Plans for the most intensive relief campaign for refugee and overseas needs in the history of the New York Jewish community were completed with the announcement today by Dr. Jonah B. Wise, who has been named chairman, that 124 men and women prominent in all walks of American life have accepted executive posts in the 1941 war emergency campaign of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York.
The campaign officers are headed by Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Judge Julian W. Mack, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and Henry Ittleson as honorary chairmen.
Dr. Wise stated that organization of campaigns is well under way in each of the five boroughs, in more than 200 trades and industries, in dozens of communities in Long Island and Westchester, and in scores of professional, civic and social organizations.
Meanwhile, enthusiastic commitments for the United Jewish Appeal have been reported by local committees in every part of the United States to the national office. Three communities have already gone over the top of their quotas. Chicago, second largest Jewish center in the country, is in the final weeks of its drive with 75 per cent of its quota already subscribed.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
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.
