Private funeral services were held here yesterday for the late Zalman Shneur, noted Hebrew and Yiddish novelist and poet, who died Friday of a heart ailment at the age of 72.
The author of more than 60 works, Mr Shneur’s novels and poetry have been translated into twenty or more languages. Critics have placed his literary works on a par with those of Sholem Asch and I. J. Singer in prose, and with Chaim Nachman Bialik in verse.
Mr. Shneur was born in White Russia, and studied medicine in Berlin as a young man, However, he turned to writing and did many of his works in subsequent years in a number of European literary centers until he came to this country in 1941.
About 40 members of his family and close friends attended the funeral services. Among those present were Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, and Simcha Pratt, Israel Consul-General in New York. Burial was private at the National Workers Alliance-Farband Cemetery in New Jersey.
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