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at No. 595 High Street was Meyer C. Ellenstein. He had his residence and
dental practice there. The neat gold-painted wood plaque to the right of
the front doorway said "M. Ellenstein--Dentist".
Although he had provided dental service to the Schary family across High Street at 604, Ellenstein did not remain in dental practice for long. He went back to school for a law degree, became a practicing Newark attorney, then entered Newark politics and, from 1933 to 1941 was twice elected Mayor of Newark, with a reputation for being a friend of Newark's poor. He was Newark's only Jewish mayor, and was mayor in the latter half of 1940 when the aerial Battle of Britain ("Blitz") occurred. I had a personal encounter with Mayor Ellenstein at the height of the London Blitz in World War II. As London was being bombed nightly by the German Luftwaffe, I was given an assignment on June 25, 1940 by International News Service to interview the Mayor of Newark for the London Times, an INS client, on his feelings about evacuating British children to namesake cities in America. The interview with Ellenstein went well.
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