Isidor Wise, 73, for many years managing editor of the “American Israelite.” the Anglo-Jewish weekly published in Cincinnati, died Friday in the Medical Center Hospital, New York. Mr. Wise was the son of Dr. Isaac M. Wise, the founder of the “American Israelite” and one of the early leaders of Reformed Jewry in the country. He was also a brother-in-law of Adolph S. Ochs. publisher of the New York “Times.”
Mr. Wise had been a well known newspaperman, having been at various times connected with the Chattanooga “Times,” New York “Times,” Chicinnati “Commercial Tribune,” Chicago “Israelite” and the “Sabbath Visitor.” He resigned the managing editorship of the “American Israelite” in 1928 to devote himself to research in his father’s literary works.
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