Perlman, Morris, -1958

Perlman was born in Minsk, Russia. He came to Stamford in 1906. He worked at the Yale and Towne Mfg. Co before opening a store on West Main St. for the sale of musical instruments. Later the store branched out into the sale of jewelry and by 1925 had become solely a jewelry store. He was one of the founders of the Stamford Jewish Center and at the time of his death was its only honorary president. He was advisory chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and president of the Farband-Labor Zionist Order and former chairman of the Bonds for Israel campaign in Stamford. In 1956, he was a delegate to the World Zionist Congress, representing the Histadrut. Perlman was a member of the first State of Connecticut Commission on Civil Rights. In 1937 he was a delegate to the Zionist convention in Zurich, Switzerland. Among the people he met there were David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sherett, and Golda Meir, with all of whom he continued to correspond. His son Capt. Kahlman D. Perlman was killed in action in Burma, 15 June 1944 while serving with the Army Engineers. Morris Perlman was married to Dora Grunes Perlman; she died in Feb. 1952. He was survived by a son, Joseph Perlman, and two grandchildren, Karla and David Perlman.