Impressive funeral services were held here today for Rev. Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, pioneer Zionist leader and renounced Jewish orator who died yesterday morning in his home in Brooklyn, aged 87. Eulogies at the funeral were delivered by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldmann, Louis Lipsky and Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal.
The honorary pallbearers included Dr. Chaim Weizmann, John L. Bernstein, Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland, Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Judge Louis E. Levinthal of Philadelphia, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, and other Zionist leaders. Masliansky was buried at the old Mt. Carmel cemetery, Brooklyn. No flowers were laid at his grave in accordance with the wishes of the family.
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