THE JEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8354, 6 September 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE JEWS.

Ox Sunday, June 29, the annual meeting of ' the Anglo-Jewish Association was held at the Hall, Store-street, Bedford Square. Sir Julian Golds mid, M.P. (president), occupied the chair. In the nineteenth annual report, the adoption of which was moved by the chairman, the council stated that they had on frequent occasions during the past year to invoke the good offices of Her Majesty's Government on behalf of persecuted Jews in Asiatic Turkey, in Persia, and in Morocco, and the prompt action taken by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had led to justice being obtained for the victims of oppression. No change for the better had taken place in the situation of the Jews either in Russia or in Rournania. Baron de Hirsch was entirely opposed to the emigration of Russian and other Jews to Palestine ; but he was prepared to examine any well-de-fined scheme for aiding Jewish emigrants to settle in the United States or any other part of America. During tho year the association had subventioned twenty-one schools in Bulgaria, Roumania, Palestine, Turkey, India, and Morocco, with grants to the amount of £1640. The motion for the adoption of the report was seconded by Mr. F. D. Mocatta, and agreed to. The annual distribution of prizes to the pupils of the Jows' Free School, Bell-Lane, Snitalfields, was also hold on Sunday. Lady Rothschild handed the prizes to the pupils and the medals to the winners of scholarships. Lord Rothschild, president of tho school, was in the chair. The Jews' Free School was founded in 1818, and since that period has educated more than 47,000 children. The number of present pupils is 2100 boys and 1260 girls. Amongst the speakers was the Rev. Prof. Marks, who, seventy years ago, was a pupil of the school.