FOREWORD 



PROFESSOR H. L. SABSOVICH is recognized as one of 

 the foremost figures in the field of Jewish social 

 service. As a great part of his active life was given 

 to the work of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, I consider 

 it a privilege to make this acknowledgment for my col- 

 leagues and myself to his worth, his merit, and his 

 undoubted achievements, as well as to his excellent ad- 

 ministrative abilities, as the Builder of Woodbine and 

 as the head of one of the Fund's most important insti- 

 tutions, the Woodbine Agricultural School, and later 

 as General Agent for the Baron de Hirsch Fund. 



He was a very exceptional man, in so far that he 

 combined practical knowledge in very many directions 

 and good executive capacity, together with an idealism 

 as to the coming achievements of the Jewish immi- 

 grants, and the part they would fill in American life. 

 It is gratifying to remember that he lived to see most 

 of these prognostications come true. At all times he 

 had the full confidence of the Trustees of the Fund, 

 who relied upon his integrity of purpose, breadth of 

 viewpoint and capacity to carry out a given program. 



Nothing can be added to the simple and sympathetic 

 record written by his devoted wife and to the excellent 



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