(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
M. Joffe, one of the oldest Hebrew writers in Russia, and author of the perpetual Hebrew calendar, died in Smolensk at the age of 74.
Mr. Joffe was a famous mathematician and was one of the early collaborators of the Hebrew daily. “Ha’ Zephira.”
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