The Denver Jewish news., 1919-04-30
LEO WOLFSON WEI.L-KNOWN
JEWISH JOURNALIST TO STUDY
CONDITIONS IN EUROPE.
international Pres, Bureau Represen-
stative Will Inform Americans Of
Actual Conditions Of Jews Abroad.
BY s. MERGOLIN.

Leo wOlfsOn. the well-knOwn Jew.
ish journalist and social worker. left
for Europe on the 2Sth of this month
as the representative of the Interna-
tiOnal Jewish Press Bureau. BY
cables and letters he will report every
event of significance that is now oc-
curing or will occur in the life OF
the Jews across the seas. especially
in Eastern Europe. and more par.
ticularly in ROumania. He will first
be in Paris where the destinies of
the Jewish people are being decided
at the Peace Conference.
Mr.. Wilson's purpose in going to
Europe Is exclusively to study the
Jewish situation from first-hand
sources. to observe the activities or
cur Jewish representatives. He has
therefore refused TO go 10 Paris as
the delegate of any single organization.
but will he there only in the private
capacity of correspondent for the In
tcrnational Jewish Press Bureau. To
-HtS bureau WIZ S'Hu iOSu"i Nv
ports of everything important now oc
curing in Jewish life in the Old
World. so that the public opinion oi
American Jewry will he constantly
and thOrOly Informed. On his trip.
Mr.. WOlfsOn will visit London. Paris.
ROumania and from there he will pos
s;bly go to Palestine, before he re,
turns TO New York.
Leo wolfson is one of the most
prominent persons In the Jewish life
of New York city. He was born in
Of is. he came to this country us the
leader of u group of 100 Roumanian
Jewish young men who were known
by the name Of Fuss Wanderer Gcsell.
sehaft These young men were re-
cruited from among the poorest Jews
of the country. The prosecutions ci
the government forced them to emf.
crate, hut their poverty precluled their
i.uying direct steamer tickets from
ROumania to America. The yOuisg
wolfson. althO the son OF rich par
cnts and then student of Rou-
manian government lyceum. left his
hcme and his school, and together with
them began wandering thru Europe
for many months until they arrived
in Rotterdam. Holland. There Mr..
wOlfSOn succeeded in obtaining the
aid of the Jewish Emigrant Society.
which provided this group Of wander
ers with passage-way to America.
During his first two years in Amer
lea. Mr.. WolfsOn tasted of hard work
and poverty. But after n hard days
work in shop, he would study in
the evenings and prepare himself for
New York University. Six years after
his arrival I'm America, he finished his
law course. and was immediately ad-
mitted to the bar.
His law practice. however. was 10
him only means of better under
standing and of devoting more of his
time to communal activities.
MT. Nolison caTcer since nc citIle
to this country is Il record Of hard
and meritOriOus struggle for Jewish
interests, and of many-sided com.
munal activity which has made him
prominent and endeared him to all
Jewish circles in New York.
Mr. Wolfson will remain in ROu-
mania for some time. He will study
the condition of the Roumanian Jews
on the spot. Not much news reaches
America from Roumania, and Mr..
WOlfSon has made IL his chief task
to describe the Jewish life in Ron
mania at the present moment. just
MS he will find it.