Isaac Shapiro, one of the leading Yiddish journalists here, has died at the age of 67. He was at first intended to be a Rabbi, but he had a yearning for secular knowledge, and finally he went to Warsaw when he was 19, and tried to enter the University. He took up journalism, first on the orthodox paper “Hakol” and afterwards with Spektor on the Yiddish daily “Die Naje Welt”. He was later on the “Hajnt’s , and during the German Occupation of Poland was editor of the extreme orthodox daily “Dos Yiddishe Wort”, published with the aid of the German Rabbis. He was on the Agudist paper “Der Jud” until it closed down, when he joined the “Moment”.
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