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When Woodbine was incorporated into a separate 

 Borough he felt that his mission as leader of the com- 

 munity had ended, and that the people would achieve 

 more in the absence of outside influences than in their 

 presence, when they themselves are the sole keepers of 

 the doors of opportunity. Actuated by this motive, he 

 accepted the post of General Agent of the Baron de 

 Hirsch Fund, when it was offered to him, in 1905. 



His coming from Woodbine to New York was not to 

 Professor Sabsovich a sudden move from the desert to 

 a cultivated field. For though in Woodbine, he was 

 active in a distinct sphere of social endeavor, his interest 

 in general charity and philanthropic affairs of the Jews 

 in America was ever alive and he was always a con- 

 spicuous figure in the deliberations of the Jewish Social 

 Workers at their national conferences. The monograph 

 on the way Jewish charity was dispensed in Russia, sub- 

 mitted at one of these conferences, by him and Dr. David 

 Blaustein, was an important contribution to Jewish char- 

 ity literature, and his views on general human activity 

 were sought and respected at those gatherings. 



Though his duties as General Agent of the Baron de 

 Hirsch Fund were numerous, he was ever ready to give 

 his time and lend his counsel to other great questions 

 pertaining to the welfare of the Jews. 



He took a prominent part in the formation of the 

 Jewish Immigration Committee and the National Jewish 

 Immigration Council, whose purposes were to see that 

 the immigrant upon his arrival receives proper treatment 

 and to coordinate immigration societies in the several 

 ports of entry, and served as secretary of the former 

 organization from its inception, in 1910, to his death. 



For some time he was President of the Society of Jew- 

 ish Social Workers of Greater New York. In this capac- 



