Representatives of the Jewish press in New York City were asked by Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum to support the demands of leaders of the Hebrew school movement in Eastern Europe that a larger subsidy for the Hebrew schools of the Tarbuth type be granted by the Cultural Committee of the Joint Distribution Committee.
Deputy Gruenbaum, speaking at a press conference held at the Waldorf Astoria, gave figures pertaining to the Tarbuth schools in Poland and asserted that whereas the Orthodox schools and the Yiddish schools in that country receive large allocations from the Joint Distribution Committee, the subsidy allotted to the Tarbuth schools is not in proportion to the numerical strength of the pupils.
According to statistics compiled in October, 1926 there were in Poland 70 Tarbuth kindergartens with 1,712 pupils and 68 teachers; 637 Tarbuth elementary schools with 19,780 pupils and 754 teachers; 104 Tarbuth high schools with 3,964 students and 197 teachers. The students in the five Tarbuth institutes for training teachers in Poland number 568 and there are 44 teachers.
It was learned that a meeting of the Cultural Committee of the Joint Distribution Committee will be held today where the possibility of a redistribution of the allotments for the various types of schools may be taken up.
GERALD WARBURG, SOLOIST, AT CONCERT OF Y. M. H. A.
Gerald Warburg, cellist, son of Felix M. Warburg, will be the soloist at the sixth monthly concert at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City. The Y. M. H. A. Symphony Society, of which A. W. Binder is conductor will present a program of orchestral works.
More than $4,500 was pledged in New Bedford, Mass., at the opening of the United Palestine Appeal drive for $10,000. Samuel Barnet is chairman of the drive.
Dr. Alexander S. Hershfield, noted specialist in mental and nervous diseases, has been appointed Illinois State Alienist by Governor Len Small.
Dr. Hershfield has long been connected with the Chicago Health Department as a neurologist. He is 45 years old, and graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School in 1906. He has written extensively on neurology, and is a member of the important medical societies. The cartoonist, Harry Hershfield, is a brother of Dr. Hershfield.
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