Palestine Institute Opened at Prussian University

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

An Institute for the study of Palestine history and topography was opened at the University of Greifswald, Prussia.

Festivities accompanied the opening of the institute which will bear the name of Professor Gustave Dalman, internationally famous scholar.

Professor Dalman gained international fame through his research work on the epoch of the rise of Christianity in Palestine and particularly for his work on the “Gospel of Jesus in the Light of Post-Biblical Literature.” He also made a thorough study of the Aramaic language. Pupils and admirers of Professor Dalman decided to commemorate his seventieth birthday, which he celebrated in Jerusalem last June, by the establishment in Jerusalem of an Institute for Palestine Research which will also bear his name.

BREVITIES

The House Committee on Immigration tabled the bill introduced by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York, granting American citizenship to the members of the crew of the President Roosevelt for their heroic rescue of the officers and men of the British ship Antinoe.

To exempt the members of the crew from the normal five-year restriction period required for naturalization would set a dangerous precedent, the committee contended. The bravery of these men should be rewarded by the government in some other way, members of the committee agreed.

Rabbi Ber Abramowitz, formerly of St. Louis, died in Palestine at the age of 66. Rabbi Abramowitz, who was born in Palestine, came to New York twenty-five years ago. After a short stay here he located in St. Louis, where he remained until his return to Palestine in 1920. Three years ago he returned to America for a visit.

Morris Jaffee, Jewish communal worker, died in New York on Monday night, in his forty-eighth year. Mr. Jaffee had been a merchant on the west side for twenty-five years. He was a member of Golden Rule Lodge No. 770, F. and A. M.; Young Friends Association, the West Side Hebrew Relief Association, through which he founded the Ezrath Israel Synagogue and Hebrew School.

Mr. Jaffe was also active in the Independent West Side Association, Longacre Circle, Adath Israel, Jacob Joseph Parochial School, Hebrew Free Loan Society and the Israel Orphan Asylum. He was also instrumental in the organizing of the Kaufman-Lerner Family Association.

The work and achievements of Philip B. Perlman while serving as City Solicitor of Baltimore, Md., were praised Monday night at a testimonial dinner given in his honor at the Hotel Renner: by his former colleagues of the Board of Estimates and Board of Awards. Mayor Howard W. Jackson acted as toastmaster.

Candidates endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan for places on School Boards in several Iowa cities were defeated. Des Moines, Dubuque, Perry, Creston, Centerville and several smaller cities saw anti-Klan forces win. The order had no ticket in Davenport for the first time in several years.

Jacob Markin, of New York City, Monday lost a fight to have his wife admitted to this country. Markin is a naturalized American citizen. Since his naturalization was not effected until after the passage of the Cable act of 1922, the immigration authorities held it did not carry with it naturalization for his wife.

When she arrived at Ellis Island she was stopped on the grounds that her physical defects would interfere with her earning a living and therefore she might become a public charge. The courts declined to intervene in her behalf and she was ordered deported. Markin, as a last resort, appealed to the Supreme Court. The appeal was denied.