Funeral services were held here today for Ossip Dymow, noted Jewish playwright, whose plays on Jewish themes were successfully performed on the Russian stage in pre-Revolutionary Russia, later on the German stage in Berlin and, for -he last 40 years, on the Jewish stage in the United States. He was 81.
Born in Russia. Dr. Dymow, whose read name as Joseph Perlman. graduated from the imperial Academy of Forestry in St. Petersburg, but turned later to writing short stories and plays in the Russian language. His plays “Shema Israel,” “Nju,” and “The Eternal Wanderer” were performed on the Russian stage in more than 400 cities in Czarist Russia, and won him an international reputation. He came to the United States in 1913, where be learned to write Yiddish and wrote numerous plays, three of which were produced on Broadway in English.
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