Jewry, who died of cancer Monday at Southampton Hospital on Long Island. He was 74 years old.
Lieberman was the first chairman of the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ Committee on Soviet Jewry, and participated in CCAR rabbinic missions to the Soviet Union in 1956 and 1966. He requested in 1956 that officials of the Russian Academy of Science provide their assistance to Russian and American scholars.
Lieberman was a former president of the Association of Reform Rabbis of New York, and a member of the North American Board of the World Union of Progressive Judaism. He was spiritual leader of the Central Synagogue of Nassau County in Rockville Centre from 1954 until his retirement in 1979. He moved to Southampton in 1979.
Lieberman emigrated when he was about 12 to the United States from Wysoke-Litovsk, a Polish village that is now part of the Soviet Union. He graduated from Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1930 and was ordained by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinati in 1938. He received a doctorate from the West Virginia Wesleyan University in 1941.
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