Joel Enteen, Yiddish writer and lecturer, and veteran Poale Zion leader, died here today at the age of 85.
Born in White Russia, Mr. Enteen studied in Russia, and came to this country shortly before he launched on a literary career here in 1895. He translated into Yiddish a number of plays now considered classics, like Ibsen’s “Ghosts, ” Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” and Maeterlinck’s “Pelleas and Melisande. ” For years he was active in the work of the American Jewish Congress and the Farband-Labor Zionist Order.
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