News Brief

Studying in Hebrew apparently is no handicap to the twenty young men and women from the United States who this year have elected to study for post-graduate degrees at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. More Americans are now there than have ever before been seen on the campus of the University on Mt. Scopus, according to word received here by the American office of the University from Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Chancellor of the University, who will arrive in New York from Palestine on May 2 for a conference with the American members of the board of governors, Dr. Magnes is himself an American, former Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, New York, and a graduate of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. He became Chancellor of the Hebrew University at its opening in April, 1925.

Eight states are represented in the enrollment at what is said to be the first University of the Jewish people. Two Canadians, one from Montreal and the other a graduate of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, who expects to receive his Ph.D., when the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy are granted for the first time next year, are also enrolled.

MANY STATES REPRESENTED

Representatives from Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania are there, studying. Nine claim New York City as their home. They are Morton Henry Lewittes, from the College of the City of New York; Samuel Joseph Liebowitz, from the same college; Oscar Kritzer, a former student at the Yeshiva College and Hillard Edward Rosenberg, who formerly attended New York University.

Five of the New Yorkers are girls, including sisters, Esther and Judith Grabelsky, who up to this year were enrolled at New York University. Betty Borden, formerly of Long Island University, Naomi Rosenberg of Brooklyn College and Aviva Zuckerman of New York City, are also enrolled. More than one hundred additional new students were enrolled at the Hebrew University in the summer term which began on April 15, according to Dr. Magnes. The substantial increase in enrollment over the 321 students who registered at the University for the fall term, which began last November, is due to the fact that so many students were unable to receive Governmental permits in time to enter them. The summer term which began this month lasts until June 17.

The small but cosmopolitan group on the Palestine campus also includes reprezentatives from the following countries: Russia, Rumania, Lithuania, Latvia, America, Swden, Austria, Bulgaria, South Africa, England, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Esthonia. About one third of the students are women.