BERKOWITZ, HENRY

(1857), rabbi, was born at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Cornell University and studied law in a Pittsburgh law firm for three years. In 1883 he became a rabbi and has been stationed in Mobile, - Alabama, in Kansas City and in Philadelphia. He is connected with various Jewish and philanthropic societies and is a founder and the first secretary of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. In 1893 he founded the Jewish Chatauqua Society, of which he was also the chancellor. He is the author of Bible Bihics, First and Second Union Hebrew - Readers, Judaism and the Social Question, Sabbath Sentiment in the Home, etc., and has contributed extensively to periodicals on religious topics.