(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
A Bibliographical Department has been opened in association with the Chair for Yiddish Literature at the Ukrainian Academy. The Department will keep a register of all publications appearing in Yiddish both in the Soviet Union and abroad. Correspondents will be appointed in various countries to keep the Department in touch with all Yiddish publication activity. Lists will be kept of particular branches of Yiddish publication activity, such as the Yiddish labor press, educational books, and individual writers, it was announced here.
A complete list will be drawn up of all books and newspapers which have appeared in Yiddish since the existence of Yiddish printing. Another list will be compiled of collections of Yiddish manuscripts and commissions of experts will be set up to make records of unrecorded Yiddish manuscripts which are to be found in either public or private collections.
The head of the Yiddish Department at the Ukrainian Academy, Nahum Stiff, has been appointed administrtor of the new Bibliographical Department.
Y.M.H.A. CAMPAIGN RECEIVES TWO LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS
Two anonymous contributions, one of $30,000 and one of $25,000, were announced in connection with the Young Men’s Hebrew Association’s $1,500,000 building fund campaign. Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer announced that he had received the gifts at a meeting of Y. M. H. A. directors at the Chemists’ Club, 52 East Forty-first Street.
Headquarters for the campaign will be opened on Monday at the Hotel Biltmore, and daily luncheons will be held at which the reports of soliciting teams will be submitted to Justice Proskauer. Sixteen teams of solicitors, covering sixteen industries and professions, have been organized and will begin work at once. The $1,500,000 fund is to build an eleven-story annex to the Y. M. H. A. building at Lexington Avenue and Ninety-second Street.
Among those who participated in the meeting were Judge Proskauer, Judge Irving Lehman, of the New York State Court of Appeals, Henry J. Bernheim, Samuel J. Bloomingdale, campaign chairman, Hyman S. Crystal, Sidney O. Crystal, Aaron Rabinowitz, Ludwig Vogelstein, Henry M. Toch, Commissioner Joseph Levensohn, Lester Hoffheimer, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman and Louis Marshall.
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