A group of ten American Jewish college students completed here today the orientation period of the first Overseas Fellowship Study Tour co-sponsored by the American Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency, the World ORT Union and the United HIAS Service. All four agencies receive funds from the United Jewish Appeal.
The fellowships were granted to the group on the basis of their academic records and their potential for future leadership on campus and in their home communities. Initiated by director-general Charles Jordan of the JDC, the study tour project was undertaken by the sponsoring agencies as an experiment which they anticipate will eventually lead to an expanded program of overseas service opportunities for young American Jews.
The group will devote the summer to a study of the programs of migration, resettlement and social assistance to Jewish refugees and settled populations in Europe, Israel and North Africa which the agencies operate as a team and which are given financial support by the United Jewish Appeal.
While in Geneva, the tour members were briefed on the history, development and current problems of Jewish overseas welfare work by the directors and European staff members of the sponsoring agencies. In addition to Mr. Jordan, these included Max A. Braude, director-general of World ORT; Eran Laor, European director of the Jewish Agency and Henry Levy who heads HIAS operations in Europe and North Africa.
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