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Yivo Associate Shares Award for Book on Jews Under Nazi Rule

April 12, 1973
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Isaiah Trunk, a research associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, was co-winner of the 1973 National Book Award in History for his book “Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation,” yesterday. The awards were announced at a press conference yesterday. Trunk will share the history prize of $1,000 with Robert M. Myers for his book “The Children of Pride.”

Eugene Rosenberg and David Gutnick, Tel Aviv University scientists, have developed a new technique utilizing bacteria to treat pollution currently caused by routine dumping of an annual 20 million tons of oil from tankers at sea.

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