Aron Alperin, an author and journalist who edited Yiddish newspapers in Poland, Paris and New York, died of a heart attack last week in Manhasset, N.Y. at the age of 87.
For a quarter century he was an editor of two of the last great Yiddish newspapers in the United States, the Jewish Morning Journal and The Day.
Born in Lodz, Poland, Alperin was city editor and editorial writer of the Lodzer Tagerblatt from 1920 to 1926, and until 1928 the Lodz correspondent of the Warsaw Yiddish daily, Hajnt.
He moved to Paris and was editor in chief of the Pariser Hajnt from 1928 to 1939. From 1930 to 1940 he was staff correspondent for the Hebrew daily Haaretz, published in Tel Aviv.
Alperin came to New York in 1941, escaping when France was occupied by the Germans. He was the author of “History of the Jews in Lodz.”
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