Dr. Jacob Rothschild, president of the Kehillah at Nagicanigza, Hungary, died.
Dr. Rothschild was among the first Jews to be admitted to the bar in Hungary following the emancipation of Hungarian Jewry in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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