Plans for a nationwide conference on Jewish education, to be held in New York in the fall of this year, were set at a meeting of the board of governors of the American Association for Jewish Education, held at the Biltmore Hotel here, it was announced today by Michael A. Stavitsky, president of the Association. Representatives from 29 major Jewish communities attended the session of the national coordinating body, which stimulates and correlates Jewish religious educational activities throughout the United States.
The projected conference, at which delegates from central Jewish community agencies and major national organizations will meet to discuss problems and act on specific proposals for raising the level of Jewish education, is the culminating effort in the observance of Jewish Education Year, being celebrated in 1950. Delegates at the conference will analyze the record of theoretical and practical work in Jewish education throughout the country, and will consider ways and means of encouraging closer cooperation between national and local agencies in the field.
In preparation for the conference, the board of the Association authorized the publication of the first Jewish Education Yearbook, which will summarize the achievements of a half-century of Jewish educational endeavor in America, and which will contain, in addition to surveys and articles, the only complete directory of Jewish educational institutions in the land, detailing their history and activities.
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