Henry Moskowitz

Henry Moskowitz (ca. 1875 – December 18, 1936) was a Jewish physician, and civil rights activist, and one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In 1914, he married Belle Lindner (1877-1933). In 1917, he was the Commissioner of Public Markets in New York City.

Timeline

* 1875 (circa) Birth
* 1909 Co-founds NAACP on February 12th
*1909 Associate leader of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York
*1911 Investigator of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, where he meets his future wife
*1912 Rejects movie censorship
*1914 Marriage to Belle Lindner (1877-1933)
*1916 (circa) Civil Service Commission
*1917 Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City
*1925 Trip to Poland to observe the plight of Jews
*1932 Director of the League of New York Theatres
*1933 Death of wife on January 2
*1933 Trip to Germany to observe the plight of Jews
*1936 Death

Further reading

*New York Times; October 25, 1903 "Henry Moskowitz. To the Editor of The New York Times: Will you permit me, in the interest of truth and fair play, to register a word of protest against the vicious resort to racial animosity which I find in the campaign hook of Tammany Hall, called "Father Knickerbocker Adrift"? Referring to the Tenement House Department, the campaign book charges that the "Jews employed there are the objects of personal animosity of Veller," (the first Deputy Commissioner.)
*Washington Post; January 25, 1909 "New York Ethical Society Speakers Score Extradition Laws. Documents Falsely Translated, They Say, and Many Need Not Be Sworn to Against Prisoners. New York, January 24, 1909. That the character of the evidence required by the United States government for extradition gives the Russian government complete advantage over the person held for deportation was a contention of Dr. Henry Moskowitz, associate leader of the Society for Ethical Culture of New York, in a review at Carnegie Hall today of the Russian treaty of 1893 with the United States."
*New York Times; December 19, 1912 "Dr. Moskowitz Thinks Official Censorship Is Needless. The Mayor appointed a little over a year ago a commission consisting of a high-class lawyer, a physician of standing in the community, a social worker, and a practical business man, to study the moving picture situation, with a view to framing a law which could provide the thousands of men, women, and children who attend these shows daily with adequate physical and moral protection."
*New York Times; October 17, 1917 "Market Head Asks City To Buy Food; Moskowitz Seeks Purchase Of 2,000,000 Bushels Of Potatoes For Public Storehouse. Perkins Gives His Aid. Mayor Mitchel's Plan To Be Amplified With View To Balking Schemes Of Speculators. Henry Moskowitz, newly appointed City Commissioner of Markets, wrote to Mayor Mitchel yesterday, requesting the Mayor to seek from the State Food Commission permission to purchase, store, and sell food and fuel in accordance with the new state Food law."
*New York Times; August 15, 1925 "Miss Israels To Wed Cyril M.E. Franklin; Daughter of Mrs. Henry Moskowitz Engaged to Son of Hon. Mrs. E.L. Franklin."
*New York Times; November 29, 1925 "Jews Of Poland Ask For Economic Freedom; Dr. Henry Moskowitz Says That Until Their Problem Is Solved the Nation Cannot Overcome the Financial Crisis in Which It Is Involved. That the Jewish question in Poland is a Polish problem is the conviction of Dr. Henry Moskowitz, who has just returned from an extended examination of conditions in Eastern Europe. Until the problem is solved, he says, Poland cannot fully recover from the financial crisis in which she is now involved nor achieve the prosperity to which her great natural riches entitle her."
*Time; May 4, 1932 "Year ago Lincoln's Birthday the Minskys shifted the focus of their operations by moving into the Republic Theatre on West 42nd Street. When Billy Minsky applied for a renewal of the license which permits his operations there, he was last week faced with litigation that threatened to be far more serious than his embroilment with Sidney Ross. License Commissioner James F. Geraghty gave a hearing to citizens who objected to renewing licenses for the Republic Theatre andthe flea circuses, dime museums, and minor side shows which thrive nearby. Reformer John S. Sumner, Director Henry Moskowitz of the League of New York Theatres, counsel for Forty-Second Street Association and others said that such enterprises lowered the neighborhood's moral tone, depreciated property values, gave the whole city a bad name. Commissioner Geraghty seemed inclined to agree. He said that his own inspectors had been subjected to improper proposals after watching a burlesque show."
*New York Times; June 29, 1933 "Moskowitz Sees End Of Reich Jews; Hitler's Program Is One Of Extermination, He Says On Return From Tour. Economic Pressure Cited Plight Of Refugees In France And England Described As Being 'Most Pitiful.' Dr. Henry Moskowitz returned yesterday on the White Star liner Majestic after five weeks abroad. Much of his time, he said, had been spent in Germany investigating the status of the Jews there and also in interviewing Jewish refugees in London and Paris."
*Time; December 24, 1934 "Moskowitz on Sobriety. Dr. Henry Moskowitz is a Manhattan physician. He was also the husband of the late Belle Israels Moskowitz, famed aide and adviser to Alfred Emanuel Smith. He is also executive adviser to the New York League of Theatres. At a luncheon of the Broadway Cheese Club last week, Dr. Moskowitz said: 'A critic who comes to a show half-soused cannot do justice to that play, and press agents and managers are justified in insisting upon sobriety as a requisite for critical function.' "
*New York Times; December 18, 1936 "Henry Moskowitz Dies; Leader in Settlements Here and in Many Political and Labor Movements, Former Aide of Smith. Formerly Markets Commissioner and Chairman of the Civil Service Commission."
*New York Times; December 20, 1936 "The death of Dr. Henry Moskowitz deprives the community of a leading citizen, a sincere, broad-gauged, ever-vigilant public servant."