The establishment of a $50,000 Nathan Chanin Cultural Foundation, honoring the 75th birthday of Mr. Chanin, general secretary of the Workmen’s Circle, was voted here today at the conclusion of a three-day conference of the organization’s national board of directors.
One of the aims of the foundation, spelled out by Israel Breslau, former president of the Workmen’s Circle and a vice-president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, is to encourage studies–on the college and university level–of the history of the Jewish labor movement, and the Yiddish theater and literature in the United States. The foundation will also establish a Yiddish children’s theater in New York, and aid the existing theater of this type in Philadelphia. Annual scholarships will be awarded to students in the relevant fields in colleges and universities.
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