Edmund I. Kaufmann recently elected president of the Zionist Organization of America, revealed at a luncheon conference for the Yiddish press at the Hotel Brevoort today that he has given up virtually all his business activities to devote his time to building the Zionist movement in the United States.
The conference was called for the dual purpose of giving representatives of the Yiddish press an opportunity to meet Kaufmann a Washingtonian, and Rabbi Isadore Breslau new executive director and secretary of the Z.O.A., and to discuss the merits and demerits of the reorganization plan and the removal of part of the Z.O.A. offices to Washington.
Kaufmann and Rabbi Breslau defended the Washington move, which has been subjected to criticism in the Yiddish press as divorcing the movement from the heart of American Jewry, as important from the standpoints of prestige and establishment of essential personal contacts with Washington officialdom. In discussing reorganization moves, Kaufmann pledged there would be no “purges” and declared that whatever dismissals were found necessary would be predicated solely upon the criterion of efficiency.
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