Shemarya Gorelik, 65, Jewish essayist and critic, died here last night. Gerelik, who was born in Russia, lived in Germany from 1919 until 1933, when the rise of Nazism forced him to flee to Palestine. He was active in Zionist affairs from the time he joined the movement in Russia in 1905.
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