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Ephim M. Jeshurun, Labor Leader, Forward Official, Dies at 82

Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Ephim H. Jeshurun, Jewish labor leader and member of the Jewish Daily Forward Association, who had twice been president of the Workmen’s Circle. He died yesterday at 82 after a long illness. Coming to the United States from Vilna when he was 22, Mr. Jeshurun immediately became […]

October 27, 1967
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Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Ephim H. Jeshurun, Jewish labor leader and member of the Jewish Daily Forward Association, who had twice been president of the Workmen’s Circle. He died yesterday at 82 after a long illness.

Coming to the United States from Vilna when he was 22, Mr. Jeshurun immediately became active in the Workmen’s Circle. He wrote extensively for the Yiddish press and edited the works of many leading Yiddish writers. He was named financial manager of the Forward in 1921 and was a founder of the Jewish Labor Committee, ORT, the United Hias Service and the Yiddish Pen Club.

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