Commendation of the Citizens Committee which ordered the Jewish Communal Survey of Greater New York was expressed by the “New York Evening Post.” Writing editorially, the paper states:
“During the past ten years the Jewish population has decreased in every part of Manhattan except Washington Heights. In The Bronx and Brooklyn it has increased. The increase in Brooklyn has been so large that that borough now has almost as many Jews as Manhattan and the Bronx combined. Moreover, the trend away from Manhattan is continuing.
“These facts have been ascertained in a study made by the Jewish Communal Survey, which has for its object the finding of answers to such questions as where Jewish hospitals, educational centers and other institutions which may be established in the next few decades should be located, and whether there should be two federations as now, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn, or a single federation to include all Jewish charities in the greater city.
“We cannot say that we are surprised at this fresh evidence of the alertness of New Yorkers of the Jewish race who are interested in philanthropy. The record of the two federations is so extraordinary as to make it difficult for anybody who has followed their work to be astonished at any achievement they may add to the list. The present survey is worth noting. however, as an example of the kind of activity that renders modern philanthropy a new thing under the sun–a combination of sympathy and efficiency which, if anything can, will some day reduce poverty to the vanishing point.
“What the Jewish survey is doing for Jewish charitable endeavor might well be done by other surveys for the charitable work of other organizations. In a way, of course, any one tries to look ahead before selecting a permanent site for any activity, but the special merit of the Jewish study lies in its comprehensiveness. It takes in the entire city and the trend of population from one part to another. It asks what the situation is likely to be ten years from now and it proposes to plan on the basis of the answer to that question.
“The Jewish federations have long been a model of philanthropic administration. The present survey is a model of philanthropic foresight,” the Post concludes.
75 AMERICAN SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS SENT TO EUROPE BY GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
Seventy-five young American scholars, scientists and artists who have shown unusual ability will spend all or part of the coming year in study and research abroad through the awards of fellowships announced by the trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The Foundation, which has a capital fund of $3,500,000, was established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim as a memorial to a son who died on April 26, 1922. The wards total $173,000 for the coming year.
Doris Spiegel and William Auerbach-Levy, New York artists, will be among those who will go to France and Italy for creative work in painting under the Foundation.
Dr. Harry Caplan, assistant professor of the classics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York was awarded a fellowship to prepare a book on the history of mediaeval theories of rhetoric.
The trustees of the Foundation are Simon Guggenheim, Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, Francis H. Brownell, Carroll A. Wilson, Charles D. Hilles, Roger W. Straus and Charles Earl, all of New York City.
$36,000 IS RAISED BY WEST SIDE DIVISON OF U.P.A.
The West Side Division of the United Palestine Appeal of Greater New York, which is headed by Judge Max S. Levine and Congressman William Cohen, has raised $36,000, according to a report issued by Judge Levine. Fifteen thousand dollars was subscribed at the first meeting of the Palestine Group of the Society for the Advancment of Judaism, of which Harold Spielberg is Chairman. Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan addressed the meeting.
Among the contributors are: A. L. Liebovitz, $2,000: Israel Unterberg, $2,000: H. H. Liebovitz, $1,500: S. Liebovitz. $1,500: J. M. Wachman, $1,500: Harold Spielberg, $1,000: E. J. Liebovitz. $750: Max Hillson, Sam Samuels, Joseph Samuels, and Joseph Levy, $500 each: Nathan Levy, $250: Dr. Mordecal Kaplan, $150: David Baron, Albert Sanisch, A. J. Bromberg, Simon Asserman, Harry Bachrach. H. B. and L. Bernstein, Max J. Schwartz, and Louis Kleban each gave $100.
Other subscribers include I. D. Morrison, $7,500: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, $1,500: Samuel H. Golding and Dr. A. J. Rongy, $1,000, Jacob Klein, Lazarus White, M. J. Lederman. $300 each; Michael Addison, $125; Burnstein and Geist. Harry Furst, $100 each: and Samuel Valentine. $200.
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