Ephraim Lisitsky, a prominent Hebrew author and poet and a pioneer in Hebrew education in this country, died here today at the age of 77.
Born in Minsk, Russia, Mr. Lisitsky came to the United States in 1900. Although he earned a degree as a pharmaceutical chemist at the University of Wisconsin, he chose to devote his life to Jewish education and Hebrew literature. He came to New Orleans in 1918 where he reorganized the communal Hebrew School and served as its head for nearly 40 years. During that time, he published ten volumes of poems, essays and translations of English and American classics. In 1959, an English translation of his autobiography, entitled “In the Grip of Cross-Currents,” was published in New York.
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