Jacob Panken
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Jacob Panken was a Ukrainian-born Jewish American socialist politician, best remembered for his tenure as a New York City municipal court judge and frequent candidacies for high elected office on the
Panken in 1920
Panken speaks at an anti-war rally at Union Square in Manhattan c. 1918
"Comrade Chairman!" Cartoon by Art Young depicting the New York Old Guard at the 1919 Emergency National Convention of the SPA. Left to right: Louis Waldman, Algernon Lee, Abraham Shiplacoff, Jacob Panken, August Claessens, Abraham Beckerman, Charles Solomon, and Alexander Braunstein.
Panken on the bench c. 1918
William M. Feigenbaum
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William Morris Feigenbaum was a Belgian-born Jewish-American statistician, journalist and politician from New York. He served as a Socialist member of the New York State Assembly in 1918.
Feigenbaum c. 1917
Socialists elected in New York City, 1917. Standing (L-R): Abraham Beckerman, Barnet Wolff, Alexander Braunstein, Algernon Lee, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Adolph Held, and Maurice Calman. Seated: August Claessens, William Feigenbaum, Elmer Rosenberg, Louis Waldman, Joseph Whitehorn, Jacob Panken, Abraham Shiplacoff, William Karlin, Samuel Orr, Charles B. Garfinkel, Benjamin Gitlow, and Joseph A. Weil.