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Louis A. Hirsch

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1939-1941

Louis Allen Hirsch served one brief term as President of Keneseth Israel, from 1939 to 1941. During these years, the Keneseth Israel Board created a “Junior Congregation” for people in their 20’s and 30’s who could not afford full membership. Members of the Junior Congregation were allowed some, but not all, of the privileges of membership. As the general congregation continued to grow, another branch Sunday School was established at Church and Cadwalader Roads in Elkins Park in 1941. As synagogue activities expanded, the leadership determined that a second assistant rabbi was necessary. Hirsch oversaw the hiring of two new assistant rabbis – Rabbi Joseph Klein in 1940 and Rabbi Malcolm Stern.

Louis Hirsch was born on October 6, 1888 in Philadelphia. He worked as a uniform manufacturer, running a firm called Hirsch-Tyler Co. at 10th and Berk Streets. Hirsch was also the founder and first president of the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers. Throughout his life he was active in civic and charitable work.  He was

Songwriter ("Hello, Frisco, Hello"), composer and publisher, one of the nine founders of ASCAP in 1914 and an ASCAP director between 1917 and 1924. He was educated at the City College of New York and the Stern Academy in Berlin (with Rafael Joseffy). His career began as a staff pianist with the Gus Edwards, and Shapiro & Bernstein music companies, and later he wrote songs for the Lew Dockstader Minstrels. Between 1912 and 1914 he was a staff composer for the Shubert brothers, and he wrote the Broadway stage scores for "He Came from Milwaukee", "Revue of Revues", "Vera Violeta", "Passing Show of 1912", "Ziegfeld Follies" (four editions), "Going Up", "The Rainbow Girl", "Oh, My Dear", "See Saw", "Mary", "The O'Brien Girl", "Greenwich Follies" (1922 and 1923), and "Betty Lee". He was in partnership with the Victoria Publishing Company,and his chief musical collaborators included Otto Harbach, Edward Madden, Irving Caesar, Harold Atteri

Louis Hirsch was born in New York City on November 28, 1887. In his senior year at the City College of New York, Hirsch traveled to Europe to study piano at Berlin's Stern Conservatory, with pianist Rafael Joseffy. He returned to the U.S. in 1906 and began working as a staff pianist in the Tin Pan Alley publishing houses of Gus Edwards, and Shapiro-Bernstein. He also began to write some of his own music.  Hirsch's first assignment was writing music for the Lew Dockstader's Minstrels. Soon, some of his melodies were interpolated into Broadway shows.  In 1910, He Came From Milwaukee was Hirsch's first full score. His first major success was Vera Violetta (1911), which made Al Jolson a star.

Hirsch was one of the nine founders of ASCAP in 1914 and an ASCAP director between 1917 and 1924. During World War I, he contributed songs to four editions of The Ziegfeld Follies, including "Sweet Kentucky Lady" and "Hello Frisco!". He wrote music for the 1918 musical Oh, My Dear! and collaborated with Otto Harbach as lyricist on the music

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