Robert Szold

His parents were merchants: Adolph Szold of Berehove, Zakarpatska, Ukraine, and Rachel Esther Gumbiner of Poland.

(At some time during the early 1920s, the firm was known as Lowenthal, Szold and Brandwen of 43 Exchange Place, New York City.

That year, he also traveled to British Mandatory Palestine as a member of the Zionist Commission with his friend Harry Friedenwald.

[2] In 1943, Szold became the first American Zionist leader to visit the British Mandate of Palestine since the United States of America entered World War II.

[citation needed] In 1946, at the 22nd World Zionist Congress, Szold supported Weizmann (against Abba Hillel Silver) to negotiate with the British.

He was also an officer of the Hillman Housing Corporation and vice chairman of Council of Jewish Agency[citation needed] On September 4, 1917, Szold married Zip Falk.

[2] Szold died age 88 on November 9, 1977, in New York City at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.