Rabbi Samuel Buchler was the President of the Federation of Hungarian Jews in America, in 1909 in New York. He was the Deputy Commissioner of Public Markets

Commissioner of Public Markets

The Commissioner of Public Markets, Weights, and Measures of the City of New York was a cabinet level post appointed by the mayor of New York City during World War I, when foodstuffs were in short supply and people began hoarding. The goal was to "set fair prices for meat and fish." The...

 for New York City

New York City

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 in 1919. He was also a lawyer and Jewish chaplain at Sing Sing

Sing Sing

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 prison. He was charged with grand larceny

Grand Larceny

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 in 1932 and was disbarred. He purportedly took money from clients to aid in immigration, but didn't do any work and pocketed the money. He died in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

in 1971.

Publications

• Cohen comes firs and other cases: stories of controversies before the New York Jewish Court of Arbitration. New York: Vanguard Press, 1933.