American Jewry must choose between “educating for permanent living as Jews in America, or educating on the premise that we remain forever poised for ultimate flight,” S.D. Gershovitz, director of the National Jewish Welfare Board, today told the 1,000 social workers attending the 51st annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Social Workers.
“Considering the factors in the present world Jewish scene,” Mr. Gershovitz declared, “the only sound choice is the kind of Jewish education that will make its greatest contribution toward the development of an American Jewish personality by helping the Jew in America to live effectively and happily and permanently as a Jew and as an American.”
At a meeting of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, Dr. Nathan Reich of Hunter College in New York, emphasized “the need of preserving institutional and organizational records and archives in the fields of Jewish community organizations in social work.” He said that if we are to make progress in the future in such fields as sociology, we must develop techniques of making “available for historical, social and professional research the great mass of literature on Jewish subjects both in this country and abroad.”
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