Thousands of Jewish workers, intellectuals and leaders of cultural organizations participated in impressive funeral ceremonies today for Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, prominent Jewish author and philosopher and one of the founders of the Social Revolutionary party in Czarist Russia, who died last week in Canada while on a lecture tour there.
The body of Dr. Zhitlowsky was brought from Calgary, Canada to New York yesterday and was laid in state in Manhattan Center from where the funeral procession started today. The cortege proceeded through the main streets of the city to East Broadway where it halted in front of the Jewish daily newspaper The Day, of which Dr. Zhitlowsky was a staff member for many years. It then proceeded to Montefiore Cemetery, Long Island, where the burial took place.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, leader of the world Zionist movement, and other prominent Jewish leaders were among the hundreds who sent condolences to Zhitlowsky’s family. A message of condolence was also received from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Russia. Similar messages have also arrived from Jewish organizations in Mexico, Cuba, Canada, and other countries. Resolutions of mourning were adopted by the Yiddish Scientific Institute, the Jewish Writers Club, the Pen Club, and by a number of Jewish schools and other cultural institutions. The funeral was arranged by the Jewish Committee of Writers and Artists.
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