The new campaign for funds for the 1931 Budget of the Joint Distribution Committee of America to enable it to carry on its work on behalf of the Jewish population of the East European countries, is being launched under the chairmanship of Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, of the Central Synagogue of New York, Mr. Felix M. Warburg, the Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, announces in a letter which he has sent out to several hundred leaders of the various Jewish communities of the United States.
The condition of European Jewry is so deplorable that continued aid is necessary to sustain them, Mr. Warburg writes in his letter. Although we, with your help and the help of other American Jewish leaders, he goes on, have accomplished what might be considered a herculean task for suffering European Jewry during the past sixteen years, we find that the plight of our people overseas, and especially in the East European countries, is so deplorable that we are compelled to continue our assistance to them. What we have undertaken, we must carry on; we cannot – dare not – stop. Our people need us now as never before and, whatever our situation may be at this moment, it is nothing as compared with the lot of those in Eastern Europe.
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