FYI
The Israelites
Of America
The United Jewish Appeal & Detroit
Elizabeth Applebaum
I AppleTree Editor
FYI: One of the leading aboli-
tionists was a German-born
Jew named August Bondi.
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Bondi (1833-1907) came from
Vienna to Kansas, where early on
he established himself as quite an
adventurer. His parents found work
for him as a store clerk; Bondi had
no interest in that, however, and
tried to join various expeditions
around the world.
In 1855, he began working with
the abolitionist forces of John
Brown. Bondi kept detailed records
of his travels both with John Brown
and later during the Civil War,
when he served with the Union
Army. Throughout his life, he
remained a leading spokesman
against slavery, which he labeled a
moral evil. He spent the end of his
life in Salina, Kan., where he was
an attorney and businessman.
to establish a 'Court of Arbitration'
for the settlement of disputes
between congregations."
The board spent most of its time,
however, working for Jewish civil
and religious rights throughout the
world, and aiding poor Jewish com-
munities in Russia, Morocco and
pre-state Israel. Probably the organi-
zation's most famous gesture was
appealing to President Abraham Lin-
: coin after Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
forbade Jews from serving in certain
areas during the war. Later, the
Board of Delegates merged with
the Reform movement, where it
remained a separate entity until
1925.
FYI: One of the founders of
the American movie indus-
try got his start playing the
piano.
Harry Cohn (1891-1956) was one
of the most powerful men in Holly-
: wood, the president and executive
producer of Columbia Pictures
FYI: The first national orga-
Corp.
nization of synagogues in
A native of New York, he first
the United States was the
played piano, then
Board of Delegates of
joined a music publish-
American Israelites.
ing firm before being
Love that name, but the agency
named associate pro-
went defunct years ago. It was
ducer
for Universal
founded in 1859 under the - helm
Films. He and his broth-
of Samuel Meyer Isaacs and Isaac
er
and a friend in 1919
Leeser and included 25 syna-
organized their first
gogue members. The group,
film corporation,
which met in New York City, mo
which in 1924 —
eled itself after the Board of
became Colum-
Deputies of British Jews. Its goal:
bia Pictures. ❑
"To gain statistical information, to
promote education and literature,
to further the cause of charity, to
watch over occurrences at home
and abroad relating to the
Israelites [wasn't that a Desmond
Dekker song so long ago?], and