Scholarships and Fellowships in the amount of $115,000 have been granted for the academic year 1959-60 to 176 students and scholars throughout the world, who are victims of Nazi persecution. This was announced today by Jacob Blaustein, senior vice-president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which distributes these awards for Jewish study, research and creative work.
This is the sixth in the annual series of grants in the field of Jewish studies. Out of the 176 recipients, 60 are students preparing, for the most part, for careers in Jewish teaching; 36 are engaged in graduate studies and 80 are conducting independent research in the fields of Jewish scholarship and of creative arts. Mr. Blaustein said that the Conference considers one of its essential obligations to be the reconstruction of Jewish communal and cultural life and the encouragement of Jewish scholarship which the Nazis had sought to destroy. “The Conference is bending every effort to aid in the rehabilitation of Jewish creative activities, “Mr. Blaustein stated.
This year, $1,783,888 was allocated by the Conference for cultural and educational rehabilitation and for the commemoration and documentation of the Jewish Catastrophe, in an overall budget amounting to over $10,100,000. The major portion has been earmarked. for basic relief needs of Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
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