The Alliance Israelite Universalle has in the period from 1920-30 expended 300,000 dollars for Jewish welfare purposes in Russia, Poland, Roumania and Palestine, it is announced here to-day. Of this sum 100,000 dollars were allocated for the promotion of Jewish cultural activities in the form of subventions to Rabbis and Jewish learned societies in Russia, the provision of matzoth and medical aid to the Jewish population of Russia and the support of Russian refugees in Bessarabia and Poland.
The Yiddish Scientific Institute in Vilna and other Jewish cultural institutions in Poland have received 8,000 dollars, and the Jewish orphanage aid work over 28,000 dollars, 14,000 dollars went for work in Roumania.
75,000 dollars was allocated for the relief of the victims of the Palestine disturbances of August 1929; the Aid Fund for Palestine Small Merchants was given 6,000 dollars.
65,000 dollars was provided for the relief work on behalf of the Jewish students in various countries. In addition to these sums, considerable amounts were provided for the maintenance of the Jewish school activities of the Alliance in the Orient, above all in Morocco and Syria, where thousands of children still have to be refused admission to the Alliance schools because of the lack of accommodation. 1,600 girls graduated from the Laura Kadoorie Girls’ School in Baghdad, where, too, it was not possible to provide accommodation for all seeking admission.
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