Funeral services were held today for Moshe Gross-Zimmermann. a prominent Yiddish writer and journalist who died here last night at the age of 82 after a long illness. Mr. Gross-Zimmermann was honorary president of the Yiddish Writers Association in Israel, a member of the Journalists Association and of the world executive of the Federation of Jewish Journalists.
Born in Borislaw, Galicia, the son of a Hasidic family, he went to Vienna at 17 for a general education. In 1917 he began publishing articles and stories in major Jewish newspapers in Poland, New York and elsewhere and toured extensively on behalf of Keren Hayesod. He came to Palestine in 1937 and for many years headed the Kol Zion Lagolah radio broadcasts to Jewish communities abroad.
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