Funeral services were held here today for Jacob Levin, noted Jewish educator and author of numerous Yiddish textbooks, who died here yesterday at the age of 74. He was one of the organizers of the Jewish schools conducted in this country by the Workmen’s Circle, national fraternal organization of 70,000 families.
Born in Russia, he came to the United States in 1915. Four years earlier he visited Palestine where he studied the Jewish colonization problem. In Russia he was a student of the School of Agronomy in St. Petersburg, but upon his arrival in the United States he studied pedagogy at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he later received his Master of Arts degree.
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