Hilfsverein Der Deutschen Juden Raising Endowment Fund for Jewish Schools in Honour of Its President

A James Simon Endowment Fund for promoting Jewish schools activities has been started in order to commemorate the 80th. birthday of Dr. James Simon, the President of the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden, which occurs in September, Herr Max Warburg, the famous Warburg banker and philanthropist, announced to-day at the general meeting of members held here on the occasion of the 30th. anniversary of the Hilfsverein. 140,000 Marks have already been collected towards the Fund, Herr Warburg said amid cheers.

Jewish leaders from all parts of Germany were present, including Herr Heinrich Stern, the President of the Federation of Liberal Jews in Germany, and Dr. Ludwig Hollaender, Director of the Central Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith. M. Louis Oungre, the Manager of the Jewish Colonisation Association (Ica) was also present, and Legation Councillors Boehmer and Dr. Sobernheim represented the German Foreign Office.

Dr. James Simon, who was in the chair, dwelt in his presidential address on the relief work conducted by the Hilfsverin in the various East European countries, and the cultural work which it was doing in Roumania and elsewhere, complaining in the course of his speech of the unfriendly attitude of the Governments of Poland and Roumania.

Dr. Mark Wischnitzer, the General Secretary of the Hilfsverein; Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the European Director of the Joint Distribution Committee of America, a former General Secretary of the Hilfsverein, and Dr. Sigmund Wassermann traced the history of the Hilsverein, which, they complained, has up to the present expended on its various activities a sum of about 50 million Marks. Councillor Julius Blau, who represents the Frankfurt Jewish Community on the Council of the Ica, spoke on behalf of the Frankfurt Committee for East European Jews, which was founded in 1882.