Wednesday, December 12
Baron Edmond de Rothschild Memorial Assembly, under auspices of the Jewish National Fund. Hotel Astor, Broadway and Forty-fourth street, 8:30 p. m. Speakers: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Judge Julian W. Mack, Louis Lipsky, Dr. Israel Goldstein, Rabbi Wolf Gold, Chaim Greenberg, Mrs. Edward Jacobs. Joseph Kramer, Morris Rothenberg. Broadcast over Station WNEW, 10 p. m.
New School for Social Research, 66 West Twelfth street; “Contemporary American Drama,” Anita Block; 8:20 p. m.
Contempora, 509 Madison avenue, 8:30 p. m. “Europe Today,” Dr. Alfons Goldschmidt.
“Jews in France,” Mrs. Andre Alphandery, 14 East Sixtieth street; 8:30 p. m.
Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun Adult School for Jewish Studies. 117 East Eighty-fifth street; 8:30 p. m.; class in Jewish History under the direction of Jacob De Haas. “Palestine Under the Roman Lash.”
Meeting of the Physicians ‘Wives’ League of Greater New York, Hotel Astor, Broadway and Forty-fourth street; 2 p. m. “Crime in Russia,” Mrs. Eva Robin.
Discussion meeting, Men’s Club of the Free Synagogue, Synagogue House, 40 West Sixty-eighth street; 8:30 p. m. “Palestine versus Soviet Possibilities of Settlement—Crimes and Biro-Bidjan,” Maurice Samuels, Leon Dennen, B. Z. Goldberg.
School of the Jewish Woman, Theatre Benefit. Jewish Folks Theatre, Second avenue at Twelfth street; “Mechutonim,” 8:30 p. m.
Meeting of the Pro-Palestine Federation of America. Pennsylvania Hotel, Seventh avenue at Thirty-fourth street; 8 p. m.
Congregation Emanu-El, First Annual Congregational Dinner, Isaac M. Wise Memorial Hall, 1 East Sixty-fifth street; 6:30 p. m.
Violin concert by Paul Musikonski, Carnegie Hall. Seventh avenue at Fifty-seventh street; evening.
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Ninety-second street and Lexington avenue; Rabbi Henry M. Rosenthal, “The Emergency of New Centers in Jewish Life”; 8:15 p. m.
Jewish Women’s Hour; Station WBNX; 1:30 p. m.
Luncheon and bridge for the benefit of Camp Sussex and the Infants Home of Brooklyn, Hotel McAlpin, Broadway at Thirty-fourth street; afternoon; under the auspices of the Chari-Tot Club.
Annual meeting of Hebrew Educational Society, Hopkinson and Sutter avenues, Brooklyn; 8 p. m.
Annual meeting of Women’s Auxiliary of Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Ralph avenue and Dean street. Brooklyn; 2 p. m.
Simeone de Guizolfi, Genoese Jew, married Bikhakhanim, reigning princess of the Taman peninsula in the Crimea in 1419.
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