Joseph M. First was re-elected to his third term as president of the Jewish Publication Society of America at the society’s annual meeting here yesterday. Mr. First is vice-president, secretary and general counsel of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Triangle Publications, Inc. The society is the world’s leading publisher of books on Jewish subjects in the English language. Dr. Chaim Potok was renamed editor of the JPS and Lesser Zussman was re-elected executive director for his nineteenth term.
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