Max Gettinger

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Max Gettinger oversaw the reorganization of the Federation of Jewish Charities in 1967. The federation, which began in 1905, was one of many organizations that were formed to cater to the social-service, as well as social, needs of the immigrant Jewish community in Atlanta.

Courtesy of William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Community Archives for Southern Jewish History.

Max Gettinger

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