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Show NOTED FRENCH JEW ' IS DEAD AT PARIS i . ' . ' NEW YORK. Dec. sj-Dr. ZadocjCohn grand rabbi of . the Central, consistory of Israelites ' in France, died' In Pari yes-" terds. says a . cable ' dispatch received here.v Dr. Kohn was born In Mannheim In 139 and was educated at the Eoole-Rab-blnlque of Mets. In 1889 he succeeded Rabbi Lasers Isidore as head of the Central Cen-tral consistory. This office Is the highest among the Hebrews of France. i Rabbi Kohn was an 'able writer and. a flhe orator, and it, was largely through his leadership thef the French Hebrews passed safely through the anti-Semitic feeling following, the Dreyfus affair.. |