Samuel Buchler

Samuel Buchler

Reverend Samuel Buchler (March 21, 1882 – April 1971), was the President of the Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, in 1909 in New York. [cite web |url=http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Ethnic/Jewish/1934.JewishInterests.html |title=Jewish Interests in New York |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote= |publisher= ] He was the Deputy Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City in 1919. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Dr. Buchler Resigns. Law Practice Claims Deputy Commissioner of Public Markets. |url= |quote= |publisher=New York Times |date=May 13, 1922, Saturday |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] He was also a lawyer and Jewish chaplain at Sing Sing prison. He was changed with grand larceny in 1932 and was disbarred. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Buchler Out on Bail. Ex-Lawyer, Indicted for Grand Larceny, Charges Persecution |url= |quote=Samuel Buchler, 60 years old, a disbarred lawyer and former rabbi at Sing Sing, was arraigned in General Sessions yesterday on an indictment containing ten counts of grand larceny, two of petit larceny and one of practicing law in his Jewish court of arbitration, at 377 Broadway, although he had been disbarred ten years ago. |publisher=New York Times |date=July 25, 1942, Saturday |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Buchler is Termed 'Religious Racketeer'. Prosecutor, Summing Up at Fraud Trial, Says He 'Dragged His Rabbinical Robes Through Mud'. |url= |quote=Dr. Samuel Buchler, lawyer and former Jewish chaplain at Sing Sing prison, was denounced as a "religious racketeer," who had "dragged his rabbinical robes through mud," by Bernard Botein, Assistant District Attorney, in summing up the State's case yesterday at Buchler's General Sessions trial on one of five grand larceny indictments. |publisher=New York Times |date=May 4, 1932, Wednesday |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] He purportedly took money from clients to aid in immigration, but didn't do any work and pocketed the money. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Four Accuse Buchler of Selling Influence. Woman and Three Men Say Former Prison Chaplain Failed to Help Get Aliens Admitted. |url= |quote=Four witnesses testified yesterday that they had given money to the Rev. Samuel Buchler, lawyer, former city official and former Jewish chaplain at Sing Sing, in futile efforts to bring alien relatives into this country. The witnesses, a woman and three men, were produced by the prosecution in Buchler's trial before General Sessions Judge Freschi on one of five grand larceny indictments. |publisher=New York Times |date=April 21, 1932, Thursday |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] He died in Brooklyn in 1971. [Social Security Death Index]

Publications

*"Cohen comes first" and other cases: stories of controversies before the New York Jewish Court of Arbitration. Vanguard Press, c1933

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