A funeral service will be held here Tuesday morning for B.W. Huebsch, the prominent American-Jewish publisher who died here this weekend at the age of 89. He was visiting England.
Mr. Huebsch, the son of a rabbi who emigrated to the United States from Germany, was a senior editor with the Viking Press and active in a number of civic, educational and international organizations. He was also a past president of the Manhattan lodge of the B’nai B’rith.
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