M. Maldwin Fertig, was reelected president of the Metropolitan League of Jewish Community Associations at its eighth annual convention in the Ninety-second street Y. M. H. A. Other officers reelected were Mrs. Jerome J. Hanauer, Leon Mann, Harry M. Marks, and Isaac Siegel, vice presidents; Hugo H. Piesen, treasurer, and Milton Weill, secretary.
Dr. Alfons Goldschmidt, former professor of political economy at Leipzig, was the principal speaker at the gathering. Dr. Goldschmidt asserted that the causes of anti-Semitism are chiefly economic, and pleaded for Jewish solidarity and affiliation with the causes of humanity.
Other speakers at the meeting, which was presided over by Mr. Fertig, included Harry D. Glucksman, executive director of the National Jewish Welfare Board; Stanley H. Howe, deputy commissioner of the Department of Public Welfare, and participants in a symposium on “The New Responsibilities of the Metropolitan League.”
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