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Okin Leo (1923-2006)

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SurnameOkin
NameLeo
Birth year1923
Birth placeDaugavpils
Death year2006
Death month7
Death day30
Death placeMesa
SexM

Okin (Ockin) Leo (1923, Daugavpils – 30 July 2006, Mesa, USA) – public figure.

In 1930, Leo Okin emigrated to the USA and spent his youth in Brooklyn. He was a social worker at a hospital in New York. During World War II, he served in the army. After the war, he married and worked in Jewish centres on the East Coast. In the 1950s, he moved to California and worked for a Jewish charity in San Francisco. In 1965, he was appointed executive director of the Jewish Community Centre in Seattle, and in 1968, he built a separate building for the centre. He received his doctorate from the University of California and researched Arab-Israeli relations in the Middle East. He taught at a college and was involved in business.