A world conference for Yiddish and Yiddish-Hebrew Education was opened in New York today with numerous delegates from the United States and 10 other countries. Among the delegates are representatives from Israel, Latin America, Australia, South Africa and European lands.
The conference, which will hold its deliberations five days, concluding Monday, is being held under the auspices of the World Congress for Jewish Culture and three American, national organizations of Yiddish language schools–the Workmen’s Circle, Farband-Labor Zionist Order and the Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute. Among the items on the agenda are recruitment of teachers for Yiddish and Yiddish-Hebrew schools; publication of suitable textbooks for such schools; and the relation between these schools and the Jewish community funds.
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