Funeral services were held here last Friday for Yitzhak Ivri, a journalist and editor, who died a few days earlier at the age of 78.
Born in Bialystok, Russia, Ivri immigrated to Palestine in 1935. He established himself as a reporter, editor and translator, and was for many years a correspondent for the Israeli daily Davar. In 1950 Ivri was sent to New York as Davar’s correspondent in the United States.
From 1970 to 1985 Ivri served as editor of Hadoar, a respected Hebrew weekly published in New York.
Among his most memorable translations into Hebrew was Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” which was staged by the Habimah Theatre in Tel Aviv. CORRECTION
The names of the Soviet cancer patient and her daughter in Israel were inadvertently omitted in the Aug. 4 Bulletin story “Does Glasnost Include Everyone But The Jews?” The mother’s name is Chaya Kuchina and her daughter’s name is Dr. Nona Kuchina.
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