A bequest in the amount of $100,000 has been received by the Jewish Publication Society of America, which has its national headquarters here, according to a joint announcement made today by Sal Satinsky, president of the JPS, and Philip Werner Amram, executor of the estate of Adolf Amram, Under terms of the bequest, the JPS will use the income “to provide writing fellowships as subventions to qualified author-scholars to prepare books of scholarly quality and of scholarly interest which cannot be financed on a commercial basis.”
Edwin Wolf, 2nd, chairman of the JPS publication committee, in expressing the gratitude of the JPS board of trustees, pointed out that this bequest will make possible the creation and publication of excellent manuscripts which would otherwise remain unpublished. He stated further that details regarding the Adolf Amram Award were now being worked out and that a public announcement would be made in the near future.
The donor, Adolf Amram, came to the United States as a penniless immigrant in 1900. He settled in Greenville, Miss, and later came to New York City where he made his fortune in the insurance business. His widespread cultural interests will be perpetuated by the bequests made from his estate to cultural institutions in New York City, Philadelphia and Washington.
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