(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
A movement to sell their land possessions in Palestine and emigrate to Turkey is making itself visible among the Fellahs, the Palestine Arab peasants.
Assurances are given to the Fellahs that the Turkish Government possesses vast stretches of land which it will be glad to grant gratis. A group of Arab peasant families has already left for Turkey.
PROGRESS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY REPORTED
Jewish scholars and students in European countries regard with heightened interest and anticipation the growth of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, according to a statement issued by Dr. David J. Kaliski, the Chairman of the Hebrew University Fund who has returned from London after participating in the International Conference of the World Zionist Organization.
These students and scholars, states Dr. Kaliski, see in the University a spiritual force which elevates Jewry to new intellectual achievements. It will tend to regenerate the Jewish spirit and make Palestine again a center of learning.
Dr. Kaliski reports that the Department of Jewish Studies in the University is constantly being expanded and that similar progress has taken place in the Chemical and Micro-biological Institutes as well as in the Balfour-Einstein Institute of Mathematics and Physics. The Agricultural Experiment Station of the University is carrying on important experiments the results of which are calculated to be of the greatest value to the agricultural development of the country. The University Library, according to the Chairman of the Hebrew University Fund, has reached the stage of growth when it can favorably compare both in the rare quality and in the number of books and documents in its possession, with the libraries of the leading European and American Universities.
In anticipation of the approaching Jewish New Year, the Jewish Welfare Board has issued the sixth in its series of Hebrew-English calendars.
The calendar contains corresponding dates in the English and Hebrew calendars: statements describing the various Jewish holidays throughout the year; a sketch of the participation of Jews in the wars of the United States: and a directory of the local constituent societies of the Jewish Welfare Board.
The calendars are of pocket size and are prepared by the Board primarily for the use of the Jewish men in the service and for disabled veterans, and are distributed gratis to them.
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