Addresses on various aspects of Jewish spiritual, cultural and economic life in the United States, Israel and other countries were delivered here today at the five-day 26th annual conference of the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO).
Among the addresses delivered at the opening session last night and at the session this afternoon were: “Jewish Workers in the American Labor Movement, ” by J.B.S. Hardman, editor of Labor and Nation; and “The Impact of the Recent Immigration on the Life and Culture of Israel, “by Samuel Koenig, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Brooklyn College. Over 2,000 delegates and guests attended the opening session at Hunter College.
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