590 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, California 90004 Vice Presidents NOrmandy 3-8484 Harry Braverman Isadore Familian Martin Gang Joseph N. Mitchell Robert L. Spencer Albert A. Spiegel Mrs. Lawrence J. Weinberg Secretary David Fox Treasurer Max W. Bay Assistant Secretary Irwin R. Buchalter Assistant Treasurer Edward Sanders Honorary Secretary Aaron Riche Assoc. Executive Directors Julius Bisno JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL of Greater Los Angeles David Rabinovitz Martin Ruderman BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Gary A. Aminoff Bram Goldsmith J. Robert Arkush Mrs. Jack Atlas Executive Director Dr. Max Wm. Bay March 9, 1970 Alvin Bronstein M. F. Berg Jack Y. Berman Stanley Black Mac Bodian Eli Boyer Steve Broidy Jack Brostoff William W. Bruck Max Candiotty Mrs. Allan J. Carter Mrs. Victor M. Carter Dr. Max F. Baer Victor M. Carter Louis A. Chase B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Willard Chotiner David J. Cohen 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, NW Judge David Coleman Mrs. Frank Cooper Washington, DC Mrs. Sherrill C. Corwin Leslie G. Cramer Nathan Cramer Anson Dreisen Dear Max: George N. Epstein Judge Robert Feinerman Robert L. Feldman Robert J. Felixson I am still trying to track down, from primary sources where Irwin S. Field Alfred Firestein Chester Firestein possible, the roots and early beginnings of the AZA. I have Charles Franklin indicated that time would soon be running out on us because George Gering Hyman Getzoff Irwin Goldenberg it has a way of dulling memories and some sources are gathered David P. Goldman Gustave L. Goldstein up by the Great White Father. Leo Goodman Ike Greenberg Joseph Haddad Sivan Hamburger Along the way, I was referred to Judah Wolfson who was the prin- Mrs. E. Craig Heringman Joe Herman cipal of the Omaha Talmud Torah during the early 1920s, and as Ralph B. Herzog Walter S. Hilborn a matter of fact, he continued until 1952 when he retired. I Judge Irving Hill Mrs. Marvin Hime have been seeking him in Chicago because that is where I was Lawrence E. Irell Mrs. Louis Kash told he was residing. With Mike Freeman's help, we established Paul Katz Mrs. Basil Kaufmann the fact that he was not in Chicago, and then Mike started all Walter L. Keen Arthur Kofsky Michael Kohn over again with certain sources in Omaha and I finally found George Konheim Martin L. Kozberg out that he was living a few miles from my office right here in Moe Kudler Bernard Levin Los Angeles. I should have looked in the Los Angeles phone William Levin Alvin A. Levine directory in the first place. Bill LeVine Cyrus Levinthal Rabbi Albert M. Lewis Arthur Lishner In any event, for your own records, Mr. Wolfson now resides at Dr. Max Lomas Mrs. Oscar Lozabnick 924 North Ogden Drive, Los Angeles, Calif. 90046, Apt. 2. His Dr. Nathan Miller Dr. Lawrence Minsky telephone is 654-0437. Marvin Mirisch Justice Stanley Mosk Mrs. Julius Nadler Rabbi Max Nussbaum I had a long talk with him the other day, and he told me that Judge Isaac Pacht Dr. George Piness Elias Powell he had a study group in the early days that also consisted of I. H. Prinzmetal Mrs. Manuel Resnik a group of boys. Because he was interested in Zionism, he Sydney J. Rosenberg Jerome D. Rosenfield gave them the name of Anashim (meaning men or people); Tziyonim Robert Rosenson A. A. Rotberg (meaning Zionist); Anachnu (meaning we are). The entire name Benjamin Seewack Joseph D. Shane transliterated was "We are Zionist men" The first Hebrew Nathan Shapell Robert Shelley letters were Aleph Zadik Aleph; in English, AZA. Charles Silverberg Morton M. Silverman Mrs. David Simon Lt. Col. Joseph Solomonow He said that after Nathan Mnookin 1eft for Kansas City and Sam Abraham Spiegel Dr. David Sternfeld Beber took over the group, Sam wanted a name that was something J. M. Stuchen Mrs. Maurice Turner Morris Tyre Robert Weil Lawrence J. Weinberg Ben Winters Max Zimmer Louis Zipperman David Ziskind Hugo Zivi SPONSOR OF THE UNITED JEWISH WELFARE FUND CAMPAIGN