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Alfred Wolf (rabbi)

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had come to power, Wolf decided to stay in the United States. He became a naturalized United States citizen in 1941. Later that year, he sponsored his parents to emigrate to the United States on visas.
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Wolf co-founded the Inter-Religious Council of Southern California in 1969. He served as its founding president. During the
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in 1987. Additionally, he established summer camps for Jewish children on the West coast. As early as 1952, he established
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Wolf had a wife, Miriam. They had two sons, Dan and David, and a daughter, Judy Wolf Lee, who predeceased him in 1987.
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Wolf served as the founding director of the Skirball Institute on American Values, a program of the
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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from 1941 to 1946. He served as the director of the
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Index

Eberbach
Germany
Los Angeles, California
Eberbach
Berlin
Hebrew Union College
Ohio
Nazis
Dothan, Alabama
Union for Reform Judaism
Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Reform
Los Angeles, California
John Paul II
Camp Hess Kramer
Malibu, California
1984 Summer Olympics
American Jewish Committee
Jack H. Skirball
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Los Angeles, California








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