Boruch Wirgili Kahn, a leader of the Bund, Jewish labor organization, in Russia during Tzarist days, is dead at the age of fifty-two.
Before his death, he was president of the Central Education Committee, member of the praesidia of the Jewish Scientific Institute and the ORT Union and leader of various Jewish cultural organizations.
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