Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Chancellor of the Hebrew University, is arriving in the United States from Palestine tomorrow, according to an announcement here from the American Friends of the Hebrew University. Dr. Magnes will land at Boston from the S. S. Excambion and will remain in that city for two days prior to his departure for New York.
While in Boston Dr. Magnes will be guest of honor at several private functions and will make a public appearance at a mass meeting under the auspices of the United Jewish Appeal at the Temple Israel Meeting House on Tuesday evening.
A reception will be tendered Dr. Magnes on May 15, in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Astor here by the American Friends of the Hebrew University, of which Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach is president.
COMES HERE FOR CONFERENCE
Dr. Magnes will arrive here on May 2 from Palestine for a series of conferences with the American members of the board of governors of the University, to take place between May 12 and 14. Dr. Max Schloessinger, vice-chancellor of the University, who is accompanying Dr. Magnes, will be among the guests of honor at the reception.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Hebrew University, who will arrive in this country on May 10, is expected to address the gathering, to which outstanding leaders in communal life have been invited. Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the council of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, is expected to be among the speakers, among whom will include outstanding academic personalities.
THE COMMITTEE
Among those who have accepted membership on the reception committe to Dr. Magnes are:
Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of Dropsied College in Philadelphia; Dr. Emil Altman chief medical examiner of the Board of Education; Dr. J. S. Ames, president of Johns Hopkins University; Professor Sale Baron of Columbia University; A. A. Berle, City Chamberlain; Dr. Jacob Billikopf, head of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia; Alexander M. Bing, S. J. Bloomingdale, Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University, Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University; Professor Morris R. Cohen of the College of the City of New York; Commissioner Howard S. Cullman.
Also Professor Israel Davidson of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Bernard S. Deutsch, President of the Board of Aldermen; Mark Eisner, Abram I. Elkus, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, Harry F. Guggenheim, Mrs. H. A. Guinzburg, Mrs. Charles Heming, Lester Hofheimer, B. W. Huebsch, Henry Ittelson, Dr. Julius Jarcho, Alfred A. Knopf, James Marshall, Dr. Emanuel Libman, Judge Mitchell May of the New York Supreme Court; Carl Pforzheimer, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Mrs. Oswald Garrison Villard, Mrs. Paul M. Warburg, Dr. Israel S. Wechsler and Dr. Jonah B. Wise.
WILL GO SOON
Dr. Magnes, who has not been in this country since 1931, expects to return to Palestine immediately after the conferences. He was appointed chancellor of the Hebrew University when it was opened nine years ago this month. Previous to that time he had been known as an outstanding leader in communal life and a former Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El.
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