Creation of a special department for an intensive program of Zionist activities aimed specifically at the American Jewish academic and intellectual community was voted here today by the executive of the Jewish Agency, as the executive concluded a week-long, plenary session. The new department, to be headed by Prof. Marie Syrkin, of Brandeis University, will be directed particularly toward influencing the more than 300,000 Jews on the American college and university campuses. The program will include seminars, symposia and the publication of a fournal.
Zionism in the United States was a major topic in the executive deliberations, as two days were devoted to the problems in the American Jewish communities and in the Zionist movement in the U. S. A.
In accordance with the principle of rotation, Dr. Emanuel Neumann was elected chairman of the executive’s American section, succeeding Mrs. Rose Halprin. Mrs. Halprin will now become the New York chairman of the Agency’s educational and cultural department, and will also serve as the chairman of the Agency’s finance committee. Dr. Neumann will continue to head the Herzl Institute in New York.
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