Committees Will Hear Reports on Results This Week
The survey of the Jewish communal resources of greater New York, undertaken two years ago by the Bureau of Jewish Social Research at the request of a Citizens’ Committee headed by Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, with Dr. Lee K. Frankel as the chairman of the Executive Committee, is nearing completion, it was announced yesterday.
The first of a series of committee meetings of volunteers constituting in charge of the survey will be held on Wednesday at the Harmonie Club, when the Child Care Committee will meet under the chairmanship of Judge William N. Cohen.
Serving on the Child Care Committee with Judge Cohen are Samuel Strausbourger, Judge Aaron J. Levy, Judge Gustave Hartman, Sam A. Lewisohn. Mrs. Sylvan Stix. Herman W. Block, Max Blumberg, Judge Algeron I. Nova, Walter N. Rothschild, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Col. Herbert H. Lehman, Benjamin F. Feiner. Eli Winkler, Roger W. Straus Edmond F. Wise, Mrs. Myron L. Borg and Alfred F. Hess.
The survey has two goals in view, according to the announcement. The first of these is to acquaint the Jewish community with the nature and extent of its problems in the field of Jewish communal work, and second to outline a plan for the future of Jewish community effort.
The survey will show how the Jewish population is distributed throughout the city and how it is distributed in various age groups: what its death rate and health rate is and what have been the principal causes of death among Jews. Insofar as Jewish philanthropic work is concerned, the study embraces investigation of the 4.500 Jewish children undercare in various orphan asylums, and institutions. A study also is being made of the thousands of Jewish families that are dependent; of the recreational and cultural work that is being done among Jews; a study of what facilities for bringing health to the Jewish community may exist and of what the needs are in behalf of the aged, the chronically sick and the acutely sick.
Other problems which the research workers are concerning themselves with are: delinquency among Jews and the extent of Jewish education being fostered. The survey includes every type of Jewish communal work both within the New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charities and in organizations not affiliated.
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