$50,000 Gift Endows Chair at Hebrew U.

Coinciding with the opening of the tenth academic year of Hebrew University in Jerusalem today, Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, president of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, announced an anonymous gift of $50,000 toward the endowment of a professorship in Jewish studies at the University.

The donor, Dr. Rosenbach said, is an American who for the present wishes to remain anonymous. It is hoped that permission will be obtained to announce his name later.

The Hebrew University office in New York also received recently the final payment on pledges for the establishment of the Louis D. Brandeis lectureship at the University for 1934-35, through a gift of the New Century Club of Boston; and the Nathan Gordon lectureship through the gift of Nathan Gordon of Boston. A lectureship in honor of Felix Frankfurter, professor of law at Harvard University, also has been pledged by a Boston committee of his friends, and the fund has practically been completed. All three lectureships are to be filled by appointment of scholars exiled from Germany.

An instructorship at the University in honor of Lassor Agoos of Boston has been established for the year 1934-35 by his son, Solomon Agoos.

Mrs. Annie N. Lurie of New York City has provided funds for the Raphael Goldstein fellowship, in honor of her late father, to be awarded to a member of the faculty of the University in the field of Jewish studies.

Walter Blumenthal of New York City has established the Wilma Blumenthal Rau fellowship in honor of his late sister.

As previously announced, Eddie Cantor recently provided funds for the Ida Cantor fellowship, in honor of his wife, and Maurice Weil of St. Louis has similarly honored the comedian himself by establishing the Eddie Cantor fellowship. Two additional fellowships for the year 1934-35 have been pledged by Max Shoolman and E. M. Loew, both of Boston.