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Funeral Services Held for I. Belsky

Funeral services for Israel H. Belsky, owner of the Bell Textile Company, 448 Broadway, and prominent personage in Jewish religious, educational and charitable affairs, were held yesterday morning at the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, 206 Wilson street, Brooklyn. Interment followed in Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn. Mr. Belsky, 62, died Tuesday at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital after […]

December 13, 1934
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Funeral services for Israel H. Belsky, owner of the Bell Textile Company, 448 Broadway, and prominent personage in Jewish religious, educational and charitable affairs, were held yesterday morning at the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, 206 Wilson street, Brooklyn. Interment followed in Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn.

Mr. Belsky, 62, died Tuesday at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital after a long illness.

He was a director of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Temple Ansche Chesed, Home for Jewish Consumptives at Denver, Yeshiva College, Home of the Daughters of Jacob and the Rabbi Solomon Kluger School. He was an honorary member of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.

In the commercial field, Mr. Belsky was a member of the East Side Chamber of Commerce, Greater New York Taxpayers’ Association and the Broadway Merchants’ Association. His philanthropies to the Jewish cause amount to several thousand dollars.

A widow, a daughter, four sons, a brother and four sisters, all of New York, survive him.

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR BROOKLYN PHYSICIAN

Dr. Fred Kirschenbaum, Brooklyn opthalmologist for the last thirty years, was buried in Mount Lebanon Cemetery yesterday after private funeral services at his home, 8223 Twenty-first avenue, Brooklyn. He died suddenly Tuesday after a heart attack.

He was on the staff of the United Israel Zion Hospital and was a visiting physician on the staffs of other Brooklyn hospitals.

He is survived by his wife, Lena, and by two children, Grace and Harold.

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