Bogen, Boris David, 1869-1929

Educator and social worker.

Jewish educator and social worker.

Boris D. Bogen was born in 1869 in Russia. He was an educator and social worker. He channeled his efforts into Jewish social work and served as the superintendent of local Jewish social service agencies. He worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and served as its general director of European relief operations. He helped implement programs aiding destitute Jews in post World War I Europe and Russia. Boris D. Bogen died on June 29, 1929, survived by his wife Elizabeth and their six children: Emil, Robert, Esther, Sophie, David and Jessie.

Boris Bogen was a social and Jewish communal worker as well as an editor and author. He was born in Moscow and immigrated to the U.S. in 1888. For a time, he worked as an instructor at the Baron de Hirsch Trade School and at the Hebrew Technical Institute. Eventually, he became a superintendent of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School, in Woodbine, N.J. He was also an international secretary of B'nai B'rith and a director of the United Jewish Charities in Cincinnati. As a director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) and a member of the American Relief Administration (ARA), he organized Jewish relief operations in Europe during and after World War I. During the 1920s, Bogen moved to Southern California, where he worked as the Superintendent of Jewish Charities in Los Angeles and established a home in Arcadia.