The suicide of Armin Wilkwitch, 70-year-old Czech Jewish writer and cantor, on board a ship bound for the United States was reported here today. Wilkowitch, who had escaped from Eger, in the Sudetenland, to Prague where he had finally obtained an emigration permit to join his children in America, was reportedly depressed by recent events in former Czecho-Slovakia. He had been particularly affected by the burning of a synagogue in Eger, where for 40 years he had been a cantor, a contributor to several Jewish journals and the author of studies on the history of the Czech Jews.
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