Joseph Slonimski, last surviving son of Chaim Selig Slonimski, noted editor of the Hazefirah, Hebrew paper once published here, died here yesterday. He was a Hebrew writer and the only one of Slonimsk’s descendants who remained a Jew. All the others were baptized.
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