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About Osias Zwerdling
Ann Arbor Honors Its Leader
Osias Zwerdling Acclaimed by Community on 70th Birthday
Ann Arbor citizens, University of Michigan faculty members and students joined with members of his family to pay honor last week to Osias Zwerdling on his 70th birthday. For nearly half a century one of Michigan's most distinguished Jewish leaders, Mr. Zwerdling became the friend and guide of Jewish students on the U. of M. campus. But his activities were not limited to Jewish affairs. He served as chairman of Community Fund and USO drives and was president of the Family Service Society of Ann Arbor which recently elected him to honorary life membership. He was a leader in World War I Liberty Bond and World War II War Bond campaign. Born in Austrian Poland, he came to the United States in 1900 and settled in Ann Arbor in 1902. He was married to the former Hannah Kaufman, in Manchester, England, in December, 1907. They have three sons, Morris and Abraham, who are practicing law in Detroit, and Joseph, who is associated with the Office of General Council of Alien Property Custodian in Washington; and five grandchildren. Mr. Zwerdling, who retired from the fur business in 1943, was president for many years of Congregation Beth Israel in Ann Arbor. He was president of the Michigan Synagogue Conference, president of Bnai Brith Michigan Synagogue Conference, president of Bnai Brith Michigan Hillel Foundation, chairman of WA drives, an active leader in the Zionist movement, Bnai Brith and JDC. At the celebration marking the silver jubilee of U. of M. Hillel Foundation, on Oct. 24, Mr. Zwerdling was presented by Hillel Foundation and the Ann Arbor community with a set of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, as a birthday gift. The presentation was made by Rabbi Herschel Lymon, U. of M. Hillel director. In addition, his family inscribed his name in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund in the State of Israel. On Oct. 27, his brother- and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman, of Ann Arbor, honored him at a family dinner.
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Osias Zwerdling's Timeline
| 1878 |
October 27, 1878
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Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
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| 1910 |
1910
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| 1911 |
1911
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MI, United States
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| 1914 |
February 6, 1914
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MI, United States
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| 1977 |
February 26, 1977
Age 98
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Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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