11,000 Personalities Listed in New Edition of ‘who’s Who in World Jewry’

A new, enlarged 1,100-page edition of “Who’s Who in World Jewry,” containing biographical sketches of more than 11,000 Jews throughout the world, was published by the David McKay Company, Inc. today. The new edition, edited by Harry Schneiderman and I.J. Carmin Karpman, includes biographical sketches of about 8,000 Americans, 1,600 Israelis, and, in all, includes representatives of 20 countries.

Of the 11,000 biographies, the largest group is in sciences and medicine, slightly over 2,000. The breakdown of other groups included in the new “Who’s Who” are more than 1,600 in commerce and industry, almost 1,400 in law, including 110 judges, 1,600 college professors and educators, almost 1,000 rabbis, 1,500 in the arts, a little less than half of whom are writers and the other half musicians, artists, sculptors and actors, almost 1,000 public officials, and nearly 400 social and communal workers.

Of the almost 8,000 Americans listed in the new “Who’s Who,” more than 5,000 are native born with the remaining 3,000 born abroad, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. The largest single age group of Americans is in the age group between 45 and 50. Of the 11,000 persons included in the “Who’s Who,” a little less than 3,000 about 25 per cent, are women.

“The biographies of 11,000 distinguished Jews throughout the world, veritably a living Hall of Fame, is visible evidence of what a small minority of the world’s people has contributed to the betterment of all humanity.” Dr. Harry Cohen, honorary president of the project, stated. The two co-editors of the revised edition have distinguished records. Mr. Carmin Karpman is executive vice-president of the “Encyclopaedia Judaica,” a new 15-volume project now being edited by noted American and Israeli scholars.