(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
H. D. Naumberg, noted Yiddish novelist, publicist and communal worker, died here at five o’clock this morning. He was fifty-one years old.
Naumberg, who was born in 1876 in the town Amshinow, government of Warsaw, in a Chassidic family, started his literary career in Yiddish and in Hebrew at an early age. He attracted wide attention in Jewish literary circles at the close of the nineteenth century and was a prominent figure in the school of Yiddish letters formed by J. L. Peretz, Sholom Asch and Abraham Raisin. Naumberg. with Asch and Raisin were for a number of years the literary trio in East Europen Yiddish literature.
He won wide recognition for his short stories depicting the life of Orthodox Jews and of students which had then started to evolve in the period of storm and stress in Russia and Poland. An Hebraist at first, Naumberg joined the group of Yiddish writers who assembled at a conference in Czernowitz in 1908. proclaiming Yiddish as the national language of the Jewish masses in Eastern Europe and the Yiddish literature as the national literature of these masses,
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