(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The Avukah. American Student Zionist Federation, concluded its annual convention here with the election of officers and adoption of plans for the conduct of its cultural and practical work during the coming year.
Max Rhoade, of Washington, D. C., was reelected national president of Avukah, and the following additional officers were elected: Samuel Blumenfield, Milton Goell and Isidore J. Lapson, New York, Joseph Shubow, Boston, and Hyman Smoler, Chicago, vice-presidents; and Dr. Carl Goldenberg and Emanuel Aaronson, both of Washington, D. C., foreign secretary and treasurer respectively. The executive secretary will be named by the incoming administration. National headquarters will remain in Washington.
Establishment of new groups at the Universities of California and Southern California, University of Buffalo and Toronto University, which will bring the total number of chapters to 18, representing over 35. universities and colleges was announced.
A group of five members of the Avukah chapter at the University of Wisconsin have banded together to settle in Palestine as chaluzim, it was announced by Dr. S. Lepkovsky, delegate from the chapter and head of the group, which will leave within a year. This will be the first contingent of American Jewish students to proceed to Palestine for an agricultural career.
Mrs. Irma Lindheim urged that Avukah organize yearly journeys of groups of its members to Palestine for residence and work upon the soil for a period of one year in order to come under the influence of the new Jewish life which has developed in the country.
The cultural program adopted for the coming year emphasizes study and cultivation of the Hebrew language and literature, while the practical work will have as its chief objective support of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, in addition to activity on behalf of the United Palestine Appeal.
One of the features of the Convention was the description by Milton Goell, of New York, of his recent trip to Palestine, based upon his book, “Tramping through Palestine.”
Chaim Nachman Bialik, Maurice Samuel, and Emanuel Neumann were among those who addressed the Avukah convention.
Joseph Shubow, president of the Boston chapter, read a special paper on the subject “A Review of the Jewish Cultural Renaissance in Palestine,” and other papers included “Avukah’s Cultural Program” by Rabbi Simon Greenberg. of Philadelphia. and “The Student Zionist Movement in Germany,” by Dr. M. Dreyfus, of New York.
The following were elected members of the National Executive Committee: Moses T. Elievson. Isidore Imber. David Aranowitz. Miss Bertha Samuels. Isaac Shapiro. Abraham Tannenbaum. Walter Tepper. Miss Tillie Zimmerman and Miss Esther De Berg. New York: Rabbi Simon Greenberg. Philip Resnikov. Nathan V. Plafker, Rabbi S. Joshua Kohn, and Benjamin F. Kutcher. Philadelphia; Samuel I. Schanzer. Buffalo; Samuel W. Halperin. Dr. Leo Newmann, and Miss Jeanette Rubin, Chicago; Dr. Anna Mintz, Hyman Goldman, Dr. Max Davis, Hyman Goldman. Miss Frances Burnee, Dora Margolis, Alex Whynman, George Levine, and Leo Schwartz, Boston: S. I Esterman, David Lovett. and I. B. Terlitzky, Baltimore; Ezra Shapiro. Cleveland: Dr. Max Phillips and Miss Elizabeth Barrow, Washington, D. C.; David Bonder. Pittsburgh: Dr. S. Lepkovsky, Madison, Wisconsin: Milton Lebedun, St. Louis, and Harry Z. Zwelling, Columbus, Ohio.
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