The American Jewish Press Association will hold its 22nd anniversary convention at Atlanta, Ga., May 20-23, Morris Janoff, publisher of the Jewish Standard here, and president of the organization, announced today.
The convention will be the first held in the South by the organization of English-Jewish weekly newspapers publishers and editors. Serving as hosts will be the five Southern member papers: the Southern Israelite, of Atlanta; the Jewish Floridian, of Miami; the Nashville (Tenn.) Observer; the Texas Jewish Post, of Ft. Worth-Dallas; and the Hebrew Watchman, of Memphis, Tenn.
A feature of the convention will be a dinner at the Atlanta Jewish Community Center jointly celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Southern Israelite and the Hebrew Watchman. Representatives of the Atlanta and other Southern Jewish communities will address the dinner and discuss the role of the English-Jewish press. Dinner arrangements are being made by Dr. Nathan Blass, chairman of the Atlanta Jewish community’s hospitality committee, and Adolph Rosenberg, publisher of the Southern Israelite and convention chairman.
Business sessions of the convention will be held at the Cabana Motel. Philip Slomovitz, editor and publisher of the Detroit Jewish News, and founder of the organization, will lead the publishers in discussion of newspaper problems. In accordance with custom, the members of the association will observe the week as National Jewish Press Week.
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