News was received here today of the death in Kiev, U.S.S.R., of Wolf Rabinovich, Yiddish author and brother of the famous humorist who wrote under the name of “Sholom Aleichem.” Rabinovich was 76. Soviet novelists, Government representatives and leaders of the Jewish newspaper Stern and the Jewish State Theater delivered orations at his funeral. He was the author of a book, “My Brother Sholom Aleichem.”
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