Yaacov Zipper, an educator and author whose many novels, short stories and poems in Yiddish and Hebrew depicted Jewish life in pre-war Poland, died here at the age of 82. He was buried last Thursday.
Zipper was the driving force in the development of the Jewish Peretz Schools in Montreal and served as their principal from 1928 until his retirement in 1972. He won the Israeli Manger Award for literature last summer. He was to have been presented next week with the National Jewish Book Award for co-editing the Canadian Jewish Anthology which will be published shortly.
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