Book on Michael Wurmbrand Published in U.S.; Was with J.T.A. 18 Years

A book honoring the memory of Michael Wurmbrand, late editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s German–language service in pre-Nazi Germany, and who later edited the JTA German-language services in Prague and Paris, was published-here today by the Philosophical Library. Mr. Wurmbrand died in New York four years ago. He had been with the JTA for 18 years.

The book, entitled "Michael Wurmbrand: The Man and His Work," carries an introduction by Dr. Nahum Goldmann and articles evaluating Mr. Wurmbrand’s journalistic activities written by Boris Smolar, editor-in-chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Manfred George, editor of the German-language paper Aufbau; Kurt Grossman, Jewish Agency consultant on Jewish claims against Germany; Gershon Swet and Sholomo Bickel, well-known Jewish journalists; and Prof, H.W.B. Skinner, of Liverpool University, who was a member of the British mission to America for atomic bomb research.

The volume also contains a well-balanced sampling of Mr. Wurmtrand’s own creative writings, including poems, plays, essays and a section of "Citizen of the Universe"–a major philosophical book on which he was working in the last years before his death.