Mrs. Rose Kirschenbaum-Margoshes. wife of Dr. Samuel Margoshes and a Yiddish author in her own right, died here at the age of 80. Funeral services will be held tomorrow. Born in Galicia, she came to the United States in 1903. Under her pen-name of Kirschenbaum-Margoshes, she wrote for various Yiddish dailies and magazines, including Der Yiddisher Kempfer, the Jewish Daily Forward, the Tageblatt, and the Jewish Almanac. She also contributed to the English-language Jewish press.
As a young woman, Mrs. Margoshes worked in the New York port as translator helping Jewish immigrants to explain their problems to the immigration authorities. She also did social work at the Henry Street Settlement on New York’s Lower East Side.
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