The first volume of the long-projected Yiddish encyclopedia, organized on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of the noted Jewish historian, Professor Simeon Dubnow, will definitely appear in March, 1934, and the subsequent volumes will follow in due course, the Dubnow Fund announced in Paris.
The Dubnow Fund was organized in 1930 in Berlin in order to commemorate the anniversary by the publication of a general encyclopedia in the Yiddish language. On the advent of the Nazis to power the Fund was compelled to suspend its activities.
The general lines of the work and the character of the encyclopedia had already been decided, the contributors had been obtained and the editors of the various sections had started work and the administrative office of the Fund had also secured financial guarantees for the undertaking.
But all these plans were upset by the events in Germany. Members of the administrative committee and the editorial board were compelled to leave Berlin. The presidium of the Dubnow Fund Committee and the editorial board transferred their activities to Paris, where efforts were launched to continue the work of publishing the encyclopedia. Considerable support was secured and the work is now proceeding.
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