Funeral services were held here today for the late David Eidelsberg, Yiddish author, journalist and educator, who died yesterday, aged 70.
Born in Poland, he came to the United States in 1914. He worked as a journalist in the Jewish field since 1918, and was a member of the staff of the Day-Jewish Journal until his retirement in 1961. He wrote also in Hebrew and in English. Among his literary works were translations into Yiddish of talmudic and midrashic legends.
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