Rev. Zevi Hirsch Masliansky, noted Jewish scholar and internationally known Zionist orator, died here last night at the age of 87.
One of the leading figures in Jewish orthodox and Zionist life in America, Rev. Masliansky first became known as an orator in Russia, where he was born, and then in other European countries. He left Russia for England in 1894 and a year later he came to the United States. Since 1897 he had lectured at the Jewish Educational Alliance in New York where his lectures drew large crowds. In 1902, with the aid of the late Louis Marshall and others, he began publication of a Yiddish daily newspaper “The Yiddishe Welt” which did not survive for long. Since then he wrote much in Yiddish and in Hebrew. Two volumes of his sermons in Yiddish and a book of his memoirs have been published.
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