Todros Geler, noted Jewish painter and illustrator, died here of a heart attack at the age of 60.
He was born in Russia and migrated to Canada in 1906. Nine years later he moved to Chicago. His work is represented in the Buckingham Collection at the Chicago art Institute, in the Tel Aviv Museum, in the Birobidjan State Museum and in many Jewish institutions throughout the United States.
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