(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The strike of the Jewish social workers was extended today to the personnel of the soup kitchen for intellectuals. The kitchen distributes 1300 meals daily.
The Executive of the Kehillah requested the strikers’ committee to permit the cemetery employees to bury the dead. No reply has yet been received from the committee.
SPECIMEN VOLUME OF NEW JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA IS PUBLISHED IN BERLIN
A specimen volume of the Encyclopedia Judaica, the new Jewish encyclopedia in Hebrew and German, published by the Eskel Publishing Company of Berlin, has been received in the United States.
The encyclopedia, which, it is planned, will also appear in English, will consist of ten volumes of 800 pages each. Preparations for the instance of the new encyclopedia have been under way for the last two years. The editorial staff, consisting of prominent Jewish and non-Jewish scholars, is headed by Dr. Jacob Klatzkin, Professor I. Elbogen, Professor M. Guttmann, Professor Weil, Dr. H. Torczyner, Dr. Nahum Goldman and Dr. M. Soloweitschik. Professors Louis Ginsburg, Israel Davidson. Alexander Marx, Harry Wolfson, and Louis Mann are among the American contributors to the encyclopedia.
Dr. Jacob Klatzkin and Dr. Goldman, who are in this country in the interests of the encyclopedia will be honored at a reception on Sunday, April 18. Addresses will be delivered by Louis Lipsky, Professor Wolfson and Dr. Max Raisin. The reception will be given at the Hias, New York, under the auspices of the Histadruth Ivrith. Abraham Goldberg, President of the Histadruth, will preside. The specimen volume contains a number of treatises on the subjects of Jewish Arts and crafts, the Alexandria Jewish community, Alchemy and the Jews. The volume is profusely illustrated.
Prize winners in a contest for contributors, conducted by Young Israel, were just announced by Miss Weihl, editor of the magazine. Young Israel which is a magazine for Jewish children published under the auspices of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, offered prizes of $100 for the best article, $103 for the best short story, $50 for the best ### $100 for the best illustration appearing in its publication from April, 1925, to April, 1926.
Max Robin is the winner for the best article, Sulamith Isch–Kishor, for the best story. Yossef Gaer, for the best poem, and Penina Kishor for the best illustration.
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