The Jewish Publication Society of America plans to publish 15 new books in 1963, in addition to five paperback reprints, Edwin Wolf, 2nd, chairman of the organization’s publications committee, announced here today at the conclusion of JPS’s 75th annual meeting.
At the same time, Sol Satinsky, president of JPS, who was re-elected for a fourth term, reported that, in 1962, JPS published nine new books, five paperbacks and 14 reprints. Highlight of the year was the publication of the new translation of the Torah in modern English. Mr. Satinsky said that last year’s distribution totaled approximately 160,000 hardcover volumes plus 40,000 paperbacks, Meyer Feinstein, treasurer, reported that 1962 income amounted to $465,000, as against expenditures of $463,000.
In addition to re-electing Mr. Satinsky, the society chose Judge Louis E. Levinthal and Jack Solis-Cohen, Jr., as honorary presidents. Justice Horace Stern, Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, Bernard L. Frankel and Bernard G. Segal were elected vice-presidents. Mr. Feinstein and Mr. Wolf were re-elected to their present posts, while Jerome J. Shestack was chosen secretary, Dr. Solomon Grayzel as editor and Lesser Zussman as executive director.
Three prominent Jews were added to the board of trustees for three-year terms. They are Dr. Gordon F. Bloom, of Boston; Dr. Paul Stone, of Philadelphia; and Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Other trustees, all reelected, were: Justice Herbert D. Cohen, York; Judge Abraham L. Freedman, Philadelphia; Judge Theodore Levin and Leonard N. Simons, Detroit; Morton H. Wilner, Washington; and Ben D. Zevin, Cleveland.
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