An appeal to American Jewry, urging it to continue to support the work of the Hebrew Immigrant and Sheltering Aid Society (HIAS), was issued jointly here today by Chaim Nachman Bialik, famous Hebrew poet and Professor Simeon Dubnow, well-known Jewish historian.
The appeal says, “Tens of thousands of Jews in Eastern Europe are living in poverty and need and are compelled to emigrate and to find new homes where they can obtain bread and peace. It is the duty of Jewry everywhere to do everything possible to help these emigrants find new opportunities. It would be a great calamity if American Jewry, which hitherto has warmly supported all efforts on behalf of their fellow Jews who are forced to emigrate, were at the present moment to abandon them. American Jewry and HIAS, whose achievements on behalf of the Jewish emigrants will go down in Jewish history, must continue their great work of stretching forth a brotherly hand to the helpless Jewish wanderers.”
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