biography
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| lived:
| (1856–1929)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and civic leader, born in Syracuse, New York, USA. Educated in public schools and at Columbia Law School (1877), he practised in Syracuse, NY and in New York City (from 1894), where he became notable for his defence of minorities in civil-rights cases. He also accepted many immigration and labour cases and successfully argued these before the US Supreme Court. A co-founder of the American Jewish Committee, he attended the Paris Peace Conference (1919) and worked to include anti-discrimination clauses into various treaties. He helped Jewish refugees settle in Palestine in the 1920s, in the hope that the country, then a British protectorate, would become a permanent homeland for Jews. |
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