The funeral of Ezekiel Sarasohn, member of a pioneer family of Jewish publishers in New York City, long an editor of Yiddish papers there, Hebrew scholar of note and one of the early advocates of Zionism, will take place this afternoon at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Pleasantville, New York. He will be buried on a plot owned by Temple Israel of New Rochelle. Rabbi Albert Auchs, of Temple Israel, will officiate at the funeral. Mr. Sarasohn died Tuesday at his home in New Rochelle, after a lingering illness. He was 69 years old.
Mr. Sarasohn had resided in New Rochelle since his retirement from the publishing business in 1928. He formerly was publisher and chief editor of the Jewish Gazette and the Jewish Daily News, the former the first conservative orthodox Jewish weekly in the United States and the latter the first daily of its kind in this country.
Born in Suvalki, Poland, he was a son of the late Rabbi Kasrul Hersch Sarasohn and the late Mrs. Bashe Sarasohn. His mother was noted for her charitable activities.
Mr. Sarasohn had his training in Jewish religious schools and under German and Russian private teachers. His father preceded him to the United States having become rabbi of a congregation in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1874, Rabbi Sarasohn founded the Gazette which was published on the lower east side of New York.
In 1876 Ezekiel Sarasohn followed his father to the United States and began writing for the Gazette.
The Sarasohns founded the Jewish Daily News in 1883, the father becoming chief editor and the son assistant editor. In 1905 when Rabbi Sarasohn died, his son became publisher and chief editor. The daily was a morning paper and one of the first Yiddish papers to publish an English section.
For several years Mr. Sarasohn published the Hebrew weekly Haivry. And for three years he was proprietor and publisher of the Chicago Jewish Daily Courier.
Ezekiel Sarasohn was a director of the Hias for many years. He was also active in other Jewish charitable groups and in Jewish educational movements. He was a director of the Central Jewish Relief Committee and of the Hebrew National School. He belonged to a number of other societies.
Mr. Sarasohn is survived by his widow, the former Dora Franklin; a daughter, Mrs. Frieda Rosett; a son, Eliot Sarasohn, and by a brother, Abraham H. Sarasohn.
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