Yiddish Institute of Science Makes Report

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

In connection with the second anniversary of the establishment in Berlin of the Jewish Institute of Science, a special volume has just been published here dealing with the work accomplished by the Institute and its further program of work.

According to the program, the aim of the Jewish Institute is to be a centre for scientific work in Yiddish, the central body for research in the promotion of the Yiddish language and literature, a training centre for those who desire to work in the field of Jewish learning and culture, and a registration office for Jewish cultural life throughout the world.

The Institute consists of four sections: philological, historical, economic statistical and pedagogic. There is also a bibliographical centre, an archive, a library and a museum. The Institute publishes volumes of collected essays and special works on scientific questions. It acts as an Institute for training young scientists and teachers for the Yiddishist secondary schools and seminaries and establishes contact between individual workers in the field of Jewish cultural research and serves an an information bureau on the question of the Jewish cultural movement in all countries.