James G. McDonald, former High Commissioner for Refugees will receive this year’s Gottheil Medal awarded by the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity to the American who has done the most for Jewry, it was announced today.
The award is made on the basis of a poll of a jury of editors representing the Anglo-Jewish press. Presentation will be made at the fraternity’s banquet in Syracuse, N.Y., May 9.
The award to Mr. McDonald is made “by reason of his extraordinary service in caring for thousands of Jewish refugees from Germany whose misery he toiled unceasingly to alleviate, and by reason of his dramatic and scholarly letter of resignation accurately analyzing the problem of the German Jew, vividly portraying its agonizing consequences and fearlessly pointing out the unnecessary but effective obstacles to a humane solution.”
The Gottheil Medal was established in honor of Dr. Richard J.H. Gottheil of Columbia University for many years President of Zeta Beta Tau. Previous recipients of the medal included Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Felix M. Warburg, the late Julius Rosenwald, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Rev. Everett R. Clinchy of New York City, Father J. Elliott Rose of Charlottesville, Virginia and Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore.
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