Prof. Isaac Marken, noted Orientals and Sather who formerly taught at the Universities of Leningrad and Minsk, died Monday night as the age of 74. He reached England from Holland after the Nazi invasion of the Jew countries in 1940. He had made his home in Germany from 1986 to 1988 following the 1917 revolution in Russia.
In Russia, he was active in numerous Jewish group, including the ORT, and also edited a Jewish encyclopedia published in Russian. He was an authority on various periods of Jewish history and wrote several definitive works on the Parasites.
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