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Jacob Billikopf moved from Milwaukee and Kansas City to Philadelphia, building Jewish communal agencies that could actually feed, house, and settle people. He later sat as an impartial chairman in the clothing industry when strikes could freeze a city.
In the late 1930s he worked to bring European Jewish refugees into the United States. After the war he reviewed court-martial sentences — a life spent making institutions more humane.
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