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Persoonlijke gegevens Israel Aharon (Harry) Fischel 

• Hij is geboren op 11 juli 1865 in Meretz, Russia.
• Beroep: Architect, Real Estate Mogul, Philantrophist.
• (Fact 1) .

  Had 4 sons who died in their infancy, before his 4 daughters were born

• (Fact 2) .

  Immigrated to the USA in 1885 at age 20

• (Fact 3) .

  Described as born in July 19 1865, the 17th of Tammuz 5625 (no correlation!)

• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1948, hij was toen 82 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Jerusalem, Israel.
• Een kind van Nachman Fischel en Hannah

Gezin van Israel Aharon (Harry) Fischel

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Chaya Shayneh (Jane) Brass.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 november 1887 te American Star Hall, New York, New York, hij was toen 22 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Rebecca Fischel  ± 1891-???? 
2. Sadie Gertrude Fischel  ± 1891-???? 
3. Bertha Fischel  1896-± 1978 
4. Rose Fischel  ± 1897-???? 

Gebeurtenis (Death of Spouse).

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Miriam Hyman.

Zij zijn getrouwd tussen 1935 en 1936, hij was toen 69 jaar oud.

Notities over Israel Aharon (Harry) Fischel

Well respected Jewish philantrophist.
In 1932 in New York, founded the Harry Fischel Foundation. He founded the Harry Fischel Institute in Jerusalem in 1933, headed by Chief Israel Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hacohen Kook.

In 1920 USA census (Jan 12 1920, Manhatten, New York), Harry Fischel (54) was survied as living with his wife Jane (54), daughter Bertha (24, single) and daughter Rose (23, Single).
Harry and Jane were born in Russia as well as their 4 parents. The daughters Bertha and Rose were born in New York. Harry Fischel is listed as Operator - Real Estate Em. and Jane is listed as having n
o occuption.

From Encyclopedia Judaica:

FISCHEL, HARRY (1865-1948), U.S. businessman and philanthropist. Fischel was born in Meretz, Russia, and emigrated in 1885 to the United States, settling in New York City. There he entered the constru
ction and real estate business and built up a sizable company employing largely Jewish builders, to whom he granted both Saturday and Sunday as paid days off at a time when the six-day week was universal in the trade. Fischel also soon became involved in Jewish communal affairs, concentrating on a number of institutions with which he remained associated in various capacities for the remainder of his life, particularly the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (after 1890), Beth Israel Hospital (after 1900), and the American Jewish Committee (after 1906). Shortly after the Balfour Declaration, he was active in the establishment of a number of development companies in Palestine. In 1932 he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to his philanthropic endeavors, which included the endowment of the Harry Fischel Fou
ndation for Research in Talmud in Palestine (1933), and large donations to Yeshiva University during the depression of the 1930s. His attempts to get the New York Sabbath laws to recognize Saturday as
the official Jewish day of rest are recorded in the biography of him by his son-in-law, Herbert Samuel Goldstein, Forty Years of Struggle for a Principle (1928). Fischel died in Jerusalem, where he spent the final year of his life. [Editorial Staff Encyclopaedia Judaica]

Some additional notes from his biography:
HF was strictly orthodox and dedicated his life to philanthrophic deeds aimed at strengthening conservative Judaism. He immigrated to the USA in 1885 at the age of 20, from his home town of Meretz, Ru
ssia. His immigration was partly because he wanted to avoid conscription to the Russian army for 5 years at the age of 21. He studied some Architecture at Meretz. After a big fire in Grodno in 1883, many houses had to be rebuilt and do to successful work there he earned the large sum of money required to travel to the United States. Arrived on ship Rhaetia on Dec 1885 to Castle Garden in the USA, with only 60 cents left. He met Jane Brass in May 1887. In a few years he rose to great financial success, whilst preserving his prinicple never to desecrate the Sabbath, even when it almost led him to starvation.

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