The 25th anniversary edition of “Who’s Who in World Jewry,” the biographical dictionary of outstanding Jews, is now in preparation and will be out early next year, according to T.J. Carmin Karpman, chief editor of the anniversary edition. Karpman, a renowned lexicographer and co-founder of the Encyclopaedia Judaica, said this new edition, the sixth, will be completely revised, re-edited and recomposed.
The new edition will comprise the life histories of noteworthy Jewish men and women in all countries and will allocate adequate space to the younger generation now in the forefront of contributions to Jewish and general progress, according to Karpman. The edition, which may contain more than 1500 pages, will be published and distributed in February, 1981, “The new volume is planned to serve as a visible evidence of what a small minority of the world’s people has been contributing to the betterment of all humanity,” Karpman said.
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