August 16th. has been fixed as the opening date of the Fourth Conference of the O.R.T. World Federation, which will be held in Berlin, and will at the same time be the Jubilee Conference of the Organisation to commemorate the 50th. anniversary of its foundation. The Conference will have the character of a jubilee celebration.
Reports will be presented by the President of the Central Board, Dr. Leo Bramson; by Mr. J. Zegelnitzky, the O.R.T. representative in Moscow, on the problems of the O.R.T. work in the Soviet Union; by Dr. D. Lvovitch on the financial and economic activities of the O.R.T. Federation; by Dr. Julius Brodnitz, President of the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, on the task of the O.R.T. Organisations in Western Europe and the oversea countries; by Dr. A. Singalovsky on the economic questions facing East-European Jewry and the methods to be adopted in Jewish economic policy; by Dr. M. Silberfarb on the consolidation of the activities of the Jewish social welfare groups and the economic problems of East-European Jewry, and by Dr. Jaszunsky of Warsaw on ways and means of rationalising Jewish artisanship.
The agenda also includes the question of a re-organisation of the directing bodies of the O.R.T. Federation.
The Central Administration of the O.R.T. intends to establish a special jubilee fund to be utilised for building new technical training schools. It is also intended to publish a jubilee volume, which in addition to a historical survey of the organisation and the development of the O.R.T. will contain authoritative studies of the economic structure and tendencies of East European Jewish life, and reminiscences of the “Old Guard” of the O.R.T. A film depicting the work of the O.R.T. will also be prepared, to be shown in important Jewish centres in Europe and America. Celebrations are to be arranged in all the O.R.T. schools and institutes in the various countries.
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