A. L. Bisskow. Hebrew writer, and poet, was found dead in his room at the Hotel Riess, in the town of Dalhinow, near here. He was found hanging in the bathroom.
The poet came to the town to deliver a lecture but was prevented from so doing because of difficulties raised by the police authorities. He then announced that he would speak at the local Beth Hamedrash, but only a small audience came to hear him. Broken in health, and without means, the disappointed, aged poet, ended his life.
Bisskow was born in 1859 in St. Petersburgh, Russia, the son of a soldier under Nicholas I. He was one of the pioneers in the Haskalah movement in Russia and was the author of several books in Hebrew and in Yiddish. He lived, for some time, in London, where he published an Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary. Of special interest was his book on the fundamentals of Jewish music, published in London in 1924. In this book he advocated the adoption of an original Hebrew terminology in music.
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