The 25th anniversary of the founding of the National Hebrew Culture Organization (Histadruth Ivrith) was celebrated by 500 friends of the organization at a dinner today at the Hotel Astor. Principal speakers included Dr. Israel Efros, professor of Hebrew at Hunter College, national president of the organization, Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, and Dr. Alexander Dushkin, executive director of the Jewish Education Committee of New York.
The organization has stimulated the creation of Hebrew literature by American Jewish writers, and many prose and poetic works have been published by the society. A special volume in English, dealing with the historic role of Hebrew literature, from the Bible to Chaim Nachman Bialik, has been published for the anniversary observance.
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