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14 MAY 20, 2021
Attorney, Israel
Fundraiser Herbert
Kolsby Dies at 94
JEWISH EXPONENT
ELEANOR LINAFELT | JE FEATURE
HERBERT KOLSBY, a renowned
attorney and dedicated fundraiser
for Israel, died on May 1. He
was 94.

Kolsby was a founding partner
of the Philadelphia law fi rm
Kolsby, Gordon, Robin & Shore.

“He was always an advocate
for the little guy,” said his law
partner Mitchell Shore. “He was a
very creative attorney who devel-
oped successful cases against
drug manufacturers, specifi cally
the drug diethylstilbestrol.”
Kolsby tried the fi rst case and
had the fi rst successful verdict
against the manufacturers of
diethylstilbestrol, a drug given
to pregnant women in the 1950s
and ’60s that caused cancer in
their children. He represented
women throughout the country
who were aff ected.

“He was always willing to take
on the true challenges against
great odds,” Shore said.

A nationally respected lawyer,
Kolsby was a fellow of the
American College of Trial Lawyers
and the International Academy of
Trial Lawyers, and listed in the
Best Lawyers in America.

In 1993, Kolsby was awarded
the Michael A. Musmanno Award,
established by the Philadelphia
Trial Lawyers Association, which
annually recognizes “the person
who best exemplifi es the same
high integrity, scholarship, imagi-
nation, courage and concern
for human rights” as the late
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
justice it is named aft er.

Born and raised in
Wynnefi eld, Kolsby met his
wife, Hermine Wilson Kolsby,
when they were in fourth grade.

Th ey both attended Overbrook
High School and were married
for 72 years until her death in
January. A dedicated father to
his three children, he developed
an even closer relationship with
them aft er his wife’s death.

“He helped us through the
death of our mother and parented
us through the end,” his daughter
Dana Edenbaum said.

Kolsby attended Temple
University and graduated from
its law school in 1951. Toward
the end of his career, Kolsby
helped to create Temple’s nation-
ally-ranked master’s program in
trial advocacy.

“After he was finishing
practice full time, when most
people would just go to Florida
and retire, he jumped into the
law program 120%,” Shore said.

“He was a great teacher, mentor
and leader.”
In addition to being a mentor
to young lawyers, Kolsby was an
active leader in the local Jewish
community. He was president of
Temple Adath Israel in Merion
from 1992 to 1993, where Shore
was also a member.

“He was a great mentor
for me in the Jewish commu-
nity because he encouraged
me to take leadership roles at
the Jewish Federation and the
synagogue,” Shore said.

Kolsby served was general
chairman of the Federation Allied
Jewish Appeal, the fundraising
arm of the Federation of Jewish
Agencies. “He was a dramatic
and intense advocate of Israel,”
Edenbaum said. “He was a great,
great fundraiser.”
Every year on Yom Kippur,
Kolsby gave a speech in support
of Israel Bonds at Adath Israel.

“He would give an incred-
ible review of the last year of
what happened in Israel socially,
economically, politically and
militarily,” Shore said. “It was
something everyone looked
forward to every year. He was an
incredible orator.”
Edenbaum said that her
father would prepare his
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Courtesy of Mitchell Shore
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Herbert Golsby (second from left) in 1971 holding an award with future
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (center).
Photo by Arnold D. Lutz
speeches, which were packed
with information and statistics,
for an entire year, but deliver
them without any notes.

“He would begin preparing
for these speeches the day after
Yom Kippur for the following
one,” she said. “It was amazing.

People still tell me, ‘I will never
forget those speeches that your
dad gave in the synagogue.’”
Kolsby also was active in
changing the rules for the Law
of Return to Israel to include
interfaith families.

“He very much believed
everyone should be included in
Israel and everyone should have
an opportunity to go back,”
Edenbaum said. “He believed
antisemitism was something that
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM was always going to exist, and we
always needed to have Israel.”
Even at the end of his life,
Kolsby still voraciously read
The New York Times and kept
up to date on current politics
and culture.

“It was amazing how he
took in and articulated things,”
Edenbaum said. “He always
stayed focused and interested
and vibrant and that has a lot to
do with his longevity.”
Kolsby is survived by his
brother, Charles Kolsby (Beryl); his
children, Dana Edenbaum (Saul),
Robert Kolsby (Kathy) and Paul
Kolsby (Sam); five grandchildren;
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