A program for the development of the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem was adopted here today at a meeting of the governing council of the university under the chairmanship of Chief Rabbi J. H. Hertz of London. Dr. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the university, presented a detailed report of the Institute’s expansion in order to provide facilities for and to utilize the services of famous Jewish scholars who have suffered as a result of the Hitler persecution of the Jews in Germany.
New professorships were created in Hebrew and Jewish philosophy with the establishment of a new chair likely, and chairs in ancient Israelitish history and the literature of the second Jewish commonwealth were determined upon.
The council decided to make every possible effort during the coming month to raise a fund sufficient to cope with the present crisis and to provide new facilities for teaching and research.
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