Jaakoff Prelooker, noted poet and author who was excommunicated by the Jewish Assembly in Odessa as a heretic, died here yesterday at the age of 75.
A writer in English, Yiddish, French and German, Mr. Prelooker lived here since 1891. In 1882 the Jewish Assembly pronounced him a heretic after a bitter dispute.
He was the founder of the New Israel Movement in Russia.
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