The tenth annual country directors’ conference of the Joint Distribution Committee opened at UNESCO House here today with more than 100 Jewish community leaders from all over the world in attendance for the sessions, which are scheduled to last four days.
In addition to hearing reports from JDC directors in 21 European countries as well as reports from North Africa, the United States, South Africa and South America, the conference will discuss 1956 needs all over the world, Israel’s ability to absorb large-scale immigration from North Africa, the future of Jewish communities in Moslem countries, and the progress of Jews in European communities.
Attending the conference are 54 members of a study mission sent abroad last week by the United Jewish Appeal of the United States. Among those in attendance are Edward M.M. Warburg, William Rosenwald, Moses M. Leavitt and Rabbi Herbert Friedman, all of New York; Sir Henry Davigdor Goldsmid of London, a member of the British Parliament; Heinz Galinski, head of the Jewish community in West Berlin; Dr. Giora Joseph that, of Jerusalem, treasurer of the Jewish Agency; Dr. Emil Maurer, of Vienna; Baron Guy de Rothschild, of Paris; and Abel Shaban, of Johannesburg.
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