Schneiderman, Harry

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SCHNEIDERMAN, HARRY

SCHNEIDERMAN, HARRY (1885–1975), U.S. editor and organization executive. Born in Saven, Poland, he was taken to the U.S. in 1890. From 1909 until his retirement in 1949 he was a member of the staff of the American Jewish Committee and functioned as its chief administrative officer from 1914 to 1928. He also undertook important editorial work, notably as editor of the American Jewish Year Book from 1920 to 1948.

In addition to editing numerous periodicals and reference works, he also compiled The Jews in Nazi Germany (1933, 19352) and was coeditor of the Contemporary Jewish Record (1938–45), and chairman of the editorial board of Who's Who in World Jewry (1955, 19652). Schneiderman was a founder and officer of the Jewish Book Council of America.

[Harry J. Alderman]

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