GITLIN, JACOB

GITLIN, JACOB
GITLIN, JACOB (1880–1953), South African communal leader. For half a century Gitlin was the moving spirit in Zionist activities in cape town , where he arrived from Vilna, Lithuania, in 1902. His furniture business became the unofficial headquarters of the Zionist movement there. As chairman of the Western Province (Cape) Zionist Council, he helped to make the organization one of the most influential Zionist centers in South Africa. Active in many spheres, he helped to found the Cape Board of Jewish Education. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Gitlin, The Vision Amazing (1950), index. (Louis Hotz)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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