Applications and inquiries from Jewish students in seventeen foreign countries seeking admission into the Hebrew University were received during the first quarter of 1933, according to figures available here. First in line of 135 applicants was Poland, from which 57 inquiries were received; next was America, and third was Germany.
Over half of the applicants inquired regarding admission into the Faculty of Humanities. Of the 73 would-be students who so applied, 36 were enrolled for the summer term of this year.
Some of the countries from which applications came were Italy, Algeria, South Africa, Belgium, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Latvia, Egypt, Iraq, Czechoslovakia, France, Roumania, and Switzerland.
Inquiries are showing a tendency to increase owing to the condition of Jews in European countries. The Hebrew University could take care of many of the harassed young Jewish men and women at present subject to persecution in certain universities abroad or debarred from higher study in their own countries, if additional funds were made available to strengthen the teaching staff and to increase accommodation and equipment, particularly in the laboratories. Restriction of space now rules out the admission of a large number of foreign Jewish students.
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