THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

Annual Meeting of American Jewish
Historical Society at Philadelphia

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The twenty-fourth annual inset- Yo-r1;. - This was that Of Israel
ing, of the American Jewish His- Solomon, an English Jew, who
torical Society was held at Drop- came to America late in life and
sic College on Sunday and Mon- died here. Ile was a relative of
. day. There was a good attend- Ilarnett L. Solomon, well known
ance and the papers read and sub- ill New York, and of the Isaacs
mitted will prove noteworthy family. Interesting sidelights
contributions to Jewish historical were thrown by this essay on
data. The address of welcome., conditions of Anglo-Jewish life a
was made by Dr. Cyrus Adler, \ century ago. Dr. Adler briefly
who presided-.
referred to the. recent appoint-
Miss Elfrida Cowen, of New meat of pr. A. S. Yahuda, a cor-
York, read 'the first papers of the responding- member, to a profes-
meeting, which opened Sunday sorship at the Madrid University
morning, One dealing - with the and its significance for historical
life of Jeannette Picken, a Gen- research relating to the Jews of
tile, who adopted Judaism in or- that country. The council of the
der to marry Abraham Hyman Society, it was announced at the
Cohen, a minister of Philadelphia closing • meeting - on Monday,
and Richmond early in the nine- elected the famous historian, Fi-
teenth century, but who returned del Fita v Colomer, a Jesuit priest
to the faith of her fathers after who has probably done more for
the death of . her son, I leury history than any other
Luria Cohen. These experiences non-Jew, to honorary member-
were recou nt ed i n h er wor k shill . Father Vita is president of
"I lenry LuflaT" Miss -Cowen's the Royal Academy of History of
other paper dealt with the career -Spain, and has reached the age of
of Moses Levy, of Florida, the eighty years.
father of David Yulee, subse-
Necr6logies of deceased mem-.
quently noted as a Senator from •bers of the Society were read.
that state.
That of Solomon Schechter, by
Albert M. Freidenberg, secretary Prof. Alexander Marx, • was a
of the Society, presented the pap- noteworthy utterance ; it afforded
ers by . Rabbi Julius J. Price, of a full insight into the deceased •
Toronto, which had various inter- scholar's life-work and personal-
esting items of Canadian Jewish ity and pictured his transcendent
history for their themes. He also services to the ,Iewries of two
read a number of papers by Sam- continents. Another unsurpassed
uel Oppenheim, of New York, sketch was that of the career of
two of which deserve passing Joseph Jacobs. contributed by
mention. The first considered an former Judge Mayer Sulzberger.
ordinance of the New York corn- Here a graphic recital of the late
neon council of . 1813, relating to Dr: Jacobs' services to literature
the sale of kosher meat, which i•as coupled with a glowing trib-
was promptly recalled when a ute to his worth as man and as
portion of the Portuguese syna- Jew. Other papers of this nature
gogue seat holders protested dealt with the lives of Mendes
against the enforceMent. The Cohen , Nicholas Darnell Davis ,
second was a letter of 1776, writ- Solomon Fox , Adolf (iuttmacher,
ten by Jonas Phillips in Judeo- David Hutzler, August Il. Loeb
German, in which the Reyolu- and Isaac I,. Rice.
tionary War and the Declaration
Mr. Friedenberg - offered two in-
of ind e p en de nce were men ti one d. teresting papers of his own. The
Mr. Friedenberg also submit- one was a succinct memoir of
ted, for the committee on the Samuel Westheimer.
had ar-
Gratz papers, a calendar of these complished much for the (level-
N..onable documents.. They .com- opulent of St.• Joseph,
prise business letters of a century commerce and industry and espe-
and more ago written, mainly in cially in its financial rehabilita-
Judeo-German, by or to (laniard tion. The other attempted an ap-
and Michael Gratz, of Philadel- praisement of the economic con-
phia. The - specimens read to the tributions of the Jews to Ameri-
audience seemed to arouse con- can history and life, especially
noting their participation in the
siderable interest.
Rev. Dr. David . de Sola Pool spermaceti oil trade industry of
presented several papers. One of the nineteenth century.
these, entitled an early Zionist
Prof. Alexander Marx recited
project, was 110 less than a pro- the facts of the life of a Ilohemian
posed treaty between the govern- Jew of the seventeenth century,
ment of the Jewish nation and as given in the latter's anonymous
the Sultan of Turkey. This was autobiography in a unique copy
in Hebrew, found among the pap- belonging to the Jewish Theolog-
ers of the late Rev. J. J. Lyons ical Seminary of America. Rabbi
after his death in 1877, but furth- Abraham A. Neuman, of the
er details about it were lacking. Dropsie College, followed with a
\The opinion was expressed by further instalment of his valuable
some of the scholars present that work On the history of the Jews
it may have emanated from War- in Spain during their golden age
-. - "den Cresson or Mordecai M. in that country. This time his re-
Noah.
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marks dealt with education and
A unique account of--a,
its development among them.
family was contained in the pap,
The paper of lion. Simon Wolf,
er of Frank T. Schechter of New of Washington, and Max J. Koh-

- Jewish Immigration After the
War.

• General immigration to the U.'
S. after the war is improbable,
according to Leon Sanders, presi-
dent of the lebrew Sheltering
and Immigration Society of
ler, Of 'New York, wasTread by the America, and made public by him
latter, and may be_ regarded as at its annual meeting-.
"It may lie otherwise with the
a contribution of first-rate im-
lews.
portance to the history of the agi- - . „ however," Mr. Sanders
tation for the removal of Jewish :am, 'owing to the especially un-
disabi hies in Roumania. It dealt fortunate situation which the war
witl events of some four decades has created for them. Nearly
since, with the mission of Ii. F. ff',000,0m) Jews are ruined; in the
PeiXOttO to the country, with the greatest moral and material mis-
international, conferences then ery ; many of them are refugee,
convened, and culminated with dependent on the good will of
the results achieved at the Ilerlin their brethren."
The society is directing its at-
Congress of 1878.
tention,
he reported, to the prob-
Other authors heard from at
eill
of
distributing
- immigrants in
this session of the only learned
the
western
states,
so that inuni-
society among the Jews of Amer-
gration
will
not
be
concentrated
ica included Lee Friedman, of
in
the
east,
but
flo•
normally to
Boston ; Leon I Itilmer and Miss
the
less
densely
populated
dis-
Mabel Lyon, of New York ; Dr.
o mmu-
tricts.
The
society
is
in
c
Israel Abrahams, of Cambridge,
Eng'.and; William Vincent By- nication with chambers of. com-
ars, of St. Louis ; Frank •undail, merce and other important com-
Jamaica ; Prof. ((chard I lentsch, mercial bodies throughout the
of Cincinnati ; Dr. A. Levinson. country. many of which have ex-
of • Chicago, and the Rev. Dr. pressed their willingness to aid
Martin 'lever, of San Fran- Jewish immigrants.
The following were elected
cisco.
members.
of the advisory hoard:
The society was reported h be
Louis
D.
llrandeis, 1foston ;
in a flourishing- condition as to
Isaac - \V. Iternheint. of Louis-
members, finances and collec-
ville; \loses Fraley, of St. Lillis;
tions• The following officers were \lax I. Kohler, Fdward Lanier-
chosen: President, Dr. Cyrus back Louis Marshall, Jacob II.
Adler, Philadelphia; vice-presi- Schiff, Isaac N. Seligman, ( ► scar
d ents. si nmn Rosendak., Al-
S. Strauss and Dr. Stei;hen S.
bang, N. y.; Professor Richard \Vise, 14 New York; Adolph
J. I I . Ot New York: Rev. Kraus and Julian W. \lack, of
Dr. David Philipson, Cincinnati, Chicago; Mayor Sulzberger. of
and Judge Julian \V.:\ lack, Chi- Philadelphia : Rev. Dr. Martin A.
cago; corresponding secretary, \lever and Lucius Silomons, of
Albert \I. Friedenberg; recording San Francisco; !fen Selling, of
secretary. Samuel ()ppenheim, Portland, Ore., and Simon \V(df,
Philadelphia; treasurer, N. Tay- of \Vashington.
lor Phillips, New York; curator,
Leon IIuhner, New York. The
follo•ing additional members of
Rothschilds at the Front Rank.
the•Executive Council were elect-
ed: Mayer Sulzberger, Philadel-
The Hop. Charles Rothschild
phia ; Professor J. II. Hollander, was appoint(11,aNmember of the
Ilaltimore; Simon \Volt*, Wash-
c ''111 " li ttec which is advising the
ington ; Dr. Herbert Friedenwald, minister of munitions on economy
Denver; \lax J. Kohler, New in prices and other financial ques-
Y ► rk; Rabbi Henry Cohen, Gal- tions arising out of the work of
veston, Tex. ; Lee Freedman, that department.
The French air squadron, which
Roston;
m ; I,. Napoleon Lev v, • New
recently
accom ► !ished the terri-
York ; Professor Alexander Marx,
ble
retreat
- from Nish to Scutari,
New York ; Professor I;ix L.
.u-
riving
safely
on the shores of
Nlarg ► lis, Philadelphia; Dr. A. S.
the
Adriatic,
had
ann ■ ng its men
W. kosenbach, Philadelphia., and
Corporal
James
Henri
de Roths-
Charles J. Cohen, Philadelphia.
child, son of Baron Dr. Henri de
).1i the council Charles J. Co- Rothschild. At
the outbreak of
he ► , of Philadelphia,. took the
the war the young soldier enlisted
place made vacant through the as a volunteer for the duration of
death of Dr. Jacobs.
the war.

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