Plans for the publication of a ten-volume Encyclopedia Judaica were announced here today by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, world Jewish leader and president of the Judaica Foundation, at a Founders’ meeting in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Co-chairing the meeting, which was attended by prominent Jewish figures from the U.S. and abroad, was Joseph Meyerhoff, president of Encyclopedia Judaica Press, Inc., publishers of the work. Mr. Meyerhoff is also president of Palestine Economic Corporation, New York, and general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Leaders of Jewish communities abroad have pledged their support of the project, which will cost an estimated $1, 000, 000. They include Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Paris; Israel M. Sieff, London; and Professor Fausto Pitigliani, president of the Jewish Community of Italy, who was present at least night’s meeting.
The new encyclopedia is being written and edited by more than 400 of the world’s foremost authorities on Judaism and the Jewish people, and is scheduled for completion within the next four years. Editor-in-chief is Dr. B. Netanyahu, Professor of Medieval and Modern Hebrew Literature at Dropsie College, Philadelphia. Professor William F. Albright, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, is chairman of the Editorial Council. The work will be printed in Israel and issued in the United States.
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