Semion Portugeiz, who for many years wrote in the Jewish Daily Forward under the name of S. Ivanovitch, died here today in a private sanatorium at the age of 63. He immigrated to the United States in 1941, after the fall of France where he had lived since 1920.
Born in Kishineff, Russia, Portugeiz took an active part in the Socialist movement in Russia under the Czarist regime. He was arrested and exiled to Siberia as a revolutionary leader. When the Czar was overthrown he came to Petrograd where he worked as a journalist and leader of the Meashevik party until he was compelled to leave Russia because of his opposition to the Communist regime.
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