BARTH, AARON

(1890-1957)

   Israeli banker and Zionist leader. He was born in Berlin. He became active in the Mizrahi movement in Germany; from 1921 to 1938 he was attorney for the Zionist Congress court and from 1946 its chairman. He settled in Palestine in 1933 and became director-general of the Anglo-Palestine Bank in 1947. His writings include The Modern Jew Faces Eternal Problems., in which he advocated a modern inter-pretation of Orthodoxy.