Askwith Named Director of American Office of Hebrew U.

Herbert Askwith, formerly managing editor of the “Menorah Journal,” and of the “World Review,” was appointed director of the American office of the Hebrew University, at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, according to an announcement issued by Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, President, today.

Mr. Askwith, who is a graduate of Harvard University and a native of Boston, will take office immediately, it is announced. He will undertake to promote interest in the Hebrew University in this country, and to assist in raising the budget assumed by the American Friends of the Hebrew University.

“Despite the serious obstacles to which the work of the Hebrew University has been exposed by economic crises in Europe and America,” Dr. Rosenbach stated, “new developments have been initiated in several departments, and earlier activities have been intensified and expanded. Three important new developments were recently authorized at the Board of Governors’ meetings. First, a School of Agriculture will be established by the University in conjunction with the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Jewish Agency, an enterprise of far-reaching importance for agriculture in Palestine. Another project includes a University Hospital to be built on Mt. Scopus, and a third, the establishment of a Chair for the Art and Achaeology of the Near East.”

The eighth academic year of the Hebrew University will begin at the end of this month, Dr. Rosenbach stated. Plans have been made for the formal opening of the Physics Building of the Einstein Institute, funds for which have been contributed by the late Philip Wattenberg, and Solomon and Dora Shapiro of New York.