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Wednesday 8 March 2023

Zinn, Joshua

 

ZINN, Joshua. Director of Companies. Born Lithuania 1893, son of Eli Nathan and Rachel Zinn. Educated at Yeshiva College of Lida. Founder of Jewish Folk- banks in Lithuania, 1924- 26, and Chairman of Jewish Folkbank in Ra- kishki. Committee member, Tarbut Board of Education, 1926. Arrived in South Africa 1929. Managed clothing factory for 20 years. During First World War served in East Prussia and Carpathian Mountains; taken prisoner of war to Germany. Rank: Sergeant-Major. Member of the Yeshiva College; Chairman, for seven years, of the Hebrew Educational Committee, Germiston; Trustee and Treasurer of the United Hebrew Institutions. Germiston; was presented with illuminated address by Congregation, 1962. Lecturer for 23 years with Chevra Lomdei Torah, Tanach Gemarach and Ein- Yarkon. Married Rachel Levin, 1925; one son, two daughters. Recreations: Golf, walking, Talmudic study, lecturing. Add.: 14, Galway Street, Germiston.

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