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The Southern Jewish Weekly
Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida
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In 1956, Miriam Balaban, a chemist from Philadelphia, leads the Weizmann Press in Jerusalem, Israel, which has expanded from a part-time scientific quarterly editing job four years earlier into a major publisher of five scientific quarterlies and other works read worldwide, with plans to print for foreign institutions.
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Science in Israel
BY NURA LASKY
(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
-JERUSALEM
Exactly four years ago, a very young girl from Philadelphia, with her degrees in chemistry in her bag, looked around for a job in Jerusalem. A friend of hers had a friend who knew someone who needed a sensible bilingual person who could edit a scientific quarterly, part-time. That job had been going all the time. "Nobody can stick to it for long," the young girl from Philadelphia was warned.
She took the job, part-time, and with her abounding enthusiasm she flung herself into producing a first-rate "Scientific Bulletin" for the Government Research Council. She nudged scientists into publishing papers right in Israel instead of abroad. Soon enough, the job was full-time.
Today, Miriam Balaban, the girl from Philadelphia, still as tiny and frail as she was then, is the head of a large publishing set-up that has grown out of the quarterly, in charge of a staff of ten working full-time, and with a number of panels of eminent professors who help her bring out not one scientific quarterly, but five, and in addition many other publications which are being read by professors all over the world.
The tiny appendage of the Research Council has grown into an independent body, called the "Weizmann Press," financed by the various institutions of higher learning and also the Bialik Foundation. No Israel scientist, may he belong to the Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute, the Haifa Technion or to one of the various public or private research bodies, would dream of publishing his papers abroad. On the contrary, "as soon as we get our two Monotype machines and other equipment, we shall approach scientific bodies abroad and offer to do their printing for them," says Miriam Balaban, "for we can do just as good as they do considerably cheaper because wages here are much lower than, for instance, in the United States."
The latest addition to Miriam's long list of publications is a semi-popular science magazine called "Mada," which caters to the intelligent layman. Like all her products, it stands out by perfect workmanship, the use of excellent
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Jerusalem
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Exactly Four Years Ago (1956)
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grown into independent weizmann press publishing five scientific quarterlies and other works read worldwide; plans to offer printing services to foreign scientific bodies at lower cost.
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Miriam Balaban started part-time editing a scientific quarterly for the Government Research Council in Jerusalem four years ago; expanded to full-time, encouraged local publishing, now heads staff of ten and panels of professors producing multiple publications including 'Mada' magazine.