More than 600 prominent leaders of the Jewish literary world and of Jewish cultural activities today attended the funeral services held here for Aaron Glanz-Leyeless, the noted Yiddish post, essayist and journalist, who died here this weekend at the age of 77. He was a member of the editorial staff of the Day-Jewish Journal for the past 52 years.
Born in Warsaw, Mr. Glanz-Leyeless attended the University of London and emigrated to the United States in 1912. Two years later he joined the Jewish Day, writing features, literary and drama criticism and poetry. He remained with the newspaper, which was merged with the Jewish Morning Journal to form the Day-Jewish Journal, until his death. In recent years he had been in semi-retirement, writing a weekly column for the paper.
Considered the founder of the introspective school of Yiddish poetry, Mr. Glanz-Leyeless included among his poetic works: “The Labyrinth,” “Tale of the Hundred,” “To Thee America” and “Fabius Lind.” He was the recipient of the La Med Prize for Yiddish poetry in 1947. Until last year he was president of the Yiddish PEN Club, branch of the World PEN Club, an organization of poets, essayists and novelists.
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