Scholarships and fellowships in the sum of $110, 000 have been granted for the academic year 1960-61 to 167 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 Glaims against Germany, which distributes these awards for Jewish studies, research and creative projects.
This is the seventh in the annual series of grants in the field of Jewish studies. Of the 167 recipients, 52 are students preparing for careers in Jewish teaching, for the most part. 41 are engaged in graduate studies and 74 are conducting independent research in the fields of Jewish scholarship and the 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 education and scholarship which the Nazis had sought to destroy. “It is sparing no efforts in seeking to foster Jewish creative activities,” Mr. Blaustein stated.
This year, $1,857,375 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 nearly $10, 100, 000. The major portion has been earmarked for the basic relief needs of Jewish victims of Nazi persecution.
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