B. Z. Goldberg, an editor of The Day, Yiddish newspaper, will present a first-hand picture of Biro-Bidjan on December 26 at the New School for Social Research, 66 West Twelfth Street, before the first conference of the American Committee for Settlement of Jews in the U. S. R. R. Goldberg, the first American newspaperman to visit Biro-Bidjan since the Soviet government officially proc###ed it an autonomous Jewish region, recently returned from a three months’ survey of the district.
James Waterman Wise and William W. Cohen, chairman of the committee, are also scheduled to speak. A report on the interview granted to a delegation of the committee by Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, will be presented.
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