William M. Landau, president of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, announced today the appointment of Adam Loss of Paris as a member of the JTA Board of Directors. Loss is the Deputy Director General of the central Jewish welfare agency in France, Fonds Social Juif Unifie, and Secretary General of “Arche,” a monthly magazine devoted to French Judaism.
Loss was born in 1928 in Belorussia and emigrated to Poland in 1945. He came to France in 1947 and graduated from the Institute of Political Studies and the Commercial Institute of the University of Grenoble. During his student years he was Secretary General of the Union of Jewish Students in France and later vice-president of the World Union of Jewish Students. Before joining the FSJU he served as a senior economist in a large French business enterprise.
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