Collaboration Between Jewish Scholarship and Jewish People Urged

A call for the renewal of the historic cooperation between Jewish scholarship and the Jewish people was made by Prof. Salo W. Baron of Columbia University at ceremonies marking the presentation of the Jay Joshua Marcus awards sponsored by the Department of Culture and Education of the World Jewish Congress for original essays in any field of modern Jewish history or contemporary Jewish affairs.

The first prize of $500 was won by Bernard Lazerwitz of University City, Mo., for his essay entitled “An Investigation of Jewish Identification.” The second prize of $300 was awarded to Benjamin Orenstein of Montreal, Canada, for his essay, “Social Problems of the Jews in the Nazi Epoch.” The third prize of $200 was divide between two residents of Jerusalem, Israel: Samuel Kirschenbaum for an essay entitled “The Jewish Type–An Anthropological and Psychological Review,” and Dan Meri for an essay on “The Problem of the Concentration of Jewish Immigration from Russia and Poland in the Principal Cities of Western Europe.”