found: American Jewish Historical Society Center for Jewish History, via WWW, November 13, 2013(Guide to the William F. Rosenblum (1892-1968) Papers, 1876, 1903-1973; William Franklin Rosenblum was born August 10, 1892 to Rita (Feinstein) and Joseph Samuel Rosenblum in Grodno, Poland; in 1897, his family emigrated to New York City; Rosenblum completed an undergraduate degree in economics and sociology at the College of the City of New York in 1910; starting in 1912, he supervised the Boys' Work department at the Cleveland Council Educational Alliance; briefly making a move into the law field, he received a law degree from Tulane University Law School in 1916; he then moved to Chicago, followed by Nashville, where he straddled the worlds of both social work and business, as well as serving in the U.S. Navy between 1917 and 1918; Rosenblum was ordained Rabbi at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1926; he received his Doctor of Divinity from Dickinson University in 1949 and a Doctorate in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1956; Rosenblum began his rabbinical career as Associate Rabbi of the Washington Hebrew Congregation in 1926 in Washington, D.C.; his long-time tenure as Rabbi of Temple Israel in New York City started in 1930, continuing until 1963, when he became Rabbi Emeritus; Rabbi Rosenblum had a fairly high media presence, especially on the radio; he also had a hand in the creation of “Crossroads,” a 1950s religion television drama series; together with his son he wrote the children's book, Eight Lights: The Story of Chanukah, in 1967; Rosenblum died of a heart attack on February 10, 1968)
