Funeral services were held here today for Irving Rhodes, co-founder of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, who died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. The services were held at Congregation Emanu-El B’nai Jeshurun. He was 76. Rhodes, who came to the United States from Poland as a youth, founded the Jewish weekly with his friend, the late Nathan Gould, with whom Rhodes was co-publisher until Gould died in 1945. Rhodes was co-publisher and publisher for more than 50 years. In 1973, he sold the weekly to the Milwaukee Jewish Federation. He was a founder of the American Jewish Press Association.
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