Nathan Feinerman, executive secretary of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, died today at the Bronx Hospital here after an illness of several weeks. A former educational director of the Workmen’s Circle, the largest Jewish labor fraternal organization in the country, he helped to organize the American branch of the Yiddish Scientific Institute eighteen years ago and became its executive secretary in 1931.
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