Jewish Community of Uruguay Assures Admission of North African Jews

The Jewish community of Uruguay has provided an initial quantity of job contracts for North African Jews seeking immigration opportunities in Latin America, it was disclosed by Murray, I. Gurfein, president of United Hias Service. At the same time Mr. Gurfein disclosed that the Jewish community of Argentina dubbed that country’s past immigration policy as “anti-Semitic” and adopted a resolution calling on the new Government to permit Jews to immigrate into that country.

The United Hias leader announced that he had received word from the United Hias director in Latin America, Israel Jacobson, that job assurances for several Jewish families in North Africa had been certified as acceptable by the Uruguayan Government. The job assurances have been forwarded to the United Hias offices in Casablanca and Tangiers for processing, Mr. Gurfein said, and the first group of North African Jewish immigrants to reach Uruguay since World War II will soon be resettled in that country.