A New York writer, two Israelis and a Mexican Jew were voted here today the 1968 Zvi Kessel prizes awarded annually by the Cultural Commission of the Jewish Central Committee of Mexico. Each of the awards, to be presented formally at ceremonies scheduled here for Jan. 15 is valued at $500.
The winners were: Saul Gutman, of New York, an essayist, for his book “Tradition and Renewal’; Yitzhak Nimtzovits, a journalist, of Israel; the Israeli poet, Naftali Herz; and the Mexican musicologist, Moshe Yivker. All write Yiddish.
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