Fifty years of work by the Ort, as well as plans to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its existence, were graphically described by Dr. Leon Bramson, president of the International Ort, to a small gathering at the Hotel Pennsylvania, Monday evening.
As part of the anniversary celebration which will take place in November, Dr. Bramson declared the Ort has planned to expend $250,000 to build a number of small community centers throughout Eastern Europe for technical activity and study, to be opened in the Fall. A book outlining the economic problems of the Jews and explaining the work of the Ort, will be published, and a moving picture, describing its activities, will be produced to be shown at anniversary celebrations throughout the world.
In describing the inception of the organization, Dr. Bramson told of the difficulties encountered until finally in 1880 the Russian Government granted a charter for a temporary committee to alleviate the distress of Russian Jews. The second period in the history of the Ort began, he declared, in 1906 when it was organized into a society. The third period, of greatest activity, began in 1920, when the Ort was incorporated as an international federation.
The meeting was Dr. Bramson’s last public appearance in this country before his return to Europe, and the assembly was the occasion for a number of personal tributes to him from Louis B. Baudin, chairman of the meeting Dr. A. Coralnik, Dr. N. I. Stone, S. Niger, B. Edlin, Dr. S. Elsberg, and Mrs. Leon Harris, head of the women’s division of the American Ort.
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