Funeral services will be held this afternoon for Abraham M. Dillon, 52—Yiddish poet who died on Wednesday at Beth Israel Hospital of a heart attack after a short illness. Services will be held at Garlick’s Funeral Chapel, Grand and Norfolk Street, and will be financed by the Peretz Farein, Yiddish writers’ union.
Dillon, a frequent contributor to Yiddish periodicals, published only one volume of verse, “Yellow Leaves,” and was at work on a second volume of poems at the time of his death. He was born in Zshetl, in the Polish Russian province of Grodno, and came to the United States in 1904, making his home in New York.
His work, which is primarily lyric, has been described as “tinged with a deep melancholy, man’s fear and pain, and the consciousness of death.” Dillon was very popular in Yiddish literary circles, but few, even his most intimate friends, knew that he was almost continuously ill.
He was a great lover of music and was a familiar figure at Philharmonic concerts in Carnegie Hall. It was said of him that he did not miss one concert in the last fifteen years.
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