Background

Alpert was born to Max L. Alpert and Flora Effross on May 12, 1913, in Boston, the Jewish couple also had a daughter, Marcia, and a son, Sumner.

Education

Alpert began his career serving as a copywriter at the Bay State Mailing Service in Boston in 1930, becoming a reporter at the city’s Jewish Advocate newspaper in 1932, and then its editor from 1935-1940. During that time he attended Boston University (1931-1935).

Career

Carl Alpert served in the military until 1946 and then returned to his work at New Palestine. In 1946 he became director of the Department of Education of the Zionist Organization of America.

Carl Alpert moved to Israel in 1952, working as the director of public relations (1952-1955) and later assistant to the president at the Technion.

Carl Alpert retired in 1983, at which time he was executive vice-chairman of the Board of Governors at the Technion. He died on his 92nd birthday, which was also Israel Independence Day.

Achievements

• In 2002, Carl Alpert was cited for his work at the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel (for which he had served as president from 1957-1959), and that December in Haifa he was awarded the title of "Citizen of Merit" for his journalism career.
  
  In 2003, the Carl Alpert Technion Employees Center was named in his honor.

Works

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  • Technion: The Story of Israel's Institute of Technology by Carl Alpert 1983
  • I think as I please 1946
  • The Oracle: A handy Jewish reference book 1935

  • Telling the Truth about the Jews: A concise factual refutation of various modern anti-Semitic libels

    1939

Politics

Carl Alpert became a devoted Zionist in 1927 as a result of his connection with Young Judaea.

Connections

In 1940, Carl Alpert married Natalie (Nechama) Tennenbaum of Cincinnati, who he had met at Young Judaea. The couple, married for 64 years, had three children.

Spouse:

Natalie (Nechama) Tennenbaum