I. Kisin, noted Jewish writer and translator of many English classics into Yiddish, died in the College Hill Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, after a prolonged illness. He was 64 years old. A member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Daily Forward for many years, Mr. Kisin will be buried in New York, it was announced here today. He was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1904.
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