An urgent plea to American Jews to set up committees to find Jewish records of “trials, the tragedies and the achievements” of the American Jewish community emerged today from the 58th annual meeting of the American Jewish Historical Society.
Dr. Bertram W. Korn, president of the society, said the creation of such committees was “a sacred responsibility” of the Society. Citing the disappearance of local records, Dr. Korn said that “our people can never learn their history and feel its drama and the understanding it teaches unless these sources are located and safeguarded.”
He reported that state or regional Jewish historical groups have been set up in Michigan, Rhode Island and California and that local groups were being organized in Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
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