Funeral services were held here today for Dr. Simon Ginzburg, Hebrew poet and scholar, who died Tuesday night at the age of 53. Dr. Ginzburg was born at Lipniky, Russia. He came with his family to the United States in 1912, and was educated at Teachers College, Columbia University; the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, where he received a B.A. degree in 1919, and Dropsie College, Philadelphia, where he obtained a Ph. D. in 1923.
He was the author of “The Life and Works of Moses Hayyim Luzzatto,” a noted Italian Jewish dramatist of the eighteenth century, in five volumes, and of “Songs and Poems” and “Hosea’s Love.” Lately Dr. Ginsburg had been at work upon a translation into Hebrew of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Tristram.” He also was the translator of Coleridge’s “The Ancient Mariner” into Hebrew. Dr. Ginzberg spent several years in Palestine, where he was active as a writer and as chairman of the executive board of the Hebrew Writers Association.
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