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Chair for Latin American Studies Established at Hebrew University

February 18, 1954
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The establishment of a Chair for South American Studies at the Hebrew University here was announced last night at a press conference by Prof. M. Evenari and Dr. Salvador Kibrick of Buenos Aires, who is president of the foundation for “Catedra Republica Argentina.”

Dr. Kibrick, who had previously been received by Israel President Ben Zvi and Education Minister Ben Zion Dinur, paid tribute to the administration of President Juan Peron for taking the initiative in the cultural exchange between Israel and Argentina by establishing a Chair for Hebrew Studies at the University of Buenos Aires and appointing as its first professor Argentine Chief Rabbi Amram Blum. He added that the Chair at the Hebrew University was an expression of patriotism by Argentina’s Jews and their material contribution to a cultural interchange between the two countries.

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