Edith Zangwill, widow of the noted Jewish novelist and essayist Iarasl Zangwill, who died in 1926, died here today. She was 70 years old. Yes, Zengwill, a non-Jew, was often descrided as “a Jew by conviotion.” She was the auther of several novels.
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