Henry Monsky

(1890-1947) born in Omaha. Lawyer, organization executive, communal leader, served as national president of B'nai B'rith from 1938 to 1947 during which time membership increased from 60 thousand to nearly 300 thousand, as consultant to U.S. delegation to United Nations Organizing Conference in 1945, he helped influence UN leaders to guarantee the rights of any states or peoples living under international bodies such as British Palestine Mandate, and worked to help create a Jewish national home, founded and helped support several organizations in Omaha, and was appointed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to advisory committee on volunteerism of the Office of Civilian Defense. Consult Current Biography (194l) 592-593 and New York Times obituary, May 3, 1947, p. 17 and Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol 12 (Keter House, 1996) 263 and American National Biography Vol 15 (1999) 691-692.

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