FAIR,  1895.
 

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man) met and elected the following eight ad¬
ditional directors : Morris Loeb, Louis Stern,
Marcus M. Marks, M. Warley Platzek, Jacob
H. Schiff, Edwin R. A. Seligman, Isidor
Straus, and Levi Samuels. The three direct¬
ors designated by the Young Men's Hebrew
Association were: Robert Cohen, Benjamin
Tuska and Miss A. Minnie Herts.

The legal requirements affecting the re¬
organization having been complied with, the
new Board of Directors met on June i, 1893,
 

the Educational Alliance shall tend towards
closer relations between the associations now
engaged in work in the Hebrew Institute and
the union and co-operation of all the other
Jewish educational societies in the city of New
York."

To carry out an undertaking of such far-
reaching importance, the Alliance had to rely
upon a generous community. An appeal for
funds was made, and, though the times were
unpropitious, it met with a hearty response.
 

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for the purpose of organization. The follow¬
ing officers w^ere elected: President, Isidor
Straus ; Finst Vice-President, Samuel Green-
baum ; Second Vice President, Myer S Isaacs ;
Secretary, F. Spiegelberg; Treasurer, Albert
Friedlander.

The objects of the Educational Alliance are
stated in the above-mentioned agreement in
the following words •: " The scope of the work
of the Educational Alliance shall be of an
Americanizing, educational, social and human¬
izing character,'' and further :   '' The policy of
 

Our Jewish citizens, who now, for the first time,
were asked to support a great and distinctively
educational society, were not found wanting.
At the very outset an extensive plan of the
proposed work was prepared and adopted, and
has ever since formed the foundation for the
work carried on by the Educational Alliance.

The work was grouped under the following
heads: Social Work, Educational Work,
Physical Work and Moral Work :

Social Work.—The social work comprises
all those agencies calculated  to  develop the