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ORT's Technical Jewish Assistance Plans
Evaluated on Movement's Anniversary

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By DR. WILLIAM HABER
Next month, in London, dele-
gates from Jewish communities
in 25 countries will assemble to
celebrate the 80th anniversary
of ORT, Organization for Re-
habilitation through Training,
one of the oldest welfare agen-
cies in Jewish life.
The year of ORT's founding
in 1880 in Czarist Russia seems
located in the
far distant
past. But it is
not so much a
matter 'of the
length of the
time span that
effectively
transformed
the world dur
ing these in-
tervening dec-
ades.
Yet, eight
decades a g o,
the antece-
dents of the
great majority
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of today's
American Jews 11 d in Eastern
Europe. Nor was e size of
this population m c less than
that of the
erican
community.
nditions
of life d .
astically.
All
elect categor-
ere restricted to
ns and
ages

grams have proven to be large numbers of the youth of
powerful aids for human recon- these ancient ghettos.
•trnotion, for rekindling hope
ORT today is providing
and the ability to work, learn training to some 40,000 per-
and be productive once more. sons, annually, in 19 coun-
In Israel vocational train- tries. It maintains 650 train-
ing has obvious significance ing units and teaches over
for the economic integration 70 different trades. In doing
of its newcomers, the major- so it has helped to alter the
ity of them from underde- occupational pattern of large
veloped societies: numbers, opening many new
Equally, the formation of areas of job and work oppOr-
skilled manpower_ to operate tunity to Jews.
the emerging industries of Is-
The American Jewish com-
rael, calls. for, an expanding munity provides a large portion
program of trade and technical of the funds for this program,
Schools. And so, ORT has had most of it from the UJA
its most extensive development through the Joint Distribution
in Israel: Technical training Committee. But fully half the
centers are' operated in 22 lo- budget is met locally, or by
calities throughout the land, groups and communities out-
with an annual enrollment of side the U.S.
almost 10,000.
Thus, an idea born in the
In the Moslem lands of North ferment of Eastern European
Africa and Iran, a half-million Jewry, in an age gone by, re-
Jews live today under condi- mains vital and valid for the
tions that are, if anything, even world of today. In our current
more wretched than prevailed idiom, the work of ORT has
30 years ago in Eastern Europe. been characterized as "tech-
These areas are no longer out- nical assistance." And it is,
side the range of modern in- indeed, the technical assistance
fluence, and the trade schools program of the Jewish people
have opened new horizons for throughout the world.

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ccupations. A few
were
'sans. Most, like
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"luftm schen," peddlers, inn-
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bleak, the spiritual existence of r
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creative. Toward the latter half
of the century a fresh spirit was
abroad within the ghetto con-
fines. The movement known as
the Haskala, or Enlightenment,
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stirred
ew ferment of intel-
lectual
citement, stimulating
desire act for equal rights and
Jewis
ancipation.. .
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At e same time, the tradi-,
tion onomy; poor - as it was,
was ing battered by powerful
fo of economic modernize=
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do as the industrial revolution
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sp d eastward, The small-town
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ange. The times called for
ew a 's • ches to the social
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extremes of Jewish pov-
rty through rendering more
people economically produc-
tive had long been propagated
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by a few leaders of the com-
munity. In 1880, a group of
Imported and Domestic China; Stemware,
Jewish industrialists and in-
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tellectuals of St. PetersbUrg
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petitioned the Czar for the
privilege of establishing :it
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fund for "developing artisanal
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and agricultural ocetipations
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religionists," .w.h-i eh; became
known as ORT.
Creation of a vocational
training .ageney for. the Jewish .
people was part of the moderni-
zation process of Eastern Euro:
pean Jewry. By undertaking a
task that - is customarily the
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May you be blessed with a year
function of governments, the.
community was expressing, in
of Health and Happiness
this as in so many other wel-•
fare areas, the principle of self-
help which has such profoun&
_ and creative roots in the Jew-
ish past.
,
While that world of 80 yearS'
ago has vanished, the need for
Ca vocational aid, for trade schOols
Established 1890
and training in technical skills,
has acquired heightened rele-
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vance. Through two world wars
,
and
their
aftermaths,
such
pro-
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