Plans for inauguration of a fund-raising campaign to assist Polish, German and other European Jews to settle in the Jewish autonomous territory of Biro-Bidjan in Soviet Russia were announced today at a luncheon of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan at the Bankers Club.
Soviet Consul General Jeane Arens said that “the time is not far when we will see a flourishing Jewish Soviet republic in Biro-Bidjan.”
The importance of transferring impoverished Polish and other eastern European Jews to the region was stressed by other speakers, among whom were Prof. Marcus Nadler of New York University, Benjamin Winter, president of the Federation of Polish Jews in America John L. Bernstein, president of HIAS; David A. Brown, chairman of the American ORT campaign; Prof. Horace M. Kallen of the New
School for Social Research; Benjamin Brown, chairman of the advisory board for the Highstown project; Geroid T. Robinson of Columbia and ex-Congressman William W. Cohen, who presided.
Icor, American organization promoting settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, will celebrate the election of the region’s first government Dec. 18, 1934 with a concert tomorrow night at the Central Opera House.
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