Background
Kohler, Max James was born on May 22, 1871 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Kaufmann and Johanna (Einhorn) Kohler.
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Max James Kohler
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Bachelor of Science, College City of New York, 1890, Master of Science, 1893. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1891, Bachelor of Laws, 1893. Honorary Doctor Hebrew Law, Hebrew Union College, 1925.
Career
Assistant United States district attorney, New York, 1894-1898. Special assistant United State Attorneys, 1898-1899. Independent Democrat.
Honorary secretary Baron de Hirsch Fund, since 1905.
Honorary secretary national commission on Celebration of 250th Anniversary of Settlement of Jews in the United States, 1905. Member American Jewish Committee (Executive Committee).
Vice president Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 1932. Member Joint Council on German Jewish Persecution, since 1933.
Appointed by secretary of Labor, member Committee on Ellis Island and Immigrant Relief, 1933.
Author: The Registration of Aliens a Dangerous Project, 1925. Some New Light on the Dreyfus Case, 1929. Haym Salomon, the Patriot Broker of the Revolution, 1931.
Legal Disabilities of Aliens in the United States, 1930.
The United States and German Jewish Persecutions—Precedents for Popular and Governmental Action, 1933. Also numerous articles on immigration and Chinese exclusion, diplomatic history, Jewish, and legal subjects.
Editor: Settlement of Jews in North America, by Charles P. Daly, Doctor of Laws, New York, 1893. Selected Addresses and Papers, by Simon Wolf, 1926.
God in Freedom, by Luzzatti, 1930.
Also editor of department “America” in Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, 1926. Home: New York, New New York
Achievements
Membership
Member American Jewish Committee (Executive Committee). Member Joint Council on German Jewish Persecution, since 1933. Appointed by secretary of Labor.
Connections
Married Winifred Lichtenauer, November 6, 1906.
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American