Sam Beber Dies; Was a Financier; He Began B'nai B'rith Youth Group While in Law School Newspaper Clipping 2, Saturday, August 28, 1976
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Sam Beber Dies; Was a Financier; He Began B'nai B'rith Youth Group While in Law School Newspaper Clipping 2, Saturday, August 28, 1976
SAM BEBER DIES;
WAS À FINANCIER
He Began B'nai B'rith Youth
Group While in Law School
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-
Sam Beber, founder of the B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization,
which describes itself as the
largest Jewish teen-age move-
ment in the world, and a Mid-
west financier, died in Chicago
Wednesday of pneumonia. He
was 75 years old.
A native of Omaha, Mr. Beber
was 22 and a magna cum laude
graduate of Creighton Universi-
ty's law school in Omaha when
he organized AZA (the initials
for aleph zadik aleph, the first
and last letters of the Hebrew
alphabet), as a Jewish boys'
counterpoint to the Greek-letter
fraternities, which for the most
part denied Jews admission.
Two years later in 1926, Mr.
Beber, serving as the junior
member of B'nai B'rith's nation-
al board, persuaded the Jewish
service organization to assume
sponsorship of the program,
which, with a girls' division
added in 1944, became the B'nai
B'rith Youth Organization.
Currently, more than 40,000
youngsters are enrolled in its
activities. Among its alumni are
Leo Cherne, the economist;
Henry Denker, the playwright;
Representatives Edward Mez-
vinsky and Elliott H. Levitas;
Tony Martin, the actor, and
Carl Bernstein, Washington
Post reporter.
One of Mr. Beber's earliest
disciples, whom he enrolled in
AZA, was Philip M. Kutznick,
later to serve as president of
B'nai B'rith and a United States
Representative to the United
Nations under PresidentKenne-
dy. The two became brothers-
in-law and business partners in
American Community Builders,
which developed Park Forest,
Ill. In 1946 as a model planned
community.
Mr. Beber is survived by his
wife, the former Helen Riekes
of Omaha; a son, Harley, of
Rockville, Md.; two daughters,
Mrs. Floyd Abramson of Chica-
a
go and Mrs. Jerald Kattleman
of San Diego, and a sister, Mrs.
Paul Landres of Los An les.
V YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, A
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Sam Beber Dies; Was a Financier; He Began B'nai B'rith Youth Group While in Law School Newspaper Clipping 2, Saturday, August 28, 1976
This obituary describes the life and accomplishments of Sam Beber, including his contributions to AZA.