the Jewish Quarterly Review. He also wrote in Hebrew for the periodicals Hashiloah and Leshonenu. He was completing a Hebrew grammar when he became ill several months ago.
Born in 1861 in Zeim, Province of Kovno, Mordell arrived in this country in 1881. He was self-educated and taught himself to read fluently in German, Aramaic, Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish and English.
During the past thirty years he had tutored in Hebrew and also had conducted a private Hebrew school Among the men who encouraged his researches were Mayer Sulzberger and Marcus Jastrow.
He is survived by his widow, Annie; four sons, Albert Mordell, attorney, editor and author of numerous works, the latest entitled “Quaker Militant,” a biography of John Greenleaf Whittler; Professor Louis J. Mordell, member of the mathematics faculty of Manchester University; Maurice M. Mordell, attorney and former ensign in the navy, and David Mordell; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Sherer, Mrs. Bessie Mendenhall and Miriam Mordell, and three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Spielman of Chicago, Mrs. Ada Wolfe of Philadelphia and Mrs. Rose Weiss.
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