(J. T. A. Mail Service)
An Austrian Committee of Friends of the Yiddish Scientific Institute in Vilna has been organized here, following the visit of Dr. Weinreich, who has been active here on behalf of the institute. The committee will seek to raise funds for the institute and will also engage in research work in connection with the activities of the institute.
Preparations are now being made to organize an ethnographic expedition to the Burgenland during the present year to collect objects of interest which will illuminate the history of the Jewish population of that country in past centuries. Plans are also being made for an ethnographic expedition to Slovakia, where there has also been an important Jewish community for centuries.
Dr. Weinreich has now proceeded to Prague where be will also seek to organize a committee on behalf of the institute.
The foundation of the Yiddish Scientific Institute was approved in March. 1925 at a conference held in Vilna and an organizing committee was formed in August of the same year. There are four sections in the institute philological historical economic and pedagogic. The historical section is engaged in the collection of historical information and documents and is preparing descriptions of private and communal archives.
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