William B. Ziff, at the recommendation of Elias Ginsburg, chairman of the Central Committee of the Zionist Revisionists, has been unanimously elected co-chairman of the Central Committee, it was announced Friday.
Judah Jonah ben Isaac, born at Safed in 1588, assumed the name of Battista Giovanni Galileo on baptism and became librarian of the Vatican.
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