A home owned in Israel by the late Yiddish writer Sholem Asch, who died in London last Summer, has been left to the municipality of Gat Ram, it was learned here yesterday when his will was probated. The building will house the author’s library and his manuscripts. His personal property was left to his widow, Mrs. Matilda Asch.
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