The establishment of the American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute to serve as a forum for American and Israeli intellectuals was announced here today by the National Committee for Labor Israel. Howard J. Samuels, a prominent Rochester industrialist, has accepted to serve as chairman of the Institute, and Dr. Judd L. Teller, author and former director of education of the National Committee for Labor Israel, has been named executive vice-chairman.
The Academic Board of the Institute, now in formation, includes such renowned personalities as Dr. Albert B. Sabin, discoverer of the Sabin oral polio vaccine, and Dr. Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the United States National Committee for the International Geophysics Year.
The Institute, which will draw together academic, religious, civic and trade union intellectuals, will sponsor international conferences in this country and in Israel, with the participation of American, Israeli, Afro-Asian and Latin American experts. It will publish and disseminate books and other informational material dealing with public health, education and cooperation. The first project of the Institute was publication, this month, of the volume, “The Free World and the New Nations,” edited by Dr. Teller and Nahum Guttman.
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