A school for Jewish social workers abroad will be opened by the Joint Distribution Committee this October at Versailles, France, it was announced here this week-end. The institution will be named in honor of Paul Baerwald, a founder and honorary chairman of the J.D.C.
The school, whose establishment and maintenance for the first three years will cost $250,000, will teach American social service methods and techniques. The first class of 50 students will come from almost every country in Europe and Worth Africa. After they have spent one year at the J.D.C, school, the students will return to their respective countries to teach other welfare workers. All students will receive scholarships to the institution, for which a faculty is now being recruited in Paris and New York.
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