Announcement was made by Felix M. Warburg yesterday that a national conference will be held at Washington, D. C. on Saturday evening, March 8 and the following day, to organize the Allied Jewish Campaign for $6,000,000 for the purposes of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency.
Invitations to attend the conference, which will be held at the Hotel Washington, in the national capital, have been extended to leaders of Jewish communal effort in all parts of the United States and Canada.
The terms and purposes of the Allied Jewish Campaign have been approved, Mr. Warburg said, by the executive committee of the Joint Distribution Committee and by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, as well as the latter’s constituent organizations, the Keren Hayesod, the Hadassah and the Mizrachi. The Zionist Organization of America will lend its fullest support and cooperation.
The campaign will be headed by Paul Baerwald, David M. Bressler, Judge William M. Lewis of Philadelphia, and Morris Rothenberg as cochairmen. From these a national chairmen will be chosen. Mr. Warburg, who is chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, and chairman of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, will, with others to be announced later, serve as honorary chairman.
Joseph C. Hyman is the honorary secretary; Marcy I. Berger and Bernard Stone will serve respectively as national secretary and associate national secretary.
As set forth in Mr. Warburg’s announcement, in which he describes it as one of the most important fundraising efforts in the history of the Jews of America, the Allied Jewish Campaign will seek to raise $6,000,000 for the year 1930, for the following purposes:
(1) To provide funds for continuing the work of the Joint Distribution Committee in rebuilding the lives of thousands of destitute Jews in Eastern Europe and Russia, and
(2) To put into effect the program adopted last August at Zurich, of the enlarged Jewish Agency for Palestine.
The Joint Distribution Committee, which was organized late in 1914 and of which Mr. Warburg has been chairman since its inception, has administered almost $100,000,000 contributed by the Jews of this country for the reconstruction of the lives of the Jews of Eastern Europe, impoverished by the World War and by political and economic conditions that have arisen as a result of post-war conditions. Beginning its work along relief and palliative lines, feeding, medical and housing activities for millions of Jewish war, pogrom and expulsion victims, the Joint Distribution Committee has expanded its program in step with the changing political and economic conditions in Europe.
It has set up a huge network of credit cooperatives, free loan societies and self-help institutions whereby 400,000 heads of families receive small financial advances, enabling them to earn a livelihood. It has created vocational training schools in all Eastern and Central European countries. It has established and restored hospitals, clinics and child-care institutions, in Poland, Galicia, Roumania, Bessarabia, Transylvania, Lithuania, Latvia, as well as in Russia. It is expending large sums of money for the maintenance of Jewish cultural institutions, in addition to other activities in which Palestine has been included. It has rendered aid to hundreds of thousands of Jews in Russia to earn their living as farmers and tillers of the soil. At the present time the Joint Distribution Committee is also engaged in the industrialization
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