Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Nathan Ziprin, a pioneer in American Jewish journalism and editor from 1941 to 1968 of Seven Arts Features and Worldwide News Service, a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He died last Friday in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 84.
Ziprin, who had been visiting a son, suffered a fatal heart attack at a Phoenix hospital where he was taken to have a leg amputated. He had been in failing health for several years after his retirement.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. at the Parkside Memorial Chapel in The Bronx, where Ziprin had lived for many years. He has been described as belonging to the pioneer generation which helped create a professional Jewish journalism. He had been actively associated with the American Jewish Public Relations Association.
Born in Chmelnik, Russia in 1898, Ziprin was brought to the United States in 1909 at the age of II. He attended public school in New York city and had received an honorary LLB degree from New York University in 1922.
His weekly commentary on Jewish events appeared in some 20 Jewish news publications. He continued his column for a number of Jewish newsweeklies for several years after he retired as editor of Seven Arts Features. A widower, he had written two tributes to his wife, who died several years ago.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
