Over 30,000 East European Jews emigrated during 1928, according to a report presented by Mr. Greenberg, Director, to the Relief Committee for Jewish Emigrants which held its general meeting here last night.
Of the total, the largest number, 12,000 went to the United States; 7,000 proceded to Argentine, 4,000 to Brazil and 4,000 to Canada; 2,000 emigrated to Palestine and a similar number went to Australia and France. To South Africa the total was 3,000.
Only a few Jewish immigrants were settled on the land in France by the Committee.
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