Moshe Katz. well known American Yiddish journalist, and one of the founders here. in 1922, of the Communist Jewish newspaper Morning Frelheit, died in Mosccw this week-end, of pneumonia, according to dispatches received here today. He was 75. He went to Moscow last week to visit his daughter there.
Born in Dokhitz. Russia, near Minsk, Mr. Katz came to the United States in 1913, and worked in non-Communist Yiddish newspapers here. After the Bolshevik revolution, he returned to Russia, and edited a non-Communist Yiddish newspaper in Kiev. He later returned to this country. He was the author of several books in Yiddish, among them biographies of I. L. Peretz. Sholem Aleichem and Lenin.
Funeral services for Mr, Katz will be held in Moscow tomorrow, arranged by the Writers Association there. The body will be cremated in the presence of surviving members of the family, including the widow who traveled with Mr. Katz from New York to Moscow.
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