The problems affecting American as well as European Jewry, with particular emphasis on the unprecedented spread of anti-Semitism in Eastern and Central Europe, will be discussed at the Eleventh Annual Convention of the American Jewish Congress, which will be held in Washington, D. C., April 30th to May 2nd, it was announced by Bernard S. Deutsch, President of the American Jewish Congress.
The Washington meeting, it is understood, will also discuss the preparations for the convening of a World Jewish Congress, which, according to a decision of a World Jewish Conference held a year ago in Geneva. Switzerland, is scheduled to meet in 1934, as well as the problems of discrimination in industry and employment in this country. “The grave situation,” Mr. Deutsch declared, “in which our brethren in Germany and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe find themselves, makes it imperative for organized American Jewry to take common counsel for the purpose of devising ways and means whereby American Jewry could best serve their unfortunate brethren in Europe in their desperate struggle for the preservation of their civil rights and the safeguarding of their economic status.
“Never before in the history of our people, were we faced with as serious a situation as at present.”
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