Jacob Benjamin Katzenelson, Hebrew and Yiddish writer, father of the Hebrew poet, Isaac Katzenelson, is dead here today at the age of 75. He was a descendant of a long line of rabbinical and Talmudic sages and scholars dating back to the great Talmudic commentator, Rabbi Yomtov Lipmann, who died in 1654 in Cracow.
Katzenelson was born in Kapulie and studied at the famous rabbinical seminaries in Wolozhin and Kovno. He was a collaborator on the Hebrew encyclopedia Ha-Eshkol and co-editor of the Warsaw Hebrew daily, Ha-Zefira.
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