Harry Lashkowitz

Harry Lashkowitz was born at Kamentz-Podolsk in the southern Ukraine.  His family immigrated to the United States in 1896 and moved to Fargo in 1905.  Harry attended City College of New York, and received his law degree from New York University Brooklyn School of Law.  He opened his own practice in Fargo after passing his state bar examination.  On September 1, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Harry Lashkowitz First Assistant United States Attorney.  Harry was also involved in a number of Jewish organizations.  He was a member of Fargo's Temple Beth El, a member of Fargo's John Hay Lodge No. 634, and vice-president of District Grand Lodge No. 6 before being elected president in 1931.  Harry was also active in the Anti-Defamation League.  He was also active in the Elks, Masons and Shriners. 

The materials in this collection cover Harry Lashkowitz's career as a politician and an active leader in Jewish organizations.  More of Lashkwitz's papers are in an earlier donation to the Institute (Manuscript 161).  The majority of this collection document Harry's participation in local and national politics as well as his participation in B'nai B'rith and the Anti-Defamation League.  Of special interest are two letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first when he was governor and the second when he was president.  Also of interest is the Anti-Defamation League correspondence from 1935 to 1945 when the League combated anti-Semitism in the United States. 

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