— Henry Taub, president of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and Ralph Goldman, JDC executive vice president, recently visited Prague, Czechoslovakia at the invitation of the Czech Council of Jewish Religious Communities, it was announced by Taub at a meeting of the JDC’s Executive Committee.
Taub said that “JDC was pleased” that he and Goldman “had had the opportunity to renew its association with the Jewish community of Czechoslovakia for the first time in thirty years. “The JDC office in Prague was closed in 1950. Goldman said the visit, which took place Feb. 10 to 13 was a “beginning of connections” with the 12,000-member Czech Jewish community.
The renewal of the JDC contact with Czechoslovakia follows by a year the reopening of JDC direct programs in another Eastern European country, Hungary. During their stay in Prague, the JDC officials met with the leadership of the Jewish community of Czechoslovakia, including representatives of the Czech and Slovak communities, as well as government officials Karel Hruza, head of the Church Secretariat of the Federal Prime Minister’s Office, and Frantisek Jelinek, head of the Church Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture. Also attending the meetings was Dr. Lavoslav Kadelburg, president of the Jewish community of Yugoslavia.
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