Jwb at Moscow Book Fair

The JWB Jewish Book Council, in cooperation with the Association of Jewish Book Publishers, has coordinated an exhibit of Jewish books that will be on display at the Moscow Book Fair, to be held Sept. 2-8, Dr. Robert Gordis, president of the JWB Book Council, has announced.

“While the Association will display the books of Jewish publishers, the JWB Book Council will exhibit books of Jewish interest issued by general publishers,” Gordis said. Books of fiction, non-fiction, adult and children’s books of the following publishers will be exhibited: Bantam Books, Basic Books, Charles Scribners, Crown Publishers, Dell Publishing, Doubleday & Co., Farrar Straus & Giroux, Fawcett Books, Holiday House, Knopf, New American Library, Pocket Books, Putnam, Random House, Simon & Schuster and University of Chicago Press.

Together with the books of the Jewish publishers, there will be over 1,000 titles exhibited. A bilingual catalogue in English and Russian will list all the titles with their publishers and prices. “At the Second International Book Fair in Moscow in 1979, Soviet citizens stood for hours reading the volumes that we displayed,” Gordis said. “Russian-Jewish authors asked whether the Council could advise them on the publication and translation of their works.”