Aron Neuman, editor of the Jewish Portuguese weekly “Aonde Vamos,” died here of a heart attack at the age of 65. He arrived in Rio over 40 years ago and began to publish the weekly during the 1930s when Yiddish-language newspapers were proscribed by the government of Brazil. Mr. Neuman was born near Poznan.
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