More Than 400 Jewish Leaders from 50 Countries in World Conference on Soviet Jewry

More than 400 prominent Jewish leaders in 50 countries have indicated they will participate in the World Conference on Soviet Jewry, to be held here Feb. 23-26, according to a conference spokesman. Those expected to attend include United States Sens. Jacob K. Javits of New York and Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut; Prof, Albert B. Sabin, president of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel; Avraham Harman, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Israeli Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohen; Gideon Hausner, Knesset member and prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann; Dr. Immanuel Jakobovits, the Chief Rabbi of Britain; Dr. Jacob Kaplan, the Chief Rabbi of France: Eva Violet, the Marchioness of Reading (England); Abraham Shlonsky of Tel Aviv, the noted Hebrew poet; Dr. Gershon Scholem, president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University; writers Saul Bellow, Eli Wiesel, Manes Sperber and Andre Schwarz-Bart; and former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion, who will deliver the closing address.

As reported earlier, the opening session will be addressed by Prof. Raymond Aron of the Sorbonne in Paris and by Arthur J. Goldberg, former U. S. Supreme Court Justice and former ambassador to the United Nations. The sponsors of the conference are the Jewish Agency, the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, the European Conference on Soviet Jewry, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Latin American Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The British delegation will be headed by Michael M. Fidler, president of the Board of Deputies. The American delegation will number 130. Members of Parliament from various Western countries are also expected to participate.