Jewish youth is strongly represented in the city-wide organization which is formulating plans for Jewish Community Day at A Century of Progress, to be observed July 29.
More than 5,000 Jewish youths will take part in afternoon athletic demonstrations and contests in the Court of Honor of the Hall of Science in the Fair grounds.
Rabbi Benjamin A. Daskal, chairman of the youth division, has announced that fifty-one young people’s groups already have joined in the work and that 133 more are invited to enlist.
Prominent in assembling youth groups for the celebration are Harry M. Reiter, chairman of the organizing committee; Miss Sabina Solomovitz, secretary of the youth division; Maurice Kaufman, president of the men’s division of the Chicago Consumptive Aid Society and chairman of the youth division’s membership committee, and Harry Robbin, publicity director of the young people’s division.
The following persons have been named district chairman in charge of youth organization work in their respective communities: Charles Levin, north side; Sol Gootnick and K. K. Kaminsky, northwest side; Norman Rubin, Herman Greisdorf and Earl Blumenthal, west side, and Donald M. Paul, south side.
A committee of twenty-five young men and women to assist in the membership and ticket distribution work has been appointed as follows:
Eva Aaronsen, Esther Brill, Samuel T. Cohen, Betty Eliscee, Ben Ellenbogen, Phil Falk, Irving Fensin, Bessie Glick, Sylvia Goldsmith, Herman Greisdorf, Jack Iltin, Elinor Black Janofsky, B. Kletzky, Charles Levin, Irving Levitas, Esther Lisnek, Jack Pellar, Nathan Rosenberg, H. B. Rubin, Milton A. Saffir, E. Shafer, Roy Soll, Natalie Solomonovitz, Ida Steinberg and Rtuh Zeidman.
Jewish Community Day will be climaxed at night in Soldier Field with the spectacle, “Epic of a Nation,” an entertainment program of four hours’ duration, in which dramatic dancing and choral groups will offer in action, song and music the history of the Jewish race since the beginning of time. The spectacle will feature a symphony of seventy-five pieces under the direction of Leo Kopp and a total cast of more than 5,000 people. I. B. Ury is general chairman of the production and Blake Scott is directing the dramatic and dance groups.
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