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This has come to be the season of the small press, at least as far as this column is concerned. Several months ago, I initiated a series of articles about Dryad Press, which is run out of Maryland by poet Merrill Leffler pretty much all by himself.

Then, when I was in the midst of reading, writing about and glorying in those titles, I was contacted by the public relations organization that represents Turtle Point Press, another small operation run out of a tiny office in New York City pretty much singlehandedly by Jonathan D. Rabinowitz. He identifies himself on his business card as publisher, but he manages to do just about everything else when it comes to his extraordinary line of books.

Rabinowitz, who is in his early 60s, but who sounds on the phone like a man in his 30s, with all the spirit and energy that that implies, fell into publishing -- head first, you might say. He began his working life at his family's chemical company in his home state of New Jersey not long after his graduation from Columbia University, where he'd majored in art history. He and one of his brothers had each inherited a portion of the business in 1966 after their mother's death. (The business had been founded by his father and an uncle).

In time, Rabinowitz started the international sales division of this dye-stuffs company and traveled all over the world. The organization grew considerably, and was eventually sold in the mid-1980s (and has since been sold a few times over; in addition, his brother Josh and his father have started another business together, even though the elder Rabinowitz is now in his late 80s).

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The Jewish Exponent is a weekly community newspaper serving the Jewish community of Philadelphia. Published continuously since 1887, its circulation was over 55,000 in 2006.

The paper was founded by 43 prominent Philadelphians—among them Henry Samuel Morais—who pledged that it would be "devoted to the interests of the Jewish people." It was an early supporter of Zionism.

In the 1940s the paper experienced financial difficulties, and on May 5, 1944, it was purchased by the Allied Jewish Appeal, a pre-cursor of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, which still publishes it. In 1999 it established a website containing an online version of the newspaper.

The current Executive Editor is Jonathan S. Tobin, who took the position in December 1998. Carin M. Smilk is the Managing Editor.

Source: The Jewish Exponent

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