Monsky's Death
Mourned by Jews
Throughout U.S.

(Continued from Page 1)
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the
executive committee of the Ameri-
can Jewish Conference, said Mr.
Monsky's last words "were a plea
for Jewish unity and for the suc-
cess of the Jewish cause in the
United Nations." Mr. Lipsky paid
this tribute toMr. Monsky:

"He was a man dedicated to
moderation, fair dealing and
the American way of life, not
only in American affairs but in
Jewish life as well. His influ-
ence always was on the side of
the highest interest of his
people, for whom he sacrificed
time and means all his life."

Mother, 99, Survives
Mr. Monsky, who was 57, is sur-
vived by his wife, Mrs. Daisy
Monsky. who was at his side at
the time of deatli;a son, Hubert,
who served as a major in the
American Air Forces in World
War two daughters, Mrs. Paul
Grossman of Omaha and Mrs.
Barbara Turner of San Francisco;
his 99-year-old m o t h e r, Mrs.
Abraham Monsky, and a step-
daugter, Mrs. Lloyd Malashock,
both of Omaha.
As a result of the death of Mr.
Mons!:y, Bnai Brith affairs are
being conducted by its central
administrative board composed of
Frank Goldman, Lowell, Mass.;
Sidne:✓ G. Kusworn, Dayton, 0.;
Maurice Bisgyer, Washington, D.
C.. _national secretary; Benjamin
SLC1111;s1S,
Chicago, and Judge
Saint c- 1 A. Weiss, Pittsburgh.
President Since 1938
M. Monsky had been president
of linai Brith since his election
at tie May 1938 convention in
W s i ng!on, succeeding Alfred M.
C , ,hen of Cincinnati. His activity
in Bn 1i Brith covers many years.
He was president of the Omaha
Locige in 1912, president of Dis-!
trict Grand Lodge No. 6, in 1921,
and a member of the executive
committee of the order since 1923.!
He had served as editor of the
National Jewish Monthly since
1938.
Under his leadership America's
old6st and largest Jewish service
organization quadrupled its mem-
bership which today totals 320,000
in its men's, women's and youth
organiZalins. At the same time
he expanded its activities in con-
formity with his vision for de-
velopment of Bnai Brith as a vital
factor in American Jewish life:
In his native city Mr. Monsky
was the founder of the Omaha
Community Chest and Welfare
Federation in 1921, serving as its
vice-president, president in 1929,
and continuously on its board of
trustees from the time of its or-
ganization.

Other Affiliations

He was honorary national chair-
.. man of the United JewiSh Appeal
and the United Palestine Appeal;
a director of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee; director of the
Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds; member of the
board of governors of the Amer-
ican Association for Jewish Edu-
cation: honorary vice-president of
the Jewish Publication Society of
America; member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the National
Community Relations Advisory
Council; vice-president of the Na-
tional Jewish Hospital, and a
member of the executive commit-
tee of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
Mr. Monsky was a member of
the American, Nebraska and
Omaha Bar Associations. He was
a member of the law firm of Mon-
sky, Grodinsky, Marer and Cohen
and an officer and director in
numerous corporations.
He held membership in the
American Judicature Society,
Zeta Beta 'Pau, and Highland
Country Club here. He was also
a Mason and an Elk.

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Aaron Droock Writes Glowing Tribute to Henry Monsky

Jewish Community Suffers Great Loss in Leader's Death

By AARON DROOCH

(President Jewish Community Council of Detroit, Past President District
Grand Lodge No. 6 of Bnai Brith).

It is difficult at this time, so shortly after the death of
Henry Monsky, to write of Henry Monsky; the communal and
civic leader, when one is so poignantly conscious of Henry
Monsky, the man.

He was such a vibrant and ecutive Committee, which is the
warm individual with such a sin- governing body of the Supreme
cere love for his fellow man that Lodge. In 1938 he was elected to
to those of us who knew him per- the presidency of the Supreme
sonally and intimately it is hard Lodge of the Bnai Brith and held
to believe that his dynamic and office continuously until the date
magnetic personality will no lon- of his death.
ger be felt in American Jewish
Inspired Leadership
Under his inspired leadership
life. The American Jewish com-
munity has suffered the loss of the membership of the ' men's
one of its greatest leaders and Bnai Brith national organization
statesmen and his place will in- grew from approximately 50,000
at the time of his election to the
deed be difficult to .fill.

Keen, Scintillating Mind

presidency to the present mem-

His keen and scintillating mind bership of 200,000. The women's
was quick to grasp and analyze Bnai Brith lodges grew from a
any problem. His ability to eval- negligible: membership to an ap-
uate intelligently the various proximate membership of 100,000
component parts of any given to date. Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
situation, discussion or argument dations increased in number from
and to make a complete and thor- 12 to 165 and Bnai Brith youth
ough presentation thereof was so organizations now number over
unusual as to command the at- 600.
tention of the keenest minds and Recognition of his deep interest
intellects. His eloquent logic and in philanthropic, civic and com-
forceful presentation of any cause munal endeavors came from
for which he was the proponent many sources. Mr. Monsky was
almost invariably carried his lis- appointed as consultant in 1945
teners along with him.
Ao the United States delegation
Over and above everything which helped write the charter
else, his sincere affection for his of the United Nations at San
fellow man and his warm friend- Francisco. The late President
liness and sympathetic under- Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1941,
standing of the individuals with appointed him apa member of the
whom he came in contact at- National Voluntary Participation
tracted to him the support, co- Committee of the Office of Ci-
operation and love of those who vilian Defense:
were associated with him in his
Hebrew Letter Doctorate
many philanthropic, civic and
In 1942 he was honored with
communal activities. He had more the degree of Doctor of Hebrew
individual, personal and intimate Letters by Dropsie College in
friendships amongst men and wo- Philadelphia. Phi Epsilon Pi, in
men in all walks of life than any 1943, selected him as the "Jew-
other Jewish leader in contem- ish Man of the Year," and Hebrew
porary times.
in
Union College, Cincinnati,

Service to Fellow Man

1946 also awarded him the hon.-
Almost from the inception of orary degree of Doctor of He-
his professional career as a law- brew Letters.
yer, he threw himself whole-
U. S. Attorney General Tom C.
heartedly into communal and ci- Clark last year named Mr. Mon-
vic activities and dedicated him- sky to the National Conference
self to the service of his fellow for the Prevention and Control of
man. He was the guiding spirit of Juvenile Delinquency and he
the original group that assisted served as chairman of the Execu-
Father Flanagan in the founda- tive Committee of the conference.
tion of Father Flanagan's Boys'
Mr. Clark last month an-
Town in Nebraska. He was one
nounced Mr. Monsky's appoint-
of the founders of the Omaha
ment to the Justice Department's
Community Chest as well as the newly-Created
Advisory Commit-
Omaha Jewish Welfare Federa- tee on Citizenship.
tion.
Conceived Conference
In 1921, when he was about
thirty years of age he was elected Major General Graves B. Er-
president of the District Grand skine, USMC, named Mr. Monsky
Lodge, numbering at present to the Advisory Council of the
about 50,000 members and one National Association for Employ-
of the most progressive Grand ment of the Handicapped early
Lodges in the country. this year and more recently the
It ores in this same district that Church Peace Union appointed
the Anti-Defamation League was Mr. Monsky to its Board of Trus-
conceived; and it was in this dis- tees and Henry R. Luce, publisher
trict that the Hillel Foundations of Time, Life and Fortune, ap-
and the Aleph Zadek Aleph came pointed him to the Service Fund
into being. When his term as Dis- Campaign Committee of the Ur-
trict Grand Lodge president was ban League of which Mr. Luce is
ended he succeeded to member- chairman.
ship 011 the auPrePAI Ledge MA-
att he ceneoged,

and stimulated the organization
of the American Jewish Confer-
ence, an over-all organization
representative of most of the na-
tional Jewish organizations and
all of the American Jewish com-
munities.
When originally organized, the
Conference had three co-chair-
men. About 15 months ago he was
elected as the sole chairman of
the American Jewish Conference.
He- was presiding as such chair-
man at a meeting of the Interim
Committee in New York City at
the time he was-stricken.
He was vitally and intensely
concerned with the present Pales-
tinian situation. He was striving
with all his ability and states-
manship to work out plans for

a permanent over-all organza-.
tion to develop a more adequate
Jewish unity and solidarity in
order to cope with the problems
of Palestine in the current United
Nations General Assembly. In
the midst of these labors he was
stricken and removed from our
midst.
Realistic, Practical
He was an inspired individual
with an almost prophetic insight
and vision which impelled him
to throw himself into all worth-
while causes with a sincerity of
purpose that was beyond the un-
derstanding of most men. He was
an idealist and yet with all of
his idealism he was realistic
enough to be practical in his ap-
proach to all human problems.

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