American Jewish History Week will be observed from April 13-20 under the sponsorship of the American Jewish Historical Society. The theme will be “Discover Your Jewish Community,” according to Bernard Max. Society executive director, who said there was a deplorable lack of knowledge of its own history on the part of the 400-year-old Jewish community in North America.
Mr. Max attributed the lack to “the absence of adequate information about local Jewish history on which all comprehensive studies must eventually be based.” He said his group would try to remedy the situation by distributing free information kits to Jewish leaders which would furnish guidelines on how to find, collect and preserve information of historical value. He said that “the writing of a comprehensive American Jewish history has yet to be accomplished.”
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