Joel D. Wolfsohn, acting associate director of the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior, has been appointed director of European operations of the American Jewish Committee, it was announced today by Dr. John Slawson, the Committee’s executive vice-president. Appointment of Mr. Wolfsohn is the latest move in the plan to expand American Jewish Committee operations in Europe, Dr. Slawson said.
Mr. Wolfsohn will make his headquarters in Paris, where staff members of the AJC are already engaged in furnishing legal, education and public relations assistance to the Jewish communities on the Continent. A member of the Illinois bar, Mr. Wolfsohn plans to hold consultations with Jewish leaders in various communities abroad on problems of property restoration and other legal questions.
Under Mr. Wolfsohn’s direction, a public relations service will help European Jewish communities to take effective counter measures against the resurgence of anti-Semitism and to safeguard their civil and religious rights. AJC experience in these fields will be brought to representatives of the surviving Jews of Europe through personal contacts, correspondence and publications.
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