Overemphasis on emigration of Jews from Poland was condemned by B.C. Vladeck, president of the American ORT Federation, addressing about 300 persons at an ORT meeting Monday night in the Hotel Pennsylvania. Mr. Vladeck returned recently from a tour of Europe and Palestine.
Adolph Held, president of the Amalgamated Bank, who visited Biro-Bidjan, said that while only 5,000 to 10,000 Jews could be settled there annually, “I do not hesitate to recommend that settlement in Biro-Bidjan be strongly and heartily supported by the ORT as one of the potential solutions to the problems of the Jews in Eastern Europe.
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