The golden jubilee, marking fifty years of public service by HIAS the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society, will be celebrated at the annual meeting of the organization at the Hotel Astor on Sunday.
Daniel W. MacCormack, Commissioner General of Immigration and Naturalization will head the list of speakers at the meeting and will be followed by Rudolph Reiner, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization at Ellis Island, and others.
Representatives of many Jewish organizations, which lend their support to HIAS, are expected to attend the meeting at which the work of the HIAS for the past fifty years will be summarized. Abraham Herman, president, will deliver the annual message. A report of the society’s activities for 1934 will be read by Issac L. Asofsky, general manager. Harry Fischel will report on the financial position.
HIAS has won popularity among Jews in America and abroad for the aid it has given immigrants and for the legal assistance it has given American-Jewish families seeking to bring over their European relatives. The organization functions in twenty-seven foreign lands through affiliated societies. It maintains special bureaus in Ellis Island and Washington, D. C. It also has branches in Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle.
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