Jewish Women in 20 Countries Prepare for World Congress

Twenty countries will be represented at the forthcoming World Conference of Jewish Women to be held in Hamburg, Germany, June 4 to 6, declared Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, president of the conference, in making public the subjects of discussion at the sessions. Registrations received indicate that delegations will attend from twenty countries. Miss Lily Montague and Mrs. Basil Henriques, outstanding leaders in England, will head the British delegation. Many cities in the United States will send delegations which will be headed by Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco, Mrs. Rosenblatt of Cleveland, Dr. Rosa Welt-Straus, Mrs. Frances D. Pollack and Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger of New York.

Among the topics to be discussed by Jewish women leaders who will gather in Hamburg are Jewish questions of religion and education, including Jewish marriage and divorce laws in relation to the civil law. Economic problems of the Jewish woman, settlement work, the training of the youth, institutional upbringing for orphaned and homeless children and vocational guidance will be considered.

Social and community questions will include the woman in trade and industry, whether there are special difficulties for the Jewish woman; the equal right of collaboration for women in the Jewish community; the social work of women in different countries. International affairs in relation to women will be taken up among the topics being the meaning of the League of Nations for women: the meaning of the cultural work in Palestine for Jewish women and the necessity and tasks

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of an international Jewish women’s league.

Arrangements for the conference are being made by the League of Jewish Women of Germany with the cooperation of Mrs. Anitta Mueller-Cohen of Vienna. The conference program was prepared by the president in conjunction with Mrs. Wijsenbeek-Franken and Mrs. Anitta Mueller-Cohen. Each country is entitled to send six delegates and six substitutes to the conference.

The question of the formation of a World League of Women, which was considered at the last conference held in Vienna in 1923, will again be taken up for definite action, Mrs. Kohut stated.

“The quickened viewpoint and enlarged horizon which the Jewish woman has faced with respect to such problems as the furtherance of world peace, reduction of armaments and the elimination of hatreds and jealousies among peoples will receive the attention of the Congress,” Mrs. Kohut said.

“Since the last Convention in Vienna, which, in the consensus of opinion of foremost Jewish women of Europe was a landmark in bringing different social and political interests of Jewish women of such countries as England and Roumania, Spain and Poland, Hungary and France, to a common meeting place where, in the light of their experiences, they were enabled to exert both pressure and influence toward the introduction in their respective countries of humane and enlightened legislation for those objects which the World Jewish Congress, in common with the Progressive Women of the World, are endeavoring to achieve in behalf of women and children.

“What promises to be an interesting feature of the sessions of the Congress will be a debate on the Jewish Agency,” stated Mrs. Kohut. “I hope Mrs. Norvin M. Lindheim will represent the Jewish Agency point of view and a delegate from Germany, not yet namd, the negative.”

The Jewish Family Welfare Society, a charitable organization formed by the amalgamation of the South Providence Ladies’ Aid Association and the Montefiore Ladies’ Hebrew Benevolent Association, both of which have carried on family rehabilitation work in Providence. R. I., for many years, was granted a charter by Secretary of State Sprague.

According to Arthur J. Levy, the new organization will take the place of its predecessors as a member of the Providence Community Fund. Lnc., the consolidation and reorganization having taken place with the approval of the Community Fund as part of its program to bring about changes from time to time which will result in greater efficiency and economy in the administration of charities in the city.