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P«ge 6 — THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE, August 8, 1975
Funeral Services Held For Louis Kraft,
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Funeral
services were held July 13 for
Louis Kraft, former executive
director of the National Jewish
Welfare Board. He died Friday at
the age of 84. In 1953, Mr. Kraft
was invited by the conference on
Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany and the Joint Distribu
tion Committee to direct the plan
ning of reconstruction and
development of the surviving
Jewish communities in Europe.
He first became associated with
the National Jewish Welfare
Board in 1917, as director of ac
tivities in military camps and com
munities during World War I,
after having served for three years
as executive director of the Bronx
YM-YWHA In 1921, he was
named director of Jewish Com
munity Center Activities, con
tinuing in that post until 1938,
when he was named to the top ex
ecutive post of JWB, a position
which he held until Oct. I, 1947.
In that year, Mr. Kraft helped
establish the World Federation of
YMHAs and Jewish Community
Centers and had been secretary of
the World Federation ever since.
He went to Israel in 1948 and es
tablished the Jerusalem YM-
YWHA. At the request of the U.S.
State Department, he helped
reorganize the School of Social
Work in Jerusalem in 1950.
Ford Visits
PARIS (JTA) — President
Ford laid a wreath July 29 at the
international monument at
Auschwitz marking the site of the
notorious death camp where four
million Jews were slain by the
Born jn Moscow, Jan. 2, 1891,
Mr. Kraft was graduated from the
College of the City of New York in
1912. He received the Townsend
Harris Medal for notable achieve
ment from City College Alumni
Association in February, 1972. An
honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters Degree was conferred on
Mr. Kraft by the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America,
Western Branch, in June 1964. The
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion conferred a
Auschwitz
Nazis during World War II. But
the stone monolith, erected by the
Polish government, contains no
mention of the fact that most of the
victims were Jews. The inscription,
in 20 languages, states only that
“Four million people suffered and
Yudl Mark Dead At 78
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
Yudl Mark, foremost Yiddish lex
icographer and Editor-In-Chief of.
"The Great Dictionary of the Yid
dish Language," died August I in
the hospital in Wilmington,
Delaware, after suffering a stroke.
He was 78 years old.
Interment took place in the
family plot in Toronto. Dr. Mark
made his home in Israel since 1970
but had been here on a visit the
past few weeks and had just arriv
ed at the home of his son, a scien
tist in Wilmington.
Born in Polonge, Lithuania, Dr.
Mark attended the University of
Petrograd (now Leningrad) and
from 1921 to 1927 Was director of
the Jewish Secondary School at
Wilkomir in Lithuania of which he
was also the founder. From 1927-
1930 he taught at the Jewish secon
dary school at Riga, Latvia and
from 1930-1936 he was the editor
of the Yiddish daily newspaper in
Kovno, Lithuania.
In the latter year, he came to
America where he taught in Jewish
schools until 1940 when he joined
the staff of the Jewish Education
Rosenberg Unveiling
Unveiling ceremonies for the
late Mrs. Mose (Anna Zetter-
baum) Rosenberg will be held in
Albany, Ga., at Oakview Ceme
tery at 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10.
Rabbi Charles Besser will offi
ciate. Friends and relatives are in
vited. Mrs. Rosenberg was former
ly of Albany but lived in Atlanta
for the last several years of her life.
Jack Braver
Jack Braver of Atlanta died
Tuesday, July 8.
Graveside services were held
Wednesday, July 9, in Greenwood
Cemetery with Rabbi David H.
Auerbach and Cantor Michael
Alon officiating.
Mr. Braver, a retired merchant
formerly of Dalton, was a member
of Ahavath Achim Synagogue,
Atlanta, and Temple Beth-EI in
Dalton.
He was a veteran of the U.S.
Navy in World War I, a member
of the American Legion, the
Jewish War Veterans, B’nai B’rith
and a life member of the Elks.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Helen Levin; daughters,
Mrs. Samuel Popky and Miss Bet
ty Braver, both of Atlanta; son,
William Braver of Dalton; sisters,
Mrs. Harry Levine of Brookline,
Mass., and Mrs. Richard Gray of
Newton, Mass.
Committee of New York (now
Board of Jewish Education) as
education consultant for the Yid
dish schools. He retired from this
position in 1968.
From 1940 to 1970, Dr. Mark
was also professor of Yiddish
language, grammar and literature
at the Jewish Teachers Seminary-
Herzliah in New York. He was the
author of numerous books, prin
cipally grammars and other text
books in Yiddish, and teachers’
manuals.
"The Great Dictionary of the
Yiddish Language” represents his
life’s work in collecting Yiddish
words and phrases. Together with
his associates, he amassed more
than 250,000, and it was his ambi
tion to have published a dictionary
that would do for the Yiddish
language what the Oxford dic
tionary is to the English language.
Three large volumes have already
been published and a fourth has
been sent to the printers. This will
complete the entries under
"Aleph," the first letter in the
Hebrew-Yiddish alphabet.
The headquarters of the Dic
tionary Committee are at 1048
Fifth Avenue, New York. It is
associated with the Institute for
Yiddish Lexicology of the City
College of New Yorkand with the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Samuel Zusmann
Samuel J. Zusmann, 77, of
Atlanta) died Sunday, Aug. 3.
Rabbi Alvin M. Sugarman con
ducted the funeral at Spring Hill
August 5. Burial was at Crest
Lawn Cemetery.
He was a retired retail and
manufacturing executive with
Ogus, Rabinowitz and Ogus, and
with Empire Box Co.. He had also
served as a business consultant
with the SCORE program of the
Small Business Administration.
Mr. Zusmann was a veteran of
the U.S. Army in World War I,
having earned the Purple Heart
and Croix de Guerre. He was a
member of the American Legion,
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the
Masons, Shriners and the Yaarab
Temple. He was a former com
mander of the Jewish War
Veterans in Detroit, Mich, and
deputy commander of the group in
Georgia.
Survivors include his widow, the
former Anne Rubinson; son,
Samuel J. Zusmann Jr. of Atlanta;
sisters. Miss Rosalie Zusmann of
Brookline, Mass., Mrs. David M.
Small of Boston, Mass., Miss
Naomi Zusmann of Brookline,
Mass.
died here at the hands of the Nazi
murderers between the vears 1940
and 1945.”
The President, who toUred the
Auschwitz site near Cracow in
southern Poland, made no formal
statement.
But he remarked, “It’s horrible .
. . unbelievable,” when he viewed
the site of the gas chambers and
crematorium ovens. He was ac
companied by the Secretary
General of the Polish Communist
Party, Edward Gierek, and by
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, rtiany of whose relatives
died in death camps similar to
Auschwitz.
According to eye-witnesses, the
President appeared deeply moved
as he walked through the remnants
of the Nazi chamal house for some
12 minutes.
Later he wrote in the camp’s
Book of Remembrance:
“This monument and the
memory of those it honors is for us
a new source of inspiration in the
quest for peace and for cooperation
and security for all nations.”
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similar honorary doctorate on him
in November I9?l.
In 1951, Mr. Kraft was the first
recipient of the Frank L. Weil
Award of the National Jewish
Welfare Board for notable con
tributions to the Jewish Communi
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