Z.Segalevitch, prominent Yiddish poet and novelist, died here yesterday of a heart attack. He was 65 years of age.
Born in Bialystock in 1881, he began writing in Russian and then in Yiddish in 1904. He was jailed by the Czarist Government for his political activities on several occasions. He lived in Lodz and Warsaw for many years before the start of world War II. When the Nazis came to Poland, he fled to Palestine where he wrote three tragic poems on the fate of the Jews in Europe annihilated by the Nazis. He arrived in the United States last year and became a writer for the Jewish Daily Forward.
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