The World Congress for Yiddish Culture has distributed about 525,000 in prizes to 79 authors, it was reported today at the world conference pf Yiddish writers and educators, which is taking place here. The recipients reside in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia. Switzerland and Denmark. Some of them live in Israel.
The conference heard reports today from Argentine delegates on the activities of the Argentite section of the World Congress for Yiddish Culture. The speakers, Jacob Botoshansky, Joseph Horn and I. Palatizky, reported on the number of books published by the Buenos Aires group, including. a 10-volume “World History of the Jewish People” by the Jewish historian S. Dubnow,who was killed by the Nazis in Latvia. They also emphasized the Diet that there is a severe shortage of teachers for Jewish schools in Argentina.
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