During the past nine years $68,185.60 was distributed among seventy-two Hebrew scholars and writers and their widows by the Israel Matz Foundation, according to the report just issued, reviewing the activities of the institution since its inception.
A sum of $9,264.97 was thus paid out to thirty-nine literati and scholars in 1933-34. Among the beneficiaries are many who are foremost in Hebrew literature, who through illness or old age are prevented from making a living. Some of those receiving funds reside in foreign countries, including Palestine.
Leo Matz is executive secretary.
The board of trustees includes Professor M. M. Kaplan, chairman, John L. Bernstein, Professor Morris Levine, Dr. I. H. Levinthal, the Rev. Z. H. Masliansky, Emanuel Neuman, A. S. Orlans, Dr. Max S. Raisin and Peter Wiernik.
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