A book honoring the memory of Michael Wurmbrand, late editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s German–language service in pre-Nazi Germany, and who later edited the JTA German-language services in Prague and Paris, was published-here today by the Philosophical Library. Mr. Wurmbrand died in New York four years ago. He had been with the JTA for 18 years.
The book, entitled "Michael Wurmbrand: The Man and His Work," carries an introduction by Dr. Nahum Goldmann and articles evaluating Mr. Wurmbrand’s journalistic activities written by Boris Smolar, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Manfred George, editor of the German-language paper Aufbau; Kurt Grossman, Jewish Agency consultant on Jewish claims against Germany; Gershon Swet and Sholomo Bickel, well-known Jewish journalists; and Prof, H.W.B. Skinner, of Liverpool University, who was a member of the British mission to America for atomic bomb research.
The volume also contains a well-balanced sampling of Mr. Wurmtrand’s own creative writings, including poems, plays, essays and a section of "Citizen of the Universe"–a major philosophical book on which he was working in the last years before his death.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
