Funeral services will be held in Jerusalem tomorrow for Moses Rivlin, the doyen of Yiddish journalism, who died yesterday at the age of 79. His father, Rabbi Yehoshua Rivlin, was among the first Jews to build homes outside the old walled city and later was a founder of Petach Tikva, one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Palestine. Rivlin, who was born in Jerusalem, went to the United States at the outbreak of World War I, but returned to Palestine shortly as a member of the American battalion of the Jewish Legion. He returned to the U.S. after the war and was graduated from New York University.
Rivlin worked as a Hebrew teacher in Elizabeth, N.J. and in 1922 joined the staff of the Jewish Morning Journal, one of several Yiddish dailies that flourished in New York at the time. Eventually he became a member of its editorial board on which he continued to serve when the paper merged with The Day after World War II to become the Day-Morning Journal. Rivlin settled in Israel six years ago.
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