Avrohom Tabachnick, the Yiddish poet and essayist, and A.M. Fuchs, the Israeli Yiddish novelist, were today awarded the Friedland Literature Prize for 1964.
Mr. Tabachnick, who is a Yiddish editor at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, was awarded the $200 prize for his essay on the late poet Moshe Leib Halprin which was published in the December issue of Zukunft, a Yiddish literary magazine. Mr. Fuchs received the prize for his short story, “Red Hersh,” published in “Di Golden Keit,” an Israeli Yiddish literary magazine.
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