$100,000 to Be Raised in U.S. to Build Sholem Aleichem Museum in Israel

A museum and cultural center honoring the Yiddish “Mark Twain, ” Sholem Aleichem, will be established in Tel Aviv in commemoration of the centennial of the birth of the great humorist and classical writer. The project was announced last night at a public meeting at the Hotel Woodstock sponsored by the National Committee for Labor Israel in conjunction with the Farband Labor Zionist Order and a group of Jewish intellectuals. Journalists and readers of the works of Sholem Aleichem. A fund of $100,000 will be raised to establish the museum.

The Sholem Aleichem Museum and Cultural Center will be erected on a plot of ground donated by the municipality of Tel Aviv. It will house the manuscripts, letters, personal objects, and other materials related to the life and creations of the master-writer of the Yiddish literary field. The center will have research facilities for writers and historians.

At the meeting last night, Meyer Brown, president of the Farband Labor Zionist Order, a fraternal group active in Yiddish cultural affairs, stressed the need for centralizing the wealth of material on and by Sholem Aleichem. Other speakers at the meeting included Louis Segad, executive member of the Jewish Agency for Israel; B. Z. Goldberg, writer and son-in-law of Sholem Aleichem; Israel Stolarsky, associate director of the National Committee for Labor Israel; and Samuel Rodman, secretary of the project committee. Mr.-Brown was elected chairman of the group. Morris Weinberg, publisher of the Jewish Day-Morning Journal, and Alexander Kahn.general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, were named co-chairmen.