A LIFE NOBLY LIVED 



BY BERNARD A. PALITZ 



PROFESSOR H. L. SABSOVICH stands in a niche all his 

 own in the field of Jewish social service. His life was 

 whole-heartedly, honestly and unselfishly dedicated to 

 the hope of creating a new era in the history of his 

 suffering people. In his labor for their welfare there 

 was a spirituality that fired him with noble ambition, 

 caused him to understand and feel the actual needs of 

 the Jewish race as a whole and developed in him to a high 

 degree that power of concentration, that tireless zeal and 

 unshadowed depth of faith in the possibilities of a new 

 Israel in this new land which made him notable from the 

 day he shook the dust of his native country from his feet. 



His personality will for a long time, like a stream of 

 light, linger in the memory of a host of friends and fol- 

 lowers. As an exponent of the highest type of social 

 workers, his name will forever be associated with the 

 most interesting page in the history of Jewish social ser- 

 vice in America. His life has this double interest for 

 this as well as the generations to come. 



Professor Sabsovich came to his new land with his 

 work found and mapped out and consecrated to the 

 service of a cause, the underlying purpose of which was 

 to tear out by the root the foe's repeated declaration 

 made in ignorance and based on twisted historical facts 

 that the Jew is inherently averse to productive labor, 

 and to bring real and permanent blessedness and peace 



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