LANDAU, JACOB

(1892-1952)

Austrian journalist and publisher. He was born in Vienna. In 1914 he established the Jewish Correspondence Bureau, a news agency, in The Hague. He later moved his offices to London and renamed the organization the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Branch offices were opened in Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, New York and Jerusalem, and headquarters were subsequently established in New York. In 1940 he helped to found the Overseas News Agency.