Prof, Abraham I. Katsh of New York University has received a $4,000 grant to microfilm Hebraic and Judaic manuscripts in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the Rockefeller Foundation announced today. Prof. Katsh, chairman of NYU’s Department of Hebrew Culture and Education, has already photographed priceless manuscripts in libraries in Leningrad, Moscow and elsewhere in the USSR.
A second grant if $4,400 went to Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the seminary arm of the Reform movement, for the convening of a conference on the desirability and content of a program of advanced religious studies.
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