Moshe Starkman, director of Yiddish publicity of the United Jewish Appeal and Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign, died of a heart ailment yesterday at the Mt. Sinai Hospital. Mr. Starkman was stricken while handling press relations for the 37th annual conference of the UJA-Federation’s Council of Organizations in that city. Mr. Starkman was 68 years old and resided in New York.
A former city editor of the now-defunct New York Yiddish daily, “Day-Morning Journal,” Mr. Starkman was a past president of the Yiddish Pen Club, and at the time of his death was serving on the boards of directors of YIVO, the Yiddish Scientific institute, and the Jewish Culture Congress.
Mr. Starkman was an authority on Yiddish literature, and was the author of numerous monographs on that subject, a number of which appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Riverside Chapel in New York City.
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