Funeral services for Sholem Asch, world celebrated Jewish writer who died yesterday at the age of 77, will be held tomorrow. Burial will take place in the Golder’s Green Jewish Cemetery after services at the Liberal West London Synagogue.
Members of the Association of Jewish Journalists and Authors, of which Mr. Asch was a co-founder here, will mount a guard of honor at the bier. Mr. Asch had frequently expressed his gratitude that when he was unable to obtain a public platform to defend certain of his writings which had stirred up controversy in the Jewish community, it was the association which called a public meeting to give him this opportunity.
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