The Abraham Cahan Research Center at the Hebrew University was dedicated here today at a ceremony in which Adolf Held, general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward of New York and head of the Abraham Cahan Fund in the United States, and Hebrew University president Eliahu Eilat participated.
The Center contains an estimated 5,000,000 microfilmed units of Yiddish journalism which have appeared in newspapers, periodicals and books during the past 300 years. Publications received from the Soviet Union are also included in the collection. The Research Center was made possible by the Abraham Cahan Fund which was established in New York in memory of the late editor of the Forward. Following the dedication ceremony Mr. Held was the guest of honor at a luncheon tendered by the university.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
