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Louis Austin Falk from Dziewieniszki - Dieveniškės; 1895 (Divenishok) 1979 (New Jersey). Zionist Organization Of America.
Divenishok : . : , Devenishki, , Devenishuk,
Folk Louis Austin, US, business executive, b. Dziewieniszki - Dieveniškės, Lithuania, Nov. 7, 1895, LLB Hamilton Col od Law; Meat market chain owner, New Jersey; former president of the Union Packing Company of Jersey City; pres. synagogue; active Jewish community center.
Mr. Falk, long active in Jewish affairs, had been a vice president of the Zionist Organization of America in the 1950s and president of the New Jersey region, and founder of the American Jewish League for Israel in the 1960s. He was a founder and vice president of the Jewish Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Jersey City.
During the 1930s, Mr. Falk, who had served in France in World War I, was active in the efforts of the Jewish War Veterans in the United States to call attention to the growth of the Nazis. He was commander of the Jewish War Veterans New Jersey Post No. 10, a member of the national executive committee, editor-in chief of its monthly publication, The Jewish Veteran, and coauthor of the book Jews in American Wars, published in 1942.
His wife, the former Bessie Fineberg, died Oct. 9, 1978. He is survived by two daughters, Doris of New York City and Lucille Foster of Englewood, N.J. ; a sister, Rose Cure of Brooklyn, and two grandchildren.
By The New York Times
Divenishok : . : , Devenishki, , Devenishuk,
Folk Louis Austin, US, business executive, b. Dziewieniszki - Dieveniškės, Lithuania, Nov. 7, 1895, LLB Hamilton Col od Law; Meat market chain owner, New Jersey; former president of the Union Packing Company of Jersey City; pres. synagogue; active Jewish community center.
Mr. Falk, long active in Jewish affairs, had been a vice president of the Zionist Organization of America in the 1950s and president of the New Jersey region, and founder of the American Jewish League for Israel in the 1960s. He was a founder and vice president of the Jewish Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Jersey City.
During the 1930s, Mr. Falk, who had served in France in World War I, was active in the efforts of the Jewish War Veterans in the United States to call attention to the growth of the Nazis. He was commander of the Jewish War Veterans New Jersey Post No. 10, a member of the national executive committee, editor-in chief of its monthly publication, The Jewish Veteran, and coauthor of the book Jews in American Wars, published in 1942.
His wife, the former Bessie Fineberg, died Oct. 9, 1978. He is survived by two daughters, Doris of New York City and Lucille Foster of Englewood, N.J. ; a sister, Rose Cure of Brooklyn, and two grandchildren.
By The New York Times
