Seven thousand Jewish immigrants are expected to arrive in the United States this year, it was announced last night by Lester Ginsburg, outgoing president of the New York Association for New Americans.
Addressing the association’s 12th annual dinner, Mr. Ginsburg said that the greater number of this year’s new Jewish arrivals is expected to settle in New York. NYANA is the sole Jewish agency responsible for the integration of Jewish newcomers in the New York metropolitan area. J. Clarence Davies was elected by NYANA to succeed Mr. Ginzburg in the presidency.
(At Ottawa, today, the Canadian Department of Citizenship and Immigration announced that in 1960 2, 385 immigrants “of Jewish origin” arrived in Canada.)
Mr. Ginsburg, in describing the Jewish immigrant entering the United States at this time, said he represented “a new kind of newcomer; he is more skilled, more confident, more realistic and better equipped to adjust quickly to American life than his predecessor of ten years ago. ” Nevertheless, Mr. Ginsburg noted, “the present new arrival, as with the newcomers before him, still needs help to translate hope into the actualities of home and safety, job and self-support, independence and a new way of life.”
To help them, NYANA provides an extensive program of services including financial aid, setting up a home, medical and dental care, job placement, guidance and counselling and other activities essential to integration. Funds for NYANA operations are derived from contributions to the United Jewish Appeal. “The overwhelming majority of those we aided have adjusted quickly, effectively and happily to their new surroundings, and have joined their fellow-Americans in contributing to the well-being of their new community, ” Mr. Ginsburg concluded.
Philip M. Klutznick, U.S. representative in the United Nations, told the 200 guests attending the dinner that the large flow of refugees has dwindled sharply since the early post-World War II years, but “no one may hazard a guess when or where in this chaotic world an event will transpire that will change its relative quiet.”
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