Samuel Buchler
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Rabbi Samuel Buchler (March 21, 1882 – April 1971), was the President of the Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, in 1909 in New York.[1] He was the Deputy Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City in 1919.[2] He was also a lawyer and Jewish chaplain at Sing Sing prison. He was charged with grand larceny in 1932 and was disbarred.[3][4] He purportedly took money from clients to aid in immigration, but didn't do any work and pocketed the money.[5] He died in Brooklyn in 1971.[6]
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Publications
- Cohen comes first and other cases: stories of controversies before the New York Jewish Court of Arbitration. New York: Vanguard Press, 1933.
