The sudden death of Chaim Nachman Bialik, foremost Hebrew poet, has aroused great sorrow among the Jews of Brazil. Yiddish newspapers here and in Rio de Janeiro published extras bearing black bordered headlines and necrologies on the dead Hebrew poet. Memorial meetings are being held wherever there is a Jewish community.
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