Leo Robbins, noted Jewish author, playwright and member of the editorial staff of the Jewish Daily Forward since 1921, was among the passengers killed in the airplane crash last Friday on Rikers Island en route from New York to Miami, it was established today when his body was identified in the ruins of the plane.
Born in Russian in 1895 of a rabbinical family, he came to the United States at the age of 15 and later worked on a Boston English-language newspaper. In 1918 a book of his English short stories was published. He was the author of a number of motion picture scripts and of a play The Mother. ” In the Jewish Daily Forward he wrote under the pen names of L. Malkes and R. Shayevski.
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