An exhibition of the work done in the vocational schools, the model workshops and the farming communities established by the Ort, the Association for the Promotion of Agricultural and Technical Trades among the Jews, will be opened Thursday, April 11th, in the Federation Building, New York City.
The exhibition which will remain open for a week, will be followed by the formal opening of a nation-wide $1,000,000 campaign of which Howard S. Cullman is chairman. The funds will maintain and extend the society’s present activities among the declassed Jews of Russia, those suffering from the guild laws in Poland and the impoverished populations in other sections of Eastern Europe.
A section of the exhibit shows the Ort methods of training Jewish young men and women to earn their living in occupations from which their ancestors had been barred. Another demonstrates the means taken to improve the standards of instruction.
Other divisions are devoted to the results of teaching of trades to adults and to the progress of the back to the farm movement. Members of the women’s division of the American Ort, of which Mrs. Leon Harris is chairman, will serve as guides.
American-made machinery, such as Jews of this country ship to their relatives abroad, will also be on display.
The exhibit has already been shown in Warsaw, Berlin, Frankfort-on-Main, and Cologne. It is to be sent to England after the American showing.
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