The National Jewish Welfare Board and the Theodor Herzi Institute today announced plans for convening the first national conference on Jewish writing and Jewish writers in the U. S. The conference will open on November 16 at the headquarters of the Theodor Herzl Institute here. The parley will bring together Jewish authors active in a variety of Jewish literary fields for the three-day gathering.
The conference which will seek to evaluate the problems and prospects of Jewish writing in this country will be the opening event of the national observance of Jewish Book Month. In a number of plenary sessions and workshops, the conference participants will discuss the following: themes for Jewish writing; the Jewish writer–social critic of Jewish life; Israel-America; Jewish juvenile literature; writing for Jewish organizations the Jewish writer, his work and his public, and interpreting the American Jew.
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