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Dr. Alejandro A. Jascalevich, philosopher, psychologist and essayist, who spent more than ten years studying and teaching in the United States, died here on June 26 after a prolonged illness. He was 42 years old.
Between 1925 and 1926 Dr. Jascalevich was an instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Columbia University. Later, he taught elementary philosophy at the Long Island City Hospital.
While in the United States he published a number of a number of essays in English and Spanish on modern and classic philosophers in the Journal of Philosophy, on whose editorial staff he served.
On his return to the Argentine, Dr. Jascalevich was appointed Vice Rector at the National School of Azul. In 1931 he published a volume of collected essays, entitled, “Interpreters of the Soul.”
Six months ago he was appointed director of an English-language newspaper in Buenos Aires, but was forced to resign because of illness.
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