A change in the economic structure of the Jews to fit many for industry and agriculture “is today the urgent and vital task for all Jewry,” declares Dr. David Lvovitch, vice-president of the International ORT Union, in a study of “The Economic Situation of the Jews in Poland and Other Eastern European Countries,”distributed by the American ORT Federation.
ORT has helped about a half million Jews to become self-supporting by training and placing them in industry and agriculture during the past 58 years, Dr. Lvovitch reports, but “much more needs to be done in the direction of productivization among the five million Jews in Europe, who are poverty-stricken, discriminated against and persecuted.”
Reviewing the work of the ORT, Dr. Lvovitch says that the organization maintains 165 trade schools and courses with more than 8,000 pupils, with the graduates in the past seven years totalling some 30,000. More than 80 per cent of the graduates have found employment in the trades which they learned in the ORT schools.
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