Jewish Book Month, observed from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, will be dedicated this year to “resistance and redemption” in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the uprisings in Warsaw and other East European ghettoes during World War II, it was announced by Dr. Judah Nadich, president of the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board, sponsors of the event. Dr. Nadich said that 2,000 groups all over the United States will conduct Jewish Book Month programs to “stimulate wide interest in the reading of books by and about the heroic resistance fighters.”
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