Several Jews are among the 73 persons awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, according to the 1940 list made public today. The foundation, established in 1925 by ex-Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to a son, has granted 913 fellowships and $2,082,000 in stipends to assist original work by scholars and artists.
Among the Jews receiving fellowships are: Marc Blitzstein, composer and author; Herman J. Broch, refugee from Vienna and author of two novels; Delmore Schwartz, poet; Alfred Kazin, book reviewer of the New York Herald Tribune; Dr. Nathan Reich, Hunter College economics instructor; and Dr. Hans Kohn, Smith College history professor.
The Guggenheim fellowships are granted to scholars and artists who by previous work have shown themselves to be persons of unusual ability.
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