The four-day annual conference of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research opened here last night at Hunter College Assembly with a tribute to the late Justice Brandeis on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death. Dr. Alexander M. Bickel, professor of law and legal history at Yale University, addressed the audience on the role which Justice Brandeis played in American constitutional jurisprudence, and stressed his interest in the economic development of Palestine. More than 1,000 persons attended the opening session.
The session, which was presided over by Dr. Israel Knox, associate professor of philosophy at New York University, also heard an address by Dr. Khone Shmeruk, professor of Yiddish at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on “Polish Jewry in the Mirror of Soviet Yiddish Literature.” Dr. Shmeruk reviewed the writings of Yiddish authors in the Soviet Union in the postwar era when their works appeared in Russian only.
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